5628. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Samsung smartphone image of the Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore in 11 Feb 2024.

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Steady hand with Samsung smartphone for night photography.

Good morning. This example by Gerald shows that Samsung phones can create excellent images at night, better than expensive cameras. You don't need to make any settings. Just point and shoot, but you must have a steady hand.

Samsung smartphone image of the Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore in Feb 2024.

 SINGAPORE - 11 FEB 2024: 8pm. The Amitabha Buddhist Centre is a 7-storey Tibetan-style Buddhist institution at Geylang Lorong 25A. It was completed in mid-2006.



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PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Steady hand with Samsung smartphone for night photography.

Good morning. This example by Gerald shows that Samsung phones can create excellent images at night, better than expensive cameras. You don't need to make any settings. Just point and shoot, but you must have a steady hand.

Samsung smartphone image of the Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore in Feb 2024.

 SINGAPORE - 11 FEB 2024: 8pm. The Amitabha Buddhist Centre is a 7-storey Tibetan-style Buddhist institution at Geylang Lorong 25A. It was completed in mid-2006.

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PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Steady hand with Samsung smartphone for night photography.

Good morning. This example by a Singaporean Gerald shows that Samsung phones can create excellent images at night, better than expensive cameras. You don't need to make any settings. Just point and shoot, but you must have a steady hand.

Samsung smartphone image of the Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore was taken by Gerald in 11 Feb 2024 at 8pm. The image is sharp and beautiful. It is much more challenging to take an impactful image at night, but Gerald who is not a professional photographer, had done a good job.

SINGAPORE - 11 FEB 2024: 8pm. The Amitabha Buddhist Centre is a 7-storey Tibetan-style Buddhist institution at Geylang Lorong 25A. It was completed in mid-2006.

FIVE STARS for a beautiful frontage in the Lunar Year of the Dragon!

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https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2024/02/5628-photography-tips-stock-photos-need.html

 

 

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If you set your smartphone to lowest resolution to save disc storage space, you will be making a mistake as the resolution is too small for larger prints or stock photos if you wish to have them later in life.

Example below is a small resolution image. It is 960 x 1280 pixels at 240.

5627. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Walking couple. Use TV, ISO AUTO, multiple shots

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Walking couple. Use TV, ISO AUTO, multiple shots


Elderly couple walks briskly. Sentosa Boardwalk. 2 Feb 2024, 9am. 1/7 shotsCanon R5, TV 1/1250sec, f/4.5, ISO 3200. 50mm. (Float the ISO to AUTO).

Bright sunny morning on Friday 2 Feb 2024.

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5626. PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: iPhone 10. Mee siam in a small hawker stall.

 

11 Feb 2024. iPhone 10 photo taken in around Jan 2024.

A small hawker stall in Toa Payoh Lor 4, started by the mother. The son aged around 40, takes over now. "My mother asked me not to charge too high as the patrons are elderly," he said. He has increased a plate of mee siam to $3.00 recently.  The stall usually closes in the afternoon as he has had sold out.

Not a very sharp photo from iPhone 10. Reasons unknown.

5625. Bodhi trees in Bangladesh. A story told to me on 10 Feb 2024 (Chinese New Year).

Bodhi trees in Bangladesh. A story told to me on 10 Feb 2024 (Chinese New Year).

Bodhi trees are common in Bangladesh according to Wikepedia. I asked a Bangladeshi about Bodhi trees with large trunks in Bangladesh as there are not many seen by me in Singapore.

"There are many Bodhi trees in Bangladesh," he said. "In the 1990s, a hurricane devastated my school and neighbourhood. What remained was like desert in the middle East. It was very hot for students to study. So my teacher asked us to contribute money to buy a small bodhi plant. We planted it in the middle of the field."

"Why did your teacher ask for a Bodhi tree?" I asked.

"Its grows fast and its branches spread out like an umbrella providing shade," he said. "However we need to protect this plant from the goats and cows."

"Do you fence it with netting like a chicken hut?" I asked.

"No, no," he explained. "We used bamboo poles as fences. We have a lot of bamboo trees in the countryside."

