http://aaronkok.multiply.com/ The 18% gray value comes from the print world. On printed material, it's claimed that the half way point between black and white reflects 18% of the light. So a neutral gray (not whitish or blackish) is 18% gray.<BR><BR>If a scene differs considerably from a statistically average scene, a wide-angle averaging reflected-light measurement may not indicate the correct exposure. To simulate an average scene, a substitute measurement sometimes is made of a neutral test card, or gray card.<BR><BR>The combination of exposure increase and the card orientation gives recommended exposures that are reasonably close to those given by an incident-light meter with a hemispherical receptor when metering with an off-axis light source. <BR><BR>The instructions a neutral test card recommend that the indicated exposure be increased by ½ step for a frontlighted scene in sunlight. The instructions also recommend that the test card be held vertically and faced in a direction midway between the Sun and the camera <BR><BR><BR><A title=Portal:Photography href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Photography">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Photography</A>&nbsp;<BR><BR><A title=Bokeh href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh</A>&nbsp;<BR> Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:41:15 -0000 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:14:51 -0000 http://images.aaronkok.multiply.com/logo http://aaronkok.multiply.com/ 100 100 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/106/Penang_Aug_2009 Another short trip to Penang for the long weekend. Includes some shots from - our family's prayers session for the Chinese Ghost Festival - a quick trip to the Jetty - & makan-makan time :) Did some panos for fun too. http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/106/Penang_Aug_2009 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:14:51 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/105/Short_Penang_Trip_-_June_2009 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/105/Short_Penang_Trip_-_June_2009 Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:38:58 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/104/Jamies_1st_Birthday_Party I seriously didn't take much photos. The time in a&w was very very short. some people ate into our timeslot and we had exactly 90 mins from in to out. Well i think everyone kinda enjoyed themselves with Naomi enjoying the most as usual. Of course Jamie had fun seeing all the people and had some food http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/104/Jamies_1st_Birthday_Party Wed, 1 Jul 2009 03:11:14 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/103/Dive_shots_from_Manado_June_2009 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/103/Dive_shots_from_Manado_June_2009 Wed, 1 Jul 2009 02:43:00 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/102/Lang_Tengah_Trip_-_May_09 Trip to Lang Tengah, with Emily's colleagues & friends. http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/102/Lang_Tengah_Trip_-_May_09 Tue, 12 May 2009 07:04:54 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/101/Jamie_10_Months http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/101/Jamie_10_Months Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:38:49 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/100/Naomis_3rd_Birthday_Party Didn't get to take as much photo as i would like. busy helping out with the stuff & playing with her. Think she has so much fun and didn't want to take her dress out. http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/100/Naomis_3rd_Birthday_Party Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:08:23 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/99/Naomi_in_the_pool_ http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/99/Naomi_in_the_pool_ Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:27:10 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/98/Chap_Goh_Meh_in_Penang_2009 Had some good Dim Sum in a Chinese restaurant in Northam Hotel. (Thanks mei ling) While Naomi was playing on the beach around evening, with the falling light, though I could mess around with some portraits. One is future "Miss Chinatown Penang", the other a self proclaimed Kitaro Lee. :P The future Miss Chinatown does need more help with posing tho http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/98/Chap_Goh_Meh_in_Penang_2009 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:16:27 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/97/CNY_09 The photos all jumbled up. Multiply is terrible in these multiple uploads. and i'm too lazy to rearrange 149 pictures. http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/97/CNY_09 Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:38:23 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/96/Jamies_4th_Month_Hang_Biscuits Just around 4th month, we remembered there is this "ritual" where one would hang biscuits around the baby's neck to "collect" their saliva. This is to make sure that they will not be so slobberish in the future. Also