The Octopus’ Garden

Black & White Film Processing At Home

With all the resources out there, this should quickly get you into film processing quickly. This is meant as a beginner’s How-To in developing/processing your Black and White film without the need of a darkroom. But, it should, by no means be considered as a one-top-shop for the topic. If you want to advance further or get more technical, tons of resources are available out there for googling.

Slowing Down and Reuniting with Film

In this day and age of digital cameras and warp-speed workflows, why would anyone want to go film? That’s a question that has been asked of me these past few weeks. I don’t know, maybe because after a stressful year at work and the associated warp-speed timelines,  I really DO want to SLOW down and [...]

Taking Control Of Your Camera: An Introduction to Exposure

A lot has been using P mode already and has seen some varying effects without fully understanding. While most may be getting the effect that they want, it will surely help to know how each factor and associated changes affects the photograph.
If you’re someone who’d want more control over your photographs (may they be digital [...]

Share Your Photos!

What good are your photos for if all they’re doing is just gathering electronic dust in your harddrive? That’s a question I frustratingly ask some of my friends who have shown me really stunning photos in their cameras and in their computers. Some of them simply refuse to upload it elsewhere for people to see. [...]

So You Just Got Yourself A New Camera

With the recent drop in prices of digital cameras, from point & shoots, to prosumer DLSRs to more professional ones, owning a digital camera is now more possible than ever. The instant gratification that a digital camera provides is only one of those things that attract people to it, compared to when it was all [...]

Awit Award Winner!

Paramita’s album, Tala, where this photo was included in, won in the 19th Awit Awards (2006) for Best Album Packaging!
I shot this photo at the stairway headed towards 6 Underground at the Glass Tower in Palanca Street, Makati.
Album design was by Bernie Sim.
Lighting courtesy of a halogen lamppost.
Album available in Tower, M1, Oddyssey, etc.
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Deliciously del.icio.us!

For anyone who uses, at the least, two computers (e.g. a home PC and an office laptop), maintaining a common set of bookmarks can be very tedious. When a change is made on one computer, I used to export bookmarks from it and import into the other, and vice-versa, in an almost vicious cycle. It [...]

RSS: Keeping Up With The Rest Of The World

Years back, the only way for someone to keep him/herself abreast with what’s happening in the world (socially, technologically, etc) is by either making periodic visits to news sites or subscribing to email-based alerts. With the first approach, that would simply be time-consuming. Exactly how many news sites are there anyway? The second approach is [...]

Mac OS Goodies

Here are some of what I have found to be very useful, so far. Enjoy!
Essentials:

Adium: an IM client like no other. Powered by libgaim! (Free)
Aperture: Digital Asset Management for photos and more.
Transmission: Cross-platform BitTorrent Client (Free)
BluePhoneElite: Allows you to send and receive SMS (and calls) via your Mac.
Chmox: A Windows CHM (Compiled HTML Help file) [...]