Vagabond’s Caravan

Finally I’m here to update my blog and feature some photos I shoot during the 3-in-1 (float procession, fireworks & Tug-o-War) celebration for His Majesty’s 62nd birthday. It was a great night and I really enjoyed it, with ChiHo, WeiYik, ChungSun and Edwin Lim. =) Like JinYang said, my campaign (as mentioned in the previous post) is doing great and I can see great potential in Edwin, lol!

We (me & ChiHo) reached there at about 5.30pm (to avoid traffic jam), and the rest met up with us by 7pm. We were basically roaming around, shooting while waiting for the float procession and fireworks. I shoot mainly candid and kids/babies because this is the very few occasion which you can see interesting people in Brunei and most aren’t intimidated by cameras (many even posed for us). I was using ChiHo’s 50mm (thanks mate!) so it’s mainly portraits. =p

The fireworks are not quite as amazing but it’s nice to watch, too! It’s long but I was hoping for more big fireworks, rather than a lot of lil’ one, lol. But yea, really long firework show (and there’s 3-4 of them in total throughout the night), I was too lazy to shoot it tho’, since we weren’t in the best position to shoot it, =p

I met JinYang that night, the very first time we met (after knowing each other online), he were snapping around with his 450D + IS lens, =) We also met a couple school mates, Marcos and Arif and etc. =D And at the end of the day (10-11pm), we went MeiKuang to have supper (tired after hours of wandering) and then we went back to padang to shoot and play around with the float procession which parked there and ready to leave. It was fun! =p Crazy camwhore time, duh.

Guess that’s all, photo time! =p This is a black & white series, the best way to present street candid and portraitures, =p I love this series, so yea, hope you guys like it as well, do comment, yea? =)

^ A videographer from RTB, =p I like the way he hold his expression and block all distraction - including being shot by me for about half a minute (2 shots, I think. But takes a bit of manual focusing, =p) He need to minimize vibration and movement, i.e. victim of candid! =D I love the DoF in this shot, too!

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MF (manual focus) + prime lens (can’t zoom lo) + 10 girls running fast in the basketball court + very little light (even when I use f/1.8 and ISO 1600, my shutter speed can hardly go beyond 1/125th second) …

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… blur, OOF (out of focus) shots and a crazy/pervert-looking photographer, lol.

Seriously, just trying to get some shots done, but it’s catastrophic. These 4 are the only ones which are acceptable. =\ Basically, I am not doing any composition at all, all I do is shoot a lot and hope that 1 out of 10 of them is acceptable. Most of my time was spent on following the ball while MF-ing in split seconds, lol. Tough. =\ Might give it another try in coming matches, depends on whether I can keep up with my schedule or not.

By the way, life took a good turn these days, I am expecting brighter and happier days after my June exams, hehe. =) I am very happy these days, =p

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I’ll let the photos do all the talking, I am getting lazier and lazier… (haven’t wrote any proper blog post since I got my D40, lol…)

P.S: The photos you’re going to see are not consistent due to the various lighting condition of various places of CheaXin’s house, and different photographers. =) Most are taken by me and Kelvin tho, and since the camera not with me 100% of the time, I can’t really keep track of the settings and etc, so yea, mind the fluctuation of colour and etc. =) My white balancing skill still sucks, blehz.

And this is by far the biggest set I had ever shoot (since I got my D40), 71 keepers (uploaded but not all are posted here). =) Took me quite some time to sort ‘em out and get them up here so I hope you people will like it. =)

Candid Portraitures:

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