The Cameranoob Photoblog Official Launch

I planned to start my photography blog sometime back. Even the domain itself was registered a year ago. However, I couldn’t find the time to plan and start the blog – until now.

Photography’s been a long standing hobby of mine from my college days. As much as I ignored the old lecturer who mumbled his way during the subject, I never did get bored of taking photos – especially people. After college, my experience using a DSLR came with a lot practice at family dinners and casual outings with friends.

Content was always there but I was worried the quality I’d have shared then wouldn’t have been good enough yet. Well, I guess I’m more confident now but as the name I picked, I’m still a camera noob.

Noob is a term used by computer gamers to call someone a beginner. Though some friends have asked why do I call myself that when my pictures are averagely well taken, I tell them it’s because I’m still not where I want to be yet.

Well, enjoy the photos at the Cameranoob blog. The upcoming album will be of the recent Korean actor; Lee Min Ho, who visited Malaysia.

You want the job? Wake up lah!

My interest in the whole wakuplah! marketing campaign came when Ikhwan (tekong) showed me a series of banners. One of them was this one:

The poster read:

If you think that as long as you know Photoshop and Illustrator, you can be an art director already…wake up! 13-year olds also know Photoshop-lah.

I giggled at the statement made because it was true. This poster was part of a series of others which also poked fun at copywriters, freelancers and attendees at AD Unplugged 2009.

From the very nature of the series, I already had a feeling the upcoming website was aimed at job seekers. True enough, when the website launched some time last night, the people behind it sent curious cats like me  an animated GIF with the access password. Yes, it was in an animated GIF.

Because sharing is caring and it should be shared, out of the 4 passwords they gave the correct one is, Kopi_O. That’s a capital letter ‘O’ and not numerical.

As much as the Matrix was cool, I’m not fond of a couple of things in this website.

• Wait to login due to Flash loading.
• Reversed text on button.
• Distractingly huge password text behind.
• Annoying spinning text characters after entering.
• Forced to catch the rabbit otherwise you can’t proceed.
• Forced to type in text to the self-proclaimed ‘Oracle’ before you’ve the option to proceed.
• Text heavy pages with typeface which isn’t comforting to read.

Honestly, the troubles listed above took away my expectation of experiencing something good from this campaign – online, at least.

As much as awareness goes, I won’t be saying on Twitter “Hey, you should visit this website. It’s damn cool.”

If the owner does read this review, it’s not been written purposely to cause damage. I’m only sharing my personal experience of using your campaign website.

Besides, I still applaud you for the lead up banners done. That was cool.