Photography Cheat Sheet

by Willy Foo on Aug.13, 2010, under photography

Compiled this few pages to explain some basic concepts about exposure and white balance

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Talk on Entrepreneurship to NYP

by Willy Foo on Jun.02, 2010, under Uncategorized

During this talk, I’ve covered how failures are natural stepping stones to success, accounting for variable change, looking at various pitfalls and key to success.

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Time Lapse Photography Setup for Audi Fashion Festival

by Willy Foo on May.19, 2010, under photography

The organisers wanted to document the whole process of the Audi Fashion Festival from the setup to the teardown of the week long event. As soon as the structure is up, I setup a time lapse camera from one of the top corners in the tentage to have a good view of the tent and left it to take a photo every 2 minutes.

This video shows how the setup is done.

And finally the end result at 30 frames per second.

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Social Doodle 1

by Willy Foo on May.18, 2010, under social media, technology

Just one of those social experiments I do from time to time.. :)
Go ahead to add on your creative strokes via Google Docs

You can post this on your own blog too by embedding this code

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Photography for Event Management

by Willy Foo on May.18, 2010, under marketing, photography

Giving a talk about photography to a group of event marketers at Orchid Country Club

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Talk on ‘Tuning your Social Media Strategy’

by Willy Foo on May.14, 2010, under marketing

Gave a talk to a group from the Rotary Club during a lunch meeting. Attached the slides here for reference

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Photography Video 1: Shutter Speed

by Willy Foo on May.11, 2010, under photography

In this video I demonstrate how each stop of light is 2 times brighter or darker using just the shutter speed.

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How to remove a lens filter that is stuck

by Willy Foo on May.10, 2010, under photography

My neighbour had a cracked UV filter that was stuck to his lens one day and we started the video rolling as I attempted to remove it.

The solution is to use a rubberized surface to provide grip on the ridges in the front of the filter.

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Interview on Photo360 Competition on 93.8FM

by Willy Foo on Apr.30, 2010, under photography

I was judging for the Microsoft’s Photo360 competition which had teams of photographers go around Singapore capturing a PhotoSynth of a place.

Click to hear the 2 parts of the radio interview

Microsoft Photo360 Competition part 1/2

Microsoft Photo360 Competition part 2/2

John Fernandes & Myself before we started the interview

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How fast are USB 3.0 Hard Disks?

by Willy Foo on Apr.28, 2010, under technology

I was browsing South Asia Computer at Funan Centre one day and saw an ExpressCard for USB 3.0 and wondered if USB 3.0 devices were available already.
It turned out that  Buffalo had a USB 3.0 DriveStation that was paired with the expresscard adapter since USB 3.0 notebooks aren’t available yet.

Bought them back and did a transfer.. (continue reading…)

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