自然

30mm f/0.79 equivalent

邻家女子，天真活泼，无矫揉造作的扭捏，少胭脂水粉的装点，美在劳动中，美在自然中 =D

‘Tis the season to bokeh-ing~

56mm f/1.3 equivalent

Another brutal semester has come to an end. It’s a great relief to go out to shoot again. I’ve always had such images in mind whenever I walked along orchard road, especially when the Christmas decorations are up, and I’m glad to have finally learnt how to create them. Happy holidays!

Bokeh-licious

82mm f/0.77 equivalent

No, I have not bought a new lens. But I learnt a new skill. A method so awesome I have to applaud its pioneer – Ryan Brenizer. He calls this the bokehrama, but people coined it the Brenizer method. Either way, I’ve been trying it out for a number of times and am now ready to talk more about it.

Nice prop

27mm F/0.7 equivalent

The EX1 has made itself useful.

The quest for more bokeh

Had the chance to try out some exotic lenses~

Blue Hour Blend

The Marina Bay Sands is proving to be a very nice place for sunsets. I applaud the use of pools which made a whole lot of difference in blue hour shots.

The way it’s meant to be seen

Typical overcast afternoon, with very high contrast. Not a very ideal afternoon to shoot. Those were the conditions when I took this shot. I haven’t been very healthy lately and hence the lack of new photos. This was from 2 years ago..

The trip was meant to be an infra-red shoot, but I found the form of this tree particularly pleasant, and took a series of bracketed shots hoping to be able to process them properly one day. Well.. I never managed to get an image that represented my intentions.. until recently.

 

Compact-ing…

6 exposure blended

I’ll be trying to see how much the EX1 can perform for my more serious works. Stay tuned~

De-Haloing

One of the greatest bug-bears of HDR has been the halo effects due to tone-mapping. I’ve been trying out several HDR software, with the latest being HDR efex pro and Photomatix, but somehow I still couldn’t get it to look as natural as I want. Well.. today I just got one step closer =)

Read on for more details…

It pays to wait ;)

Tokina 11-16 at f/8, 90s, iso200, ND400

Hello everybody.. I’m baaaaack!

I dropped from heaven straight into hell when I returned from my SEP in Taipei. Literally to the neck with projects after projects, assignments after assignments, and thanks to my stupid leg I wasn’t too keen to shoot for a long while. Finally made it a point to break out my D300 and do something serious.

First time being to Lower Pierce Reservoir, but my experience in Kending, Taiwan paid off. I kind of expected a light show judging by the kind of clouds in the sky, and voila~ Here it is!

Was even more happy to see the reaction of some D700 shooter behind when the sunset took him by surprise. What good is your 14-24 if you pack it up before the real action begins?

A HDR version after the break