Category: Random Shots

Fell sick last week. I usually don’t but when I do it hits me bad. I couldn’t keep my promise to myself on at least taking one set of pictures a week, so I fished this practice shot out. I took this as a practice shot. Trying to use something simple with no props and a plain background, to achieve the effect I saw on plate to pixel. I was also trying to test out the different use of lighting, reflectors and white balance + exposure settings.

Question. Is taking in RAW and post processing the same as photoshopping an image, adjusting for brightness and contrast+hue+exposure? The quality is much better of course, because RAW images retain alot more information. But isn’t it effectively photoshopping?

Dragonfruits are a common sight in Singapore. But I hardly buy them because nobody at home likes them other than my sis who believes it helps her constipation 😉 They were having a promotion today and it suddenly caught my eye and I could suddenly see them in a photo. I love the bright pink, almost fuschia tone, perfectly co-ordinated with the green tips.

When you cut it open, surprise! It’s white with lots of black seeds. There are also red fleshed ones but they really stain your clothes I heard. Haven’t tried those before. Anyway, I just halved them and ran the knife around the skin. Just like a kiwi. It’s soft and easy to run your knife through it. Look at those bright pinks!

Ready to be sliced up for eating. How will it taste?

Kids were freaked by the hundreds of seeds. Little C refused to go near it. Big R was a lot more brave and tried one. She hated it. her exact words “I hate it”.

Sigh.. The things (and language) they learn in school 🙁

Anyway, I tried some. The last time I had any must have been ten years ago? The one I had was tasteless. Not sweet, not sour, not anything… just gritty from the seeds. The texture was similar to kiwifruit. This one was abit better. A little sweet, a little sour, a little taste, but the aftertaste was abit grassy, DH said it’s related to the cactus family?

Oh well, somethings never change, including the taste of the dragonfruit. But it is a beautiful fruit blessed with beautiful colors, so I guess life is fair? 😉

Golden kiwifruits are in season again! Big R loves kiwifruits, even the sour green ones, but these are her all time favourites cuz they are wonderfully sweet and yummy. I find the seeds less tart too. Apparently these were created by New Zealand Kiwifruit growers by crossing seeds from a Chinese female plant and a male plant from New Zealand. This is the yummy result 😉

strangely, little C doesn’t like them. She can eat blueberries and strawberries all day long but she just doesn’t like kiwifruits. Yellow or green.

So how do you eat a kiwifruit? They get soft and mushy when its nice and ripe, so what you can do is to slice it down the middle, and scoop out the flesh with a little spoon. I prefer to peel the skin off by running a knife around the sides, it’s easy and neat and doesn’t mush up the flesh, and you can get these nice slices with the beautiful pattern inside.