{"id":615,"date":"2006-04-19T02:51:03","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T02:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2006-04-19T02:51:03","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T02:51:03","slug":"cosmic-funky-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic, Funky Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

So on April Fool’s Eve 2006, I went to Little Havana, Changkat Bukit Bintang, for LiveHouse presents Cosmic Funk Express<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n


\nI invited my friend, who brought his friend (romantically depicted here), and I played with his friend for the night. It was a Canon EOS 350D<\/i> with an EF-S 17-85mm, F4-5.6<\/i> lens. Suuuhweeet. The place also had excellent hawaiian pizza with great stretchy servings of cheese.<\/p>\n


\nThe 17-85 zoom lens inspired me, what with the darkness, to use a slow shutter speed with flash. Guess which ones came from the 350D, and which came from my teeny Canon Powershot A520!<\/p>\n


\nThen, there was also flashing, then quickly moving to expose on the rest of the frame.<\/p>\n


\nI think these trippy effects are best used to define the music of Cosmic Funk Express.<\/p>\n


\nZack<\/a> taps with two guitars, so I doubled him.<\/p>\n


\nExact speeds vary based on intensity of flash, but it works best when the subject is brighter than the background.<\/p>\n


\nIzwin<\/b> sings L.O.V.E. and some contemporary classics in the second half.<\/p>\n


\nZack plays Tiesto… on piano. He also played the Doraemon theme song.<\/p>\n


\nAlda<\/a> feels left out, so I give his bass green rays of envy. I reckon that there was a strong green light on him after zooming out, to create this effect.<\/p>\n


\nAlex<\/b> sends out drummer-tentacle hooks. The band then plays the strangely familiar, secret bonus song which they never wrote.<\/p>\n


\n“Whoa. Did we really just play that?<\/i>”<\/p>\n


\nMy friend suggested I look for the black and white option, and I found a way to bump up the contrast and sharpness for this. It looks like he got poked in the back.<\/p>\n


\nYes, that is a hairband on his guitar neck, not a guitar capo. (To mute open strings and ease guitar tapping.) Yes, I wear a guitar capo on my hair<\/a>, not a hairband.<\/p>\n

“One more! Two more! Jimi Hendrix!<\/i>”<\/p>\n

I figured, Alda deserved a vocal break<\/i>, so I requested for Eric Johnson – Cliffs Of Dover<\/i>, a guitar shredders’ anthem. Yup, you’d hear the main riff being ripped off in KC & Jojo – All My Life<\/i>!<\/p>\n

What did I think of the 350D pictures? I used ISO1600 all the time, with shutter speeds faster than 1\/20 seconds, if I was not using the slow shutter flash effect. The F4-5.6 could be limiting, and the lens was already expensive as it was. The pictures did have noise, but NeatImage<\/b>, a noise reduction software, practically wiped it out (in comparison to any digital camera, where the noise is removed but still leave behind blotches of color.)<\/p>\n

As for how I did the zoom-slow-flash thing, you need<\/b> a manual zoom lens (not the motorized one like in the Canon Powershot Pro1). Set a slow shutter speed, maybe 1\/4 seconds. Press the shutter and rotate zoom ring at the same time. The faster you do it, the more distinct the two pictures.<\/p>\n

As for how I did it with the A520… well, I moved my camera nearer or further by extending my hands to get the zoom effect. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So on April Fool’s Eve 2006, I went to Little Havana, Changkat Bukit Bintang, for LiveHouse presents Cosmic Funk Express. I invited my friend, who brought his friend (romantically depicted here), and I played with his friend for the night. It was a Canon EOS 350D with an EF-S 17-85mm, F4-5.6 lens. Suuuhweeet. The place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-music","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}