Another Review of Samsung NV100HD

This is another review from a different photographer on Samsung V100HD. (and the last one) The original review was also in Korean, abd I translated it into English. (I got the author's permission to upload his review) I kept the exact same format of the original review with all the pictures. I only overwrote the Korean text with translated text. I hope this can be helpful for those who need some decent review.

Same as the previous one, the video clips could not be included because I couldn't find any good site to host them. (and I couldn't align the video clips in the positions as the original review) I'll edit the post as soon as I figure out how. You can check out the video clips at the ORIGINAL REVIEW IN KOREAN.

The original review can be found at here

Review of Samsung NV100HD (Part II)

I found a photographer's review of Samsung NV100HD. The original review is in Korean, so I tried to translate it into English. (with the author's permission) I kept most of pictures in the original and overwrote the Korean text with translated text. I hope this can be helpful for those who need some decent review.

The video clips are not included because I couldn't find any good site to host them. (and I couldn't align the video clips in the positions as the original review) I'll edit the post as soon as I figure out how. You can check out the video clips at the ORIGINAL REVIEW IN KOREAN.

The original review can be found at here

Samsung NV100HD Review (Part I)

I found a photographer's review of Samsung NV100HD. The original review is in Korean, so I tried to translate it into English. (with the author's permission) I kept most of pictures in the original and overwrote the Korean text with translated text. I hope this can be helpful for those who need some decent review.

The video clips are not included because I couldn't find any good site to host them. (and I couldn't align the video clips in the positions as the original review) I'll edit the post as soon as I figure out how. You can check out the video clips at the ORIGINAL REVIEW IN KOREAN.

The original review can be found at here

Recipe for Dummies

How to make vegetable bread roll WITHOUT an oven!!

Ingredients

150g flour

1 teaspoon yeast

1 spoon sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

20g grapesee oil

1 yolk

1 potato

1/4 onion

1/2 green pepper

1/2 carrot

2 spoon canned corn

1 spoon peanut butter

mayonnaise, salt, pepper

How-to
Boil the potato in advance

1. Put the flour, cinnamon powder, salt and sugar into a bowl and mix them well with the yeast
2. Then put the grapeseed oil, yolk and the milk (should be a bit lukewarm) and knead the dough for about 5 minutes
3. When the dough feels smooth, make the dough like a ball and wrap it tightly in plastic wrap. Make sure you keep the dough in lukewarm water for about 1 hour for fermentation until the dough swells up twice the size

Meanwhile, Chop the carrot, green pepper and onion into small pieces, and then panbroil them. Sprinkle salt and pepper sparingly to season them

Mash the boiled potato and mix it with panbroiled vegetable, canned corn and mayonnaise.

4. Unwrap the dough after the fermentation and let the gas out of the dough by pressing it with your palm. Roll the dough flat with a rolling pin into a large square shape

5. Put the mashed potato with vegetable on the dough and spread it well. Do not put too much mashed potato becuase if you do, the bread will look ugly. Pull the edge of the dough from either the top or the bottom and roll the dough

6. Pinch the edge with the dough and seal it nice and tight

7. Cut the dough into 7 to 8 pieces.

8. Remember! This recipe is to bake bread without an oven. Place a pan over a big pot with water in it so that the bottom of the pan can touch the water. (basically it's a bain-marie) Heat the water until the bottom of the pan feels a bit hot. Try to keep the temperature. (If it's too hot, take the pan out. If it's too cold, heat the water a bit more) This process is to ferment the dough once again and should last about 40~50 minutes. If the dough doesn't swell up much (ideally the size should be double), you can wait a few more minuites.

9. When the dough swells up well, take out the pot and heat the fan directly. Bake the dough over a weak fire for about 13 minutes.

10. After 13 minutes, the dough swells up very well, but since this is baking WITHOUT an oven, you have to turn the dough over.

11. After turning the dough over, place the lid again and bake for 3 to 5 more minutes

When the other side also turns brown, take them out of the pan and cool the bread

12. Now it's well baked. It's munch time

Photoshop Tips for Dummies

Making a panorama shot by merging several pictures..

