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Sunday, August 13, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Street Photos – All The Reds and Whites
In the spirit of celebrating our nation's 58th birthday, I've made and gathered some random street photos with Red and White as the main color theme. Happy birthday Singapore!
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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.
Saturday, July 29, 2023
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.
Move the slider to see full color and/or black & white photo
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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| underbar ©2023 Martin Liew Photography |
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
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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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Street Photo – Blondie Man
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Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/16.0 1/400sec. ISO 1000 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop
f/16.0 1/400sec. ISO 1000 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop
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Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Street Photo – Untitled
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| © 2023 Martin Liew Photography |
Photo info:Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/16.0 1/400sec. ISO 720 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop
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Monday, June 5, 2023
Street Photo – Pinky
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| © 2023 Martin Liew Photography |
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/8.0 1/500sec. ISO 400 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop
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Sunday, May 14, 2023
Street Photo – The Boy with His Toy Drum
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| © 2023 Martin Liew Photography |
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/10.0 1/400sec. ISO 800 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Street Photo – Stylish Man
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| © 2023 Martin Liew Photography |
Photo info:
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/10.0 1/400sec. ISO 800 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/10.0 1/400sec. ISO 800 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Street Photo That Makes You Smile
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| © 2023 Martin Liew Photography |
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
f/5.6 1/200sec. ISO 400 Center Weight Metering
Post-processed in Photoshop
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Street Photo – Life Wrinkles
How did I get this portrait shot?
I was having my breakfast at the food center when an old man put his glass of coffee on the table opposite me. Then he walked to the sidewalk and sat on a chair for a few moments before coming over to take a few sips.
Sunday, February 12, 2023
Street Photos – Rainy Sunday
Raining season is here. It has been raining on and off before and during the Chinese Lunar New Year, from day 1 to 15 which fell on the 5th of February, Sunday. Yeah, it was last Sunday. It was nice weather in the morning and a little overcast at noon. I was inspired to do some street photography at Bencoolen Street and Waterloo Street area. As I arrived at the scene, it started to rain and later a big downpour. What a setback!
The same thing happened today. It was sunny in the morning until the stormy clouds arrived in the afternoon. At the time of writing this blog, it was still raining.
Well, back to last Sunday, nothing stopped me from doing street photography in the rain as I looked for some vantage spots to do the "fishing" technique i.e. looking out for interesting subjects like running/walking in the rain drenching, people in raincoats, etc. So, here are some of the street photos I took during that 2 hours plus of walking from one sheltered spot to another.
I hope you enjoy these photos. Have a great week ahead. Cheers!
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Monday, December 19, 2022
Street Photo – Dashing Wheels
Photo info:
Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4.0
Focal Length @ 35.0mm | f/22.0 | 1/15 second
ISO 200 | Center Weight Metering
NEF (RAW) file post-processed in Adobe Photoshop
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Street Photo – Chinese Barber
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| ©2010 Martin Liew Photography |
On 15th August 2010, Sunday morning I was roaming around Joo Chiat Road and came across what looked like an antique shop, a Chinese barber at work. I found the whole shop and settings very old-school, especially that old-school barber chair.
I took a quick light reading with my hand-held light meter to determine the "right" exposure and set it accordingly on my Seagull-4A TLR camera. The film used is Ilford HP5 Plus rated at 200. In total, I made two shots and this is the second one. Wanted to go in to have some closer shots but I thought it would be intrusive. Of course, I could ask for their kind permission but I preferred the natural candid style.
Saturday, December 3, 2022
ICM Street Series Vol. 2
Good morning and welcome back to another ICM street series Volume Two. How time flies! Two months ago, I shared my very first series and so in case some of you have missed it, you can view them here. Today I'm excited to share my new photos with you. There's a mixture of colors and black & white photos. So without further ado, let's jump right in.
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Street Photo – Kacang Puteh
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| ©2010 Martin Liew Photography |
Another old street photo I took with a Seagull-4A TLR camera on 23 January 2010 of a Kacang Puteh vendor right at the main entrance of Peace Center. I believe the old man has retired and his son has taken over the stall. The film used is Ilford FP4 Plus. Developed in KODAK D76 and negatives are scanned on EPSON V700. Post-processed in Adobe Photoshop.
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