it is also said that the more the baby salivates, the more the mother loses her hair. Instead of biscuits, we used the modern version, which are Cheezels, it's much easier to string them together http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/96/Jamies_4th_Month_Hang_Biscuits Wed, 3 Dec 2008 05:05:13 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/95/Jamie_Naomi_After_Bath_ http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/95/Jamie_Naomi_After_Bath_ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:08:17 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/94/2008_JamieNaomi_Aug_-_Sept More of them again. *none of these photos are shot with fisheye, so they are his "undistorted" cheeks http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/94/2008_JamieNaomi_Aug_-_Sept Fri, 3 Oct 2008 05:45:33 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/93/2008_June_-_July_Portraits_of_Jamie_Naomi http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/93/2008_June_-_July_Portraits_of_Jamie_Naomi Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:33:01 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/92/More_2nd-3rd_day_shots_of_Jamie_Naomi Some shots os Jamie with a multiple shot of naomi having a good time eating her rice at the hospital :P http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/92/More_2nd-3rd_day_shots_of_Jamie_Naomi Fri, 4 Jul 2008 06:06:52 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/91/Story_line_for_Jamies_birth Here is a short picture-story for Jamie's birth on 18th June 2008. We were at Samitivej Hospital in Sukhumvit, Bangkok. Enjoy! p/s: Sorry for the delay as I initially wanted to post in another website, but i couldn't get it to work. Anyway this should be the last few post in Multiply before migrating to my own server. I just need to get it working first! http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/91/Story_line_for_Jamies_birth Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:51:05 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/90/2008_-_Songkran_Holiday These are a huge selection of photos from our 1 week holiday for Songkran. All the photos are chronological. :) Being braver this time, we drove from Bangkok to Phuket instead of flying. It's supposed to be a 10 hour drive, so we broke it into 2 days as not to stress Naomi out by sitting in the car so long :P BKK - Phuket was done, via one night in Chumphon. We stopped at a hotel by the beach. Obviously we went swimming in the sea with naomi :) As you can see in the photos below. Hotel stay was cool, but mosquito was an issue. Heat was also a major issue with our room's airconditioning in the fritz. We arrived in Phuket on Naomi's actual birthday. Pickup the grandparents from the airport and went for dinner. The day ended with Naomi celebrating her Birthday AGAIN, but this time with a tiny cupcake :) Songkran in the hotel was pretty fun with water fights and the usual :) Our whole holiday was basically sleep, eat, swim, eat, swim, eat, sleep for the whole week. One the w... http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/90/2008_-_Songkran_Holiday Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:48:48 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/89/Naomis_2nd_Birthday_Party Here are some snapshots of her recent Birthday party in Bangkok. http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/89/Naomis_2nd_Birthday_Party Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:08:18 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/88/Short_trip_to_Singapore We had a short trip to Singapore for some course Emily had to attend. Me and Naomi tagged along, so we can bring her to the great Singapore Zoo. Had some chance to take some nice portraits of the animals there. I really wished for a longer lens to get some nicer portraits of the tigers. but all in all, it was a decent trip and Naomi enjoyed it. http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/88/Short_trip_to_Singapore Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:25:22 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/87/Chinese_New_Year_Trip_to_Ho_Chi_Minh Headed to HCM for CNY with my parents. Spent a few days on some beaches off HCM. It was pretty fun with plenty of food, as usual. Naomi hod even more fun with her gparents, who basically spoilt her http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/87/Chinese_New_Year_Trip_to_Ho_Chi_Minh Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:35:21 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/links/item/23/by.aaron.kok_photography http://aaronkok.multiply.com/links/item/23/by.aaron.kok_photography Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:09:17 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/journal/item/22/Another_tour_of_Thailand_episode._D Just last week, we were away from Bangkok for a short sightseeing trip to the north of Thailand, taking advantage of the holidays(HM King's birthday)<br><br>As i took quite a number of photos, i'll be splitting them into multiple posts in the photos area, which will be linked from here. :)<br><br>Places we visited were basically, Pai &amp; Chiang Rai with places in between. It was a real change of scenery from the shiny and gleaming bangkok. <br><br>Hope you guys enjoy the photos which will be uploaded slowly :)<br><br>1st Post - Flight to Pai from Chiang Mai airport.<br><a href="http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/77/Our_flight_to_Pai_from_Chiang_Mai">http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/77/Our_flight_to_Pai_from_Chiang_Mai</a><br><br>Hill Tribes visit<br><a href="http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/78/Hill_Tribes_village_visit_in_Pai">http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/78/Hill_Tribes_village_visit_in_Pai</a><br><br>Many places in one album<br><a href="http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/79/Multiple_places_in_Pai">http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/album/79/Multiple_places_in_Pai</a><br><br> http://aaronkok.multiply.com/journal/item/22/Another_tour_of_Thailand_episode._D Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:45:00 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/music/item/1/Copy_Cat_Clan_-_Why_you_so_Like_that All those you remember this 80's music. This will prob bring back memories from the old old days http://aaronkok.multiply.com/music/item/1/Copy_Cat_Clan_-_Why_you_so_Like_that Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:37:25 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/journal/item/21/Many_Faces_of_Naomi <P><A href="http://naomikok.multiply.com/photos/album/35/Many_Faces_of_Naomi">http://naomikok.multiply.com/photos/album/35/Many_Faces_of_Naomi</A></P> <P><A href="http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/RxYxgAoKCp4AAH7kdgI1"><IMG class=alignright src="http://images.aaronkok.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/RxYxgAoKCp4AAH7kdgI1/Faces-Naomi-9073.jpg?et=4sVxh4lIZ1Ph1qLivJ5RNQ" border=0></A></P> <P>Drop by her blog for all the photos.</P> <P>I will detail more technical info about the shots here.</P> <P>As usual taken with my trustly 5D with 24-105 at mostly f8-11</P> <P>Flash bounced to umbrella to the top left and another flash snooted tat the top back to provide hair-light.</P> <P>All are shot at iso200, as the small flashes are not that powerful :)</P> <P>The background is a black seamless background. </P><A href="http://aaronkok.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/RxYykgoKCp4AABXmLsc1"> <IMG class=alignmiddle src="http://images.aaronkok.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/RxYykgoKCp4AABXmLsc1/Faces-Naomi-9135.jpg?et=nXeJJOwuSvlEl%2CLYa0oCWw" border=0><BR>Cry Baby <P><BR></A>&nbsp;</P> http://aaronkok.multiply.com/journal/item/21/Many_Faces_of_Naomi Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:57:00 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/video/item/4/Mola-Mola_in_Nusa_Penida_Bali Check it out :) We finally saw the Sunfish http://aaronkok.multiply.com/video/item/4/Mola-Mola_in_Nusa_Penida_Bali Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:57:22 -0000 http://aaronkok.multiply.com/journal/item/20/New_7_Wonders <P>Is anyone else out there who is extremely doubtful about this hoopla about the new 7 wonders. To me this looks more like a busines of making money from tons of people than anything else.</P> <P>Selling pins/tee-shirts/tickets/concerts/votes/broadcasting rights&nbsp;etc. Where does all this money goes(millions or even billions)? Into the pockets of more rich dudes. The only thing is ever mentioned is that half goes into some fund for restoration. There is no mention at all of how does the "half" come from. </P> <P>The wierd thing is, so many people is buying into this marketting engine. Am i the only one who is looking at this another way?</P> <P>For a proper "wonder" list, check out the UNESCO's world heritage list. <A href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list">http://whc.unesco.org/en/list</A></P> <H4><A href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/my"><FONT color=#0000ff>Malaysia</FONT></A></H4> <UL> <LI><A href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1013"><FONT color=#0000ff>Gunung Mulu National Park (2000)</FONT></A> <LI><A href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1012"><FONT color=#0000ff>Kinabalu Park (2000)</FONT></A> </LI></UL> <H4><A href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/th"><FONT color=#0000ff>Thailand</FONT></A></H4> <UL> <LI><A href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/576"><FONT color=#0000ff>Historic City of Ayutthaya (1991)</FONT></A> <LI><A href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/574"><FONT color=#0000ff>Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns (1991)</FONT></A> <LI><A href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/591"><FONT color=#0000ff>Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries (1991)</FONT></A> <LI><A href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/575"><FONT color=#0000ff>Ban Chiang Archaeological Site (199... http://aaronkok.multiply.com/journal/item/20/New_7_Wonders Mon, 9 Jul 2007 02:40:00 -0000