Award Winning Professional Photographer & Technoprenuer

Talk on Entrepreneurship to NYP

Willy Foo — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:31:43 +0000

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.

Time Lapse Photography Setup for Audi Fashion Festival

Willy Foo — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:41:25 +0000

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.

Social Doodle 1

Willy Foo — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:47:10 +0000

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

Photography for Event Management

Willy Foo — Tue, 18 May 2010 02:40:15 +0000

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

Talk on ‘Tuning your Social Media Strategy’

Willy Foo — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:28:14 +0000

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

Photography Video 1: Shutter Speed

Willy Foo — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:08:29 +0000

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

How to remove a lens filter that is stuck

Willy Foo — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:58:46 +0000

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.

Interview on Photo360 Competition on 93.8FM

Willy Foo — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:16:07 +0000

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

How fast are USB 3.0 Hard Disks?

Willy Foo — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:11:21 +0000

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..

showed approx 30MB/s

A 2nd transfer showed a little better results 37.8 MB/s

So being really curious what the speed jump was, I removed the ExpressCard slot and plugged the hard disk directly into the normal USB2.0 slot

It showed 20.7 MB/s .. meaning the USB3.0 almost doubles the transfer not too impressive, for the extra trouble of putting in the ExpressCard which needed some extra power via a USB power cable.

Makes sense when the computer/notebook already has USB3.0 slot, in which case you get double the speed without additional hassle.

Note: The tests are not entirely accurate as the files transferred on the last try were 4 large files, while the first 2 were many smaller files. But this should give an indication of the rough speed. Will have to do more precise measurements with benchmarking software later.

Google Earth view now available within Google Maps

Willy Foo — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:02:46 +0000

Check this out.. now I don’t need to install the standalone Google Earth. It’s available as a plug in instead.

New York in 3D

Take a look at the Niagara Falls.. (you may have to install the plug-in first to view)

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How about Singapore?

Very little buildings in Singapore has the 3D version.. but with this plug-in being available to the very popular Google maps, I hope more will come soon.

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