Through My Cat Eyes

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that I would upload some photographs of the cosplays that would have been the attraction of the recent hobby fest - so here they are. One thing I realized when I uploaded them was that the deep depth of field in most of the photographs (a.k.a. no bokeh, no life) and in the realm of photography, these would be considered amateurish and/or bad.  The reason why I did not notice this earlier when I took these photographs was because I was not really interested in portrait photography. Now that I know the concept of portrait photography and the awesome street portrait photographs on some blogs and flickr, my appreciation towards this certain set of skills and lens for this field of photography has increased greatly. This has strengthen my decision to pick up an Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 45mm f1.8 lens as an alternative to the Canon 50mm lens that I have now. As much as I love the Canon 60D, I believe that the OMD E-M10 can be as good, per...

Last weekend was the launch of the inaugural Sarawak Hobby Fest 2015. The two days event was held at Kuching Sentral and saw a huge turnout of collectors, cosplayers, yo-yo players, and even a very talented local artist. The crowd response was also overwhelming despite not having any advertisements in the physical format i.e. banners and newspapers. I could not make it on the first day due to heavy overlapping schedule on that Saturday, and sadly missed out on the cosplays. I was looking forward to it so much as I wanted to hone my portrait photography skills. Nevertheless, I was there on Sunday and had fun looking at and photographing the amazing line-up of Gundams, Transformers, dolls and other collectibles that were on display there. It was fun to be able to use the 50mm lens on the Canon 60D again. I've missed it very much as I am continually trying to get myself used to my new Olympus OMD E-M10. I really like to 50mm format for its tight framing and shallow dept...