Posts Tagged ‘black and white’
Over the weekend I received a piece of good news.
The portrait that I took of Sharon, a Salsa dancer and instructor based in Australia, will be exhibited as part of Noise Singapore.
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That's not me in the picture with the Korean dance group. Rather a friend who had asked for my help with a shoot since he had limited budget.
I normally would reject such work from other people but since he's a friend and got my studio/camera rental costs all covered I told myself "why not"?
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I have never owned an Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens (EVIL) camera until the folks at Sony came along and asked if I am interested to do a review of the Sony Nex C3.
I did have some hands on with the Olympus EP-3 (and EP-2) and the Fuji X-100 prior to this and was feeling quite good about comparing the Nex C3 to them.
That plan, however, went down the drain when I realized that all other big boys like DPreview and Digital Photographer School already wrote excellent reviews about the camera.
Therefore it was really pointless to write a matter of fact review and I decided to take a different angle when writing this entry.
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My Hasselblad 160mm f/4.8 CB finally arrived last month so I took it out for a walk.
However, I find myself shooting most of the time with my 60mm f/3.5 CF instead. It makes sense, because the 60mm is a 35mm equivalent on a 135mm DSLR and that makes it a really good walk-around lens.
In fact, I used the 60mm for most of my shots in China and the now-sold 150mm occasionally.
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This photo, its high-key look was what I had originally wanted to achieve for my personal body of work.
Towards the end of the shoot, I decided to try something different and switched off my lights than pointed the wall to get a more dramatic look.
Read MoreI stumbled upon this CNN Special and its first few seconds sent a chill down my spine.
The scene: A young girl verbally commands her computer to search for the term 'analog photography' and the machine returns a search result taking viewers back the birth of film photography in the 19th century.
The video then brought us to five individuals (including Magnum photographer Elliot Erwitt) from different background sharing their take on film photography with us.
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Took me a long while to do up this post but here goes...
I've been photographing Salsa dancers since 2009 and have always wanted to present a proper body of work (including one ballet set!).
Well, the time is now!
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I may be tired but I am buzzing with excitement.
You don't many chances to do a photoshoot with some of the best Latin dancers in Singapore, let alone doing it with a Hasselblad H4D-40 and the Profoto Pro-8 (10 flashes per second, anyone?).
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Ok not exactly the LAST shot but my last subject before I decided to pack up and leave Huangshan, China for good. I'll admit that I spent the most of my time taking tons of touristy photos. It was only on the day that I am leaving the place that I started revisiting places I found interesting. Only then, I started 'seeing'. Maybe this simply means that I need to go back Huangshan one more time. Huangshan, China 西海大峡谷 Hasselblad 501 CM 60mm f/3.5 CF Kenko 2X teleconvertor Ilford FP4 (ISO 125)
Read MoreI had the honour to doing a review for PSKiss, a company that develops one-click-of-the-mouse filters that converts your images into stunning images. The set of filters I received from them are the black and white filters. The image above is taken during my recent trip to Huangshan, China. It was converted into black and white using the PSKiss Creative Mono filter with +7 grain. Hit the jump for more about the filters.
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