Buffet Meal at MBS

Yesterday, My family and I planned to have dinner at a restaurant located at Marina May Sands (MBS). However, when we reached the restaurant, it was a Full House! So we had to find an alternative place to have our dinner, which is the temporary foodcourt located at the basement of MBS.

After our dinner, we decided to have a walk around the Shoppe and take some photos, in an attempt to play around with the manual settings of my DSLR. As my knowledge about DSLR is minimal, I only tried playing with the shuttle speed when the picture taken was too dark.

I found the interior design of the Shoppe quite nicely designed.

While walking around, I tried taking a few scenery pictures at MBS, without having a tripod stand. So I challenged myself to be as stable as possible to capture the scenery with a long shuttle without using a tripod stand. Here are the results:

This picture was taken with the Marina Bay Skyline, at a viewing deck on Level 1 of MBS. This is a very nice resting area for the shoppers to take a break from the shopping, to admire the night view of Singapore's Marina Bay Skyline, from a different angle from before.

A unique way of designing of the shelter of an outdoor viewing deck.

This is the 'Ship' that the world has been talking about and waiting for that has found its home in Singapore, at the heart of Marina Bay.

After walking around, my family decided to go back to MBS for a buffet lunch today. And this time round, we made sure that we do not arrive too late at MBS. The choice of restaurant? Rise, located near the Customer Service Counter and Entrance of MBS Hotel Towers, right in front of the Lift Lobby of Hotel Tower 1.

  A classy design of the Restaurant, Rise.

  A beautifully decorated table, for customers to enjoy their Buffet-Style meals.

  An open concept kitchen and Cooked Food Counter

  A large variety of Freshly Baked Bread for diners to choose from.

  The seafood counter, with quality seafood shipped in from all over the world!

  The assorted Cheese for Cheese-Lovers to add in different flavours into their dining experience

  The Sweets Counter! A huge range of desserts to end off your meal with! The best way to end off a meal, and to indulge while having some relaxing time with family and friends.

  The best friend of most people, THE CHOCOLATE FONDUE, with lots of Strawberries, Marshmallow and bread-sticks to enjoy the thick Chocolate!

  And more desserts from different countries

  The unique decorations for the food counters, showing a wide range of spices, grains and nuts used in the preparations of the delicacies.

And now, the food that went into my stomach, prepared by the Chefs of Rise.

Its an enjoyable buffet lunch at Rise Restaurant MBS, and a very good experience on taking pictures of food. Due to the limitations of the DSLR, I was not able to capture close-up pictures of the food. Hope to have more chances to capture all sorts of things, events and phenomenon using my new 550D, and share them with my readers out there, photographers or blog readers. :)

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An outdoor experience with my DSLR

Hello again :) 

Today I went for cycling with a friend at Pasir Ris Park, and somewhere near Loyang Drive to look at Kite Flyers fly their unique kites high up in the sky. At Pasir Ris Park, I tried take a few pictures of the Nature Sceneries.

I am still not very sure of how to play around with the camera settings, so the pictures are a little dull.

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And here, at a huge grass patch near Loyang Drive. Wanted to capture more pictures, of kites and happy kids and adults. But because of the strong setting Sun, most of the pictures are very bright and are not very nice. These are the only few which look slightly better.

 Had a fun afternoon at Pasir Ris Park and Loyang, and had a good time experiementing with my camera. Please fell free to comment and educate me so that my photography skills can be improved :)

PEACE!

Exploring of F-values and ISO-Values

Hello readers, I have been playing with my camera, and trying out the functions of the camera. This morning, i got curious about the F-values and ISO-values that are found when taking pictures. I have been using the full-auto mode to take pictures lately, as i really have no idea how to adjust the camera to capture a perfect picture.

And guess what, these pictures below are the findings I made while playing with F-values and ISO-values separately. Hopefully these explorations helps me in my knowledge and allows me to capture better quality pictures :)

Adjusting the F-values of the camera (increasing value)

   F 3.5

  F 4.0

   F 4.5

   F 5.0

   F 5.6

   F 6.3

   F 7.1

   F 8.0

  F 9.0

   F 10

   F 11

  F 13

I found out that the higher the F-value is, the darker the picture will get. Is there any other effects that the F-value do to the pictures as in increases?

Adjusting the ISO-values of the camera (increasing value)

   ISO 100

   ISO 200

  ISO 400

   ISO 800

   ISO 1600

  SO 3200

  ISO 6400

With increasing ISO-value, the picture captured brightens up. I assume that at a darker place, or at night time, increasing the ISO-value will allow a brighter picture to be taken?

Dear readers and experienced Photographers, please correct and educate me with any information that you have, and any mistakes or misconception that I have. Really thank you very much!

PEACE!