Wednesday, September 30, 2009 (Happy Birthday Junebug!)

Junebug

Swarthmore, PA

Cute, yeah? ;)

Shutter: 1/250
Aperture: f/6.3

Lots and lots and lots of love!
Jing



"The Brightest ShutterBug"
Docklands, VIC

Aperture: f/10
Shutter Speed: 5s
*Tripod Used

Dear Junebug,

I ran out of cupcakes, i.e I ate them all (including the one I saved for Jing's cupcake shot).

I had no idea what the theme was until after I took this shot. How fitting it is since you love light and are quite the bright shutterbug. I think it looks like a candle in a way.

Or maybe I should have taken this out of focus?=)

Happy Birthday=)

- Jian

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 (Balance)

William Penn's Balancing Act

Philadelphia, PA

On the top of City Hall!

Shutter speed: 1/500
Aperture: f/5.6

-Jing


"Ready and steady"
Melbourne, VIC

Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/80s

I went on a walkabout at 6am today, hoping to catch the sunrise.

There was no sunrise because it was cloudy.

- Jian

Monday, September 28, 2009 (-)

Aden Again

Swarthmore, PA

I swear, my roommate Aden is like my default subject for photographs when I run out of inspiration (which I've been doing a lot lately). I do really like this picture of her though.

Shutter speed: 1/13
Aperture: f/6.3

-Jing

"A Lesson Learned"

My Room, VIC

Aperture: f/5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/3s

This is a story of how I came to own a gigantic pair of bolt cutters.

So I had this bicycle key that I carried around separately from my house keys (the bit that is normally threaded through a key holder had broken off AND I conveniently lost 2 of my spare keys).

I told myself: 'I really should fix this key or I'll lose it and there goes my bike.'

9 weeks later

Obviously, I lost the key before I could fix it.

So I had to buy some bolt cutters to cut my bicycle lock off.

Anyway, it's only been used once. Any takers?

Oh, and my new spare keys are sellotaped to my nightstand, just in case.

- Jian

Sunday, September 27, 2009 (-)

Edges
Swarthmore, PA

I love the contrast between sharp and blurred here.

Shutter: 1/25
Aperture: f/22.0

-Jing


"Spicy"
Melbourne, VIC

Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/4s

Sujen recommended this Indian place. I think it was Punjab Indian food.

It was really, really good.

And spicy.

- Jian

Saturday, September 26, 2009 (-)

Self-portait in a mirror (grey day)
Philadelphia, PA

Shutter: 1/80
Aperture: f/22

Love,
Jing

"name."

dolce, chestnut st. in philly?

i knew i forgot to take

something with me.

:(

aperture: f/1.8|exposure: 1/4

-june.

"It wasn't me"
Hosier Lane, VIC

Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1.6s

Oh no who graffiti-ed everything in Hosier Lane?

- Jian

Friday, September 25, 2009 (-)

"If only...."
My Room, VIC

Shutter Speed: 0.4s
*Cheap Man's Macro

If only I could control time.

I'm not sure what the '+' and '-' do on a watch.

Perhaps the '-' could reverse time?

- Jian

"hart."

roberts, swarthmore.

my 15-month old watch.

:)

aperture: f/5.0|exposure: 1/80

-june.

Thursday, September 24, 2009 (Broken)

Specimens

Swarthmore, PA

Are these broken enough for you?

Shutter: 1/60
Aperture: f/5.0

-Jing

"giraffe?"

outside of parrish hall, swarthmore.

sometimes, what appears to be

broken

isn't broken

at all.

aperture: f/1.8|exposure: 1/30

-june.

"地"
Sovereign Hill, VIC

Aperture:f/5.6
Shutter Speed:1/3s

Sovereign Hill is located in Ballarat, which is about an hour and a half outside of Melbourne. It was where Gold was first found in Australia. There were a lot of Chinese immigrants who came in to fuel this rush.

Corruption was rife and the Chinese and foreign gold laborers were exploited all the time. This was taken in a mock Chinese temple.

- Jian

Wednesday, September 23,2009 (Humanity)

Hand Study
Swarthmore, PA

Sorry if these don't work. They're kind of abstract.

