My Phlog: November 2012

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Flash Photography Workshop

Alright! Here you go! From my last post, I received my new speedlite/flashgun, wireless shuttle release and battery grip, I chanced upon a Flash Photography workshop by my school's cca, SIM Photography Club. When I received the email regarding this workshop, and the thought that my flashgun is arriving just before the workshop, I signed up for it immediately! I thought to myself "This will be the best chance to learn how to use the new speedlite I bought to improve on my photography skills!"

And yes! The Flash Photography Workshop was conducted by Koh Sze Kiat, who have won quite a number of photography competitions and he is also our very own Alumni! To know about him, you can visit his website: http://www.skkoh.com and http://www.flickr.com/people/sprintist86/

During the workshop, we learnt about how lightings can give different effects, the different types of light forms, the effects by different numbers of light sources, positioning of the light sources and many more! We had hands on session playing with our own flashguns and studio lighting, with a model invited by Koh Sze Kiat himself! Really a very enriching workshop and I had fun playing around, and 'ordering' people around to adjust my lightings!

So here you go! Some of the pictures I took on that day and did some enhancement to them! Hope you like them! ^^

Well, we had some time left before the workshop ends, so Sze Kiat suggested to us to try using the colour filters for the studio lighting! And.... we decided to play with the green one to try to create an eerie effect!

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

New Members To My Photography Family!

Asked my friend to help me order and bring these equipment back from China when he went back to his hometown to give his family a visit! Really great deal getting them through TaoBao, everything cost me slightly less than S$250!!! Woohoo~~~~! Time to play with them and learn how to use them, and hopefully they can improve on my photography quality! ^^

Photo taken from my Instagram account! follow me on instagram: @eugenelock

Monday, November 12, 2012

Anime Festival Asia 2012

And so, my brother won pair of tickets to Anime Festival Asia (AFA) 2012 but he wasn't free to make go, he gave me the tickets and I went with 2 other friends of mine!

Went there with the intension to try, as it is the first time Im doing this, to take photos of Cosplayers at a Cosplay event! At the beginning, we were too shy to point our cameras at cosplayers there, so we went to walk around and started taking pictures of anime models and toys XD We just felt awkward walking around taking photos of strangers

But after a while, we started to join in random groups of photographers, who gathers in front of different cosplayers, and started taking photos of them together! As the cosplayers were busy entertaining photographers, posing for different cameras at the same time, some of the photos do not have the cosplayers facing my camera! Please pardon that. However, it was fun taking pictures of nice cosplayers and I really did my best to make them as pretty as possible! Still have a lot to learn though. Shall improve and upgrade my equipment, so that one day, I have the confidence to invite different cosplayers to have private shoots outside of the event area!

Nonetheless, here are some of the pictures I took of the cosplayers! I decided to not upload pictures of the toy models as I would want to concentrate more on human shooting, rather than stationary object shoot! I would love to find out who all the cosplayers are whom I have taken photo of, as to me I feel that I should give it back to them by tagging them as an appreciation of their hardwork! If you happen to know anyone of them, do let me know yar? ^^ Please enjoy! ^^

For more photos, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151147099672098.451673.591437097&type=1&l=8134cdf1c1