Hi guys, took this today, is the only one I kept after strolling around the Fort Canning --> Clarke Quay --> City Hall area.
The subject is obviously, the big grave, and the wreath at the bottom (took a normal shot and a HDR IR shot, before erasing everything except the wreath in colour in Layers, etc, I'm sure most here would know what I'm talking about).
I think I should have gone closer (but I didn't at that time, because there appeared to be flare or some hotspot thing when I tried framing it tighter) so this is a crop of the original picture which has way too much foreground imho.
That aside, what I'm trying to achieve is the idea that despite the fact that yes, this is actually a grave (or at least its marker), everything else is faded. Everything else is gone. But there are still people who remember when one passes on.
I'll be honest, I did quite a lot of photo-editing for the background because it was far too distracting for comfort, despite the use of f/4.0 (I can't use a too small aperture for my H2, else IR will have hotspot), it was still too prominent due to the short distance between the grave and the trees behind it. If you go to the chuch courtyard you'd get what I mean. And after that I did some dodging and burning on the statue, too many shadows on it for my liking.
Thanks in advance! =)
The subject is obviously, the big grave, and the wreath at the bottom (took a normal shot and a HDR IR shot, before erasing everything except the wreath in colour in Layers, etc, I'm sure most here would know what I'm talking about).
I think I should have gone closer (but I didn't at that time, because there appeared to be flare or some hotspot thing when I tried framing it tighter) so this is a crop of the original picture which has way too much foreground imho.
That aside, what I'm trying to achieve is the idea that despite the fact that yes, this is actually a grave (or at least its marker), everything else is faded. Everything else is gone. But there are still people who remember when one passes on.
I'll be honest, I did quite a lot of photo-editing for the background because it was far too distracting for comfort, despite the use of f/4.0 (I can't use a too small aperture for my H2, else IR will have hotspot), it was still too prominent due to the short distance between the grave and the trees behind it. If you go to the chuch courtyard you'd get what I mean. And after that I did some dodging and burning on the statue, too many shadows on it for my liking.
Thanks in advance! =)