Thursday, July 31, 2008

President's Challenge Photo Competition

Theme: "Give, Share, Volunteer"
Basically photos related to community work, helping others, caring and giving to the less fortunate.

Stand to win HP Pocket PCs!

How to submit: Send your photo via email or use yousendit.com to the email address as follows: 75557@stomp.com.sg
Closing date for submission: 24th August (sunday)

More Details @ http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=28426

Friday, July 25, 2008

Interhouse Photography Competition 2008!



Poster for interhouse! =D

Submission for Exhibition of photos (compulsory for all)

In line with Interhouse photography, RIPC will be holding an exhibition. All members please submit at least 3 photos to Kai Lun @ chen.kailun@hotmail.com , by 29th July!

Theme for our club's exhibition will be "DISCOVERY"
At the same time, do also have some photos to submit for interhouse competition. =D

YRP Photography Competition


Theme: Bioenginnering or Nanotechnology

Deadline for submission: 29th August 2008

At least 1 photo, at most 3.

A Nikon S500 to be won!

Please screenshot your submission should you participate for recording purposes. Pls send to my email nigelkoh92@hotmail.com.

Thanks! =)

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Night cityscapes

Heys.. some random pics someone sent me via email. Observe composition techniques, and see if you can guess the cities!





Sunday, July 13, 2008

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Creative compositions for boring ops

Some suggestions on compositions for a relatively 'boring' op. Notice incorporation of multiple composition elements to provide layering and prevent image from being flat.


An example of a 'flat' image. Note 2 other problems: high noise (grainy image) and focus a bit off.



In 1 pic: who's the person, what's he doing? Bring out the subject of the event. Notice focus is a bit off too: this is the result of trying to find a compromise focus between the book and the person (i.e. have both relatively sharp instead of 1 sharp and the other blur). Other way to have both in focus is to increase depth of field by using a bigger aperture (larger f-number), but low lighting conditions prevent this.


Man and audience. Very standard but better than flat shots


To illustrate that he is blind, and also a filler shot (e.g. background) for magazines - notice large copy space (blank space to put text) where the paper is.

Of course my pics leave much to be desired. But these are some suggestions that might be useful for u to consider next time when taking a supposedly 'boring' op. Btw all i did is to take pics for 3min then sit down and just listen. Haha.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Study





Flickr Creative Commons
Regards,
Gilbesoh

Friday, June 27, 2008

Thursday, June 26, 2008

One-room flat





Also see:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiuhukia/sets/1355607/
http://jiuhukia.wordpress.com

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Despair

Some nice shots. Observe composition techniques, and how the pic complements the message.

Koped from despair.com (they r actually v witty too! - if u like them despair.com sells calendars, posters etc etc)
















Friday, May 23, 2008


Flowers



Childhood






Zeyang



Saturday, May 3, 2008

Photoshop

Yups.

There are other things you can play with in photoshop, e.g. this mutated bus stop i took last year (and of course, there's also the more realistic and very necessary photo touch-ups - but nothing beats doing it right the first time):

DSC_0480.jpg

Training next fri will be about photoshop and editing, so do look out for it!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Regarding the topic below, the process that is used to create such photos is HDR processing. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. In a nutshell, this photo is obtained through digitally combining the same photo but with different exposure. The different exposures are either obtained from the camera, by setting it to take 3 pictures at once, 1 stop under exposed, normal exposure, 1 stop over exposed. Or it can also be modified, by tweaking the exposure of the same picture on photoshop.

It combines the pictures, thus as a result as shown by the pictures, there are very little shadows, making everything bright, it also gives the allusion of being a painting.

And yes, it is banned in competitions as it removes the realism of the photo.