Schlumberger Christmas Dinner

got a freelance assignment for a christmas dinner for Schlumberger Business Consulting last week and it was a pretty eventful assignment.

the dinner was at saint pierre's @ magazine road. it was a very nice place and the food looked pretty good too.

Saint Pierre's:

People:

Food (yes, excluding the christmas tree):

rest of the set can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/egomy/sets/72157611212852546/

Assignment 6: Photo Essay (version 1)

assignment 6 required us to do a conceptual photo essay. so i was thinking that in our everyday lives, there are certain actions that we do in one situation might mean another thing in another situation.

my concept here is the spread eagle. we often find ourselves in this position but rarely notice that we're actually doing it.

so here's what you'll do with in a spread eagle position:

chin ups


jumping for joy


doing a handstand


trying to stop yourself from falling off stairs


getting mugged by another person


and finally... being dead drunk

comments were that the pictures didn't really significantly show the spread eagle positions. looks like it's back to the drawing board and think of more obvious positions :)

Assignment 5: Abandoned, Solitary, Disorder, Desolated

assignment 5 requires us to express certain adjectives without invoking "human expressions". took some photos over the weekend thought some of these photos were appropriate for the following adjectives:

Abandoned, Solitary, Disorder and Desolated.

abandoned


solitary


mess & desolated

Hong Kong - The Urban Jungle

haven't been posting for a while, been really busy with work and all. didn't help that i was away in Hong Kong for a competition last week.

caught some shots in Hong Kong while walking around in the shopping areas. Hong Kong is truly an urban jungle.

Assignment 4: Urban Fantasy 1

for assignment 4, we're required to do a photo montage on the theme of "Urban Fantasy". it was pretty tough to conceptualize something like that and the fact that we had to base it on surrealism didn't help much.

concept that i came up with:

"Singapore is a place where buildings get built as fast as they're being teared down and sometimes it seems like buildings appear or disappear all of a sudden. it's almost like whatever we're seeing in reality is like a clipboard in another space/dimension where buildings get moved around like paper on a clipboard."

below are the pictures of the first draft that i came up with and the different components that i took in a day walking around city hall.

urban fantasy

singapore flyer

random bus on the road

bridge opposite esplanade

construction

underpass

critic that i got was that the piece was too logical and not surreal enough. some suggestions were to make it more obvious that it's a clipboard by adding a background of an actual clipboard and have pins on it. there was also another suggestion to make the picture look like it's been torn. time to look for ways to make all those happen.

Temasek Hall Dinner and Dance Red Carpet

had my hall's dinner and dance last week and it was a blast! and of course, i wasn't going to let my camera miss this big event especially when i made a photographers' backdrop and arranged the lightings for the event (was doing publicity for the comm, so i could pretty much do whatever i thought was good. sue me. haha).

was kinda crippled during the event because i had to return the flash i was using all along to raynor cos he was there too, so i could only take photos at the red carpet where there's proper lighting. was using my 24-70mm f/2.8 on shutter priority and my ISO was pumped up all the way to 3200. good thing the photos didn't come out too grainy. time to get my own flash when i head to hong kong at the end of Oct!

here are some of the photos:

rest of the set can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/egomy/sets/72157607347284399/

Subject Elements (Final)

The final pictures for the first assignment:

Subject Elements

First assignment for NM3223 (part of the reason why this photoblog is up). Topic is "Subject Elements - Line, Shape, Form, Texture and Color".

Photos shot as part of my contribution to the assignment:

Form (100mm f/2.8 Macro)

Shape (100mm f/2.8 Macro)

Texture (24-70mm f/2.8)

Colour (24-70mm f/2.8)

Colour(24-70mm f/2.8)

Lines and Shape (24-70mm f/2.8)

Inter-Block Basketball

my hall had inter-block basketball the other time, decided to whip out my camera after my block lost (sucks) and attempt to shoot in low light again.

lens: 24-70mm f/2.8
ISO: 3200

there's seriously something wrong with my front focus for my 24-70mm. hopefully my new board will come from japan soon. can't take all these soft focused/blurred pictures anymore.