Great year..

This should be the last post on this journal on my photography for the year 2011..

It has been a great year for me and I think its a wonderful start of many exciting photography journey for me..

Have a Merry Merry Christmas and a fantastic 2012 ahead.. =)

On the street of Dhaka - Bangladesh.

Businessmen..

Fruits Seller..

Workers..

Flag Seller..

Banana-man..

==>Photos taken on 11/12/11<==

Better Compostion..

I have people asking me how to take good photos, so I thought why no have past on it.

Beside the three fundamentals of photography: ISO, Aperture and Shutter speed, having a great composition in your photos are also very important.

As a lots of you do read on photography books, you will know on of the most common rule in them are the "Rule of the Thirds". This is helpful as it allows space around your subject, and "Allow Space Around Your Subject" is also something that makes your photo even better.

One thing you must remember is to try "Achieve Balance in a Composition" when coming to a landscape. So when you are composing a landscape photo next time: "Take Your Time", set the tripod, look though the finder,  balance you composing! then click the shutter. For landscape photography, its important that "Lead the eye of the viewer into the picture". So, if you come across a gate in the farm not closed, stop and take a picture. Do remember use the "Rule of third" in this exposure too.

Our human eyes likes to see things that are well balance, so you must try this "Symmetrical Composition". This would be something like the temple door, door fame or even while shooting micro, ie. side view of a flower.

Confucius

"Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it."

-Confucius-

Abbas Attar

"Colour? I am often asked: 'Why do you photograph in black and white? The world is in colour!' Precisely, it is because the world is in colour that i choose to represent it in black and white: i do not describe reality, but aim to transcend it. My work is highly subjective."

-Abbas Attar-

Annie Leibovitz

"Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself."

-Annie Leibovitz- 

Pixoto Award For Month of September 2011..

I am glad to share that I am in the top 20%

Under the category Architecture & Design  --> Exterior..
My image just won an award on Pixoto.com!

For the September 2011..

And,

Under the category Commercial & Journalism --> Commercial..
My image won an award on Pixoto!

For the September 2011..

Second award from Pixoto..

My image just won an award on Pixoto.com!

I am glad to share that I am in the top 20%

Under the category Pets..

Week of  09/18/11.

P.S. I LOVE YOU, MIKI..

Highlights From My First Formula 1 Race Experience..

  

Waiting for the F1 cars to fly by..

 

 Waiting for rock band "Linkin Park" to start their concert..

 

Kid enjoying "Linkin Park"..

 

"Linkin Park" at 2011 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix Padang Stage..

 

Party the rockers' way..

I wanna to say "THANK YOU" to my wife..

Is her that I would have a the ticket to this year's F1 race in Singapore.

==>  Photos taken on -25/09/11-  <==

Linkin Park Open Concert..

2011 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix Padang Stage

-25/09/2011-

My first award form Pixoto..

My image just won an award on Pixoto.com!

I am glad to share that I am in the top 20%

Under the category Architecture & Design  --> Exterior..

Week of  09/04/11. 

Moon light shoot

Taken with GF1..

My wedding rings…

-10/10/10-

Wedding Rings

These are my parents wedding rings..

Kim Chye and Gerda..

My first experience as a wedding photographer last year (2010)..

Thank you, Kim Chye and Gerda for giving me this opportunity to shoot your wedding..

The View of RWS, Singapore..

GF1, 60 sec, f16, 100 ISO...

My eyes, My photography...

My eyes, My photography...

Nikon...

I tried Canon 5DMII, it's really good but i still prefers Nikon D700.

=)

He is really good...

His finger, his vision, his concept and his work..

I have learnt alot from u, Mr Abbas.

Thank You!!!!

Abbas Attar

"I take photographs with my eyes."

-Abbas Attar-

Ansel Adams

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."

-Ansel Adams-

Ansel Adams

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

-Ansel Adams-

Cartier-Bresson

"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."

-Henri Cartier-Bresson-

Cartier-Bresson

"As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images....We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility."

-Henri Cartier-Bresson-

Cartier-Bresson

"I prowled the streets all day, feeling very strung up and ready to pounce, determined to 'trap' life - to preserve life in the act of living. Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes."

-Henri Cartier-Bresson-

Cartier-Bresson

"What is photojournalism? Occasionally, a very unique photo, in which form is precise and rich enough and content has enough resonance, is sufficient in itself. But that's rarely the case. The elements of a subject that speak to us are often scattered and can't be captured in one photo; we don't have the right to force them together, and to stage them would be cheating...which brings us to the need for photojournalism."

