A Maestro’s Touch

A Maestro's Touch
My excuse for the lack of updates of late: I’ve been busy preparing for my upcoming wedding as well as moving house. Now that I’ve settled in to my new home, the weather hasn’t turned out too great for photography with the forest fires raging in Indonesia and throwing Singaporean weather into a hazy mess.

Having a little time off after dinner today, I decided to ask CY to pose for this indoor shot on our newly-bought piano instead. I had a difficult time trying to achieve the effect I wanted until I decided to experiment with a little “light painting”. Turning off almost all the lights and asking CY to play the piano in the dark, I used a handheld torchlight to keep the focus of interest on her nimble fingers before I gradually moved the torch to and fro to illuminate the rest of the keyboard softly. The camera was mounted on a tripod for a long ten-second shot. I liked the final effect I managed to achieve 🙂

Daybreak Over The Savana

Daybreak Over The Savana
I am hoping to post something new here soon as I get settled in at my new premises 🙂

The above was taken at Savana in the Tenggera Caldera area on our visit to Bromo. Dad has an almost similar version here although his was taken at a slightly earlier time and at a different focal length (and hence the different “telephoto compression” effect). The difference in colour temperature is also markedly obvious due to the different processing characteristics we have utilised for each of our images.