There is always a time that I was at a point of thinking, Where can I get a subject "Well prepared" and just waiting for someone to get some shots before they will be taken away? Most of the time, this kind of well prepared subjects such as pretty places or items that were decorated with colorful or elegant accessories, can be seen on locations with festivities or some kind of celebrations. That's one of the best places to go to collect some simply amazing photos without much effort.
So, one time, I went to an exhibit that displays things that commemorate the history of Singapore. I didn't fail with my purpose of having a couple of photos of things that were visually appealing and placed on a well lit locations. That's what I meant of "Well Prepared" subjects. Some "Well-Prepared" subjects that we may consider are blooming flowers, pretty models wearing their best make-up and dresses and nature to name a few.
Here are some photos on my last visit in a museum.
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Creating an amazingly sharp and detailed landscape during my free time of the day, which is mostly at night time, is one of the things I've been fascinated to learn when I was starting the photo-taking hobby. I know, this photo taking knowledge of night shooting while enjoying the collections of clear and crisp photos I may took will save me from being frustrated in this kind of past-time-turned-serious-hobby. Night shooting, for me, is always related to long exposure photography. A photo taken from 1/10th of a second or longer can be considered taken through long exposure method. Well basically, as long as your subject's movement or the one's around it are moving faster than the rate of your camera's shutter speed, you'll be in the long exposure mode. But to be able to capture a subject in a very low lighting condition, a much slower shutter speed is required to collect enough light that bounces off from the subject's surface.
For beginners and who are not familiar to digital photography terminology, long exposure photography is a method of collecting enough light during times or place that has very small amount of light. It's the same as how you are able to see inside a dark movie theater after some time of staying inside.
Here are some of my recent photos taken by long exposure method.
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This summer, when you heard that you will go to the beaches, instantly, you'll visualize a blue-green sky meeting with clear water
beneath, clean white sand, cool breeze and the sweet smell of air passing through the coconut trees... how relaxing and a great
opportunity to take "Amazing" photos. But.... what if when you reach your expected promising beach, you'll find no extra-ordinary or
worst, totally opposite of what you imagined? Well actually, it's your fault to expect too much... don't forget, beach amenities and
features always comes with a price... So what do you expect on a public, not-so expensive or effortlessly near beach resort? Nothing. This is
exactly what I experienced when visiting some beaches recently. But I told myself, "I'm not going home in vain"
Taking photos of not so appealing locations will give you challenge and the only
thing you need to do is to hold on to your expectations before you came there. Thanks to photo editing software, you can apply
different look to your photos and even enhance it to become what you've imagined it would be.
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Been here.... Been here all the time. It's Baguio City, Philippines. It's been countless times that I visited this "Summer Capital of the Philippines" due to the cool climate all year long but the coolest during December to February. I love the climate reaching at a moderate temperature of 10 degrees Celcius (probably the coolest I only experienced) but there are records that It reaches lower than that. It's been very common to take photos of the prominent tourist attractions from this small town in the mountain, so, I simply avoided it. I took photos of some things that, for me, gives me an impression of this small city. The very busy night market, arts and crafts and the cool weather, specially at night.
Photos taken was during my December 2012 vacation.
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