Dawn At Kintamani

Dawn At Kintamani
I don’t usually do that many HDR pictures and have therefore not bothered to invest in HDR applications such as Photomatix. There is a HDR function in Photoshop but I have never managed to work it to achieve the effect that I want. Instead, I prefer to merge bracketed shots layer-by-layer manually by hand in Photoshop. The above shot was taken at Kintamani in Bali and is composed of 3 separate (and bracketed) pictures. The HDR-look is not everybody’s cup of tea… I am not sure if the above image agrees with you 😛

Egg House

Egg House
If you’ve been following my work here, you’d realise that one of my favourite angles for candid/photojournalistic pictures is to adopt a top-down, high vantage-point approach. One of the best places to get this is at the Tekka Market in Little India. I made my first visit to this place in 2003 for photography and have gone on repeated trips many times since. The market has undergone some renovations since my last visit sometime back. Luckily, the vantage point from the 2nd level of the market has been preserved, although the tungsten lighting that used to light up the place has been changed to energy-saving (read bland) fluorescent ones, making the tones less rich and vibrant.