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Perth’s Local Models TFCD Collaborations

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:39:36 +0000

During my Perth trip, I was fortunate and blessed with an opportunity to work with two of its local models to broaden my photography experience overseas. I sent out a casting in their local modeling forum for TFCD collaboration and two models have answered and replied their keen interest.

Laura is the first model whom I will meet first for a photo shoot session. We did part of the shoot in my hotel room with the portable lighting equipments I brought along from Singapore. The rest were down by the infinity pool of my hotel.

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Lens used : Canon EF 50mm F1.4, Canon EF 70-200mm F4 L USM (Borrowed)

Kim is the next model which I have the privilege of working with. She is more experienced and and very flexible person to work on a photoshoot. For this session, we did it outdoors at vicinity of the famous Swan Bell Tower.

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Lens used : Canon EF 50mm F1.4, Canon EF 70-200mm F4 L USM (Borrowed)

I like to thank these two models for helping me complete my travel photography trip with their beautiful portraits.

Perth Holiday cum Travel Photography Trip ! =) ….. Part 3/3

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:26:36 +0000

For viewers who have seen the first two parts of my Perth series of pictures… Welcome to the final installment. Not much to write about as each picture featured speak a thousand words.

The final set includes miscellaneous shots and pictures with a different presentation viewpoint : Perth Triptychs (3 pictures within a picture), some Seagulls & Miscellaneous pictures.

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Lens used : Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 HSM, Tamron 17-50mm F2.8, Canon EF 70-200mm F4 L USM (Borrowed)

Perth Holiday cum Travel Photography Trip ! =) ….. Part 2/3

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:14:47 +0000

Here’s the second installment of the Perth trip pictures…

This posting will consists of the following sets of pictures : Driving / Cruising on the Freeway, Lake / Jewel Caves, Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse, Margaret River Wineries & Chocolate Factory !

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Lens used : Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 HSM, Tamron 17-50mm F2.8, Canon EF 70-200mm F4 L USM (Borrowed)

Perth Holiday cum Travel Photography Trip ! =) ….. Part 1/3

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:05:57 +0000

Hi everyone… Sorry for not updating for a period of time. As you can see from the title above, I was gearing up for my Perth (Australia) trip. Arrangements had to be made and researching to be done on places to visit upon touching down in Perth. Nevertheless, it was a very very cooling and fun experience !

I have a total of slightly over 140+ pictures to share with you which will be divided into 3 postings so do bear with me.

I shall start with the following sets of pictures : King’s Park, Swan River, a collage of pictures showing the Sights of Perth, and lastly a set of journalistic street photography of Perth’s Shopping District.

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Lens used : Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 HSM, Tamron 17-50mm F2.8, Canon EF 70-200mm F4 L USM (Borrowed)

Fireworks (NDP 2009 Rehearsal )

admin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:01:52 +0000

This is the first time I am snapping shots of Fireworks. Frankly, I am still unsure about the ideal settings so I was playing around with the Aperture and also the Shutter speed as well. As for focusing… I was using Manual Focus all the way.

After reviewing the shots, I found some of them presenting the fireworks in a little weird exploding pattern ! Hahaha… Some are very wavy while others look “normal”. Anyway, I am still experimenting on the settings ! Hopefully there will be another fireworks event for me to test my techniques again in the near future !

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Lens used : Canon EF 70-200mm F4 L USM (Borrowed)

Testing Out My Sigma 10-20mm Ultra Wide Angle Lens

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:54:28 +0000

I recently just got my hands on a used Sigma 10-20mm ultra wide angle lens. It is a reasonably priced lens (when brand new) and caters to the ultra wide end of 10mm unlike Tokina’s 11-16mm or 12-24mm lenses. I did consider Canon’s 10-22mm UWA lens but it is on the high side in pricing… =(

Oh well… enough said about the researching part since I already own this Sigma !

Here are the test shots taken at the Marina South Jetty.

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Lens used : Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 HSM