Meteora, Greece, June 2009
The effects of such landscapes exudes a sense of timelessness, one that brings you to state where time no longer matters, where the scale overwhelms you, and all that remains to be aware of, is the place.
Mount Sophia, March 2009
Admittedly, Singapore does have some pretty shitty weather, but on somedays, all the chaos clicks together and you get superbly contrasting shots like this. All about being at the right place at the right time, which really is harder than it sounds.
Just a quick update, having been sooo busy with school work and projects with all the deadlines just breathing down my neck. Phews.
Despite that, I still make some time to just snap a few shots wherever I go with my camera. I think it’s something that has been ingrained in me now.. when I see a certain scene, I always try to mentally visualise how I would be able to get a better angle of it, and how the lighting and exposure can be improved as well.
Starting to conceptualise some projects, and still looking for more opportunities to do commercial photography, but probably only when the summer break comes and I am free of my deadlines and exams! But in the mean time, if anyone needs Event Coverage or Actual Day Wedding Coverage, do drop me a message!
Anyway, below are just some recent shots taken from school. It really doesn’t take much to find a serene and peaceful moment to just escape from all the deadlines for a while. Turns out there’s just a spot right around the corner.
Panorama from Engineering, facing the ports. Bright and sunny!
Another panorama, this time of the sunset. Love the contrast of colours of the cool skies and the warm sun on this one! Very yin and yang.
Lightning over Clementi. Am eagerly waiting for a stormier day to capture wilder and more havoc storms!
I had the opportunity to shoot with Yim Xin last Saturday, who I probably last met 12 years ago back in Primary School, and who runs his own little outfit now! Was quite interesting to catch up with him and pick up some tips from someone who definitely has more experience shooting weddings!
Anyway, just thought I’d post up a couple of preview shots with quick touch-ups from the shoot, before I get bogged down again by the usual (and alot less interesting) schedule of mugging and chionging projects.
A very happy couple. =)
“With this ring, I take thee to be my lawfully wedded wife.”
Though on hindsight, think I didn’t perform optimally this shoot, was really just too tired most of the day after having had a very draining week at school and very little sleep. Oh well, till the next time!
Well, haven’t had the opportunity to update much, being busy with all the deadlines (school) and all. But shall post a little something, today being Valentine’s Day, and also Sean and Rachel’s Wedding Day!
First off, I think guys should really get to get married on this day, because it reduces the number of important dates one would need to remember! And we all know how bad guys are with dates (wedding anniversary lar, vday lar, wife’s birthday lar, etc lar).
But anyway, I’m really thankful for having the opportunity to be part of their big day, and I wish them the very best!
Meanwhile, one preview of the photos taken today, before I get swarmed with deadlines and don’t update regularly again hehe.
Just love the overall expression of everybody here, from the bride herself, to the sisters.. fighting with the brothers for the bouquet!
Happy Valentine’s Day all!
Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
1. At the point of writing, 4 people have tagged me, Eddie, Shiyao, Van and Ryan. I briefly pondered the possibility of 25 individuals having tagged me prior to me completing this exercise, and so by the rules of the thingamajig I merely have to tag them back, thus conserving brain juice. But anyway, boredom got to me before the counter hit 25.
Thought I’d share a few photos I took a couple of Saturdays with you folks.
I wasn’t really planning to shoot that day, merely having brought my 50mm f/1.8 attached to my camera body for testing the wireless flash triggers I was collecting that afternoon.
Turned out that with the most basic of Canon lenses, I managed to shoot one of my best sets of photos ever! Bearing in mind that this is a sub $100 lens, I present to you, Esplanade. Also not much editing has been done, aside from slight tweaking of colours and contrast.
My fave of the day, I love how the lighting is so moody, and the contrast of light on the metallic spikes of the Esplanade rooftop, backed by some nice parting clouds in the sky!
A better view of the spikes, and the sharp lighting cutting right across the spikes.
A clearer patch of sky, for a nicer bluey background.
Turns out one doesn’t really need a fridge to freeze water.
Feels very zen-nish. On hindsight, I should have cleared the lower pebbles for more impact.
Assymetry in symmetry; symmtetry in geometry, asymmetry in lighting.
Yup, the customary reunion dinner at home, a rather sumptuous spread I might add, although my mother has been preparing smaller portions lately ever since our metabolic rate couldn’t keep up with our age, and tummies!
Going clockwise starting fromthe famliar carrot salad (it rhymes!), which is actually just yu sheng with a plateful of salmon, we also got giant prawns (use the jar of cashew nuts as a gauge as to how friggin big they are), steamed cod fish, abalone on kai lan, and rounding up with shark’s fin soup right in the middle.
But I think I’ve been taking my mother’s cooking for granted. As I just found out a couple of weeks ago, my mother actually spent six months in her youth learning how to cook, and from the then-owner of Red Star no less! No wonder home cooked food always taste the best lar. Then again, that adage only applies to proven recipes, considering the numerous bad experiences with experimental recipes my palette has had. But shhh don’t tell my mother that.
On a side note, interesting to note how much more it would mean for one to wish for prosperity in times like these. But then again, I really do hope that at least for this weekend, people are spending more time worrying about chilling out with the family, or taking care of their health, instead of worrying too much about their cash flow at this moment.
That being said, wishing one and all a happy, meaningful and prosperous year of the Ox!
Dec 2008, 1/80 @ f/5 @ ISO100
I have decided that I will also be writing and posting about my photography experience.
On one hand, it will be my visual diary, an ocular record of my life. But not only a record of life, but also a record of progress, in the way that I can look back at the photographs that I was taking one year ago, and see how my technique and experience has improved (hopefully for the better).
On the other hand, it will be an informal portfolio, where you will be able to view and critique (should you wish) my work.
Those who are proficient with maths will now realise that I have now run out of hands, and thus words for this introduction.
Esplanade, Jan 2009, 1/500 @ f/2.8 @ ISO100
The pilot, is that which guides the future, in all ways that it could.
The dark abeyance has come and past, an entity that no longer exists but in memory.
Time is often referred to as a measure of the quantity of quantum moments that has transpired, a summation of all your experienced moments collapsed into one number, 24 years.
But such a number never did hold any significance.
All that is left then, are the individual moments. Kept and cherished till the future requires it, to be restored and savoured like a well-aged bottle of vintage.