Category: Decisive Moment

Fleeting moments frozen in time

A Toy Story

A break from the greenery for now…

This toy stall at the neighbourhood market at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4 has served as a backdrop for one of my previous shots. I spotted another photo-opportunity during a visit to the area this morning. Although the lighting was flat and uninteresting, I could not help noticing the gaze on the child. Immediately getting a rough idea of the post-processing and manipulation that I would probably need to do when I got home, I sneaked off a shot. The above is the result of some layer/hue/saturation/levels manipulation in Photoshop. Compare this to the unmanipulated, original picture…

Exposure information: Camera – Canon EOS 20D, Lens – Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L, ISO – 400, Shutter speed – 1/640 sec, Aperture – f/4. RAW file processed in CaptureOne 3.7.1 LE with additional manipulation performed in Adobe Photoshop 7.0.

Fluid Fighting

One more from the Bugis Junction fountain series…

It is not easy to get a clear background when taking pictures in public places, especially just right outside a shopping mall! Passers-by cross right in front of you and spoil your pictures. Else, they end up as distracting subjects in the background of your pictures! One way to do it is to adopt a higher angle to simplify the background clutter (like what I did for the two previous posts). An alternative in unavoidable situations is to do some “post-production work” as I have done here.

As an aside, the boy’s pose reminds me of what I do for Body Combat classes in the gym 🙂

摸不着头脑

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 🙂