Chacha is a photographer

Chacha is a

2010-10-25T14:47:00.000-07:00

I got this idea from iPad TV commercial. Chacha shows his cuteness in many different ways at random time and I would like to compile some of them and make a video clip. This is the first one and more will be coming soon.

While you are sleeping

2009-06-15T19:49:00.000-07:00

Many things can happen while you are sleeping.

Couple of bears can surround you
and try to figure out who you are.

Just like this:

A baby bear is curious about you

Then, he brought Mama

Then, you will become Armadillo without your knowledge.

Is this what you want? Really?

Chacha, wake up. plz..~~~~

Cat-mouflage

2009-06-10T21:31:00.000-07:00

Cat-mouflage noun
: result of obscuring Chacha himself to deceive an enemy, as by standing behind bamboo leaves

Chacha does this very often even if there is no enemy around. Why?
Well, it's just for fun. Or Chacha is just checking the smell of bamboo leaves for lunch.

Environmentally friendly Cat

2009-05-22T20:31:00.000-07:00

Chacha is a environmentalist, who is smart enough to know
that the heat from laptop can be reused to warm himself.....:) LOL

I tried to interrupt Chacha with white Tigre and wanted my laptop back,
but, Chacha was very consistent and it's me who gave up first.:)

Behind scene of Chacha's cuteness!!!

2009-04-12T17:18:00.000-07:00

Chacha : You've got a title of cutest cat in town with this photo.

Now, It's time to reveal behind scene of your cuteness and elegance....:)

Be warned! Chacha.

Are you ok, Chacha? got hurt? Please don't.
You are still my lovely friend and I can't imagine without you~~~~

Chacha : cat or model?

2009-04-05T18:00:00.000-07:00

Chacha has a dream to be a professional model.
So, he practice walking almost everyday in the balcony.

When he get famous, then I will send him all the bills for photo shoot.....:)
Chacha, good luck!!!

Chacha : Free style sleeper

2009-03-29T19:44:00.001-07:00

Chacha is an artistic sleeper and show me unimaginable pose everyday.

Like just born baby

Like old man

Like tired soccer player

Like drunken college kid

How technology changes cat's life!

2009-03-08T14:25:00.001-07:00

Chacha is calling Qian(one of tech savvy buddy) with cell phone and got a surprise news!

Even Chacha took my laptop. Or Chacha is just helping me to get off from work to relax.

Chacha! Please, don't hide TV remote from me! I want to watch TV

Time to change!

2009-02-07T22:01:00.000-08:00

It's time to change!

I will do whatever I can do for all my fellow cats in the world.
We deserve better quality of life and I am the only cat who is ready to serve from day one.

I am Chacha and I approve this message.

Do you get it about the photo?

Special message to friends, MCAT girls

2009-01-24T19:13:00.000-08:00

Special message to friends!

Hey, girls. I wish you luck for MCAT exam.
Cause I am a CAT, and MCAT is kind of my buddy,
you will be all right!!!

See!, I'm studying hard, too. to figure out
which fish is tasty....:)

Chacha is an Anti Luxuary Brand-ist

2009-01-24T17:53:00.000-08:00

Anti luxury brand-ist! Chacha!!!

What a philosophical cat he is!

Chacha is not interested in materialism and luxury brand at all. Chacha hates shopping.
Even, Chacha went one step further to bite Coach paper bag.

True story? Chacha bites every paper bag no matter what it is from....:)

Chacha Open House

2009-01-10T20:10:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Chacha's Open House

This is cozy place where Chacha is spending most of his time including eating, resting and some sort of personal business(?). Let's respect Chacha's privacy here.

Key items

-Sand.

It is crucial material to keep Chacha's dignity....:) I'm always curious that this is really sand from beach? or it is just from some factory. sounds funny.

-Food storage.

It's kind of personal refrigerator for food and some personal items. It's totally GREEN and environment friendly. No electricity at all. Chacha is a first cat environmentalist. ever!

-Food & Water.

Fish shaped bowl is a special arrangement for Chacha's satisfaction. I hope Chacha recognize it. This water container has been replaced by something amazing one. It's confidential for now.!!!

-Restroom.

No explanation needed. right?

How dare you, Vickey??????

2009-01-09T21:51:00.000-08:00

I(Chacha)'ve never imagined Vickey would do this to me. You left me alone at home and went to Disney to see Nemo!!!!!

