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I'm Sony Lin, the Director and CEO of ptgoldensun.com. I welcome you to SonyLin.NET. If you love this website or feeling something useful here, please feel free to bookmark or favourites this site! For those of you who wanted to buy laser cutting, laser engraving machine, CNC router, textile machinery (Rapier Loom) and their spare parts (Rapier Head, Rapier Belt), you can help me by ordering them from our company PT. Golden Sun Indonesia. Please visit The Shop for my future online shop. Today it was called The Shop, while I'm waiting for name suggestion from readers. Currently the engine for The Shop is being written and hopefully finished soon. What is new & update: 21stApril 2012, If you need an apartment or office in West of Jakarta, you can see my friend, Meifei, blog or you can contact her directly at 081932833320. Tell her I send you! 13th March 2012, Today is my day off, more than a year of working, finally I can get a holiday. Yay! The Windows Curse: The Plague of Windows 8 A little bit of computer. History told me that odd numbered windows, or in this case Windows which was released in odd year is more successful than even numbered Windows. This has no relation to the stability of the Windows, as the Windows is just unsuccessful. Warning: this is a myth I made. Do not trust on this as I made this just for my holiday fun. The list was not intended to be exhaustive, I include only the major version.
So, now you believe me that odd numbered Windows is better than even numbered Windows just like Startrek Movie did? If Bill Gates believes in this myth, I guess would be a better idea if Microsoft release Windows 8 in January 2013 compared to December 2012. 29th February 2012, I was, somehow not talented with winter colours. I just could not snap a nice one, but I'll keep trying. In the mean time please enjoy this image, a huge 38 MP image of Jakarta cityscape. An image so huge that it crashes my gallery (gallery.sonylin.net) and my browser.
On the left side of the picture is Senayan, on the right hand side is Sudirman. Please do not tell anyone from IMF, Unicef or WHO as they will stop giving us loan when they knew the skyscrapers in Jakarta downtown. A little bit about photography, now I knew the secret of pink sunset. It was easy, really easy with my camera. It took me years to find out the secret. It was the picture style. I used to take picture at landscape wtih saturation set to maximum that causes the colour bright and vivid, however I've never noticed that I loss some details in the image. Until that fateful day I saw the sky was pink and when I capture the sky, the pink colours registers as orange on my camera's LCD. Suddenly I remember that once I was experimenting with Portrait picture style on my camera to snap picture of Asian. I'm Asian, and we got yellow skin. However portrait picture style renders our skin pinkish. Then I tried to capture the pink sky with portrait picture style at saturation to maximum, and viola, the sky is pink. The picture below demonstrates the effect. The difference was clear, what should be pink sky is pink in on picture taken with portrait picture style. The picture was taken taken only seconds apart and they are not edited nor colour corrected. Well I crop the images anyway.
Moreover Portrait picture styles can capture better detail compared to landscape picture style, especially in highlights. You can see that there are more detail in the highlight on the picture on the right. Take a closer look at the cloud texture, there are more textures on the images taken with portrait picture style. The cloud was pink too :)
Now it depends on your taste to choose the portrait or landscape picture style, since they yield different result and I believe it was clear that one should choose picture style not based on the subject, however depending on how the photographer wanted the subject look. Computer A note from me, regarding email, I hate when I found rar or zip files containing already compressed image files such as JPEG. Today I live mostly mobile, and I use my mobile phone to send and receive email communications. Uncompressing RAR or ZIP files add buren to my mobile phone, the mobile phone is simply too slow to handle therefore slowing me down. Even tough it tooks seconds for the actual compression, it took several button clicks to get file decompressed properly and then delete the extracted files, practically requireing twice the amout of the storage. Hate it much! Moreover contrary to popular believes, instead of being smaller, compressed image files like JPEG and GIF, on worst case, will grow larger when compressed in ZIP or RAR. On best case, the size difference are minimal, only around 20-30 KB for a 3MB JPEG files. Try that yourself. The reason being was taught in Computer Science class, and it is too long to explain the reason here in this website. If you want to understand the reason you can search it on the internet. 21st January 2012, This is the result of my experiment with my winter colour. Sorry only one picture, more will coming soon! 19th January 2012, When I saw Bruce Percey's portfolio on the internet, I find it very inspiring. On most Bruce's work, the colour pallet is colour is white, blue, purple and black which I call winter colour. Bruce uses winter colour really well. I've never taught that winter colour could make a very beautiful image. To be honest, I don't have any experience working with winter colour pallete, as I live in tropical area and I don't experience winter. I have never tought that winter could bring such an interesting colour. My things are red, orange, yellow, blue and any other colourful combination. The more the colour the better. I saw the beauty and simplicity in Bruce's images. Therefore I decided to experiment with winter colours. I'm in China and today is still in Winter. Doing my experiments, they did not end well, however I will upload the picture anyway. This is a part of learning, as there is no way for me at my level of skill to create a photograph at Bruce's level. 