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I do not understand Hong Kong men's fashion.

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I do not understand Hong Kong men's fashion.

Happy Mother's Day

Kissena Velodrome Twilight Series

Kicking back and relax

The point of this picture is not the Vans.

Lee Jeans Newspaper Ad

To get them you have to go to eBay.  I like the yellow stitching and fade and the seven belt loops instead of the meager five.  The run through leather patch is nice too.  Now most Lee are made fugly.

Bacon egg toast sandwich

I'd like to share what I eat with you.  Because sharing is caring.

Little Gift

You can get whatever from Chinatown cheaper and better.  But they aren't the same.

A materialist with little possession.

Grad ND Filter

Finally got one from the world's biggest store.  eBay has it selling at a stupidly higher price.

My picture will look infinitely better.

Jeans

I don't believe in not washing your jeans or my jeans.  Don't be gross.

Jeans

I don't believe in not washing your jeans or my jeans.  Don't be gross.

Random pictures

    

NYFW FALL2014

NYFW FALL2014

NYFW FALL2014

NYFW FALL2014

NYFW F2014

NYFW Fall 2014

On Photography ... part 2

Or the world hasn't suffered enough.

After my nifty copied-from-somewhere script did its job converting NEFs to JPEGs, the job is pretty much done done.  But I want to inflict more sufferings to the world by uploading the pictures to more social media in addition to this blog.  I figure maybe I should downsize the pictures more so I can upload them faster to Instagram--the destination for what I have for lunch.  Hence the below nifty script I copied and modified from somewhere ...

mogrify -resize 40% -unsharp 0x6+0.5+0 *.jpg

This resizes the files to 40% of the original and sharpen the pictures.  Sounds good enough for me.

Here comes the more difficult part.

The above were done on my cheapo Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.  It's an adequate machine until you need to talk to iPhone for example.

Anyway to make a short story long.  Here is what I have been doing.  I make the folders where my downnsized JPEGs sharable.  I copy those downsized files to my Windows machine which is installed with Instagram within Bluestacks which is forever in beta and rightly so as it's quite unstable but not to the extent that's totally unusable.  But it has its fair amount of glitches.  My recent New York Fashion Week Fall 2014 #nyfw, #nyc pictures are almost all done in this fashion.   http://instagram.com/laichungleung--post from the Instagram within Bludstacks on the Windows 7 machine.

That's all folks.

On Photography ... part 1

Once I am done shooting.  I remove one or two of my cheapo SD cards from my D7000 and plug it into my, what else, cheapo card reader.  I run Ubuntu 12.04 with four cores and a meager 4GB of RAM.  Shotwell Photo Manager is the piece of software to organize the pictures.  "Organize" is such a word that I most often ignore or fail to live up to.  Basically the software copies all the pictures and arrange them in year, month, and day order,  which is good enough for me.  To convert those NEF files, I run ufraw-batch to convert those files en masse.  Usually I blindly convert them without being selective.  Defending on the number of NEF files I process it can take some time.

I created an executable batch file like below

ufraw-batch --conf=DSC_1019.ufraw --create-id=no --wb=camera --rotate=camera --out-type=jpg --compression=95 --clip=film --out-path=JPEG/ *.NEF

... to be continued (or not)