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	<description>Photography by Kai Teoh</description>
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		<title>Caroline Smith: a preview</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh Caroline Smith, how enchanting her voice was. Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleep&#8217;s live show was mesmerizing to the point where I lost track of time, and at some points even forgot that I was hired to take photos of their performance. KVSC 88.1 FM approached me late last week asking me if I would shoot some photos of her performance at their 30th Monday Night Live show and, naturally, I jumped at the chance. The truth was I would have been at the event anyway, and I would have shot photos regardless. But having been hired for the show gave me access and the comforting knowledge that I could move around and do what needs to be done. It&#8217;s rare to find a band that performs better live than they sound on a CD/LP. But Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleep was one such band, and as unassuming as they might appear, their music is anything but. The stage was very intricately designed to look like the living room of a rather vintage-styled house and it certainly added a nice feel to the show as well. If only photographs could catch the sound of music, I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Break &#8217;12</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came back from a two-week trip traveling across the US with my Pentax K-5 and a DA*16-50mm. While the trip was primarily for me to do a few job interviews (which went well, though I didn&#8217;t get any job offers) I did manage to take quite a lot of photos while I was out traveling. The simplified plan goes like this: - Chicago: 2 days - New York: 4 days - Boston: 4 days - Connecticut: 2 days Keep in mind of course some days I had to do interviews and there was a day or two where I fell sick and had to just sleep-in the whole day. I had to be in my top shape for my interviews anyway, and as terrible as it was, I opted to rest myself up instead of running out and killing myself. I&#8217;ve updated my &#8220;Places&#8221; galleries with photos of New York, Chicago and Boston. Connecticut wasn&#8217;t as tourist-picturesque as I would have liked &#8211; at least where I was &#8211; but I was only there for two days. I actually did get a few nice shots, but not enough to warrant an entire gallery anyway. And they were more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sports with Pentax</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that when it comes to autofocus (AF) accuracy and speed, Canon far surpasses its competitors. Pentax is no slacker on that front anymore &#8211; with the K-5 and K-r&#8217;s release &#8211; but it can still be somewhat hard to shoot sports with a Pentax and an SDM lens. It&#8217;s a two-fold problem here: 1. Pentax&#8217;s AF accuracy and speed has improved considerably and is comparable to Nikon and such, but it&#8217;s not fast enough for a point-and-shoot approach to sports photography. 2. Pentax&#8217;s high-end zoom lenses, the DA* 60-250mm and DA* 50-135mm, both utilize the SDM drive. Which, while silent, is significantly slower than traditional whirring-loud screw-driven lenses. But it&#8217;s not an insurmountable problem at all. In fact, it&#8217;s these things about Pentax that makes me love the brand even if it sounds a little like a backhanded compliment. To take good sports photos with Pentax requires less of a lightning-quick reflex, but more of a smart contemplated approach to photography. I&#8217;ve shot with a Canon 5D Mk2 and it&#8217;s very much possible to set the camera on AF-C and simply track the action. The K-5 isn&#8217;t much slower &#8211; perhaps just by a fragment of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Pentax?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, let me begin by giving a brief history of Pentax. This is by no means meant to be a historical analysis of the company or a detailed look into its cameras, but simply to provide a general background on Pentax. This company, these days barely recognized, has influenced SLRs in a way that few people these days realize. Brief history The name &#8220;Pentax&#8221; wasn&#8217;t originally the name of the company, in fact it was originally known as the Asahi Optical Company. Asahi produced one of the most influential SLRs in the early 60s with the &#8220;Asahi Pentax,&#8221; which its compact body and control layout was to be later emulated by Nikon and other companies that manufactured SLRs. With the success of the &#8220;Asahi Pentax&#8221; camera, the company decided to rename itself into Pentax, and followed up with many a number of Pentax cameras. In the earlier years of 35mm SLR photography, Pentax was a name as well known as Nikon &#8211; which was another company that rose to prominence in the same time period with its Nikon F series of SLRs. The early Pentax cameras used the m42 screw-mount, and Pentax&#8217;s very own line of lenses that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the advent of affordable DSLRs, it&#8217;s become fairly common to see most everyone owning a camera. And with the mentality of the general consumer market, it&#8217;s become almost a greeting to hear this question: &#8220;Canon or Nikon?&#8221; or this question: &#8220;Why Pentax?&#8221; It&#8217;s absolutely understandable though why a person would ask such a question. Canon and Nikon has catapulted itself into the forefront of the consumer DSLR market after their success in marketing &#8211; not pioneering &#8211; the digital revolution in the early 2000s. Sony has increasingly done so as well, with their Alpha line of cameras. But Canon and Nikon has become household names &#8211; with Canon ambassadors and Nikon&#8217;s renowned studio flash system &#8211; it&#8217;s no wonder that most people assume professional photographers shoot with Canon or Nikon. So, why Pentax?]]></description>
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		<title>Photojournalism meets studio photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The website&#8217;s coming together fairly well. I have a few graphic designers that I can think of that I might call upon a favor or two &#8211; have them design a favicon and a proper website logo. Right now it&#8217;s a simple placeholder I cooked up. I&#8217;ve yet to decide on a &#8220;proper&#8221; name for the website, but I&#8217;ve always liked &#8220;Ink Cafe&#8221;. I&#8217;m considering keeping it this way. Perhaps I&#8217;ll turn it into a full-fledged studio once I mass enough funds, but until then I&#8217;ll have to work on-site and perhaps rent studios for the occasional studio work. &#8220;Ink Cafe&#8221; might also be turned into a brand of sorts, something I&#8217;ve always thought would be a fascinating experiment, as I know a very skilled artist looking to sell her artwork. And when I say skilled, I&#8217;m not talking about run-of-the-mill college artist. This person is indeed very skilled at art, and a very good friend of mine. Looking through my past work for this site, I realize that I don&#8217;t do much studio or posed photography. Mind you, I&#8217;ve done enough of them to know that I can do studio work well even if I&#8217;m not anywhere as skilled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another &#8220;Work-in-Progress&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photoblog will serve a few purposes. It&#8217;ll be the blog where I rant about the photographic community and industry, it&#8217;ll be the site where I showcase my work, and it&#8217;ll be the storefront for any prints of my photos. While the site has been in existence for a few years now, it&#8217;s always served as a personal photoblog. A day ago, I decided on a whim to tear it all down and build it up properly. Hence the lack of photos and the bare look right now. Also, ignore the &#8220;Village&#8221; sign as well &#8211; I&#8217;ll have it replace once I&#8217;ve tracked down a suitable graphic designer.]]></description>
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