Nemo is my favorate fish, you know that, right?

Where's Nemo?

2009-01-06T20:27:00.000-08:00

This is Chacha's survival skill to show me lonely and sad and kind of begging face. He always do this after failing long effort to ask me to let him out to play around.
Sometimes, I feel sorry when I see this and then I just let him out and play around for about 10 minutes or longer. But, it probably only spoil him and eventually not good for him at all.

So, I guess I need some help on how to train kitty to be a good boy and listen to me.

Does anyone know about a TV show , 'It's me or the dog' on Animal Planet channel? It is very interesting show and the professional trainer, Victoria, is always successful to train dog and make a good boy. No cat yet in the show though.

Chacha! be a good boy or you will be the first cat appearing in that show. ok?

Let's go back to film camera days

2009-01-06T18:36:00.000-08:00

Vintage?

It's always exciting to think back old style or something that we used to play with when we were very young kids.

Did you notice something weird in this photo? What's that? Normally, the photo in film should look negative and when we print it, it just shows normal photo like this.

Or, this film could be a slide film, which is used for slide and look exactly same as printed photo. I have seen slide film once from my brother, who mistakenly bought 'slide film' instead of normal film. ....:) But, anyway, he developed and framed it.

Unfortunately, we didn't have slide machine that time. So, we just looked it right before bright light bulb.

We enjoyed a lot with that slide film and I miss it!

This film photo frame skills are from here.

Canon polaroid camera?

2009-01-05T20:45:00.001-08:00

Unfortunately, Chacha was born right after Polaroid camera has been disappeared, so he has no chance to know how cute it is and how differently it capture you and show it. However, I made a Polaroid shot of Chacha using normal SLR Canon camera and Computer. I hope Chacha would say "thank you", but, as always, he didn't say anything, but 'mao~~~~~'. It's cat langauge and it could mean either 'I'm hungry' or 'I want to go out and play'.:)

I refereed this site for Polaroid technique.

DIY: $0, 20min micro mini photo studio for budget photographer.

2008-12-15T15:26:00.000-08:00

Since it costs you nothing but only 20 min labor(it's not even labor), you can try this and it can't go wrong. If it did, then just throw it to garbage can. Deal?

What you need:

1. Empty 12pk coke box

2. 3 letter size papers(it's just paper for print)

3. Glue & Scissors

4. Any kind of desktop small lamp with white light bulb in it.

What to do:

1. Cut coke box. Basically, cut 3 sides and leave one side for back stand. And both of side should have a little part to glue white letter size paper to attach to. Personally, I prefer Coca cola, but, my grocery store had a sale of Pepsi few days ago so that's why I have this.

2. Attach letter size paper to both of side from inside of box. So it looks like this if you look at from side. Don't forget attaching paper inside of box. Because it is just easy to attach paper firmly to the box and by doing this, eventually, white paper can kind of surround subject all the way around.

3. Finally, cut a letter size paper for backdrop and attach it from bottom front of the box. It's important to glue only bottom front of box and and let the paper go lean against back stand of box naturally. Do not glue all the way back of the box!

Now, it's time to rock and roll~~~

Sample photos

I have been playing around moving the location of lamp and closer or a little away from box to get a perfect exposure and effect. But, it's never easy and that's why the color of background is not same in sample photos. Unfortunately, I only have one desktop lamp, so, I didn't use any kind of 'fill' light. Canon Xsi, 18-55mm lens are used for this sample photo. I've also tested with Speedlite 580 EX II attached, but, it just killed me and look worse, so I just turned it off.

Original Canon CF memory

My first shotgun shell

My Canon XSI lens cap(Canon 18-55mm)

Nikon original CF memory

Future work

I need to figure out why photo does not look crisp enough. I could use Photoshop to make it look better though, but, I didn't. I should improve my photography skills not Photoshop skills for now.

Any kind of feedback will be appreciated.

ChaCha's "21" star dream

2008-07-22T22:12:00.000-07:00

" I just saw movie "21"...I really want to have the same skills as the main actor"

"Well!!! Let me practice!"

"Let me see the card on my hand....{Cat power~~wish myself luck}."

"Oh! my god...I can not believe...It's Black Jack."

Chacha in trouble

2008-06-30T08:39:00.000-07:00

Hi my name is Chacha and you are seeing me freaked out. Well, everything is under my control even though it doesn't look like that...:)