Korea retouched

[zoossh]

Can see there's a quality difference from your usual vibrant shots...but neveretheless great travel pics...someone should sponsor you to take travel pics around the world!

the vibrancy drop as i saved with adobe 1998 color profile to keep a wider color range for printing next time. i notice my jpeg file saved looks duller than the one i saw in my photoshop file.

i post previously with sRGB. maybe got time i saved one in sRGB and compare.

but yah, i already posted most of my favorite and the remaining one is less liked.

 

[zoossh]

#52 saved in adobe RGB 1998 ICC profile

 

[zoossh]

#52 saved in sRGB IEC 61966-2.1 ICC profile

 

[zoossh]

#53 gyeongbokgong guard ceremony

 

[mouselim]

Zoossh, great photos and thanx for sharing!! I'm also going on a Korea trip this month for 12 days...seeing these photos get me really excited

Btw, glad to know that you're Singaporean....I once was at John 3:16 and someone there (a snobbish man) remarked that Sings can't take pics and that they're wasting their $$ with SLRs....really sad remark as I believe that he is Sing too....why belittle yourself? What's this about Sing being lousy at this and that? Sigh....

Sorry, digress....getting old....anyways, enjoyed your pictorial journey!! Lovely!!

 

[zoossh]

Zoossh, great photos and thanx for sharing!! I'm also going on a Korea trip this month for 12 days...seeing these photos get me really excited

Btw, glad to know that you're Singaporean....I once was at John 3:16 and someone there (a snobbish man) remarked that Sings can't take pics and that they're wasting their $$ with SLRs....really sad remark as I believe that he is Sing too....why belittle yourself? What's this about Sing being lousy at this and that? Sigh....

Sorry, digress....getting old....anyways, enjoyed your pictorial journey!! Lovely!!

i think to a certain extent there will always some form of elitism among some ppl who shoots well and have gone a long way to reach what they have now. on the other hand, we sure have friends who are happy with their camera phone and slim ultracompacts and are elated if they once in a while got a fantastic photo to share, and i dun think we need to dampen their mood by comparing who's really better and who's bad. to a certain extent, singapore is indeed limiting in some aspects becos we can't shoot seasonal changes and we never have any temperate climate.

12 days is great. going backpacking or in tour?
i only went for 5 days and 2 short excursion to suwon and DMZ. and the DMZ is so short that i missed some important parts and dun mind going again.

 

[mouselim]

i think to a certain extent there will always some form of elitism among some ppl who shoots well and have gone a long way to reach what they have now. on the other hand, we sure have friends who are happy with their camera phone and slim ultracompacts and are elated if they once in a while got a fantastic photo to share, and i dun think we need to dampen their mood by comparing who's really better and who's bad. to a certain extent, singapore is indeed limiting in some aspects becos we can't shoot seasonal changes and we never have any temperate climate.

12 days is great. going backpacking or in tour?
i only went for 5 days and 2 short excursion to suwon and DMZ. and the DMZ is so short that i missed some important parts and dun mind going again.

true...true...true )

anything goes...be it compact or slr - one man's poison is medicine to another. it was just sad that we singaporeans are put down this way

yup...12 days...definitely not tour. Itinerary is Seoul->Chuncheon->Sokcho->Seorak
->Incheon->Seoul

however, now a little concern over the recent North Korea furore..

 

[eng01170]

thanks. any c&c?

No comments except praises for your work!

I usually find it quite hard to be able to get nice pictures esp when traveling in a foreign country where you are unfamiliar of the place and surroundings. I am not those who can identify what pictures to take in a short period of time esp during tours and even if I do, I would probably take time to compose and re-compose before getting some good pictures. To be able to produce a series like yours under time constrain and unfamiliarity of the surroundings in a tour is really commendable!

 

[zoossh]

#54 bookshops near the palace

 

[filofari]

excellent stuff you have! would be soo happy if i can take pics half as nice as yours when i go to korea next week
just wondering, did you bring a tripod along for your korea trip? cos i'm still considering if i should bring my slik pro gm...

 

[zoossh]

excellent stuff you have! would be soo happy if i can take pics half as nice as yours when i go to korea next week
just wondering, did you bring a tripod along for your korea trip? cos i'm still considering if i should bring my slik pro gm...

i did.

although i hardly used my tripod, probably less than 5% of all shots.... and those are not important shots....

