Kwanhan: A Photo A Week (or more) 2010

[kwanhan]

Tried to start a thread at the end of 2009 with a few days to go...and realized the date and how pointless it was LOL... so here I am again.

Will post at least a photo a week, maybe more if I get to shoot anything worth posting.


15th January 2010

Ah Ma's Paper Aquarium

My Ah Ma doesn't like her photos getting taken so this was done literally behind her back... good thing she couldn't hear my shutter LOL. Wanted to capture the perspective of a curious eye and its approach towards the private, insular world of her handicraft.

 

[kwanhan]

19th January 2010, Tuesday


Pensive Cat

Really beautiful pet cat I found in the neighbourhood when I was walking home. Large greenish & orange eyes and a really long groomed fluffy tail. Didn't manage to get its attention for a direct shot to flaunt its beautiful eyes.

(Btw I'm curious, how do most of you take your cat photos in order to have it at their eye level? Just hold the camera approximately? Lie down?)

Clearing recent backlog till I have something new to show!

All C&C welcome

 

[kwanhan]

24th January 2010, Sunday

Let sleeping cats lie

Saw a pair of sleeping cats... and this is what I got... lesson 101 learnt in approaching cats quietly .... and that different cats have got different safety distances they keep with you. :bsmilie:

 

[kwanhan]

25th January 2010, Monday


Dying Minutes

Off the vivo rooftop yesterday. Handheld.

So much to learn with regards to landscape.. don't own a tripod or any filters. But I guess this is a lesson in composition and framing- I feel that this shot is suffocating... hopefully I'll get better and this will serve as a reminder from where I started.

Also photobucket seems to have muted my colours and overall dulled the photo.

Any suggestions?

 

[kwanhan]

26 January 2010, Tuesday

Visions of Chinatown

The composition to most would probably be considered cluttered, but I like the colours and how this candid shot turned out (with the little girl running right in the middle of the image)

I guess the fact is, the street IS cluttered, but something about the winding overhead trail of lanterns intrigues me.

 

[kwanhan]

31st January 2010, Sunday

for the simple things

 

[kwanhan]

5th February 2010, Friday

March

pardon the last image with the distortion. i know the hands of the girl were huge.

C&C for this B/W?

Should I have less grey tones?

 

[Draken413o]

Your Ah ma paper aquarium has a nice title!

I wished the fishes werent cropped off though but nice photos thus far. Keep at it!

 

[kwanhan]

thanks!

i'll take note of cropping next time

really appreciate the encouragement as I admire your work

 

[Draken413o]

thanks!

i'll take note of cropping next time

really appreciate the encouragement as I admire your work

Don't worry bout it. You'll start noticing the little things the more you shoot.

Thanks for the admiration! I'm still very green to photography though so.. still learnin. =)

 

[kwanhan]

7th February 2010, Sunday

Dream's end

Shot at ISO 3200 handheld, so details are lost, making it look smudgy and more like a painting, soften effect done in-camera as well.

Caught my eye because the road leading up and the whole edifice just looks so dystopian. I like how the construction shed in the streetlight (in my imagination it's a slum) meets the IR buildings.

At first I wanted to name this "City 17" after the setting for the Half Life 2 game. :bsmilie:

 

[kwanhan]

8th February 2010, Monday

Invitations and Crossings

disentanglement of arms raised
reaching arching spreading spilt
into air over river invitation
to unknot the urban heart

 

[kwanhan]

13th February 2010, Saturday

Chosen

 

[kwanhan]

14th February 2010, Sunday

 

[kwanhan]

3 March 2010, Tuesday

A breath between

Sorry haven't had much time! Took this hastily outside of class with my trusty 50 1.4 AI (so focusing wasn't perfect and DOF wasn't perfect...think this is at f4) before running off. Always wanted to shoot this spider lily for its life and for its decay.

 

[kwanhan]

12 March 2010

Trying to keep this thread alive!

Slowly learning to use my flash.... for directional purposes... I bounced it behind my right shoulder onto the letter box

Learnt so much and got inspired from the following site:
http://neilvn.com/tangents/flash-photography-techniques/

 

[kwanhan]

14 March 2010, Sunday

it was nice how the ships were blurring in the sheets of rain

 

[Wurdelak]

14 March 2010, Sunday

it was nice how the ships were blurring in the sheets of rain

i can relate to this photo... very nice!

 

[kwanhan]

thanks

the more i look at the image the more i'm thinking it should be brighter, slightly over-exposed instead to better achieve the mood... hmm

so here it is:

is this an improvement?

 

[kwanhan]

16 March 2010, Tuesday

Getting inspired to do poetry together with photography by my current module, Literature & the other arts

Taken from 62nd floor of Swissotel.

I admit the last shot could have more effort to get the horizon, the beach front & the bench to be straight in alignment... but it was pouring and I was under a very squeezy shelter.

But I did try to straighten this shot in the Camera RAW program. Not sure if it is entirely straight though.