This was taken during my visit to Melbourne last September outside the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). The display was part of the decoration outside the ACMI promoting the Tim Burton Exhibition. I spent some time playing with the composition and lens choice to get the visual impact I wanted for the shot.
I remember seeing a boy walking to school on my way to Lake Batur during my trip to Bali in 2010. The same boy was still walking on the road to school when we made our way back from the lake after two hours of photography! I think we should consider ourselves lucky in Singapore where relatively cheap and accessible public transport is considered a basic right. These two girls were a little luckier compared to the boy we saw last year — at least they managed to hitch a ride to school shortly after this picture was taken 🙂
I was just lamenting that I haven’t really got myself out in Singapore to take pictures so far in 2011. Finally finding a free weekend, we (my dad, EK and myself) made our way to the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort for some urban photography. The weather certainly didn’t disappoint, with good sunshine throughout our session there. The above was taken at the same spot as this post except that I had the advantage of an ultra-wide-angle lens this time around. I had originally wanted to make a composite HDR-image based on three bracketed shots for this scene. Ultimately, Lightroom was able to give me the balanced results I wanted from just one RAW file (through gradient-filter processing) 🙂