18th January 2012, Chinese new year is coming soon, if you ask me for 红包 (hongbao), here you are I have plenty for everyone! The word on the Hongbao reads 福 (Fu) which means blessing. On the middle row of the hongbao the Fu is positioned straight while on the other rows it was reversed top bottom. The reversed Fu means 福到了 (Fu daole), which is translated blessing is arried. Therefore this image means for every blessing you gave to others, there are more blessing that others gave you. The brightest and shinnest hongpao in center position means when you gave blessing you should give it in a good deed. In addition, it also means that you should be careful when blessing others as you will might think what your give outshines other's gift which is dangerous and not good. The brighter hongbao on left side means some blessing are clearly visible such as having a good job and paid well, winning lottery and more. While the darker hongpao on the right means blessings are in disguise which we often take it for granted such as a great family, good friend and great pizza anyone? End of the World! Year of 2012, may people questions me regarding the end of the world. Thanks to the movie 2012. Well, I'm not an expert in doom's day matter. People panics because solar storm is happening and that will bring the world to an end. As far as I know, the world will not end in 2012, although It will need wait until January 1st 2013 to be sure. Solar storm, if directed to Earth, might end satellites, GPS and long distance communication system therefore causing problems with airplanes. It might also damages ISS. However, the movie 2012 was mistaken, sunstorm will charge the ionosphere, reinforcing it. Instead of cooking earth inside out, the solar storm will ionise the ionosphere therefore making it thicker. Therefore the people who should be warned are: air traveller, ship crews, noob drivers who relies on GPS and facebook / twitter mania. For most of us it will do no harm, only communication problem will occurs. We have been experiencing thousands of solar flares and none destroys the earth. Nuclear war might happens, if our leader act like a kid with a big stick. A little boy, given a big stick will hit anything on his way. Few days ago I teach my cousin brother and sister a new technique of delivering a blow. They are 11 and 13 years old. The result is the seat of my car becomes a test dummy! If a country with nuke led by childish leader, the leader might try to use the nuke to scare others. LHC tries to create a mini big bang on Earth. What on Earth they have been thinking? I guess it is a bad idea to create big bang of any size on Earth. However from the level of energy used in LHC experiment, if something goes really wrong, only the lab and the experimenting ring around Europe will be destroyed. The Earth will be still one piece. Last word, well, if the world really ends, you would not be able to blame me anyway :) Just do not do too much sin. The image above I call as Nuclear Winter. I have no idea of what nuclear winter will look when photographed. I took the image on January 19th 2012 in Chinese Jurassic Park in Shehong, SIchuan. The image is underexposed to make it dark and gloomy, however since the sun shines behind the cloudy sky will, the viewer know that the image was taken in a daylight. All the dying vegetation will ensure the viewer to know that the image was taken in winter and will make give impresson of cold place. Dark bottom on the image will make the viewer's eyes directed to the sky, as real living vegetation is there. Winter colour is bluish white, but why on Earth I made this an image super dull colour brownish colour, not the usual blusih white? Brown is colour of dirt. The colour will make reader think that the air is heavily polluted. 4th January 2012,
This picture causes much confusion. Some people taught this picture was fake, while some others are happy, and others are worried. Don't worry I'm alive and kickin! I was planning to use this picture for april fool by placing my picture being hospitalised. I feel it is not funny as this picture will freak my mom out, so I decided to publish the picture on facebook. This is how we took the picture. My car is Toyota Vios, the speedometer cluster of this car is on the centre of the dashboard and backlit illuminated therefore it has no shadow. We use flash to illuminate the speedometer, causing mess with the light balance between indoor and outdoor scene. The sync speed is 1/640, a sync speed so high that no EOS camera made today can achieve with +1 EV. Nikon D40 can do close that amount, at 1/500 but still too slow. The camera used was Sony DSC-TX5. You can see at the truck's hull, the reflection of my flash. However that kills my MID and gearshift indicator D light, as the flash outbright my MID. If you look carefully you will see the fuel consumption that moment. We use ISO 400 and f/4.5 choosen by automatic. I deliberately cropped this picture in 2:3 aspect ratio to draw some confusion to online experts, and they accused me of photoshopping the picture. They are photoshopper not photographer, never ever trust them in photography. Oh yes, I cannot use photoshop to edit picture! You can see the reflection of my car's air blower grill on my windscreen due to sun reflection. Oh yes, my windscreen is uberclear and has no watermark, thanks to Nano Kote by PPS. However the dust in the interior is caused by my laziness, shining so bright by flash. I have not clean it for a while. Hahaha... The truck on that picture is towed away and the picture was taken by my friend from passanger seat in my point of view. I control the car maintaining distance of 1-2 m to the truck. Not a huge distance, but still a very safe distance as I balance the throttle and brake with two feet. Do not attempt to do this with one feet. Hope this will be a better idea for your next april fool picture! Just don't forget your mom might freak out. |
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