8x10

嗯?... 好像中文字体比前段看起来好了不少. 那就用中文写看看吧.
终于, "Soliloquy"经过这段时间的拍摄, 停下来了. 连着几天无法拍出满意的影像. 突然想起来我的8x10英寸Chamonix木制相机的片夹里还有4张底片一直没有拍. 而之前使用8x10拍摄的一组照片也同样是因为某些原因自冬天过后就一直处于半停滞状态, 是我很看重的一组照片.
不插电, 呵呵, 用了段时间的数字相机后, 终于又回到完全手动的机器. 因为很熟悉, 所以也没太多新鲜感觉, 大包小包放进车的后备箱, 出发.
很快就开始了拍摄, 一张, 两张, 感觉很好, 顺利得让我有点不敢相信. 但一直到太阳落山前, 才非常勉强地拍了第三张页片. 晚上冲出来后, 果然, 勉强拍摄的第三张, 嗯, 非常不理想. 是不是头两张就把RP用完了呢?!呵呵, who knows.
第二天拍摄继续, 一直到傍晚, 拍摂完片夹里最后一张页片后突然感觉很累, 并不是因为大画幅相机本身的重量让我吃不消, 而是在拍摄时, 同样也会遇到时机问题, 快速地摆弄这个大木头家伙, 很容易让人感觉疲劳. 坚持回到Suncity, 晚上把页片全部冲洗了出来, 因为太投入, 忘记了Riesama嘱咐我的新月许愿的事情, 还好Riesama那边替我许了...
明天是端午节, 我需要去办理去日本的机票和Haku Chichan的随行, 不知道能不能一切顺利. 今天已经跑了一趟西单咨询, 那边的国航女工作人员, 眼神迷离, 话语飘忽, 恩, 文艺女青年范儿, 只是碰巧我不懂文艺女青年, 也不喜欢"范儿"这个词. ^_^ 希望明天不是那位女士坐前台.
周六, 一切正常的话, 继续8x10的拍摄. 希望一切顺利.

Hot May days

I was told that today's highest temp. is about 35 C... so it make me feel that summer time starts from May here in Beijing. I stayed at home all day, not only because of high temp. but also i need to do some edit of my pics. And as normal 2 pics have be chosen from 66 pics, this series is not about snap shot, so i don't have to shoot a lot to capture the best moment, anyway, i need keep this rhythm. So tomorrow i will go out again, but this time, i will take my car, i will go to east part of Beijing. hope tomorrow will not be that hot like today...
Yesterday evening one of my friends came to my apartment, we talked about photo taking for a long time, he really loves photo taking, and we talked for a long time, a wonderful guy, a toy camera lover. I have a lot of toy cameras, and i love them, but recently i decide that i will stop using them for a period, cause their lens 's impact, too strong some time, if you do not pay a lot of attention on it, you will lose your own style, and image will be controlled by toy camera, not you. after my "skin-deep" series(a 100% holga work), I feel that I need to back to normal, so this time i take a 50mm standard lens(with no flare, sharp enough if you want^_^) to make series- Soliloquy, 50mm lens is wonderful in 135 format, I can not handle a super wide angle very well, also tele lens are too big, heavy(but maybe good for diet), so a light weight, compact 50mm suits me well.
(I cleaned my F64 camera bag today, this bag is better for summer. can put my A900 and Hv30 and accessories into it easily, so, come on, Summer time, i am ready.)
Today i watched news about H1N1 in Japan, hope everything will be fine with Riesama and family, all my friends and ...all people.

Blocked...

Can't believe it! Crazy. even blogger.com has been blocked here in Beijing. What are they thinking about?! ...
But, for me, nothing changed, just open one software, two clicks will get rid of this barrier.
yesterday, I worked all day with my mac, and finally i got my walking day's result: i got 2 pics from 73 pics! emm, not bad, I will be very happy if every time i can have same result when i go out to take pics for this series. ok, i will post one of them here.
And yesterday i found that my macbookpro's DVD-Rom is OK, works. i don't know why, but that means i don't have to take time to go to that apple store.
I still have problem with video capturing in Final cut express, checked a lot of web info, maybe a Final Cut Pro will solve this problem... but, man, Final cut pro...well....anyway, mainly i am a still image photographer.

