Looks like the New Year is upon us once again. Holidays over and its time to get back on the groove. My first assignment this is a very nice French Wine Bar. Take a look. Courtesy of Expat Living Singapore...
Learn MoreNew workshop means new images to show. Last weekend I taught at my Light Exposure workshop to a dozen or so lovely photography hobbyist folks, held at Red Dot Photo’s Studio. The workshop was about using light, natural or artificial in photography. I normally use Speedlights because that’s what most people have. And at every end of these workshops, I normally...
Learn MoreI have many landscape images. I would say that more than 95% of them are not shown because, well, they are just not as good as I thought when I took them. Thankfully, these days my hit rates are much much higher. Well, recently, I was looking through some of my “rejected” images and I thought maybe I should try to convert them to Black n White. Below is one...
Learn MoreI have been thinking, what is that ONE good tip in landscape photography. That ultimate secret that many greats have that you don’t have. Use a good tripod? Well, that a good tip but I don’t think it is the ONE. What about aperture, shutter speed or ISO? No. There’s no one setting that is the “ultimate”. In fact, I’ve used many varied...
Learn MoreSo, the Canon 5D Mark 3′s been here a week. I’m not going to list out the spec here as there are other sites that can do a much better job than I can. What I want to talk about is what this new camera can do for me. Right now, my work horse is the 5D Mark2. From my gallery and posts, I will gather that you know by now that I mostly shoot landscapes, portraits,...
Learn MoreTashkorgan is a small border town in Xinjiang China which I have the privilege to visit twice in the past 3 years. A beautiful valley sandwiched between 2 mountain range. At about 3000m (9800ft), the sun, if it is out is often quite harsh. Therefore, I have decided to bracket most of my shots, just in case I needed to merge them into HDR. Thank you..
Learn MoreThe recent total lunar eclipse is something I’ve not seen before, especially when the moon turned “blood red”. Kinda cool. I am normally too lazy to go out to such “events” but this time, the moon’s just outside my window, can’t get anymore convenient than that! The next image is just a fun composite image I did. Thank you…
Learn MoreI’ve recently conducted a product workshop and would like to show off some of the images taken. This is a basic product workshop on how to light and control the light to get a well balanced product/still life shot. For example, shooting glass on a white and black background AND getting the edges of the glass to show. Thank you …
Learn MoreConcluded a small workshop last Sunday. It was all about using small flash to create great images using simple techniques. It was really fun and along the way met up with a long time friend. So it was all good. Anyway, check out the images below. A very simple 2 Speedlight setup. One the image left was the accent light gelled with a blue and neutral density gel. The key...
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Apple iPad is a “magical” device… well, I won’t go that far but it is certainly a very useful tool for me as a photographer. Now, I am not talking about those photo apps that does interesting effects when you take a picture. I am actually talking about using it as a productivity tool as well as sales tool. Below are some of the stuff that I use the...
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This is a continuation from my previous blog about my Light Exposure Workshop. I wanted to share my thought processes when I do re-touching on one of the image, in this case, the close up face of our model. Before I go on, I wanted to say that there will be a “before and after” image of the model. The thing about “before/after”...
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I’ve just concluded my Light Exposure workshop with the kind help from the folks at Red Dot Photo. It was a small workshop but it was great because the everyone got to get up close and personal with the whole process of Lighting, Shooting and Post-Processing. We engaged a model for the shoot to showcase various techniques of using various light and...
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I have an announcement. I will be conducting a half day workshop on the Sunday, 24th July 2011 at the Red Dot Photo Studio. This is a followup on the Light Exposure Seminars I have conducted the last months. I am partnering up, again, with the good folks at Red Dot Photo, where I get a lot of my supplies, to get this workshop on it’s way. By the way,...
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Recently, I’ve concluded students’ portrait session and graduation event for the Dyslexia Association of Singapore. It has been both an educational and tremendous fun experience for me. The people and students there has been very encouraging and great. I did this event also because my daughter, who is dyslexic, are currently attending classes...
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I mentioned in my last HDR post that I might re-do the HDR image I posted earlier. I posted a version, a “pure” HDR version and a normal exposure version. I mentioned that both these version have their pros and cons. So now, I have combined what I thought was the pros into the final image. If you take a look at my previous post (click here),...
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I bet we’ve all done this before, self portrait. A recent phenomenon is to hold the camera in one hand with the lens facing us and take a picture. Very popular with tourists. I’ve done this myself. Heck, even camera manufacturers are getting into the game, producing cameras with 2 LCD screens with one in front so we can see ourselves when taking...
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A couple of weeks ago, I finally acquired my long sought after softbox from Westcott, the 28″ recessed front Apollo from the good folks at Red Dot Photos. In Singapore, we don’t get a lot of stuff, so to have this come along, it was a good day. It certainly helped to save transport cost if I were to order it myself. The Westcott Apollo softbox...
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Backup is one of those thing that is essential but a real pain in the ass to do. OK, I confess, this post is not so much about backup strategy but rather a half rant on the incredible LOW quality of harddisks (HDD) I tend to attract and what I am doing about it. I decided to write about this because for the past few days, I got an external HDD died on me...
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I have several computers at home. My work computer is my 15″ Macbook Pro. In fact, I do everything here except watching media and stuff. For that, I use my iMac, which has totally replaced my TV. Now, my MacBook Pro is color calibrated using Datacolor’s Spyder Elite. My iMac is not. The reason is that calibrated monitor tend to be a bit dark...
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Let’s take a look at my office. Nothing more than a corner really. A place where I do most of my post processing work. A messy place but, hey, it’s an organized mess and I know where everything is. This image was done by blending about 3 images. I initially wanted to process these 3 photos in HDR but it came out all wrong. So back to the old masking and...
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Hey hey, first post here. OK, not really the First post as I have already done 4 others but those are for the Portfolio and Feature section, not really a “wordy” post. This is about, well, the first of such. Whatever…. It has been a busy few weeks. When I first started this site a month ago, I thought it would be easy. Yeah, getting the domain through...
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