*Note: What is a panorama shot?A panorama shot is a set of pictures that presents a view of wide area as if you actually look at the area.

After running the Photoshop, click on [File], then go to [Automate] and then execute [Photomerge]

You have actually stepped into the first phase of making a panorama shot. When you see the pop-up window as the above screen, click on [Browse]

Select the picture that you want to merge, and then click on [Open]

Select the layout (on the left column) you want, and click on [OK]

The photos you selected are automatically merged, but there's something that needs some touch-ups

Click on [Image], and then execute [Crop] to cut out the ragged sides of the merged picture

Now you have a perfect panorama shot! See how easy it is?

All you have to do is save! Click on [File] and then [Save]

Choose any name for the merged picture and click on [Save]

This is the final result of making a panorama shot using the Photoshop

Recipe for Dummies

How to make sweet potato cheese bread WITHOUT an oven!!

Ingredients
150g flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1 teaspoon yeast
1 spoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt

90g milk
20g grapeseed oil
1 yolk


200g sweet potato
4 spoon sugar
2 spoon whipping cream
6 slices of cheese

How-to
1. Put the flour, cinnamon powder, salt and sugar into a bowl and mix them well with the yeast
2. Then put the grapeseed oil, yolk and the milk (should be a bit lukewarm) and knead the dough for about 5 minutes
3. When the dough feels smooth, make the dough like a ball and wrap it tightly in plastic wrap. Make sure you keep the dough in lukewarm water for about 1 hour for fermentation until the dough swells up twice the size

This is when the first fermentation is done. If the dough does not swell up, wait until the dough swells up two to three times larger

4. Unwrap the dough after the fermentation and let the gas out of the dough by pressing it with your palm. Slice the dough into 6 pieces

5. Pull the edges of the dough pieces inside and make them round

Cover the dough with a plastic film so that they don't get dried. The dough should stay for about 10 minutes

6. Meanwhile, we'll make the filling. Boil the sweet potato and mash it with sugar and whipped cream.

7. Roll the fermented dough flat with a rolling pin. Fold a slice of cheese into half and place the mashed sweet potato

8. Pull the edge of the dough from the top and the bottom into the middle and pinch the middle and seal it nice and tight

9. If it's not sealed well, the dough will break when it's being baked. So make sure the dough is sealed tight

10. Remember! This recipe is to bake bread without an oven. Place a pan over a big pot with water in it so that the bottom of the pan can touch the water. (basically it's a bain-marie) Heat the water until the bottom of the pan feels a bit hot. Try to keep the temperature. (If it's too hot, take the pan out. If it's too cold, heat the water a bit more) This process is to ferment the dough once again and should last about 40~50 minutes. If the dough doesn't swell up much (ideally the size should be double), you can wait a few more minutes

11. When the dough swells up well, take out the pot and heat the fan directly. Bake the dough over a weak fire for about 13 minutes. The important thing is you have to bake the fermented dough long enough until the bottom is just a little bit burnt

Look how the dough swells up. It almost looks like a real sweet potato :)After 13 minutes, the dough swells up very well, but since this is baking WITHOUT an oven, you have to turn the dough over

12. Turn down the fire a little more and bake it for 3 to 5 minutes

When the other side also turns brown, take them out of the pan and cool the bread

13. Now it's well baked. It's munch time

If you don't like cinnamon, you can take it out

Photoshop Tip - How to Make Your Photo Look Vintage

These days I am learning the rope of the functions the Photoshop has.

Although I very much consider myself as a beginner, I would like to share some tips I have learnt during the process. I bought this book on Photoshop, determind, and now am trying to follow the steps of the masters.. But only the more I do so, the more I get amazed at some of the master's touch you see on the Internet. :) …They just seem so far ahead of me to follow with ease, at this point.

Without any proper lessons and only just trying to mimic what others posted on the Internet, I think I'm making a little progress thanks to over-repeated attempts one after another. :)

So here is one of the skills I have learnt: To make photos look old in a nostalgic-vintage way.

