The coffee cans were challenging due to the reflective surfaces. The light source has to be controlled well to minimize the ugly reflections on the cans.
These wooden pegs offer a different challenge compared to the coffee can. You need an even light source on the pegs to illuminate all the mini pegs since they are sort of randomly placed
Instead of an evenly distributed light on the doggy, here's one with some shadow after a few tries to get the look of my choice.
The Carl Zeiss lens are the easiest to shoot with. 1 shot and I like the effect already.
Good enough for a 2nd career?
I haven't blogged as often as I like due to several reasons. One of them is that a significant portion of my free time will be devoted to experiments and research. After all, I have a module to complete and a thesis/report to write before I can graduate with my M.Sc.
Maybe that's why Twitter is getting popular nowadays.
Anyway, I'm doing this module this semester that forces you to build stuff from scratch when you do experiment. It really helps you understand stuff better. Like how to build a microscope from scratch using only objective lens, eye pieces complete with beam splitters, apertures, light source and aligned twin laser beam system to measure velocity using Doppler effect.
Isn't it cool? The journey will be recorded in a wiki site here, check back at the end of the year for the complete work. Nothing like making your own stuff helps you understand how things work better.
I'll take the chance to share something that I learned recently and sort of did my own interpretation here. This is my expectation for all my student.
First you must know, without knowledge, your future will not be on a firm and solid foundation
Next you must think, be able to make use of your knowledge for the better of the future.
Eventually you must lead, otherwise, you will become armchair critics who do not know how to act on your thinking based on your knowledge.
Most important of all, character. With great power comes great responsibility, so you need to use your abilities for the better of mankind and not for evil.
The impact you can have in the future is determined by the area of the triangle which depends on the relative lengths of "Know", "Think" and "Lead". Lacking in any one dimension will give a small area. And the strength of your character will determine the colour of the triangle. Is it white for purity? Red for passion? Or a dark and gloomy black?
"Know", "Think", "Lead". They are meaningless without character.
修身,齐家,治国,平天下
Let's start with ourselves.
That term 3 is busy is a gross understatement.
Ohmigod!!! He published a paper by himself while teaching in RJC!!! He should have gone to Berkerley earlier...
Can feel it on the road to NUS, can feel it from the canteen.. its all so over-crowded.
1 more module to clear, 1 thesis to complete and I'm done... for a while at least...
Wonder when will I bump into my ex-students in NUS Science... anyone ended up in Science Faculty in the 1st place...
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Windows 7 didn't solve the BSOD problem, but cooling the computer works to some extent. Could it be the hot weather in the past weeks have to do with the BSOD? Cooler Master with so many fans not good enough?
Running Windows 7 now... hope it solves my problem once and for all, but next will come the problem when I need to pay for it and all the upgrade software.. shouldn't surf too much net since my antivirus is not up yet...
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