Now, these aren't a great set of photos. In fact, the first two are really bad. It's the last onw is pretty impressive with great contrast and angle. Unfortunately, these are the only pix I can upload for now.

Not a bad scene at 6 in the morning. =)

Blockade

I have been trying to update photos since I got back from Japan. But thanks to the useless, god-forsaken internet connection, the pictures will just have to wait....=S

Views differ

Well, the term is about to end and I've just got some time to talk about some of the photos I've taken this year. It's been awhile since I've done landscape and I think I'm about to get really horrible at it because the last photography "outing" I went on was barely productive. All I got was a nasty lot of pictures with weird colours and gradients. Nevertheless, here are a couple which I think are worth a look at.

A bright sunny day on campus. Trust me it, in reality, does not look this nice. It was probably around 5pm when I took this picture. Sun was out and it had that golden tinge which added at least a warmer hue to the usually bleak surroundings (think Philip Larkin). Details on trees were really good with the lighting adding a bit of contrast to the overall look. Shadows casted onto the ground was really good in adding detail but I found some of it (especially those at the bottom right of the pic) annoyingly (is there such a word??) distracting.

Cloud scapes. Not really my type of photography but the lighting that day made it irresistable. Nice sweeping motion of clouds gave the picture a nice drawn-out feel to it. Quite impressed really. Would have been better with a short telephoto or fisheye lens but since I have neither(yet) I had to make do with my normal 18-55mm lens. Not much of a drawback as you can see. Oh...and the sign board at the side is just my touch of "artistry" =)







Now, here are some pictures I meant to put up in my previous post but I couldn't get them to upload properly. So here you go:

Lighting of the Two

I've got another batch of photos which would definitely interest the people who know me personally =). For everyone else, these are pictures from an event I recently photographed. It was a farewell dinner put together for two people who were leaving their workplace/home of 12 years to take up another job elsewhere.

I got rid of the colour for all three photos. Thought it'd be an effective way on focusing on the subject at hand.

The Celebrated Two.

Meet the two people we gathered together for. =). It was pretty difficult to photograph them when they were presenting in front of us because of the lighting. Very harsh red lighting was put up for the event and the only way to eliminate it was by using the flash which in return caused really harsh bright lighting.



A candid photo during the mingling hour. Not a great shot if you ask me. Disappointing to a certain extent really. To many white colours....when I increased the contrast it caused the pictures to burn =S.




Calling for replacements! Anyone interested?

Unfinished.

Another set of photos which I've taken over the years. Watch the evolution of my architectural photography skills =)

April 2007

These two photos were taken in an old housing area in Malacca. Very unimpressive if you ask me. Taken with a Cybershot T-10. Great colour and saturation but far-from-good composition. Picture seems cut off somehow. I still get really annoyed when I look at it...=S

February 2008

A slightly better picture. Taken with my Canon EOS 400D. I like the atmosphere it creates and the reflection of the wooden floor. The middle bit of the photo is a bit distracting. Kinda destroys the ambience

June 2008

One of my favourite pictures of the corridor. Not highly impressive but the depth is a real attention-catcher. Colour is mainly to the warm side(I over-edited it) but it has a great atmosphere of isolation and balance. Shadows are pretty awesome with lotsa detail but some people find that feature quite distasteful. But I beg to differ.

Shit. I got bitten by something.

Obliterated.

I have managed to filter the bad karma out of my life. I'm so happy. Hence, I'm gonna post up some nice pictures like I usually do.






As you should have noticed by now, the theme is birds. I was gonna write something nice about my extremely lovely photos but I've just remembered that I've left something undone.

Vertigo

Hello people. I've got a rather weird set of photos this time. I had taken it under fluorescent lighting with a pretty much plain backdrop. I was hoping to bring out the abstractness of built and structure of everyday items. I like the last one the best. The picture of the kilometrico pen is more of a macro photography than abstract but I put it in anyways.




I'd comment more but I really need to sleep. Dead tired.....

The Impossible People

Street photography. Not always a very satisfying type of photography because you can never get people to bend to your own will. I can't randomly go up to a person and ask him whether I can take their photo for no valid reason. This applies even more when the person in question doesn't speak the same damn language as you do. This brings me back to my photography streak in France. See for yourself:

Crazy old lady with awesome Nikon camera. This photo is a very annoying reminder that pictures don't always go the way you want it to. I waited just a second too long to take the photo. As a result her face is blocked. The photo isn't COMPLETELY hedious, I suppose.

I would have turned this one into a monochrome but I realised that when I did that it made the picture quite flat because the yellow didn't stand out in b&w.

My fave out of this lot. Turned it into a sepia pic and I have to say, it's pretty good. =) I especially like the tones on the jeans and wall. The black colours however are a bit clashing.

My only non-France photo. I took this a couple days ago. I was just testing out the lens and this is the clearest I was able to get. My technique needs a bit of work...

Spoken like a bona fide Fool

Aha....this is going to be my first commentary on a photograph I took


I don't have a title for this photo(not that I've a title for my other photos). It was taken on a bright evening after a rain and after I did some tweeking to the colours and contrast, I got this..

Colours and dimensions are generally quite flat and clear cut but it's complicated by satellite dishes and what not. I just goes to show how man has been able to complicate a simple canvas by putting in unnecessary detail.



That's all I can say for now....I'm just taking a break from my work. Time to get back into it

Careless Dispositions

I'm a real disappointment on different levels. But anyways, I've once again updated this dead site with, at least, a few more pictures. They are generally just some random photos which I personally think are pretty good. I especially like the photo of the contact lens which I took on a bright day.





My pictures tend to be a bit melodramatic...Trust me...I never intended them to be that way. I just like it the way they are.

Well, yes...I did say that I was gonna update this blog every now and then and so far I haven't done too much of a bad job. Considering the fact that no one knows this blog exists I'm quite happy to have it all ti myself just for the reason of personal satisfaction. Here's more pictures....







My liking for architectural photography has resurfaced and just really like the shapes and colours and stuff like that. Taken with a Sony T-10 by the way. I wasn't going to lug my SLR all the way to France.

More for you

Let me introduce my photos to you. They're not impressive cause' I'm not a brilliant photographer but I am a photog fanatic so bear with my very unimpressive pictures. I swear I'll get better.

This is, btw, architectural photography(and no these are not the only photos I have). It's one of the kind of photos I take. I love Macro and I do do alot of street photog, which has on a couple occasions had me kicked out of the girls toilet (no, I'm not a perv....the stupid people inside didn't like me randomly taking pictures of their kids and told me to get out. I deleted the pictures of course because I don't want pictures of bitches' kids). Well, I would have uploaded more pictures but given the slow connection today I've only managed to miserable ones.

What this is about....

Well...being the photog freak that I am I've set up a blog just for my photos....then again...I cnt promise anyone that I'll be updating often cause' I have a tendency to leave things hanging.

No pics this time.....I'll upload a couple when the internet cnxn isn't so shitty