A walking day

Oh, finally i got back home, after a hot shower, i feel much better. I walked for about 5 hours today, made two stops, each for 15 mins, yes, I felt the difference today, after i quit smoking, i got some extra weights, about 7-8kg, recently i loss a little a little weight, but, still have 5 kg extra, these 5 kg extra made me so tired after walking...man, i need more diet. Now i am hungry, but I am not gonna eat anything...
I am gonna move from Beijing after 3 months, so for these 3 months I decide to use mainly digital-my sony a900 and a canon HV30, about my film cameras, one of my 8x10 project is still in processing, so maybe i will only keep using my 8x10, and rests - digital and digital for these 3 months. i think it is a better choice, for 3 months i can do much more testing shoots using A900, let digital save my time. and print them, i think i will do it in Japan, can't wait to try a A3 size contact print using a digital negative.
So today's result - I am tired because of those 5 kg extra weight, i shoot about 80 pics (if 35mm films it will be 2 rolls and a little more), so see, basically there is no big difference between Digital and Film camera for me to shoot, from these 80 pics i can pick about 2-3 pics for my "Soliloquy"series i think, mmm, it is normal for me. And also shoot some footage using HV30. today, i won't do anything with these pics and videos, i can not, i will take a good rest first. and I'd like to share a wallpaper, now i am using it on my mac, a wallpaper made from my Anonymous series.
(A900 using aperture to open its raw file, you can get very decent quality of images, can give you about 120MByte 16bit tiff file, isn't good?! Another good news, finally Riesama got her internet ok, it is very important, very.)

Mac, Pages and Photoshop.

Yes, I am working with my new site, for three days, I did not go out. there are about 200 pics, first, i need to open the photoshop to resize them for showing on web, make them about 600x400 if they are 135mm format for example, and then, I gotta resize them again, cause i need thumbnails for my pics, not so easy, right?! but it is just the beginning, fonts i'd like to use for this site could not be supported by a PC...(I am not good at computer's terms), so i have to use Pages, type what i want, and then make a screen shot, and then, import this screen shot to photoshop, resize(again) and save it. as you see, after these work, people just easily get mad, or get sick. (BTW., Pages is good, I like this soft, but PC user can not open my Pages file directly, this is bad...)My Macbookpro got sick already, the famous DVD-Rom issue, not stable at all, now just refuse to read any of my CDs or DVDs, I need to go to that big local apple store, ask those apple genius to change a new DVD-Rom for me.
So for my health and brain, I decide, I will go out next day, also i will try to keep working on my photo series, I need to go out and take more pics.

A piece of Sky

->> I am not a local people here in Beijing, though i have a Beijing ID card...anyway, it is not so important, i am gonna leave from this town in autumn, I live here for about 8 years, and here in Beijing I got my first job, first pay, i got married here(but I found my wonderful wife in Thai ^_^), and here i became a photographer... I really want to make a record of my life in Beijing, this time i choose using a video Cam to do this job, try to catch my true feeling to this huge city...
Sounds good... but that means i have to deal with all those video software, oh my god, for me none of them is user friendly... right, maybe Final cut express is closer.
Well, here is you can see this short footage, I made them old 8mm feel, this is just a part of my plan, later i will try to import this footage into a bigger clip with a full story, and also, shooting and editing experience of my whole video plan may give me more ideas to my photo series "Soliloquy" shooting, recently i am working on it.
A piece of sky. shoot and edit by Ryu. Music from "unbounded" by Amethystium.

A piece of sky from tgsryu on Vimeo.

