Wide angle, pigeons, vignette, arms held high

Somewhere familiar. During CO concert. Lightning alert.

Massage chairs cure muscle aches

Photography outing to Lower Pierce, Chong Pang and Lower Seletar last Friday was fun :) but dellaaaayyyyyed. First, we were late by an hour by the time we reached Lower Pierce reservoir but we still had sufficient time to go around shooting plants, insects, Dlee's pet stone and most importantly, t3h SUNSET! To be frank, it was more a case of "WHAT sunset?" because of the clouds (which according to weather forecast, should have rained!), but things still turned out quite nicely :)

Once the sun had set, we went to our next location: Chong Pang. We reached there at around 8+ and almost all of us (or at least my table) ate hokkien mee. It was good, especially the one from the super-empty-looking-but-actually-very-popular stall, which had a bit of barbequey, aka CHAO DA, smell :P After makan, half zhao-ed, half went to this super random HDB estate to shoot this:

(I cheated quite a bit for this photo. Added a green cast and tweaked quite a bit of the dark and light)

Finally, only three guys were left who decided to go to the Lower Seletar Reservoir to shoot landscape. A decision rather spontaneous but wise as Lower Seletar looks simply EPIC at night:

HAIZ, I NEED CABLE RELEASE TO DO BULB MODE.

I'm not nikon-phobic, I'm just promoting canon.

Epic suan for Nikon:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/3484011749/

Random trivia: The first ever digital camera to shoot an official portrait of the US president is the Canon 5D Mark II. Before the 5D II, it has always been film, which I heavily suspect to be Nikon, since they undeniably have a better reputation for professional film photography (now smile nikon-ians :D)

But then, it's the digital age, so hail the awesomeness of Canon (joking) and live with it ;)

Btw, I'm really obsessed with long exposure photography, in particular those that make use of the B+W ND110 or Hoya NDx400, which reduce 10 and 9 stops of light respectively. I guess it's another way to satisfy my fetish for smooth tonal transition and water reflections :)

Here's a link to some nice long exposure landscape shots (from flickr):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_gin/2483163567/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cablefreak/3204231185/

Note that these photos are not heavily photoshopped (according to exif data, they did tweak the colours and tones a bit)... this is what you get from long exposure! You cannot replicate this using HDR or photoshop!

Brown Crumpler is appendix

Ever questioned yourself how you are gonna survive?

I WILL SURVIVE... My favourite song these days :)

LARGE FORMAT!!!

Interesting video

Found this on jq's blog. Watch and reflect :)

for the large version, visit my flickr. flickr.com/sircheezeball

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