Free "Intro to Food Photography" Talk

[yqt]

Originally Posted by AncientMariner Same here. Will have to work late tonight.

That makes 3 of us. Sorry got last min meeting with client.

[Ecclesiasm]

Thanks to Mr. Yim for sharing his time, life, experiences and book so unselfishly. Hopefully some budding writer cum photographer will glean from his enlightening talk.

Thank you!

[david_goh]

It was a fruitful evening indeed. Many can share technical stuff with you, but to find someone to share personal experiences (ie using expensive square lights vs. using tracing paper for a solution, benefits of a film SLR and problems in publishing a photo book) is not easy.

Thank you again Mr Yim for taking time to share with us. I urge those who missed yesterday's session to make it a point to go on the 2nd session.

You won't regret it.

[PhotoGuy]

It was great to hear about his experience, and many of the participants were active in the discussion. It was good vibe.

Also, Kudo to the organiser for this event, for having initiative and putting in effort for this talk.

Cheers.

[reachme2003]

thanks to unseen for organizing this talk. however, an estimate of about 20-30 persons were there. what happens to the rest?

[vince123123]

Typical CS style, rush to register (since there's no repercussions), rush for queue spaces, and in the end, a significant number won't turn up.

Originally Posted by reachme2003 thanks to unseen for organizing this talk. however, an estimate of about 20-30 persons were there. what happens to the rest?

[reachme2003]

it is more than CS style, it is a national affliction.

Originally Posted by vince123123 Typical CS style, rush to register (since there's no repercussions), rush for queue spaces, and in the end, a significant number won't turn up.

[vince123123]

Hmm, are you talking about the Macs Hello Kitty or rush for condo kinda queues? I'd think in general cases in Singapore of queues, at least the people who queue reach the end and make use of whatever they were queuing up for.

In CS it is different - its queue first, talk later (ie put name before doing ANYTHING else, then see if want to go, feel like going, check schedule later etc).

Originally Posted by reachme2003 it is more than CS style, it is a national affliction.

[PhotoGuy]

Perhaps next time, those interested could give a token of $5-$10 to attend the talk. This will show the sincerity and with the money, we could have the talk in a cafe etc. This idea may not go down well with some ppl but I believe the attendance rate will be much better.

Just an idea

[xiaowugui82]

17th September. Time: 2pm.
1. ExplorerZ
2. kitkat
3. Static
4. Nisa
5. Nisa's fren
7. Hobbesyeo
8. Tulip123
9. kenrai
10. Weigang
11.LeaderXXX
12. zyle17. DarNikon
13. DarNikon's spouse
14. barracuda
15. AReality
16. Hobbesyeo (who bumped me off the list ah? )
17. benedium (yah loh. me also kenna bumped off!)
18. JOHN LEE
19. kenrai
20. syl
21. PhantomGTR
22. Stor
23. contaxable
23. initialE24
24. joeteh
25. Singer high
26. gryphon
27. scud
28. lithium_fire
29. Radiation
30. feimao07
31. vonvonz
32. Stereobox (reposting name )
33. seng44
34. yaoxing
35. gomobile3
36. sojourn88 (was 29, kenna bumped off by "projekts" at page 7)
37. s00n (was 30, kenna bumped off by "projekts" at page 7)
38. gsv13
39. nupro (name got deleted also)
40. SFS
41. aanthony
42. predator
43. IvT

i'm veri sorrie i can't make it tomorrow cos i'm pulled to work tomorrow ... so sorrie about it...

[Chris Lim]

is this a free for all talk? just walk in right?

[david_goh]

Originally Posted by Chris Lim is this a free for all talk? just walk in right?

Yes Chris, can just walk in. Hope you can make it. I went for the 1st session and it was good.

[distagon]

17th September. Time: 2pm.
1. ExplorerZ
2. kitkat
3. Static
4. Nisa
5. Nisa's fren
7. Hobbesyeo
8. Tulip123
9. kenrai
10. Weigang
11.LeaderXXX
12. zyle17. DarNikon
13. DarNikon's spouse
14. barracuda
15. AReality
16. Hobbesyeo (who bumped me off the list ah? )
17. benedium (yah loh. me also kenna bumped off!)
18. JOHN LEE
19. kenrai
20. syl
21. PhantomGTR
22. Stor
23. contaxable
23. initialE24
24. joeteh
25. Singer high
26. gryphon
27. scud
28. lithium_fire
29. Radiation
30. feimao07
31. vonvonz
32. Stereobox (reposting name )
33. seng44
34. yaoxing
35. gomobile3
36. sojourn88 (was 29, kenna bumped off by "projekts" at page 7)
37. s00n (was 30, kenna bumped off by "projekts" at page 7)
38. gsv13
39. nupro (name got deleted also)
40. SFS
41. aanthony
42. predator
43. IvT
44. distagon

[unseen]

You're welcomed everyone. The whole point of this was to try let those interested gain knowledge from Mr. Yim. Those who didn't turn up, didn't get to benefit (as I did) from the discussion/talk. I'm glad people found it useful/good.

Anyway when Mr. Yim went technical, he mentioned kicker lights a few times - For those who didn't get what he was talking about, he's talking about studio lighting. Kicker are accent lights, lights that allows the photographer to illuminate only the area you want to accent.
Hairlight for portrait photography is an example of a kicker.

i THINK when he mentioned square lights, he meant a soft box. Soft box diffuses the lights, but the distance of box surface to light source is fixed.

[Dogfish]

Roughly how long will the talk be?

[reachme2003]

it is not a structured talk, but more a q & a session. much depends on the interaction between mr yim and audience. for thursday, it lasted about 1.5 hrs.

Originally Posted by Dogfish Roughly how long will the talk be?

[Weigang]

AH!!! I missed the talk I was looking forward to...

[versatile]

Not much photography shots from him anyway, all heartland shots.

[versatile]

Not much foods photography, sorry for the typo.

[Chris Lim]

but i guess his insights on food photography was pretty general and could have gone into further details if more questions was asked.

*note: tracing paper on my next shopping list! *