Hot Mac

I love my Macbookpro, I got it from a friend for 9000RMB, then i bought an apple care for it, so i still have two year warranty for this mac. Everything is perfect with this macbookpro except temp... too hot, when i run photoshop with my pics(files are big...from 120MB to 600MB) or my final cut express, so today, I turned on my air cooler, not for me, but for my macbookpro. BTW, today when i worked with finalcut express, I've got a warning from Finalcut, said that maybe there one or more frames were dropped during play back... oh, does it mean my mac is not fast enough?...or just maybe it is too hot so mac just slow down cpu's speed? who knows...
I got a good news, maybe friends could make my website ok till the end of this month. it is really really good, I will have my own official site made by a pro, many thanks. but, that also means i should prepare hundreds of pics and thumbnails for site, well, i need resize them and make them looks OK on web, not a easy work, i will try to finish is as soon as i could, and my Macbookpro will keep enjoying the air cooler.
-this B&W pic is from my "Tunnel" series, also with "Tunnel" i had my first solo exhibition...time flies."

Testing Video. Haku-sama

Intro Haku.HD Ver. from tgsryu on Vimeo.

Haku is my cat, he is a boy, actually i live with two cats, another one is Chi-chan, girl.
This is my first time edit a short short clip using Finalcut Express, not so user friendly like Imovie but much more powerful.
I think i should upload more videos, especially video of Chi-chan , Riesama will be happy with these cat's videos. ok, will keep working on it and pls, pls enjoy.
(if you wanna see video with window bigger size, just click "Intro HaKu.HD.Ver".)

Web design for 15 hours

It is getting hot and hot here in Beijing, so it makes me worrying my macbookpro, like today, till now, it worked about 15 hours, non-stop. Maybe from next week i should turn my old air cooler on, just for protecting my mbp from high temp..
15 hours, for web design, i am not good at dreamweaver or iweb, actually, i don't like making website by myself. That is why I still have problem with my own site, but this time, something different, i will get help from friend. So all i need to do- is design, make a web design, i use cs3 to make every page, well, it takes time to make a web design, about 15 hours, I've made 80% ok, that was really good for me. hope tomorrow I can finish this work and go out for photo taking - i need to work more with unfinished series.
So here is one of small sample from my 15 hours work, it looks simple, isn't it.

Cut.

Yes, Riesama is not at home(fourh day), i am going to live alone for about two months... emm.
Also i am gonna leave from this city after 3 months too, so right now, i have to end some of my photo series, and will do photo editing in Jp.
Alright, let's back to main topic, i got a final cut express, not a pro, pro is too big, my macbookpro's hard disk is just not big enough for a finalcut pro, also, my wallet doesn't allow me to do it. I am going to make a record of my life in Beijing using a DV cam, i am a Mini dv tape fan so i choose a HV30, lovely, also maybe a jag35 adapter could make things even better. anyway, i found it is much much more difficult than using an imovie, I need to ask some of my friends about final cut using, they are pro of video and motions. hope i could make a good dv record, i am not video photog, and will not be, that means i can use dv cam like everybody for daily life.
That B&W pic is from "Flying Bird", a small series. shoot by my holga, holga is my favor, light, cheap and stable. i am not sure if every photog is a camera fan...but i am. i recommand holga fo every photog, also tried Diana, i feel that holga is more comfortable for snap shot, Diana is smaller and more functional...
(See, Blog is a good place for soliloquy..., suits me well)

I think... it is time to get start.

So, first, I am a photographer, i am married, and i live in Beijing China : ) , let me see if i could find a suitable font for my Chinese inputting, ok, let's try this- 啊, and this- 啊, emmm, i don't like it. alright, i will try next time.
Recently, i am trying to make a new series, also i am trying to work with this new series using a digital camera- my Sony a900, it is a good camera actually, but i need more time to get used to shooting with a digital SLR.

Let's see how it works, here is 3 sample photos from this unfinished series, in fact i am still thinking if it could be a whole normal series, i will keep working with it.
Ok, it is my first post here in my blog, it is 2nd May 2009, gotta remember this date. BTW I was told that my lucky number is 5 this year...