My first attempt at event/concert type photography, it’s quite hard to get a good feel to the picture when you are shooting from below.

Exposure: 1/60 Aperture: f/4.5 Focal Length: 70 mm ISO: 800

There’s many ways I could have cropped this, but I like the mood this crop gives and the story it tells with the ensemble and the guitarist looking on, waiting for the next cue from the sax player.

Now just need the 70-200 f/2.8 VR

I’ll post the rest later.

Nikon FM2 F8 5″ ASA100 (Kodak Gold)

It’s that Kek Lok Si temple at night. Had to hike a 10 minutes journey up a mosquito infested hill just for this angle. Don’t quite remember the actual settings for this, but I think it should be an F8 5″ (or was it 3″ ? aisehman…) on that same roll of ASA100 Kodak Gold film as that temple picture taken at Raja Uda…

Nikon FM2 F3.5 1″ ASA100 (Kodak Gold)

Taken at Raja Uda, Penang 2005 with my trusty Nikon FM2 (lens: Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.5-4.8s), mounted on a Slik U8000 tripod. This picture was scanned from a 3R photo with an entry level Canon scanner, hence the shitty quality. Excuse moi for that.

Ah photographing the moon, something we don’t often have chance to do unless we have super telephoto lenses!

The moon was huge and bright last night so I took a few shots of it, sadly the moon itself isn’t clear but the silvery effect of the sky came out very nicely giving a spooky haunted feel to the shot.

It was my first try using my new Manfrotto 190ProDB Tripod with 141RC 3-way Pan/Tilt head.

Exposure: 4 sec Aperture: f/5.6 Focal Length: 60 mm ISO: 320

This was my first time shooting in RAW and processing to TIFF then jpeg for web.

Street Photography in Singapore outside Funan Digital Mall.

Exposure: 1.6s ISO: 320 Aperture: f/22 Focal length: 18mm

View the large version to see the detail in the bottom half as it’s quite dark.

Taken without a tripod and my new D70s resting on the cathedral gate with the lens, body supported by my hand. The technique is called bracing.

When you don’t have a tripod, and you are doing street photography use whatever you can, lean on a tree, rest your camera on a wall or a fence, or even a friends shoulder to steady it.

I had to use max aperture so it was over-exposed, as with no tripod I still had to keep the shutter speed down to 1.6 seconds.

Street photography is about grabbing the scene, capturing the essence of the moment, I’m still trying to master that.