John & Marlen: save the date

This video is for a friend of mine, this was shot on 2 sites. First was on Bedok Reservoir Park and the next was on Sentosa. I had the pleasure of working with 2 other photo enthusiast, Efren Delos Reyes and Kay Retaga. Click on their names to see more of their work. Finally the [...]

Dream Room

Wasn’t there a time when you were young and you wished you can have all that you wanted. I still remember the days when i cried at the mall because I didn’t get what i want. Well that’s just how things work specially if money is involved. When i was in grade school and high [...]

TrueHDR – iPhone HDR

TrueHDR is a little nifty iPhone App which gives the user the ability to create HDR  (High Dynamic Range) images from 2 images capture from your iPhone. The main idea of HDR is to combine multiple exposures from 2 or more images to properly expose a scene. For example, here’s a picture of a scene [...]

Playing to iPhone’s Camera Strengths

iPhone 3Gs isn’t really known for its camera. As a matter of fact, it is inferior to most of the current gen smartphones out there. It shoots 3 megapixels of a bit of ok to good quality of photos. It doesn’t a have a flash which is why isn’t useful on low light situations. It [...]

1st Shoot Aftermath

We already had our 2nd shoot with John and Marlen for their Pre-Nuptial photoshoot. I didn’t expect it to be very exhausting. The experience was entirely beautiful, it was really fun taking pictures specially if it is something that you know someone will deeply appreciate. Things i have learned  about the shoot: ISO is something [...]

Camera Concept 001: Exposure definition

What is exposure, to make it simple enough lets get to its root word. EXPOSE – “to make known, disclose, or reveal” So exposing something means you are trying to show it. Now exposure then is the way you actually show the thing you want to show, in this case your images. So if your [...]

Sharp Portraits – Indoor without tripod

Since i got my camera, i have always wanted to take sharp portraits. In a months time, here are the things i have learned to produce sharp portraits. First you need to know your lighting conditions. Most of the portraits that i take are taken indoors which means that lighting is really poor. Florescent light [...]

Disney Pixar’s Cars

Earlier i tried taking a picture of my son’s collection of Disney Pixar’s Cars. We have been collecting it since 2006 when the movie was released and boy its a pain to collect all of them. So far we only let our son open some major characters on the film. Here’s the image i took [...]

Lantern Festival

I actually do not know anything about lantern festival as it wasn’t celebrated in my country of origin. Here, in Singapore, they have this lantern festival. Yesterday on my way home, i found people gathering in our park just outside our house. Well its wasn’t really different from last year. There was a stage there [...]

Changing Lenses Tip

My friend visited me last saturday and he showed me his Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 lens. Wow, its big and heavy. I wanted to try it so i got my d90 out and started to release my lens. Then my friend gave me a tip, he said that when changing lens, i should point my camera [...]

Biking Photos

Earlier i got on my bike and tried to circle around our place. I can’t believe that i’ved moved here 3 years ago and i really never bothered to look around our neighborhood. Here’s my bike, well honestly i actually don’t use it. I think i bought it in 2006 and i never brought it [...]

Plaza Singapura

This is a shot i took when i wen to plaza singapura. I find this very intersting. Click on the image to see the full size of the photo.

Where Photography Starts and Ends – Post Shoot

If you haven’re read my previous posts, please do so as this continues the editorial. You can find the link below this post. The last step based from my understanding of what is photography, post shoot usually called post processing or PP in short. This covers all the things that you do with the photo [...]

Where Photography Starts and Ends – Shooting

If you haven’re read my previous post, please do so as this continues the editorial. You can find the link below this post. Shooting, i say this is the second step in photography and it involves everything you do to your camera. This could range from  using auto settings, panning your camera, placing of your [...]

Where Photography Starts and Ends – Pre Shoot

There are a lot of arguments on how this works. I’m not an expert on this but heres what my take on this. For me there are 3 steps in photography Pre Shoot Shooting Post Shoot Ok, these are not industry standards but i will explain in a while what they are. Lets start with [...]

What is Photography

Does using photoshop or lightroom or other editing softwares discredit the photographers from their photos

Shooting moving objects

This is one of the tricks that i learned from cameralabs.com, Take a look at 1 of my shots. You can find the video on how to shoot moving objects at: http://www.dslrtips.com/workshops/How_to_blur_action_photos/panning_action_photo.shtml

Flickr Account

Me and my friend glenn recently ventured in the realm of Photography. We are really in the beginner stage of the craft and we plan to professionally improve the practice. Here’s my Flickr account, though i haven’t uploaded a lot of photos in it yet, i plan to occasionally update it.