What You Have

Sometimes we get caught up in all the things we don't have; money, time, skills. We are so quick to point out the things we think we should have. But today the question floating around in my head was; 

"What do you do with what you have?"

I mean, do we really make use of everything we have and completely exhaust all possibilities before winging and complaining? For instance i now and then drop a barb about how in Accra our skies are so dull compared to other places in Ghana and other countries like South Africa. But then again, did i take the time to look for the beauty in the sky right above my head before looking for the sky above someone else? Nope, well until yesterday really. So today i decided to wait a bit for the sun to come down and walked right out my back gate and set up for a picture or two and this is what i came up with ... feel free to look up for a second, okay that's enough.

It got me thinking and my mind returned to the parable of the talents (yeah that boring old one that we have all heard) but the principle is the same. Mathew 4:25 says; 

"Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him"

This is echoed in Matt 13:12, 25:29 and in other places as well. It kind of got me thinking, if it was twisted a bit to say "if you make use of what you have, more will be given to you, and if you have something and allow it to be 'small' by neglecting and leaving it alone, even that small thing you have will be collected".

Ah well I'm just talking plenty trying to say that we should not forget the things we have and make the most of all the opportunities that we get, and then we might be surprised at what we will get our hands on. Bible don't Lie!

VirtueReality goes MOTION!

Hi guys, in the spirit of progression VirtueReality is now beginning to progress into the realm of video. Soon (i hope in less than a thousand years) we will be releasing video packages for events, clips, weddings and all sorts of stuff. Currently we are expanding our skill sets so as we progress we will be posting our videos to our blog, this is just a teaser, i hope you like it. And even if you don't, no biggie. Ciao.

Balancing the Light

Just the other day was browsing the best lighting site in the world STROBIST and they showed me some really interesting technique for balancing light between the sky and a person (or object).

So i decided to borrow some familiar faces (what is family for) and used them as "ghana"-pigs and this is what i came up with.

Smaller Images to Upload for Facebookers

Hi guys,

There are some of us who take pictures at the highest size setting on their cameras at all times just because they can. Like me. So if i happen to be holding a 12 megapixel camera, all my images will be ... you guessed it, 12 megapixels. so when i feel like posting my larger than my screen images i run into a dilemma.

I use an Expresso bundle and I am on their 1 gigabyte plan (its cheap GHS 15, who can blame me?). Now why would I want to put up these fat images on Facebook and get all my data chewed up so that a few people can click "like"? No way! (and this is not because i am cheap).

For anyone else who has this problem there is the smallest software in the world you can download to solve all your problems and its what I use to upload ALL my images, yup ALL of them. its called "PhotoResizer" and you can download it from this site: http://www.rw-designer.com/picture-resize

Its small and all you have to do is change the number at the end to give you a bigger or smaller image. i think the default is 400 but if your raise it to 1600 your images will still be small in size but look good. Then you select all the pictures you want to SMALLIFY and drag and drop them on the icon of the program. Thats it.

All the new compressed images will be in the same folder as the originals so after you upload them you can just delete them. So its just something cool and it could save your bandwidth a little.

Ciao

Facebook Page now UP^

Hi guys,

Our Facebook page is alive and kicking and whilst our blog has over 2000 views our page has about 9, this is a vast improvement over last week when we had 6 likes ... c'mon people go to the page and like it small so that our ego's will be fed small, if we are not making money at least people should like our work n'est pas? cool, this is the page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/VirtueReality-Gh/173908939314812

Some exclusive images are on it so feel free to check them out!

Just so you know you can access our Facebook page from right inside the blog, just look to the panel on your right and feel free to press the LIKE button without even bothering to visit the page ... >>

How safe is your car? Not safe enough!

In fact i have finally realized that my old post on vehicle safety is a very good one. whist parked next to the gate at LEGON BOTANICAL GARDENS, my beloved pickup was broken into. Fortunately (thank God) nothing too expensive was left inside the car but the thieves still managed to make off with my cousins towel and a lil bit of this and than.

This post is just to brown the botanical gardens small :)

DON'T THINK THAT LEGON BOTANICAL GARDENS IS A SAFE PLACE TO PARK. It is not. In fact if my car could be broken into when it was 1 meter from the main entrance then the security there was either asleep, drunk or complicit.

Please make sure when you leave your car parked somewhere anything important is on your body and not in the car! Paranoia pays off once in a while!

Prices to make you JUMP!

Hi there everyone, we at VirtueReality:VirtuPix know we have dilly-dallied long enough about our prices when it comes to photography. And so therefore we are posting our prices now.

We have a very simple and easy pricing system that we have been using which we have not yet posted up:

GHC 100.00 an hour, flat, no gimmicks.

So basically, you get whatever images you need with a minimum billable time of 1 hour but without prints. All images will be delivered by electronic medium.

If you would like HARD copies (prints, paper pictures, blah blah blah) the following prices exist:

small prints: GHC 1.50
medium prints: GHC 2.50
large prints: GHC 5

We will be uploading the actual size-to-price ratios soon enough.

So basically that is it.

hello there people,

its been about 2-3 months since i ever did anything on my blog, increasingly i find that time has become a scarce commodity that is difficult to locate. and thus i have been brown and not updated my blog in some time. fortunately i have a few posts in the works that have not been finished yet.

i have a new project! a photo (video) tutorial soon to hit YouTube. it will be series of short tutorials on photography from a fellow enthusiasts (myself) hopefully with help from my guy KWAME POCHO.

well i had some free time this evening so i decided to give mr bones here a lil shoot to help feed his slim family. if you would like shot like these taken of you feel free to give me a shout.

adios!

Bra Ghana Teaser Released!

Hi guys, this is the teaser for the upcoming Bra Ghana comic... hope you enjoy!

Accra by night

Hi peoples,

For you unbelievers, this is a picture of Accra at night. Or is it very early morning … ah well same difference. Sometimes when you see our beloved capital city in the middle of the night and it looks this beautiful you tend to forget that ECG has cut your power, the roads don’t have lights and the open gutters are waiting for your car, or that bola is strewn all over the place and hawkers try to shove their Asian wares into your car. you might even forget that when it rains, many roads become inaccessible or that ques are the order of the day from banks to waakye sellers. Well at least for a few minutes.

Anyhowly, I just wanted to share this picture with everyone.

Enjoy!