 

[filofari]

i did.

although i hardly used my tripod, probably less than 5% of all shots.... and those are not important shots....

oh... i can't make a decision on bringing a beanbag or tripod... having the kiasu singaporean syndrome that i'll miss a shot... :bsmilie:

 

[zoossh]

oh... i can't make a decision on bringing a beanbag or tripod... having the kiasu singaporean syndrome that i'll miss a shot... :bsmilie:

take a tripod if
1. you can take the weight (even at selective bringing out of tripod)
2. you need to take evening and night shots and you are not going to shoot at elevated heights (it could be hard to look for a pillar, and beanbag means you need to shoot on the floor)

 

[FND]

Zoossh,

Although unable to see most of the pics, I must say that it is a very good travel pics. I've been to Korea myself no less than 4 times this year alone. Sad didn't get to take any pics due to work commitment. Will try to take some time off in my next trip to KR.

 

[zoossh]

Zoossh,

Although unable to see most of the pics, I must say that it is a very good travel pics. I've been to Korea myself no less than 4 times this year alone. Sad didn't get to take any pics due to work commitment. Will try to take some time off in my next trip to KR.

looks like i'm missing out some of my favorite pictures. will slowly repost back those that went missing (probably due to an old server down, time for a new host)

 

[filofari]

take a tripod if
1. you can take the weight (even at selective bringing out of tripod)
2. you need to take evening and night shots and you are not going to shoot at elevated heights (it could be hard to look for a pillar, and beanbag means you need to shoot on the floor)

Thanks for the tips Will be bringing my tripod.. don't want to end up shooting on snowy ground

 

[foreverlovex]

Nice pics......I spent 6 months in Korea but took not a photo like what you have here.
Excellent.

What you mention is opposite from what the tourguide told me. She said that all Korean have Chinese names translate from Korean and she even show me her identity card with her name in Chinese Character printed on it. I had worked in Korean company in Spore. All the top management are Koreans and they all have names in Chinese Characters as well.

As for this part. You are correct that almost all Koreans have Chinese Character Names. It is from there that they have their Names in Hangul. Koreans used Chinese characters before Hangul is invented by King Daejong (The guy u see in Korea note.....i thinK 10,000won one) in 1400s. However, the sentence structure and pronunciation of the Chinese characters you see in Korea (e.g. in their historical books) cannot be read in a Chinese way.

 

[zoossh]

As for this part. You are correct that almost all Koreans have Chinese Character Names. It is from there that they have their Names in Hangul. Koreans used Chinese characters before Hangul is invented by King Daejong (The guy u see in Korea note.....i thinK 10,000won one) in 1400s. However, the sentence structure and pronunciation of the Chinese you see in Korea (e.g. in their historical books) cannot be read in a Chinese way.

this is because the chinese language is different from the altaic based korean language, hence the written characters become inappropriate and non-integrable with the spoken language, and is used by only the confucianist scholars. and this is the reason why a korean-based written characters must be invented. This has aided the koreans from cultural assimilation unlike many of the chinese's neighbours.

and it is King Sejong, not Daejong, who brought up the Hangul system.

 

[foreverlovex]

this is because the chinese language is different from the altaic based korean language, hence the written characters become inappropriate and non-integrable with the spoken language, and is used by only the confucianist scholars. and this is the reason why a korean-based written characters must be invented. This has aided the koreans from cultural assimilation unlike many of the chinese's neighbours.

and it is King Sejong, not Daejong, who brought up the Hangul system.

Ya.....u up rite. My mistake, it is King Sejong who invented Hangul.

As for used by only the confucianist scholars, this is not true. Almost all upper-class only used Chinese characters. The Hangul is invented with the intention to help the lower class to be able to read and write easily. The court still retained the use of Chinese Characters as the main writing language. It is only after World War 2, that Hangul is widely used due to nationalistic feelings after being a colony to Japan and a vassal state to China for most part of her history.

At a general level, one can say that Korean Language = Chinese + Japanese language. The vocabulary approx 60% are from Chinese, . the grammar structure similar to Jap, but has alot more patterns and variations. Writing wise it is phonetic, like our ABCDECG.

 

[zoossh]

As for used by only the confucianist scholars, this is not true. Almost all upper-class only used Chinese characters. The Hangul is invented with the intention to help the lower class to be able to read and write easily.

that is becos the upper class practices confucianism.

At a general level, one can say that Korean Language = Chinese + Japanese language.

that i wouldn't actually agree. the language system is origin based (people who originated in the same area and started to develop verbal language at that time, speaks similarly), and that have started way before the chinese forms a common ethnic identity towards the end of the warring states till the early han. the vocabulary however is a common bank shared with intermixing and sharing, rather than a "from" and "to" relationship.