-Henri Cartier-Bresson-

Cartier-Bresson

"One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing."

-Henri Cartier-Bresson-

Jon's Nikon FA

I have finished shooting Jon's film..

Now I'm quite excited about the result of the film.

Over, under or okay exposed?

Photos will tell.. Cant wait to develop it.. It will be my first Black and white film..

*excited!!!*

Capture the Singapore Spirit..

I have submitted three photos to competition in

"Capture the Singapore Spirit through your lens with Enerizer"

The competition starts on 19 September 2011.
Hope I would win some prizes!!!
*Vote for me*

Pixoto

I had posted a picture on the website, www.pixoto.com

Its a platform to submit photo and have it compare with other photos around the world.

Its cool.. Hope u'll like it..

=)

Jon's Nikon FA..

I'm trying B/W with Nikon FA..

ISO 800

but the problem..
i dunno what to shoot...

Cartier-Bersson

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

-Henri Cartier-Bersson-

Cartier-Bersson

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

-Henri Cartier-Bersson-

Cartier-Bersson

He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

-Henri Cartier-Bersson-

Cartier-Bersson

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

-Henri Cartier-Bersson-

Cartier-Bersson

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

-Henri Cartier-Bersson-

Cartier-Bersson

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.

-Henri Cartier-Bersson-

Cartier-Bresson

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

-Henri Cartier-Bersson-

Firsy try with Nik Silver Efex Pro 2..

Edited with CS5 and Silver Efex Pro..

IS this Black and White??

Just Black and White..

Taken with GF1, 20mm, F1.7
Aperture mode, f1.7, 1/4000 sec , Exp 0, ISO 100, AWB

Abbas Attar

Even my shots of disorder are orderly. Yet the Iranian that I am ought to delight in the sholooghi a Farsi word for any disorder: the turbulence of a disturbed man, the rowdyism of kids in the street, or a bloody popular uprising.

-Abbas Attar-

Elliott Erwitt

"The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera."

-Elliott Erwitt-

Elliott Erwitt

"Quality … has to do with intention."

-Elliott Erwitt-

Elliott Erwitt

“Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.”

-Elliott Erwitt-

Elliott Erwitt

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

-Elliott Erwitt-

Wedding Rings...

Taken with D700 24-120mm F4..
Manuel mode, 1/250 sec, f4.0, Exp 0, ISO 100, AWB

Abbas Attar

"My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation. Spontaneity - the suspended moment - intervenes during action, in the viewfinder."

-Abbas Attar-

Elliott Erwitt

"It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy."

-Elliott Erwitt-

Cartier-Bresson

"Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact"

-Henri Cartier-Bresson-

South Bridge Road..

Taken with GF1, 20mm, F1.7
Aperture mode, f16, 1/250 sec, Exp 0, ISO 800, AWB

Sun Flare... at Woodlands

The view of South Bridge Road..

Taken with GF1, 20 mm, F1.7

Aperture mode, f5.6, 1/250sec, Exp 0, ISO 100, AWB

Sun flare shoot..

Taken with GF1, 20mm, F1.7
Aperture mode, f5.6, 1/250sec, Exp 0, ISO 100, AWB

Marina Bay Sands from the other side..

Taken with GF1, 20mm F1.7
Program mode, F4.5, 1/4000sec, Exp 0, ISO 100, AWB

Any Different ?

Singapore Flyer

Taken with GF1 20mm,f1.7
Manual mode, F16, 60, Exp 0, ISO 100, AWB..

The Power of Lightroom

Taken with D700, 24-120mm, f4.0
Manual mode, f4.0, 1/5000 sec, Exp 0, ISO 800, AWB

1st try with Lightroom..

I still need to figure how to use Lightroom..
i need lots of practice!!!!

Benny, The Company Dog..

Taken with GF1, 20mm, f1.7
Program mode, F1.8, 1000, Exp -2/3, ISO 400, AWB

Distance = Speed x Time

Taken with GF1, 20mm f1.7
Program mode, F1.7, 320, Exp 0, ISO 400, AWB

Cartier-Bresson

To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson-

Leen's wedding Cake..

Testing..

Under exposed

I actually like this picture but its under exposed.. Its still testing..
*leen, hope u dun mind..

Got feel?

Just a test upload.


Farleen and her hero..

Cartier-Bresson

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time.

You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you.

Then, however, you must be very quick.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson-

Cartier-Bresson

The decisive moment, it is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second,

of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization
of forms which gives that event its proper expression.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson-

Cartier-Bresson

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

That is the moment the photographer is creative.

This is the decisive moment.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson-