What I am today was the result of
changing, change to blend with time and change to adopt to
the information technology environment which is the
beginning of the century to the future we all have to go
trough whether we like it or not !.
To me as a graphic designer who
were train in the old fashion manual way, i have to admit i
was a handy-cap in using a computer in the olden days, since
i love photography i have to give up my job in the
advertising agency to join The Sun which was my first job in
the press.
I was once a serious fine art
photographer who uses 100 % analog material & technic
like the chemical processing in film to printing paper to
express my photography work. The introduction of computer
which was the Macintosh in 1994 in The Sun made a big impact
in my career from a photographer to a photo illustrator
!.
As a skill photographer who was in
total control in the black & white and color printing in
handling press assignments, the changes of using the Mac
& and film scanner to replace the tradition processing
and printing was a unpleasant one deal to my "o" knowledge
in computer application in photography in the early stage
!
The exposure to the Macintosh
system in the office starting from photo department, artist
,sub ,editors to colour separation affects my life style as
a press photographer.In 1996 i took a course in computer
application in graphic design which includes software like
Photoshop,Illustrator,Quarkxpress and PageMaker for a year
just to catch up what i had loss in the skill as a graphic
designer.
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My first computer was a Macintosh
power PC 6200, 75MHz, 64mb ram which i had purchased it
during a promotion. A very,very,very slow processing speed
series which i had bought it without consider the
possibility of future upgrading. It was a slow computer but
it also help me to produced more then 80 pcs of photo
illustration for the Sun Megazine cover.
Currently i had invested into the
world fastest super computer which is the G4 power Macintosh
400MHz DVD with 250mb ram plus a 17" monitor. A computer of
my dream which made me more powerful in producing my photo
illustration in poster size, for example 36'' x 22" in 300
dpi which i had just out put in colour laser printer for
testing,the result was very satisfying !.
Other then my G4, i had also
invested into a few items like film scanner,a flat bat
scanner and a CD burner.The Nikon LS 2000, a 35mm film &
slide is the currently the world best scanner which i use it
for high quality scanning to produced first class quality
photo illustration. Since i have a scanner i need to burn
all my pictures in the CDs for archive which where my Yamaha
crw6416sx comes in hardy for that purpose.
Other then been a photographer
& a photo illustrator, i consider my self as a Mac
addict because i own & used four mac in my house which
is my G4,6200 and two 6100.
Since i am a Mac addict and
Chinese tea lover, may be one day i will set up the first
Mac cyber tea center in malaysia to promote Chinese tea, Mac
computer and exhibition center for my photo illustration and
press photography !.
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