Sharing A Backstage SMS

Sharing A Backstage SMS
We arrived a little late for the Kecak Dance performance at Uluwatu during our recent trip to Bali. The ushers were kind enough to let us sit right next to the performance area knowing that we wanted to take pictures. This area turned up to be perfect in the end as we could see the activity happening backstage even during the performance. The above candid moment made it worthwhile even if it meant that I did not get a good angle to take pictures of the actual dance performance.

Making Singapore Go Round

Making Singapore Go Round
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) 🙂

Tranquility at Lake Batur

Tranquility at Lake Batur
Thank you for the voting for Dawn At Kintamani which has been listed as “Noteworthy” in last week’s Photo Friday‘s Challenge on “Breathtaking“. As mentioned in that earlier post, I am not a typical fan of HDR photography, preferring instead to merge bracketed shots layer-by-layer manually by hand in Photoshop. This is another post that I have manually merged (from three bracketed shots) in Photoshop, taken on the same day last year. I hope you like the effect I have managed to achieve 🙂