ARPS #11 – “Mum, Something’s Fishy Here!”


A continuation of the ARPS series…

The Tekka Market in Singapore provides lots of opportunities for photo enthusiasts. I have gotten quite a number of good shots of people activity here. For this shot, I just managed to catch this moment of a Malay family making their choice at the fishmonger’s. The high angle used produced an unusual perspective while maintaining a clear view of the child’s disdain for the fishes on sale.

I’m flattered by jcyrhs’ latest post, who has declared this top-down perspective as my signature style 🙂 Now, if only I can find a good enough panel of shots with such a perspective to put up for my FRPS attempt…

And oh… if you missed out Don Ellis’ excellent guestblog entry previously, do take a look and leave your comments! And if you left me a contact through the link in the toolbar above, I would like to apologise for not being able to reply because the mail got filtered into my Bulk Mail folder by mistake and was emptied before I realised it. I do appreciate your comments and feedback and hope that you would re-send your feedback again if possible!

Elation

Elated
One of the tricks I have come across about taking pictures at a parade is not to focus your efforts on the parade/performance. Rather, try instead to look out for candid moments among the spectators of the parade…

This was what I did during the Colours of the World Parade at the Dreamworld theme park in Bangkok, Thailand. The reward was a shot capturing the spontaneous joy and elation of this boy watching the parade. I have adopted a monochrome approach to the final image since this made the boy stand out from the rest of the scene (because of the dark-coloured T-shirt he was wearing).

And in case you’ve missed them, don’t forget to see these other pictures I took from my Thailand trip: this is BAD, Ushering In The Compliments.

this is BAD

this is BAD
More pictures from my Bangkok trip…

The above was taken at the Hollywood Action show at the Dreamworld theme park. The show itself was pretty boring (partially because everything was in Thai — dialogue, commentary and all!) so I busied myself taking pictures of the display of action and pyrotechnics. Dearest CY came up with the interesting title for this one 🙂 … which leads to several questions: 1) Is the show bad?, 2) Is this what the guy in the SWAT uniform is thinking?, 3) Is the door bad?, or 4) Is this picture badly taken? (I hope not! :P)

Exposure information: Camera – Canon EOS 20D, Lens – Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L, Shutter speed – 1/320 sec, Aperture – f/5, ISO – 200, Exposure mode – Shutter priority, additional processing in CaptureONE LE 3.7.1 and Photoshop 7