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Sunday, August 6, 2023

ICM Street Series Vol. 4

Hello everyone! Hope all are well with you in August. Firstly, I apologize for delaying the new ICM series. Today, I'm proud to present you my new ICM photos. So without further ado, sit back and dive right in to view.

Street Photo – Untitled

About a month ago, I was "fishing" around the City Hall area, just at the junction between North Bridge Road and Coleman Street. It was a crowded Sunday afternoon with many Vietnamese and Myanmar people.

Initially, I wanted to take photographs of this young girl standing by the barricades, but she looked away when I pressed the shutter. However, this young guy walked into the frame and stroked his hair. That look in his eyes is filled with self-confidence. Next to him, a masked lady with her sunglasses on her head, frowning. It'd be a better and more interesting street photograph by cropping the photo as shown below, focussing on these 2 characters.

Our National Day is just around the corner and there will be more people hanging out in that area on the coming weekends. I'm planning on doing more up-close street photos of people. Will share the photos when ready.

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Photo info:
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/11.0 1/200sec. ISO 1000 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Street Photo – Primary Colors

Photo info:
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/16.0 1/250sec. ISO 400 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop

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Saturday, July 15, 2023

Street Photos – Primary Colors

Do you know what are the primary colors? Yes, they are RED, BLUE, and YELLOW.

I understand that you, the viewers see lots of yellow color in these 3 street photos as the dominating color, but take a closer look (if you look closely and long enough), there are the reds and blues, and even a secondary color i.e. GREEN. Oh! There are neutral colors too (black, white and grey). Did you spot them all in each photo?

Photo 1 info:

Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/16.0 1/250 sec. ISO 640 Center Weight Metering

Photo 2 info:
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/16.0 1/250 sec. ISO 1250 Center Weight Metering

Photo 3 info:
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/22.0 1/8 sec. ISO 200 Center Weight Metering

All photos are post-processed in Photoshop

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Sunday, July 9, 2023

Street Photo – Inversion

Photo info:
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/16.0 1/250sec. ISO 200 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop

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Saturday, July 8, 2023

Street Photo – Light & Shades

Photo info:
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/16.0 1/125sec. ISO 1600 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop

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Sunday, July 2, 2023

Street Photo – Obscurity

Photo info:
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/16.0 1/250sec. ISO 720 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop

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Saturday, July 1, 2023

Street Photos – Indulgence

Photo 1 info:
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/5.6 1/640sec. ISO 400 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop

Photo 2 info:
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/5.6 1/320sec. ISO 400 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop

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Friday, June 30, 2023

Street Photo – underbar

I was inspired and strongly motivated to do street photography last weekend. I was on alert mode, constantly looking for interesting characters, gestures, body language, facial expressions, human interactions, found objects, etc. And there it was. I was walking along the sidewalk of Bugis+ shopping mall and spotted this man sitting under the mall signboard, if that's what they called it, with that strong peachy pink color tone on his polo T-shirt on par with the same color tone on the letter 'b'.

I titled it 'underbar' because I Google-searched and found there's another name for underscore. That short horizontal pink stripe across the polo T-shirt, positioned right beside the letter 'b', says it all.

Photo info:
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/4.0 1/320sec. ISO 400 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop

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