SnapIt!! (Buddha Tooth Relic Temple - 10 Jan 2014)

I planned to take shots of the "flying horses" at China town today. Just realised that it will only be lighted up starting tomorrow night. Decided to move through the crowds to the Buddha Tooth Relic temple. It was not lighted up as well. Feeling disappointed, I decided to go back. While waiting for the bus in front of the temple, I felt the view was quite beautiful. Took my gear out and shot it. Here's the results. Enjoy!!

SnapIt!! (Learning HDR)

I was going through some of old photos I have taken with exposure bracketing which I planned for some HDR learning. Got some time to read some tutorial and work on it with Photomatix Pro.. Not best results yet, but the process is fun. Enjoy!!

SnappedIt! (23 Dec 2014 to 3 Jan 2014)

I have not been posting on my blog since the last post. But I have been out there shooting.. Here's are some of those.

Night strolling around Singapore River area.

Singapore River at Night

Fullerton Hotel

Singapore National Museum

River Safari Singapore

Upper Seletar Reservoir viewed from River Safari Singapore

Chinese Garden Singapore

7-Storey Pagoda

Stone Boat

Wen Tian Xiang Statue

Another Stone Boat Photo

Sentosa Broadwalk

Sentosa Gateway

Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars

Lower Peirce Reservoir

First Sunset of 2014

View from "The Jetty"

West Coast Park

When the Rain Clouds Gather

SnapIt! Kallang Bahru, Marina Bay Sands, Esplanade

Due to my interest in Landscape, Architectural, Cityscape, and Seascape photography, I made decision to get a wide angle lens recently. It was Canon EF-S 10-22mm f3.5-4.5 USM.

To test out this new gear out, I went to few places from day time, sunset, and night. Overall, I am satisfied with the results. Here's the story. Enjoy.


Kallang Bahru (Architectural)

Kallang Bahru is known as one of the spot for Architectural photography. But it was because of River Vista that made me went there. I accidentally viewed the condominium inside a car passing through the bridge across Kallang River. The view was magnificent, I decided to shoot it. Here's the result after post-processing along with other photos I have taken around the area.

River Vista viewed from the bridge

Marina Bay Sands (Sunset & Night)

From Kallang, we moved to area around Marina Bay Sands hotel where there are many skyscrapers. Perfect place to test this lens out. It was cloudy day. Luckily, it did not rain. Here's the results after post-processing.

Marina Bay Sands Hotel view from Garden by the Bay at Sunset

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Another Marina Bay Sands Hotel view from Garden by the Bay

We stayed a little longer around the Marina Bay area for night photography. Here's the results after post-processing. Results seem to be a little over-exposed. I should have set the exposure 1 or 2 stops lower to prevent over-exposures of the neon lights. One last thing I noted is the sharpness seems to be around f8 - f11. Indeed, night photography is a challenge. I will be back there again.

CBD at night view from Marina Bay

LV at Marina Bay

Last part of the journey, we strolled around the Esplanade area and came across this unique lighting from the carpark. I stopped for awhile, and snapped this photo.

Carpark at Esplanade

SnapIt!!! Nov & Dec 2013 (West Coast Park and Chinese Garden)

It has been some time I have not posted on the blog.

Here's some of the photos taken with my Canon EOS 700D 18-55mm kit lens at West Coast Park and Chinese Garden Twin Pagoda at sunset. Enjoy!!

After my first photo of the Pagodas few months back, I have always wanted to come back here with a steady tripod and more time to compose.

It was a rainy day in the morning, but weather turned out to be sunny in the late afternoon. The sky looked great after rain. This is the result after post-processing.

Twin Pagoda at Sunset

Few months back, I came to West Coast to practice my sunset photo taking. It was a cloudy day. It actually rained in the late afternoon when sun was setting. Since then, I always waiting for good weather for sunset photograph. Unfortunately, it was rainy season here in Singapore.

After few rainy weekends, finally the weather was perfect on one of the Saturday. I immediately packed up my gears and left for the park. I am very satisfied with result. One thing to improve is the softness of the photo. It was due to higher fstop (f16), I shoot.

Definitely I will be back there again one day. In landscape photography, there wont be any perfect photo. Every time you left the place, there is always something to make you come back. This is what I found interesting and challenging. It is a continuous learning experience.

Sunset at West Coast Park