Changes

This time I have learnt how to use a SLR camera in a more effective manner(using low ISO to reduce noise and such). Our assignment is to describe changes using 8-10 photos. Thus I decided to a geographical changes of landscapes of Singapore over time.


Shutter Speed: 1/60
Aperture: F7.1
ISO: 200
Remarks: This photo is taken near Dover along the stretch of shops where I used to live. The place used to be a tailor shop. I like this picture because it is the only shop among the rest that still retains its original state. The surrounding shops like the bookshop, paintshop, mini-mart have been renovated.


Shutter Speed: 1/125
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 200
Remarks: The swing is some of the childhood games that we often played when we were once young. Though there are swings in playgrounds now, however it is hard to find those playground with sand as the ground of most playgrounds are made of synthetic rubber.


Shutter Speed: 1/30
Aperture: F13
ISO: 200
Remarks: Shophouses are a rare sight in Singapore except in places like Chinatown, Little India or Kampong Glum.

Moving on to the modern....


Shutter Speed: 1/20
Aperture: F11
ISO: 100
Remarks: HDB flats can be seen almost everywhere in Singapore.


Shutter Speed: 1/400
Aperture: F10
ISO: 200
Remarks: Olden schools were tore down and new schools were built in its place.


Shutter Speed: 1sec
Aperture: F11
ISO: 800
Remarks: As time progresses, more structures of the past are being demolished to make way for commercial buildings.


Shutter Speed: 1sec
Aperture: F11
ISO: 800
Remarks: However drastic the changes, we must learn to embrace the great changes occuring for the better of our future.

Self-assessment: I feel that overall I manage to show the changes of landscapes over time through buildings and various distinct places like the playground photo. I would rate these 9/10.

Exposure

Below are 2 selected photos I chose to represent for this assignment. However, as it was my 1st time using a SLR camera. I was still figuring out various combinations of shutter speed, aperture and ISO settings.

Shutter Speed: 1/100
Aperture: F10
ISO: 1600

It was around evening time when i reach the Swan Lake in Botanic Gardens. Thus I set the shutter speed to allow more light to be captured. I was trying to capture the 'live' effects of the swans flying but there were some comments pointed out in the class which I find it very true. When the picture was being looked from far, the swans were like 'blending' with the trees in the background making it hard to stand out as a subject of the photo.

Rating for the photo: 5/10 as the overall photo was rather pale when looked from far and the subject of the photo does not stand out distinctive enough.


Shutter speed: 1/1250
Aperture : F6.3
ISO: 800

I like this shot taken near the lake. There seems to be like a 'path' leading somewhere in the center of the picture. In the background, there are mainly trees, like having a sense of exploration into the deep.

Rating of the photo: 6/10 due to the lack of contrast in the picture as mostly are 'green'.



RATINGS OF SOME WORKS I LIKE:
CHONG XU ER SHERYL: http://www.photoblog.com/prinxess/2007/09/02/
I like the style of her dog being photographed. I feel there is some level of contrast like some cold,non-living feel of the drain vs the naive,innocent dog in the foreground.
Rating of the photo: 9/10

LEONG LI XIAN SAMANTHA: http://community.livejournal.com/dicosanostra
Her style of using dolls as subjects in her photographs really amaze me. One work in particular is titled "Uomo di rispetto". The picture speaks a thousand words and really express the mood and ambience to create a 'wow'-effect from the audience.
Rating of the photo: 10/10 (One of the best expressive photo I saw)