Sometimes in street photography you can create some kind of extra feel just by changing the angle and making it a bit more interesting, play around, use different lighting, different angles, you might be surprised with the results.
Exposure: 1/200 Aperture: f/7.1 Focal Length: 18 mm ISO: 200
Taken this at Masjid Jamek STAR LRT station, on the way back to my place couple of months back. Saw the reaction of the people across the station, seeing the oncoming train towards their direction and decided to take photos them lah.
Movement can be captured if you use the right shutter speed. Too fast, then the photo will look dead, no movements at all. Too slow, then the photo will be overexposed and the movement could not be seen.
You can try this on your own too. Just set your camera to S(or Tv for Canon), and just set the shutter speed that you want, dont worry about the aperture value, the camera will do it for you. Once you’re comfortable with it, how about trying to take similar photos in manual mode?
Have fun shooting 
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:
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”
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.
