Category: Candid

Candid, people photography

“Don’t you think we’re drenched enough?”

Finally, a new picture in quite some months!

Given the hot weather here in Singapore, the outdoor fountain at Bugis Junction has always been a welcome place among children for great cooling fun, and especially so this week since it is school vacation time. I have always wanted to take pictures of children enjoying themselves there but have never really gotten the time to go down to do so… till yesterday. This is the first of a series of shots I took.

Exposure information: Canon 20D with Sigma 70-200mm f/4-5.6 APO II Super Macro lens, Aperture – f/8.0, Shutter – 1/60s, ISO – 200, Aperture Priority Mode, Flash – off

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More pictures from the archives…

In Chinese phonetics, the title of the above reads as “Mo Bu Zhao Tou Nao”. I think this is the second ever picture I have titled in Chinese. Literally it means: “Unable to feel the brain”. Figuratively, this means being unable to grasp the situation, or unable to make head or tail of the on-goings. Caught this at a Hari Raya Haji prayer session at the Yio Chu Kang stadium more than a year ago. Thought that the scene told a humourous story 🙂

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One of the banes of using zoom-lenses is that of barrel-distortion at wide angles (especially for the cheaper/budget lenses). I came across a link to two interesting free software tools to correct these distortions: RadCor and PTLens (upon which RadCor is based). Digging out a shot that was previously badly affected by barrel-distortion, I tried out RadCor with impressive results. Additional Photoshop tinkering that led to the above image: Channel Mixer tweaking for the monochrome / IR look, followed by adding Noise for a slightly grainy look. Taken more than a year ago outside the ESPRIT shop at Raffles City.