Shutter: 1/6
Aperture: 6.3

-Jing

"Framed"
Eureka Tower, VIC

Aperture:f/11
Shutter Speed:1/160s

Dear Christina,

I don't know how this captures 'Humanity' but it has humans in it. One of the individuals is actually wheelchair bound; and here she is, 88 floors about the ground. I love how each individual is doing his/her own pose.

Each pose, frozen in this frame.

Kind Regards,

-Jian

"help."

roberts, swarthmore.

they call me

the pessimist.

aperture: f/6.3|exposure: 1/8

-june.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 (Sunset)

Highway

Philadelphia, PA

Shutter: 2.5
Aperture: f/16.0

I need to get out of this place.

-Jing

"dead, part 2."

roberts, swarthmore.

i sentenced it to death

by ratting it out

to the residential advisor.

aperture: f/5.6|exposure: 1/8

-june.

"Kung Fu Fighter"
Mt Dandenong, VIC
*Old Photo

Aperture: f/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/400s

I had this theme in mind because I knew that there would be an awesome sunset in Phillip Island.

It was awesome but I couldn't capture it. Being in the vicinity of penguins meant no photography, period. But the sunset was soooo beautiful. I kept looking around at it.

So I'll replace it with an old photo I took.

- Jian

Monday, September 21, 2009 (-)

Empty
Philadelphia, PA

Shutter: 1/640
Aperture: f/16

-Jing

"Fever For the Flavour"

Shoya, Melbourne

Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/3s

The investment club committee in which I am in had a nice lunch at Shoya, a Japanese place in the city. The food was yum!!

- Jian

Sunday, September 20, 2009 (-)

Magic Berries? Miracle fruit?

Swarthmore, PA

We flava' tripped this weekend. We tried those berries that alter the way you taste things, and had lots of food around us so we could try different things.

Verdict: Kind of fun. Sour things tasted really sweet. Lemons were awesome and tasted like sweet lemonade. Rice vinegar tasted a little bit like honey. Soy sauce was still kind of gross. Tabasco was kind of sweet, and grapefruit juice was super sweet. Green apples were good. Kiwis were fun.

So this is a picture of Aden with a mug of rice vinegar and a slice of lemon (!!!).

Shutter speed: 1/60
Aperture: f/4.5

-Jing

"dead."

roberts, swarthmore.

i have a growing fascination

with taking pictures

of dead leaves.

they're very pretty

up close.

aperture: f/4.5|exposure: 1/50

-june.

"Melbourne Cricket Ground"
Melbourne, VIC

Aperture: f/18
Shutter Speed: 1/13s
*SOOC

The sunset was beautiful today. I thought the clouds would ruin it but it didn't!

- Jian

Saturday, September 19, 2009 (-)

"Nancy"

Wooster Sq. Park, New Haven, CT

The most delicious chocolate milk ever can be found in the Wooster Sq. Farmer's Market.

-Darell

Legs
Swarthmore, PA

Shutter: 1/6
Aperture: f/14

-Jing

"sun ra."

olde club, swarthmore.

good funky loud music.

june is now deaf, though.

aperture: f/3.5|exposure: 1/15

-june.

"Beep Beep"
Melbourne, VIC

Aperture: f/20
Shutter Speed: 10s
*Tripod used

I like the aftermath of a downpour. The road is so shiny. Oh, and my new tripod is great. Never skimp on tripods. It is worth the however much you pay.

- Jian

Friday, September 18, 2009 (-)

Fisher Fine Arts Library
Philadelphia, PA

Shutter: 1/125
Aperture: f/22

Frank Furness was a crazy, crazy man.

-Jing

"dreamcatcher."

roberts, swarthmore.

at your service...
and unfortunately
desaturated by blogger.

aperture: f/2.5|exposure: 1/20

-june.

"From The Steps of The Yarra River"
Melbourne, VIC

*HDR Image

I can't wait to get out of the city. I want to take HDR images of nature.

Anyway, I thought this was the best of the lot! Slowly getting better at HDR and Adobe CS4.

