February | 2010 | Glaring Notebook

Moonshine: A Homemade Music Show, turned 4 years old. This was in conjunction with Laundry Bar’s Green Day Out, 19th November 2009!

Here’s David Lloyd Knight in 3 frames playing 3 instruments. Click picture for a bigger version!

Diandra Arjunaidi and her co-guitarist on stage.

Kien Lim does deep folk.

Otam, bluesman and his drummer!

Isaac Entry with the feelgood tunes…

…and Zarul blowing that harp.

Steph and the hammock.

Reza Salleh and band were… more aggressive this time. +2 Aggression!

Except for Melina who already plays furiously so she just did +1 Aggression.

Secret Santa.

Brad Pitt-lookalike in the audience!

Najwa pulls up the jam with her funk soul jazz tingling.

Say what?

Random crowd shot heh.

Stoned Revivals ended this extended night of Moonshine (which started at 8pm!) Click picture for bigger version!

I revisited my ol’ Vivitar 24mm F2.0 DIY Tilt-Shift and made it a regular-focusing 24mm F2.0 by adding two screws to hold the lens to the mount! Also added a little tape to make it lock in place when mounted on the camera. This also obstructed the aperture lever, but I meant to use it as a true constant aperture lens, fixed at F2.0.

It was, of course, a reversible procedure, so I could reenable tilt-shift functionality when I wanted. It’s pretty fun as a regular lens, too!

Being all manual focus, I tried to camwhore. I had to take a burst of shots while moving back and forth. The brightline bokeh is so offending in this, I will remove it for the next few shots (and thus, this is the only picture with honest bokeh.)

Click picture for larger version! It resolves amazingly even wide open, albeit with a fair bit of haze, and is prone to flare. I had to do some Unsharp Masking to pull out microcontrast from the gauzy picture.

Its minimum focus distance is 30cm, for some impressive wide-angle close-up capability.

This makes this lens my closest-focusing rectilinear lens (the Peleng 8mm F3.5 M42 is a circular fisheye.)

At close range, it picks up a heck load of detail off Shawn!

For the pixel peepers. Note that I have pulled the shadows a fair bit in DxO Optics Pro 6.1.2 hence the slightly artificial look. Note the extreme coma in the taxi lights in the top-left quadrant, the purple fringing on the taxi in the center and the spherical aberration in the bottom-left corner. Disregarding that, there is still a lot of rich detail in the center!