Sometimes old photos speak more than newer ones. Maybe it's because you can feel a little bit of analog touch from it, like the ones you pull out from your dusty attic room. So let the beginner begin his shallow lecture.

This is the finished version. Does this look old and vintage?

So, let's begin the steps.

1. First, save the photo below and open it on your Photoshop.

2. This would be your background photo. Adjust the size as you like. Resize this picture so it's comfortable for you to work on.

3. Open the picture you'd like to retouch. This photo is something I had downloaded from the Internet. I thought of retouching other photos, but then a thought occurred to me - making a photo looking so modern and everyday into something vintage would be fun.

4. Drag the wanted photo to the old one. Then adjust the size, simply with 'free transfrom', changing the width and length.
5. After you've done that, click on 'apply'. That's right, you're almost getting there :)

6. Set the 'opactity' on your right below, until you find the grade you prefer.

7. Then, change the layer mode to screen, and also click on opactity levels until you get what you like.

8. Put together the layers using ctrl + E.

9. If your picture is too bright or dark, open 'curve' and apply the S curve as demostrated below.
10. To add a little degree of definition, go for 'Unshop Mask'.

11. Compare the finished version with the original. Vintage enough for you? These retoughed pictures would make a nice little present for your loved ones. Well, that just about completes my beginner's-tips-by-the-beginner-himself!

12. Also…
Here are some more samples of oldish retouched pictures. Hope you have fun with your retouch work. :)

Recipe for Dummies - Bake WITHOUT an oven!!

Recipe for Dummies
How to make peanut butter bread WITHOUT an oven

Ingredients
150g flour
1 teaspoon yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt

80g milk
20g grapesee oil
1 yolk

-For peanut butter filling
100g whipping cream
1 spoon peanut butter

How-to
1. Put the flour, salt and sugar into a bowl and mix them well with the yeast
2. Then put the grapeseed oil, yolk and the milk (should be a bit lukewarm) and knead the dough
3. When the dough feels smooth, make the dough like a ball and wrap it tightly in plastic wrap. Make sure you keep the dough in lukewarm water for about 1 hour for fermentation

4. Unwrap the dough after the fermentation and let the gas out of the dough by pressing it with your palm. Slice the dough into 4 pieces

5. Pull the edges of the dough pieces inside and make them round. Cover the dough with a plastic film so that they don't get dried

6. When the dough swells up a bit, roll the dough flat with a rolling pin into an oval shape

7. Roll the dough from the top and the bottom into the middle and pinch the middle of the dough and seal well

8. Put some water on the dough and roll it over peanut chunks.

Press the dough a bit so that more chunks can stick to the dough.

If you want more peanut chunks on the dough, squeeze the chunks into the dough a bit.
9. Here is the tricky part. Without an oven, this baking part can be a bit annoying. Place a pan over a big pot with water in it so that the bottom of the pan can touch the water. (Basically it's a bain-marie) Heat the water until the bottom of the pan feels a bit hot. Try to keep the temperature. (If it's too hot, take the pan out. If it's too cold, heat the water a bit more) This process is to ferment the dough once again and should last about 40~50 minutes. If the dough doesn't swell up much (ideally the size should be double), you can wait a few more minutes

10. When the dough swells up well, take out the pot and heat the fan directly. Bake the dough over a weak fire for about 13 minutes. The important thing is you have to bake the fermented dough long enough until the bottom is just a little bit burnt.

After 13 minutes, the dough swells up very well, but since this is baking WITHOUT an oven, you have to turn the dough over.

After 13 minutes, the dough swells up very well, but since this is baking WITHOUT an oven, you have to turn the dough over.

Now it's well baked. You can enjoy the bread if you want, but it won't be peanut butter bread.
11. Whip the cream. When it's whipped, add 1 spoon of peanut butter and mix it again. You can add more peanut butter if you like. (I advise you to use a creamy peanut butter.)

12. Cut the baked bread and spread the whipped cream with peanut butter over the sliced side.

13. Looks pretty good, right? Put them in the fridge until the cream hardens a bit. Then, take them out and enjoy!