Learning to see: Perspectives in Photography

After knowing the convenience of using iPhone earphone volume control as shutter release, I hold my iPhone in front of me at chest level while I walk up the hill. Reviewing the video, I find some interesting perspectives which would never occur to me under normal circumstances if I were to use my camera to aim and compose the pictures. It might be my lack of imagination that I could never thought of those perspectives. Anyway, I would think that it is a good way of coming up with new perspectives with a mobile phone or a compact camera when you think that there isn't any interesting pictures to be taken around your familiar places.

The light weight and small size of digital compact camera with zoom could be used to explore different views and perspectives by looking at the LCD screen, moving the camera around, zooming in and out to see the effect immediately on screen. After capturing with the compact camera and come up with some satisfactory composition, you might then use your DSLR to have better image quality photographs.

Protective Cover / Case

While we were talking about re-contracting our mobile subscription with the telco and going to get iPhone 5, a friend who was in the discussion and reluctant to do so, asked a strange question: "Would it get scratched if I put it in my pocket?"

We all know that we pay for screen protector to protect our PDA at exorbitant price of around S$30 before. At around S$12 for iPhone. We buy cases for cameras and other equipment and devices, just to prevent the devices from scratches.

Last week I left my camera with case in my backpack together with a wet t-shirt after tracking overnight. Only on the next day I found that the leather part of the case came off. If I had put the wet t-shirt or the camera with case in a plastic shopping bag, that would not have happen. So today, I brought with me a few plastic bag on my trekking trip.

Putting ShadowProtect Recovery CD on USB Drive

Downloaded ShadowProtect Recovery Environment CD version 5.0.2 and trying to put it on USB drive so that it can boot into the recovery environment for backup/recovery.

Tried Unetbootin without success as it hang on the first boot selection. Searching on Internet found the answer to the problem. The problem was the USB drive was in FAT format. Formatting USB drive to NTFS solved the problem.

In summary, first format the USB drive into NTFS, then use Unetbootin to transfer the ShadowProtect recovery environment CD iso onto the USB drive.