Kaleidoscope 3: Rainbow Unicorn from Fallon Chan on Vimeo.

It consists of me using a rayflash or equivalent and a wide angle or fisheye lens. I chose to go with the Peleng 8mm fisheye because it distorts faces a lot more than my Sigma 10-20mm. The fisheye is wide enough to catch the ring of light from the rayflash giving the illusion of a window or a portal and my friends had tons of fun with it!

Some of my favorites from the BBQ get together :

For other pictures from that night, click here.

The Fuji isn’t that expensive, when I bought it was $60 at adorama and a two pack film package (20 total photos) was $13. I wasted so many of the photos because I was trying to get used to the film but I think I got it now!

My first two photos (please don’t laugh), I should have read what the minimum focusing distance was :

Here are a few photos during an overcast day, around 2pm :

Not really knowing the settings of my cameras and when to use them, here I chose the “fine” setting where I was supposed to use it in partly cloudy days. Turned out way too bright and overexposed.

Realizing this I took a few more using the “bright” setting and the pictures came out better but still a bit over exposed. But I actually like the way they came out.

After taking 6 photos on my little walk, I actually only came out with one photo I liked and it was this one of the Apple Store in Manhattan.

I also just bought a closeup lens for my camera that also has a mirror so it will be easier to take photos of myself!

Too bad the Cherry blossom trees were past bloom though, they were a lot nicer two years ago when I came.

At least the Tulips were pretty!

First off here are the ingredients to make the eggs:

• Eggs
• Boiling water
• 6 tablespoons low-sodium dark soy sauce
• 2 tbsp black tea
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 star anise
• 2 small pieces of dried tangerine/orange peel
• 2 small pieces of dang gui, Chinese Angelica Root

Directions :
1. Boil the eggs in plain water till about 80% cooked and take them out of the water and leave them on the side to cool down a bit.

2. Use a spoon to tap the eggs so that the shells crack just a tiny bit so that the flavor from the ingredients can seep into the egg as well as create the cracked egg look.

3. Put enough water in another pot to cover the eggs and add the ingredients and bring to a boil. Add the eggs and let simmer 2-3hrs.

Final thoughts:

I wish we had put more tea leaves into the mixture so we had a stronger tea taste. But after eating 2 eggs, I can’t really complain

We had a total of 10 cars that showed up, all of whom were owned by previous customers of Tach Motor Works. The entire shoot took about 3hrs because it was a lot of driving around and maneuvering the cars for the pictures. I’m very excited about how the flyer came out and very happy that my photos fit the job.

Even with being scared of heights, I still climbed on top of the office area to grab some photos of the overall shop area :

There are tons more photos that I did not post on flickr but here are the flyers that were designed by Daniel Pacificador all photos taken by me.

Things needed :

• Avenger suction cups (2x) – I bought the one with the fixed spigot. HIGHLY recommend getting these, they are so strong
• Manfrotto super clamps (3x)
• Manfrotto magic arm
• 5ft pipes (4x)

Here is a quick picture showing you how far the camera is from the car. For more behind-the-scenes photos click here

Results

And here are some results that took maybe only 1.5hrs to take. The longest part was pumping the suction cups to ensure that it was on tight and the pipes wouldn’t come crashing down damaging his car and my camera at the same time.

Final thoughts

I wish that we picked up sturdier pipes because it was shaking a lot. We are currently looking up ways to stabilize the boom arm from shaking so we would be able to get sharper photos. It would also have been a lot better if the sky wasn’t cloudy. Since my friend’s car is silver it just blended in with the white sky making it boring, and low contrast.

Click the panorama to go to my flickr page for a link to see the original size.

Agar Agar comes in different forms either a brick or flakes. I normally buy the clear colored ones so that I can use food coloring with it to it any color I want.

After heating up the agar agar with water and juice we poured the mixture into molds where I then put pieces of fruit into so that each one had a bite of lychee/orange.
For lychee we added coconut juice and orange we added orange juice.

Lychee Jellies

Orange Jellies

The main entertainer who is a yoga instructor was in great shape and after showing off his dance moves he showed us what he called the ‘real’ show. He was going to jump over people and the first time he jumped over one, the second 6 people! Here are some photos of some of the dancing and of his jumps in mid-air. At the end there are two videos of the jumps as well.

Jump one

Union Square Performer from Fallon Chan on Vimeo.

Jump two

Union Square Street performers 2 from Fallon Chan on Vimeo.