Proposal of Photography or Music Instruments Session

[CL Chow]

Hi, here it goes.

Photography:

It is not necessary to have a DSLR for photo shooting, even cellphone and perhaps for Swee Meng's case, Nintendo DSi are good.

If any of even ever subscribe to photography magazines or some photography sites, you can see photos taken from cellphone can win.

It is a matter of skill and feel, not the equipment.

Here is my idea for the photography session, photographers are often looking for space to do indoor shooting,

like taking pictures of smokes, water drops, playing with lights.

And some casual one like social network portraits party, like a tweetup but this one is like talking photos of each others.

Or this is what big boys like, hacking cameras, utilising the full potential of your rig, making cheap equipments from what you got 

or something firmware and hardware hacking like DS Open Camera Control Project (OCCP)

Session similar to Unix G33ks but for photography will do as well, learning the basic of photography, learn about exposure triangle, golden ratios and surely works configuration for different situations

As I saw from reply of my BSD's troll, vector or raster editor(Photoshop, GIMP, Illustrator, Inkscape) lesson also good, simple stuffs like how to fix photos to pro stuffs like creating posters, art from stock photos you can find (i think there are plenty of graphic/design pros around).

Music Instrument:

sorry, it is not about using hackerspace to jam XD, it will be too noisy and surely people will complains,

what i talk about is like for example electric guitars, tuning lession, technical stuffs and skills sharing,

and yup music theory as well,

for electro music lover, things like synthesiser are cool to be hacked as well(djs used to hardware hacked their machines to get funky sounds)

music softwares lession, forgot their names due to long time dormant

and what interested most is again, making equipments for example paddle/tuner yourself, (i used to be a National Instrument LabVIEW guy, people actually build their own paddles). 

Basically these are some summary of my ideas, i'll elaborate more when i have more time :) 

Think and we'll found out a lot of things we know and we took for granted are most people wanted to learn and get exposed to.

Merry Monday and hope you guys enjoy the blues ;)

Regards,
CL Chow
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[BRIAN RITCHIE]

Thanks dude. I like this ideas. Sniffit and myself will deliberate on this w/ the Overlord and get back to you. :-)

-BRIAN RITCHIE

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[CL Chow]

You're welcome, ideas will be discharged anyway, why don't i duplicate to you guys :)

And the most important thing is, optimising the use of hackerspace and draw attentions of geeks from other fields :)

My idea for ideas is think of something I'm always wanted :)

Regards,
CL Chow
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[BRIAN RITCHIE]

Thanks for thinking of HSKL this way. We are definitely interested but we r working on some planning and timelines. I will get back to u on this as soon as we firm some stuff up. :-)

-BRIAN RITCHIE