October 12

Alright, alright, I’m not going to rant about PMR being less than a day away, although I’m freaked out already.

Your monitor’s fine. It’s called the Orton Effect. I’ll have a tutorial on doing this in Photoshop after the exam. And that’s an L for you kit lens users!

Okay, today’s a year since I started photography, as a hobby, or more precisely, I got my 400D. I’ve learned a lot since then, but I’m still learning. It’s a neverending process in everyone after all. I had a Lumix for a few months before the 400D. It took good photos, but lacked semi-auto exposure and manual exposure. There were only scene selections.

I never heard of reflex (or SLR) cameras before that. I only knew of them as “the big ones reporters use” and “make a noisy sound when taking a photo” cameras. I was more into scale models of cars. It was only when someone on a model car forum got a 400D I heard of them and saw the image quality. So, yes, I got it precisely a year ago. If I could see things that day right now, I would probably be playing with it right now, using the full-auto mode without any creativity.

Okay, off to study in a while. Have to go about memorizing about literature in Malay once more. Looking forward to the end of the exam. Is that positive, or is it the opposite?