This is where nitewalk is staying for 2 nights and my sunset shoot yesterday at Tanjung Rimau failed as the afternoon sky promised much but sunset was a wash out, whereas this afternoon the sky was dismal but the sunset was rather good with some pinkish glow in the clouds. As such, this was what I managed after the disappointment and hope for a better sunrise tomorrow morning!
Got sick of HDR so back to manual blending. This was one of the locations I went to shoot during sunset when I joined an outing back when I initially got a camera. I remember how clueless and helpless I felt when I was confronted with this scene and everyone was doing their thing and there really wasn't a lot of advising to save my life. Fast forward to 3 years later, I had taken 2 years off to study how to compose photos and at least I don't feel as helpless now. It is sometimes useful to revisit places you been to and see how differently you see the same scene.
This is a 3 vertical frames panorama of 4 exposures for each frame manually blended. The sunset yesterday was pretty good till the storm clouds came in.
Manually blended 45 exposures in two sets, one set for boat trails (11 exposures) and another set for laser show (34 exposures) with minimal tonal adjustments. The whole processing took 1.5 hours to complete, which is not something common for me.
This was the sunset yesterday and the texture of the cloud made me suspect a good sunset would follow, so I changed location to this spot. Went up the wrong lift column but this is it.
I was at a loss of how to process this and my usual workflow could not handle this and loses the strength of the sunset. HDR killed the tones and the dynamic range was too wide to apply curve adjustments to a single exposure. In the end, I chosed to used manual blending plus some luminosity masking (yes, a crash course while processing).
This is the sunset yesterday at Upper Seletar Reservoir and the colours really came on slowly. Title this as "Final Destination" as I watched the sunset while looking at the closed jetty, the idea for this shot derived from another fellow shooter (http://www.flickr.com/photos/34161192@N07/5741817251).
Single exposure without filters. I cant remember the last time i posted something done in a 1:1 square crop and yet ironically the square frame formed the basis of my learning of composition.
Upper Seletar Reservoir. I'm sure many are familiar with this tree. A very popular tree for pre-wedding shoots as well. A beautiful place and a good place to shoot and seek some inner peace. Pretty good experience waiting for your long exposure (which I've not uploaded) and read a book by the reservoir or watch people and dog run pass you.
Three vertical frame panorama of single shot for each frame and minimal processing (perspective correction and contrast adjustment)
The sunset yesterday was non-existent but the blue hour gave me the shade of blue i like. Some tourist was remarking: "wah! Panoramic city view!", hence the title.
This was taken 2 weeks or so ago, and one of the rare times I use the Big Stopper. Envisioned this as B&W with a more minimalist touch but the blue tones turned out in a way I liked.
Single shot with minimal processing, black card technique used in shooting 2 minutes 20 seconds exposure for foreground and 1 minute 4 seconds for hotel and sky. This was shot less than two hours ago at about 10:30pm when there are no people walking around.
