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2011-workstation for photo editing

These are what I want to be in my workstation

Home-made C-41 chemicals

Home-made C-41 chemicals

Film tank

This is how a film tank work.

How to fix Contax T3 film spool tooth defect

Contax T3 is a nice camera but it has common defect, the spool tooth. There is only one tiny plastic tool that help advance the film. Over time, it will be broken for sure as the one I have. It may cost you well over $100 to send it somewhere to fix but I have a way that can fix if in less than 1 hour and cost you less than $2 if you have the right tools

2010想拍什么地方?

开始准备2010年中国的玩拍地点。今年要回老家,只能沿途找些地方。

 

How to take macro pictures?

For some reasons, many new amateur photographers like to take macro pictures of something. Same thing happened to me too. Here are the methods I used to enlarge tiny objects:

哇,洛杉矶

2010年,进入了我移居洛杉矶地区的第10个年头,说来惭愧,没有好好拍过一次洛城夜景。洛杉矶摄影沙龙上夜景片风起云涌,手开始发痒。一月一日,天边的一片彩霞无疑是雪上加霜, 终于拿起电话,和色友联系好,决定第二天就上天文台。

Chuangxi Sfari (9) - Yading the untouched frontier

Yading is a relatively newly developed remote national park for tourists. At the center of the park there are two lakes: Lake Wuse (5 colors) and three sacred mountains. No private vehicles can reach the center, tourists have to ride horse for a few hours to get there.

Chuanxi Safari (8) - The temple of Gong Ga Ji Ling

It is a small Huang Jiao temple within the city of Daocheng. Because it was raining so the only place we could go shoot was this temple. Lama there turned out to be very friendly. For 10 Yuan per person, we could should in and out and even the lamas there.

Chuanxi Safari (7) - The highest city: Litang

Located at 4200 meters, Litang is probably the highest city in the world. There are not much trees or buildings, the Town is surrounded only by highland grass. We were planned to stay there for one night but somebody in our company experienced serious headache so we just passed it by and moved on to the next town Daocheng.