Ultimate Winter League Week 5

another weekend of ultimate action in a hot sunday afternoon. same as last week, the sunlight was great for the action shots. i have to get my own 70-200mm soon, im getting addicted to using it.

rest of the set can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/egomy/sets/72157611809644596/

Ultimate Winter League Week 4

my club's organizing the winter league (i know i know, there's no winter, but it's for the name's sake) for singapore ultimate and i see a lot of potential action shots to be taken during these 13 weeks of ultimate games. brought my camera out for a run with a 70-200mm f4 and it was a great day to shoot with great light from the sun less a few moments of overcast.

rest of the set can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/egomy/sets/72157611446591063/

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/

2 + 1 = 21, Ngiam's 21st

went for a friend's 21st birthday at Billard Bar @ The Legends and i brought my camera to help her document her 21st birthday. the place was fantastic, cosy, nice ambient lighting and all but from a photographer point of view, it was quite a difficult place to shoot (cosy = cramp spaces, ambient lighting = dark and irregular lighting).

was on my 24-70mm for the whole event and it was pretty much perfect for the event as there were a lot of interaction within the small compound and i had to use flash as usual for the whole event.

below are some of the photos:

rest of the set can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/egomy/sets/72157607521630757/

Assignment 2B: People

pictures are taken at a NM2208 tutorial. lighting wasn't the best as it was quite dim and the fact that i chose not to use the flash as it would distract the class didn't really help. ended up lowering the shutter speed and turned on the IS (Image Stabilizer) on the 70-200mm F/4L (one of my favourite lens) to compensate the shake and it turned out pretty well i guess.

here are the photos that passed the selection process:

rest of the set can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/egomy/sets/72157607341063433/

it's good to have IS in a dimly lit area, it allows me to go on a low shutter speed and still avoid shake in the pictures. but if all else fails and i can't an IS lens, there's always the monopod.

Assignment 3

been a long busy week in school and in hall but still managed to take time out for a road trip with the rest of my group members for a photoshoot at the abandoned railway tracks at Sunset Way and Haji Lane for assignment 3:

perspective of the abandoned railway track

close up (macro) shot of a bunch of flowers and a bee

zoom shot of the railway and perspective shot of Haji Lane

symbol of the sun

these are the photos that actually made the cut in my camera, the rest are in the other cameras that were mounted with the other lenses. more updates once i get the rest of the photos

ps: i hope i have more time next week to process more photos. been taking so many photos recently that it's overflowing. hah.

Assignment 2A: Aperture | Shutter | ISO

this week's assignment requires us to take photos in different apertures, shutter speeds and ISO sensitivities. the subjects that i've chosen are all everyday objects so that we can all relate to it easily.

below are the photos i've contributed to the group:

Aperture:

100mm Macro, f/2.8


100mm Macro, f/11

as seen in the 2 pictures, f/2.8 had the focus mainly on one line and everything else had a nice bokeh (blur) to it. whereas in the second picture, the focus was on the whole page and the cardholder that was placed there.

Shutter Speed:

70-200mm, 1/3200


70-200mm, 1/25

at shutter speed 1/3200, the flow of the water was frozen in its tracks and you can actually see the shape of the stream of water. in the second picture, shot at 1/25, the stream of water seems silky although it is actually a motion blur due to the slow shutter speed. this is one of the ways that slow shutter speeds can be used to achieve effects.

ISO:

50mm, ISO 100


50mm, ISO 1600

this 2 photos were shot in a relatively dark room as can be seen in the first picture, which was shot in ISO 100. after adjusting the ISO to 1600, the picture got evidently brighter and more visible. the only drawback of adjusting the ISO is that the picture will seem grainy upon closer inspection.

that's my contribution for this week's assignment.

Singapore Open 2008

Singapore Open 2008, the annual Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Singapore that attracts around 24 team from the region, happened last weekend at Farrer Park.

managed to get my hands on a 70-200mm f/4 IS for the weekend and i was excited about taking pictures with it even though i was going to play over the weekend. ended up taking limited pictures cos i had to play quite a few games over the 2 days.

here are the pictures anyway. most shots are taken with AI Servo and f/4 so that i could get the bokeh on the background although trying to do this when im on the lens for the first time took me some time to get used to but all was still good:

rest of the set can be found here:

Singapore Open 2008 Day 1
Singapore Open 2008 Day 2

or you could just click on the links to the right of the screen.