Touch From the Sky

A shocking thunder storm show was started just when I thought it's almost time to go to bed. This is the first time I see thunderstorm with my camera, shocking-beauty is the word I would use, this is the very first time I sit there and watch the lightening for about 20 minutes (and the thunderstorm is still going on out there...)I didn't know when should I press the shutter so only got a few pictures with the lightening in...the lightening comes from every way I just didn't know which way to turn to...

The setting I used was 1/10 f5 ISO 400 MF, I think the focus was not very right and should use a tripod next time.


When I try to read on more articles about taking lightening pictures just now, I learnt that to take good lightening pictures, we've got to firstly determine if the thunderstorm is near or not as it would affect the F value we would use. For example, if the thunderstorm is estimated to be 8km away, use F8, more than 8km, use 5.6, around 5 km, use f11. To know how far the thunderstorm is away from us we can count the seconds the thunder came after the lightening. According to the passage, the speed which air can transfer sound is 340m/second, so let's do the maths!

Secondly we need to find somewhere with a darker background to get a better exposure of the lightening, use a tripod.

Thirdly, the aperture have to be small with long exposure time to catch the lightening. Focus the focus point to the furthest point and be patient!

Got to be careful when we wanna take pictures of lightening, better stay indoor! Safety comes first. Let's keep learining!

source: http://www.southcn.com/it/sheying/200302100528.htm

Cough Cough

Picture taken in Central, Hong Kong.

I am having the same express as this doll does - feeling sleepy. Even though I sleep quite a lot everyday, I still feel tired these days, and my throat is not feeling well these days...hope to get well soon. Life goes on as usual, working every day, seeing a lot more students on the street now since school has started. I saw a class of primary student in their PE lesson on a playground, which reminded me of the time I was in primary school. I was a great athlete lol I won  gold medals in running in the sports day every year when I was in primary school...(of course, I was much thinner back then...) when I was in primary one I often think about the time when I will be a primary six student. After realizing time flies really fast in primary six, I started to comfort myself that secondary school will be another seven years, and that is a long while. And now? the seven years secondary school plus three years of university, here I am, joined the work force.

These few months has been the season of announcing public exam results and every-year people would think about the issue on whether university studies is useful for future job hunting. In my opinion, it does, especially if you want to become professionals like an accountant, doctor or lawyer etc. That would be the path to get you there. However, it might not be that important if you don't aim at those professions. Knowledge and experience are both as important, they help each other in a sense. 

I am indeed quite happy about Hong Kong introducing minimum wage, I heard that countries like USA has a min. wage of US 8 per hour, which is really great. Perhaps that can explain why it is so expensive to dine out in foreign countries compared to Hong Kong, and that people who discovered they don't like to study would just drop themselves out of school and join the workforce, since they can maintain their daily live quite well with that min. wage. There are drawbacks also but I think as a whole, it brings more good to the society, at least people can maintain a better live (assume the employers do not fire workers for that). 

The 52-Week Collection - Week 26: Food For Eyes

Looking back at my work in the past 25 weeks, I think I need to work harder to improve my photography works. I have been told that my pictures are a bit too dark in general, and I really agree. In the coming weeks, I will work harder, focusing on adjusting my exposure settings.

Week 26, half way to the 52 week collection, quite grateful that I am still feeling energetic about this collection! It is somehow a relaxation activity for me, I have been going out to take pictures for a few weekends and it's a bit too tiring...plus the sky is a bit grey due to the typhoon lately, so I decided to take pictures indoor today.

I have collected this emm...I don't know how should I call it...flower decoration...for a long time. I always think that this is beautiful, with the bricks I like (I really like brick pattern) and roses. I didn't know what to do with it when I bought it...and I still do not know what to do with it...haha it feeds my eyes every time I look at it.