Canon Lion City Cup 2011

It has been a while ever since the previous post, and since I happen to have the time, I have decided to breathe some life back into this blog. :)

Alright, I know the Lion City Cup has came to an end roughly a week ago with CR Flamengo winning the title, but I still want to share the action captured during the first two matches of the Cup. 

This is the premiering match, featuring Newcastle United Under-15 versus Singapore Under-15 (in blue). Singapore won with a score of 4-3, putting in the winning goal within the last minute of extra time.

CR Flamengo Under-15 (in red) managed to scrape a 1-0 win against Everton United Under-15. Although CR Flamengo was undeniably more aggressive, Everton stood their ground and fended off the majority of the attacks.

It was a great honour and an awesome experience shooting for the Cup, since it was of a scale bigger than most school events. I also have some tips for anyone who might have the chance to cover such sports events:

1) Always remember to bring a tripod, or a monopod if you can get it, especially if you know that you'll be using big lenses like 70-200mm f2.8L. Otherwise towards the end, your arms will be so tired you won't even feel like shooting.

2) Bring a stool (or something to sit on comfortably), else you will find yourself struggling with an aching back after 3 hours of sitting there unsupported.

There you go, this blog seems much livelier already. Keep it going people! I shall go get ready to book in now. =S

-ChengBoon.

CAM(P)ERA 2011!

HELLOOOO first time updating. :D

So, CAM(P)ERA was da bomb and i really wanna update about it!!

(zomg the photos are uploading at the speed of 10^negative infinity)

Okay so here goes:

Dinner.

Farhan and I were the food i/c for the camp and we had chicken rice from MJSpicy stall.

Btw we got cheated because 2 of the packets were w/o chicken ):

Scam much?

Atikah spilled this while preparing drinks for others.

(and she spilled Milo during breakfast the next day. Hahaha clumsyyyy girl!)

I presume Junxian was bored because he decided to mess up my OCD 5 x 5 arrangement and came up with this! :)

Sam showing Mr Cheng and Chin Chye her tattoo B)

Kingston teaching the J1s our famous photog cheer and making the J2s demo.

I remember I heard someone saying we look like we're a communist party.

HAHAHA. :D :/ :P

Meanwhile Farhan's hiding somewhere, mesmerized by his new love.

After dinner we taught them Studio, Flash Photography, Light Painting & Lightroom Basics.

Jiayi, Farhan and I were i/c of Light Painting.

It was FUN FUN FUN FUN. :D

Group C!! :D

♥PHOTOGGG!!♥

Group B!! :D

End up we were blasting music and they were 'clubbing' with their torchlights.

Hahaha. It's good to see them have fun! :D

Group A!! :D

That's us getting all ready and eggcited for the midnight outing @ Marina Bay!!!

That has got to be the most funky thing everr.

I mean which other photography club goes for midnight outings togetherrrr?!

Honestly midnight outings are shiok ttm because you get to lie in the middle of the nowhere as though the road belongs to your grandfather and nobodyy will look at you like you're weird or blame you for being public nuisances (or so i assume).

Hahaha.

Reached school at around 3am in the morning.

Caught a short nap and got ourselves ready for outing AGAIN in the morning.

Not sure about others but I was walking around like a zombie the next day T_T

Group shot w my group @ Boat Quay!! :D

This is one of the photo i captured @ Little India.

It was a really random shot, one of those where you just snap w/o even looking through the viewfinder.

BUT LOOK AT THE MAN AND THE FACE ON THE MAGAZINE!!

Okay I only saw that when I was filtering my photos, almost deleted it.

So here's a piece of advice:

Don't be too quick to delete your photos (even though i always do) because you could have taken an interesting shot w/o realizing..you'll never know ;)

Last but not least, PHOTOG!

Group shot taken at Marina Barrage.

More photos here

Though weather was terrible that day, but it shows that we've had been through the storm together.

Am I making sense?

Like you know..storm, literally.

Okay ANYWAY that's 6 generations of #MJPhotog in one photo.

Awww happy family :)