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 :)

Thaipusam 2010

IN case u have finished your homework,(pun intended)

IN case u are waiting to try out your new rig,(yes KOH i am looking at you)

IN case you are waiting at home waiting to serve the army,(Fall in boys !)

or you are just itching to shoot,

Look out for tml,

Thaipusam 2010

I will be out shooting the event from 3pm onwards,
if anyone wants to join me just give me a ring
at
nine(1+1)(root 9)nine(12/2)four(1+1)(3^2).

Remember to bring a plastic bag to put your shoes cos they do not allow shoes in the temple.

I should be meeting anyone who is coming at 245pm at Little India Station.

Sorry for the late inform as I randomly remembered it too :)

See ya :)

Fireworks!

In view of the arrival of August, the national celebratory month in the city-state of SINGAPORE- this is a month meaning lots of patriotic songs, colors of red and white... AND FIREWORKS! Yes... I lurve fireworks! WHOOOOOOOOT!

Here are some techniques I learnt last year while shooting at Tanjong Rhu apart from all that longkang climbing...

Things to bring:
1. Camera (depending on what sort of background you want, you may bring tele or wide lens)
2. Tripod
3. Food
4. Water
5. Insect repellent
6. Black card
7. If you have it, shutter release cord or remote control
8. Torchlight

The reason for food and water is that usually if you want a good spot, you'd need to book it early. And that means camping out for about 3 hours in some ulu place (which happens to be the best place for fireworks) and the insect repellent comes in handy especially when the place is full of bushes and trees. Last year I had an itching good time but that's nothing compared to a few good frames taken.

Torchlight is because usually the spot you'd prefer is somewhere dark where they will not be stray light, and hence you'd need a torchlight for navigation... and if you're still unfamiliar with the buttons on your cam, the torchlight will come in handy. If you want to change film, the torch will also come in handy...

The tripod you bring should preferably the kind that can open it's legs out all the way (erm, like a 3 legged spider) so that you can shoot at the best angle possible and that these tripods can suit better to varying ground levels.

Set your camera to Manual mode, and the shutter to B mode. (bulb mode. Just turn your shutter knob all the way to the slowest end.) The reason for a black card is rather simple. Last year, my settings was at ISO200, F8, 4sec. However, the shutter is depressed for up to 8 sec or more. While anticipating the fireworks to start, the shutter is depressed with a black card in front, and once the fireworks start, just remove the black card and start recording. When the fireworks have finished blooming (in about 4 sec usually), put the black card back in place and count up to 4 sec to wait for the smoke to clear. Open your black card again to expose the cityscape for a while. Thus, you'd be able to get a proper exposure for both the fireworks and the cityscape.

For me, I didn't go with the black board idea because I was using film and film has this problem with long exposures. The longer the film is exposed, the film will "degrade" and hence it will take an even longer time to get the correct exposure, causing inaccuracies in previous metering and calculations.

VIOLA! (If you see Junsen/Chee Howe's shots, they have a brighter skyline.)


P.S. Did I mention JS and Chee were having a shouting match last year? They were competing to see who can count louder.... -_____- ONE THOUSAND TWO THOUSAND THREE THOUSAND FOUR THOUSAND EH YOU NOT SO LOUD LA! YOU THEN NOT SO LOUD LA! SEE LA COUNT UNTIL WHERE LIAO!

Slippin' Away

Yo peeps.. its me and I'm back again for more photo updates!! Whee... Rejoice people, rejoice and praise the UltraCoolYandao :P... Fwahahahahahaha....

Lame talk aside, lets get on to the pics...

Ultra Long Outing Reccee Day 1 Cont.

Old Skool in BW

Street photography in its literal form

Fwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha - Revenge!!

Groupies!!

Posers? haha

After the whole reccee, we went for dinner at the above mentioned

3 hungry ghosts waiting for their food to arrive

The 2 lao jiaos trying to look cool once again!

Ooo XQ diggin' in!!!

Before and After

We continued on to Marina South to reccee the view, which ended up in failure, hence Clark Quay... Anyway, if you wanted to know what the night skyline looks like in BW, here you go... Enjoy!

PHOTOG!

damn long outing: day 1 review

REVIEW | 12TH JULY

It started out with us meeting at outram park mrt at afternoon. 11 people came for the outing

Route: Chinatown to Clarke Quay 

Chee Howe in action

Shan2 in action! Notice there are two shan shans! cause mountain mountain... haha

Shooting on the 21st level of a HDB bulding

chee howe taking "damn long" (the irony...) to take a group shot

Taking photographs is a good way of exercising

Victora in a wrong white balance setting photo

The I-am-very-serious-about-looking-serious look

of course like every outing, it ends with night shots!

Too bad we didn't get to take the fireworks from the ndp rehearsal but at least we get to see fireworks.

Okay so for those who didnt come, too bad! Alright time for me to go sleep. 

The Damn Long Outing continues tomorrow (but im not going =p)

Time Slip

Wooo....yay... now i can update the blog too... hehe^^

Ahh..I finally managed to go develop my that old roll of slide..damn.. it was sure hard to use finish one roll... anyways, lame spasitc talk aside...(damn... i sound like i'm talking to myself) pictures!! haha...

Trip to OCH

2 lao jiaos trying to look cool..heh..

Jun Sen having tons of fun..heh..

More people trying to have a ton of fun..heh..

Group shot!! - on a 14mm and the passer by said,"so near can meh??"..heh..

Yay!! Finally got a decent shot of the illusive Xiuqi..heh..
(Bet she'll prepare the broom for me next time..)

NUS MONTAGE

Mel trying to take a bite on my wallet..heh..chew on it!

The Damn Long Outing Day 1 Reccee

No parking? Heh...

Mafia-ish..heh..

Old Skool..heh..

Ohh well, I hope everyone had fun today, during the damn long outing...though quite a number of people refused to entertain me, I can entertain myself^^ (ablit quite poorly) hehe. Wheeeeeeee...

PHOTOG!