:: Walldrobe Photography ::

I’m not sure about other people’s journey into photography but mine grew and started the typical way a person would normally go when picking up this craft. I bought my first SLR, took my first picture, was amazed by it, wanted to learn more about it and eventually joined some clubs and societies to go further into it.

A particular technique that I always love is dragging the shutter to go for a really long exposure and I’m always very amazed by the results. That was the first technique I learnt actually. Though I must say I didn’t really learn much from joining those photography courses back then, it still did taught me a thing or two on the basic like the aperture and the shutter speed. Thanks to the technology in today’s world, there is the internet and forums where we can find and read up just about anything we want to know about photography and of cos to study and learn how the professional shoot by looking at their pictures and reading people’s critiques.

The first place that those clubs and societies brought us to are usually the Bird Park or the Botanical Garden and mine was the Bird Park. It was there that I made my first attempt on long exposure to capture the man made waterfall inside. From there, I learn, study, improve, read up, practice again and again and the following pictures are what I’ve taken over the years. I shoot anything from streams, rivers, beaches, mountains, waterfalls, buildings, fountains etc whenever the situation allows me to go for a long exposure.

One thing about shooting scenary in the last light is you can keep going back to the same place but you’ll never get back the same picture because the colour is different, the cloud formation is different, the weather, the sunset and everything is different. The following pictures are posted in my earlier Scenic Singapore post but the pictures are totally different. One was taken just minutes apart and the other was taken on a different day.

Another thing I learnt about shooting evening scenes of buildings is you cannot do it during weekends because most of the office lights will be off. The picture looses so much colour and vibrancy due to the lack of light, just like the picture above. That is the reason why I went back to re-take the picture again.