- Jian

Thursday, September 17, 2009 (Chaos)

Beans?
Swarthmore, PA

I see these next to Hicks (the engineering building) every day.

Aperture: 1/4
Shutter: f/22.0

-Jing

"chicken scratch."

roberts, swarthmore.

sometimes, it feels this way
in my head.
you know?

aperture: f/3.5|exposure: 15

-june.

Wow I suck. I completely forgot to post stuff over the past few days. Will do that when I get home tonight... Sorry! :(
Love, Jing


"Linear Chaos"
1000 £ BEND, VIC

Aperture:f/7.1
Shutter Speed:0.4s

I quite like the way this picture turned out; and I quite like June's theme=)

I'm back in business. Haven't had much inspiration lately to take pictures. Things just looked so bland and boring all of a sudden?

Must be the weather.

- Jian

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (-)

UPenn Design School
Philadelphia, PA

Shutter: 1/20
Aperture: f/22

Today, after my sociology class at Penn (history of cities of China), I moseyed around campus, got coffee with a classmate, worked on my structures problem set, and took photographs. :)

- Jing

"Up"
Redmond Barry Building, VIC

Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter Speed: 1/40s

I don't know what to say about this picture.

- Jian

"prevention."

mccabe, swarthmore.

do it.

aperture: f/1.8|exposure: 1/40

-june.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (Circles)

Reflection

Philadelphia, PA

Shutter: 1/400
Aperture: f/16

-Jing

"hopeless."

roberts, swarthmore.

i'm still going to die.

(this is an out of focus shot of a turquoise star pendant.)

aperture: f/4.0|exposure: 1/10

-june.

"Wheel of Fortune"
Asia Centre, Melbourne Uni

Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/20s

Melbourne Uni has quite a few cool things to stare at. Heh. Wonder what the symbols mean?

- Jian

Monday, September 14, 2009 (-)

Smart girls are sexy

Swarthmore, PA

Shutter speed: 1/80
Aperture: f/22.0

This is Anne, tamping fine aggregate in our structures lab for the unit weight test.

"Smart girls are sexy" is the SWE (Swarthmore Women Engineers) T-shirt, in case you were wondering. :)

-Jing

"Engineered to Satisfy"
Shanghai Dumpling, VIC

Aperture:f/3.5
Shutter Speed:1/5s
ISO: 800

100 dumplings.
4 Engineers.
Satisfied?
Hell yes.

So we had a lot of dumplings. In the picture are Hayden and Jenny, who both do Mechanical Engineering.

*Burp*

- Jian

Sunday, September 13, 2009 (-)

Bean things
Swarthmore, PA

Shutter speed: 1/100
Aperture: f/22.0

-Jing

"sunday night."

roberts, swarthmore.

ricola is keeping me cough-free for now.

but everything else is fuzzy

and i got no readings done

and i'm going to die.

aperture: f/7.1|exposure: 1/125

-june.

"Seeking Alpha"
My Room, VIC

Aperture: 1/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/3s

I didn't go trawling today. I had this assignment to do!

Anyway, a picture of some essential items in my life. My camera lense cap, my house keys, my 'iamakey' USB and my bicycle key. There is a story to the bicycle key. I'll share it in a picture next week=)

- Jian

Saturday, September 12, 2009 (-)

Pet

Swarthmore, PA

Shutter speed: 1/50
Aperture: f/22.0

I can't decide which one I like more - what do you guys think? I'm thinking the second one, but as June pointed out, the fact that they are both looking in the same direction in the first one is kind of cool....

Currently listening to: Cross My Mind, Jill Scott

-Jing

"saturday night."

parrish circle, inside a shuttle van, swarthmore.

:(

aperture: f/1.8|exposure: 1/6

-june.

"Flinders Street Station"
*HDR Image

I have yet to capture yesterday's theme. Hum! Anyway, this is my first attempt at HDR Imaging. It's pretty much combining the same picture with different exposures so you can get a complete product...as opposed to just using one exposure and risking over/under exposure.

There is some colour distortion in the bottom right. Blergh. I'll get better at this over the holidays!

Don't shoot me, June (for not abiding by the SOOC rule).=P

- Jian