Another Side of ShaolinTiger - Street Photography!

ShaolinTiger posted this at 1:43 pm on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 —

Well better intro myself I guess, I just got into photography seriously quite recently.

I’ve been shooting with compact 35mm cams for a long time, probably about 20 years, but I never made the step into getting serious about and getting a SLR, or even moving the next stage along.

Within the last year or so I really got more interested in photography as Malaysia is such a wonderfully colourful place, the foods, the people, the temples, the cultural diversity..There is so much to capture here. As you can tell from my blog, I really love food and taking pictures of it..

I started finding the limits of my 2 year old Canon Powershot A70, the 3.2megapixels limited how big I could enlarge the pictures and the noisy/grainy pictures in the dark (high ISO) were disappointing, plus the limited aperture.

As I started to learn about all these things, I wanted a camera to match my new found skills, I shopped around a lot until I decided on the Nikon D70s, slightly above entry level, but not yet mid-level.

So my kit now consists of:

  • Old Olympus 35mm mju:ZOOM 105
  • Canon Powershot A70
  • SE K750i Camera Phone
  • Nikon D70s dSLR

I’ll be posting pictures from all of them, I’ll talk about accessories/filters etc later.

I’ve always been into landscape, food and sky photography, I was always pretty bad at portraits and ’street’ photography. I could capture events well, but not a single person or I never had the guts to take random pictures of people.

I’m getting better and I’m learning the art of portraits and street..

I went to Singapore to buy some stuff recently as it’s much cheaper there, it’s an awesome place for street photography, the bustling streets, the bright lights, the compact nature, you can move around easily.

I guess in the next few posts I’ll share my first efforts at street photography.

Here’s my first, I call it “Better Run”

Better Run

As always, after the page had completely loaded, click the pic to view large.

You can find my pictures here:

Flickr Gallery
Old Coppermine (Will move all to Flickr eventually)

You can check out my favs on flickr here, most are from the A70.

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5 Comments »

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Comment by Lanatir

July 11, 2006 @ 2:23 pm


can almost hear the warning beeps… they didn’t upgrade the green man to the animated running man yet though…

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Comment by Intensecure

July 11, 2006 @ 3:01 pm


I am only just beginning, so this should be very informative and interesting - there is so much to learn!

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Comment by Durden

July 11, 2006 @ 4:16 pm


Not trying to be a smartass but the composition would be a lot better, if you applied the rule of thirds (or was it rules of third?).

Nice site “bookmarked”

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Comment by ShaolinTiger

July 11, 2006 @ 4:34 pm


Durden: That’s fine man, I’m here to learn :) For this shot what would be the 1/3s?

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Comment by Durden

July 12, 2006 @ 3:11 pm


Try going for when that place is busy with people. Then place the subject on the top left corner with people surrounding it.

As my photography lecturer once said “Pictures don’t create themselves. You create them!” followed by some other nonsense I forget.

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