I woke up late that morning even though I set my alarm. The alarm was set at 5:45am so that I can have ample time to prepare but instead I woke up at 7:00am. I rush to get myself prepared and packed my gear for the outing. I left my house at about 7:20am and I have to call for a cab as there is hardly one in the vicinity on Sunday morning.
On the cab, I was thinking to myself, is there a problem with my handphone because I set the handphone alarm or am I so sound asleep that I off the alarm unknowingly. I did a check and found that the alarm was set at 5:45pm, that answers everything. (+_+)”
The cab reached SBG at 7:55am; I was 5 minutes early as the outing was set at 8:00am and I was very thankful that I can reach on time. Anyway, during our outing, our instructor, Steven Yee, share with us some techniques and taught us the use of a Circular Polarizer filter. It is really an interesting filter as I observed that it can remove the reflection from the pond and also make the leaves greener and the sky to a darker shade of blue.
Anyway, we walked around the Botanical Garden and took quite a few shoots for our assignment. As again, I will post up those pictures that my instructor picked for our submission after the end of my course. So do keep a lookout. At around 10:15am, we have completed what is needed for the submission and the whole group break off from there. As for me, I walk back to those subjects that we took earlier to redo a few shots more until I am satisfied with the results.
At around 11:00am, I walk out of SBG and took Bus 75 to go to town as I wanted to take a few shots of Clifford Pier. For those who don't know, Clifford Pier would be closing down after 73 years in operation. WEF 1 April, all services at Clifford would be relocated to the new Marina South Pier (which I still don't know where it is). It is rather sad to see such an old and nice historical building to be closed down. So I decided to take a few shots as a commemoration.
I actually brought quite a few lenses out for this outing and I was trying to figure out which lens is the best to make this commemorative photography series interesting. At last, I settle for my latest addition to my lenses collection, my 10.5mm Fisheye Lens, to undertake this task to capture a good series of photos to keep as memories of Clifford Pier. I named this series, "Seeing Clifford Pier through my Eyes". Enjoy.
This one is my favourite of all. I hope that you can get that irony message. (Alright, the sign shows NO FISHING, the irony question is "FISH-eye-ING OK?!)
I really like to do some of these irony and witty shots, that will be very fun. If my bro Ian is around here, maybe he can give me more ideas. :P
How can be photography outing be complete without an IR shot or two. I must admit that the weather is rather not ideal for photography as it was dark and gloomy. But lucky, at around 2:30pm or so, the sun was out for a while. So I set up my gear and started to do a few IR shots. Here it is. Enjoy.
I thought of taking leave this Friday to recapture some shots as I really want to capture the majestic looks of this old yet grand pier and I also like to do a few Fisheye IR of Clifford Pier, but the problem is that I don't know what/which gelatin filter to use, how thick it is and also how to cut to the required size. Need to ask those IR Gurus for advice again.
Alright, this is the end of my long post. Thanks for reading. Looking forward to the upcoming 5th IR Outing this Sunday. Will try to update you more.
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