Street Photo - Recess Time

 

A Chinese worker seen here having his recess time, engrossed in his mobile phone. Most probably he's in touch with his loved ones in his homeland.

I love the color contrast of his grey shaded uniform set against the beautiful blue wall. The tonality between the kern and the ground are in great contrast too. All the elements fall into place that make this street photograph looks simple and eye-catching. Below is a black and white conversion, which looks much more pleasing. More visually impact.

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Street Photo - Light & Shadows 2

Street Photo - Singularity

I walked past an underpass entrance this morning and saw this beautiful morning light that hit on the glass shield and escalator with casted trees shadow. Then this old man came by...

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Night Street – Phone Booth

Night Street – Shadow in the Light

Apple iPhone 6 Plus on default mode and post-processed in Snapseed in 16:9 vertical crop.

Street Photo – Red Feet On The Grid

Street photo - PLANET

Beautifully balanced on a languid arm of a sleeping boy child, this seven ton, 383cm by 353cm by 926cm bronze cast sculpture floats like a heavenly body above a verdant earth. Renowned sculptor Marc Quinn (b. 1964) created this work in a depiction of his infant son, Lucas Quinn deploys an assortment of materials and techniques to explore nature under human influence in themes that include the changing human body and the dual meanings of human life, between spiritual and physical surface and depth,cerebral and sexual. This piece is the second of three editions, and is gifted for permanent display in the Garden by the Bay.

Photo info:

Captured with an Apple iPhone 6 Plus on default mode. Post-processed in Snapseed and Color Efex Pro 4 in Photoshop CS6.

LAST DAYS of the SUNGEI ROAD THIEVES' MARKET

Today I would like to share with you on a humble collection of street photographs I made of the Thieves' Market in Sungei Road. Coming 2017, this flea market has to make way for the new Jalan Besar MRT station which will be due completion soon. No exact date is announced by National Environment Agency (NEA) at the moment of posting this blog.

Make the jump to view the last glory days of the flea market scenes.

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Modern Day Coolie

A trip to Huang Long, Sichuan, China in mid-October, and I spotted this modern day coolie; a middle-aged man in his 50s, along with 4 others were carrying loads of goods weighed at about 80kg or more. They were walking along the street towards Huang Long National Park. I think they were delivering stocks to stalls located in the mountain with height above sea level at more than 3000m. With no proper mode of transport to deliver up to the mountain, and at high air pressure with thin oxygen level, these men are more fitter than you and me. It's pretty tough task actually for an average man, but you just gotta respect them for their perseverance and strong determination, all because to make a living.

Street Photo – Ice-cream Vendor

Another street photo captured on my Apple iPhone 6 Plus on default mode with post-process in Photoshop using Google Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 plugin. Somehow Blogger seems to alter the beautifully generated monotone of this photo, into a duller flat tonality. Hope Google's Blogger do something about this issue.

An Autumn Trip to Jiuzhaigou & Huang Long 秋览九寨沟及黄龙 2016年10月16至20日

九寨沟之原始森林

九寨沟之珍珠滩瀑布

九寨沟之小瀑布

九寨沟之五彩池

九寨沟之五花海

九寨沟之长海

黄龙景区

Photos info:

All photos are made with Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm with Circular Polariser and Apple iPhone 6 Plus. Post-processed in Adobe Photoshop CS6 with enhancement in Google Nik Viveza 2, Color Efex Pro 4 and Snapseed respectively.

Street Photo - Under The Umbrella Tree

As surreal as it may seem, I came across this location spot while roaming the streets in Little India and took this shot with my iPhone 6 Plus on Chrome mode, followed by some editing in Snapseed. At the time of snapping this shot, I didn't notice that India fellow on the foreground until I post-processed the image. For a moment I thought he is handicapped because of the way he sat on his right leg. Seeing his pair of shoes I believe he isn't.

Street photo - Untitled

Captured this quiet moment at a nearby wet market on a weekday morning with my Apple iPhone 6 Plus on Chrome mode and post-processed in Snapseed.

Street Photo - This Is Our Future SG

Today is our National Day. I took this street photo of a little girl yesterday morning at a MRT station where she was wearing this cute red T-shirt with our national flag. The little girl and her Grand-ma were in red and white. How nice and appropriate to capture this moment in time!

Happy Birthday Singapore! Happy National Day!

Travel Photo - Fishing Boat

Fishing boat sat stationally on the muddy shore during a low tide in Kukup Malaysia, a fishing village located about 40 kilometres southwest of Johor Bahru, in the district of Pontian, Johor, on the Strait of Malacca in Malaysia.

Great sunny weather to capture this on my Apple iPhone 6 Plus on Chrome mode. Post-processed in Snapseed.

Travel Photo - Kelong

Went for a short trip last weekend to Kukup Malaysia, a fishing village about 40 kilometres southwest of Johor Bahru, in the district of Pontian, Johor, on the Strait of Malacca in Malaysia. It was my third trip since last August.

I woke up the next morning to a wonderful cool scenery of this kelong and swallows flying around, which I was fortunate to capture one that flew by in this photograph. It was captured by accident with my Apple iPhone 6 Plus on Chrome mode. Converted to black and white with other tonality adjustments in my all-time favorite mobile photo editing app, Snapseed. Cropped in 16x9 panorama aspect ratio for that cinematic effect.

Street Photo - Light & Shadows

Saw this chiaroscuro scene this morning and compelled to make this shot with my Apple iPhone 6 Plus on Chrome mode. Post-processed in Snapseed for a dramatic black and white.

Street Photo - Red Man Red Car Red on Reading

All red came into place at the right time with my Apple iPhone 6 Plus on default mode. Post-processed in Snapseed.

Street Photo - Blue White Reflection

Water reflection of a newly painted heritage house, made possible with my Apple iPhone 6 Plus on Chrome mode and post-processed in Snapseed.

Untitled Street Photo

Gloomy sky looming over a building. Captured with my Apple iPhone 6 Plus on Chrome mode and post-processed in Snapseed.

Cheers for Beer! (A Cinemagraph)

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Lately I got interested in cinemagraphs and this is my third attempt. Though not ideally the kind of result I wanted but I'm still quite pleased with the overall effect.

Well initially I wanted to include the flowing beer inside the bottle as it pours out into the beer glass. But that requires some handiwork which is to cut the beer bottle bottom half and clamp it sturdily on a light stand. Actually it's sort of like a funnel. Once the bottle is positioned above the beer glass, the video recording is running and I would pour another bottle of beer which is out of the frame, steadily at a moderate speed through the cut bottle and out pours the beer into the beer glass.

There are more room for improvements and with proper planning I believe I can produce better cinemagraphs.

Street Photo - Babysitting Is Not A Crime!

Apple iPhone 6 Plus on Chrome mode and post-processed in Snapseed.

Street Photo - Night Reading

Night Reading

Apple iPhone 6 Plus on Noir mode Square format and post-processed in Snapseed 2.3 without crop.

TLR Street Photo - On Reading...

Seagull 4A on Ilford FP4 Plus
Developed in 1:1 Kodak D76 for 8 mins 50 secs
Post in Photoshop and scanned on Epson V700