Third IR Outing @ Marina South Park

Feeling rather happy and excited today as I went for my 3rd IR Outing with the IR Regulars in Clubsnap. The shooting location is chosen at Marina South Park. I must confess that I did not know much about this park even though I saw quite a few good shots by posted others in the forum. This really keeps me excited as I can finally see the Sundial that was made famous by Hosea (Also known Stanley, more of his details later) who did an IR shot on it with stunning and amazing effects. As usual, here is the list of people who participated in this outing.

1. dibyo (our friend from Indonesia) - Teerex's friend from Indonesia who is here to do some IR shots with us. I heard that he have quite a few good shots taken at Bali. He also bring another Indonesia friend with him for this outing.
2. teerex - Teerex aka Lee, Our IR Subforum Moderator
3. Kar Fee - Jia Fei. He is late for the outing today, I thought I am going to be the bottleneck but he is still later than me.
4. Panda - Jonathan aka Jon.
5. Francis247 + 1 - me and Poh. (Poh is really sporting and on, she actually went to gym after our IR outing at around 12:30pm or 1:00pm. After that, she still meet me up to go East Coast Park to shoot again before meeting her friends for blading. Really thanks for the ride again, feel so bad about that. Anyway, need to teach her how to do posr-processing for those IR Shots that she had taken)
6. vortex - Andy
7. thl - Tan
8. Arowana - I think Stanley aka Hosea mentioned that his name is Mike
9. RonSS - Ronald
10. Hosea - Stanley (I must say that I am really honour to see him, a very nice and friendly guy. His photo shoots are really very nice and his overseas trip shots are simply amazng. Hope to be able to learn from him about landscape photography)

Too bad Bobby, Edmund and Nisa are not able to join us for the outing today. If not it will be more fun. Anyway, hope to see them for the next outing.

For this outing, I had made a couple of mistakes which I must try to remember and not to commit the same mistake again.
1. I forgot to bring my 67mm -> 77mm Step-up ring. My Hoya R72 IR Filter is 77mm and my kit lens is 67mm, so I will be needing a step-up ring so that I can screw in the filter onto my lens, but since I forget to bring, I have to hand-held my filter during the shooting. Morale of this mistake, always do a equipment check before going for a photography outing. :(

2. I forget to do an Exposure Compensation aka EV of +1 stop when doing IR photography. The IR filter remove the normal colours lights hence reducing the exposure, the EV is to compensation for the loss of lights by 1 stop. Morale of this mistake, start a small handy note book with some checklist to list down the procedures and steps when doing the different type of photography.

Enough said already, do enjoy some of the photos taken during the outing. Enjoy and Cheerz.