"Now it is 2024," he extended his hands as if to encircle the Bodhi tree. "My two hands cannot even wrap round the tree trunk!"


I checked the Wikipedia. The Bodhi tree has a religious significance in 3 religions - Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. 

Bodhi (Ficus religiosa) is a large dry season-deciduous or semi-evergreen tree up to 30 metres (98 ft) tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 3 metres (9.8 ft). The leaves are cordate in shape with a distinctive extended drip tip; they are 10–17 centimetres (3.9–6.7 in) long and 8–12 centimetres (3.1–4.7 in) broad, with a 6–10 centimetres (2.4–3.9 in) petiole. The fruits are small figs 1–1.5 centimetres (0.39–0.59 in) in diameter, green ripening to purple.^{[citation needed]}

5624. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: A body of work - 20/60/20 rule

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: A body of work concept for all genres of photography. 20/60/20 rule.

10 Feb 2024
Outdoor Photographer- The Life of a cheetah family.

The life of a cheetah family in Kenya by Jon McCormack.
See:

https://jonmccormack.com/the-life-of-a-cheetah-family/

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May 2023 35. Outdoor Photography
www.jonmccormack.com

Introduction
1. Planning is everything
2. Trusting the process
3. Making rules
4. Narrowing focus
5. Tell a bigger story

Photos captioned by him
1. THREE cubs and mother photo - frontal image of group. 

Family dynamics. All 3 cubs will stay with their mother until 2 years of age. Mother feeds them and prepare them for life on their own.  

2. As adults, cheetahs climb trees to look for prey and to avoid predators. 8-month-old never missed an opportunity to climb up the tree.
 

3. Photograph running cheetahs. Slow and fast shutter speeds. Most shots didn't work. The few captured the playfulness and speed of cubs.

4. All 3 cubs have distinct personalities. One loved to fight. One climbed trees to belittle its siblings' lack of climbing skills constantly (PHOTO). One loved to chase.

5. Hours of affectionate grooming cement the tight bonds between a mother and her cubs.

6. PHOTO close up of cheetah looking into lens and the spots. Caption - a cheetah's spots are distinctive out in the open, but their unique pattern and colour makes them invisible as they enter the grass. 

1. Planning is everything.  A single-subject idea needs more intense planning. Wide-angle to super telephoto. Research other photographers. Paul Nicklen's 20/60/20 rule - spend first 20% of time getting the easy photos, 60% stretch your technique and vision, 20% for "once-in-a-life time" shots.

2. Trusting the process. Local guide important. Images as a body of work to tell a story. Use 20/60/20 rule.

3. Making rules.
3.1. cheetahs should be be a smaller part of the photo.
3.2  active, not sitting around.
3.3  vary focal lengths for more story options
3.4  show cheetah in its environment, where and how it lives.
3.5  don't give up. Use such mundane photos as sketch images to help build his body of work as he comes back after a day with no good images.


4. Narrowing focus.  Usually 200 mm lens or more to frame a scene. Cubs come near vehicle to play. 24 mm lens. Specific behaviour. mother grooming cubs, cubs playing.

5. Tell a bigger story. Back on plane reflections. His images are more expressive. Think of  "bodies of work" rather than individual images to tell a story. Beginning, middle, end.  No more instagram shot. Multiple shots over time to tell a story wel, with greater naunce and depth.
This approach applies to underwater and landscape photography and all genres.

Local - build long-term relationships with parks or animal shelters - LEARN MORE ABOUT THEM and use photo to help organisations tell stories and raise awareness.

Be prepared, plan and think about creating a body of work that is more meaningful than a single theme.

www.jonmccormack.com

 

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PHOTOGRAPHY OF BEARS AND SALMONS

https://jonmccormack.com/preparing-for-the-best/

 

I always go with two complete camera setups: one body with a 600 mm and one with a 100-400 mm, plus 1.4x and 2x teleconverters for when I want to isolate a subject. I use a monopod to support my longer lens, since hand-holding a 600 mm for multiple hours is difficult at the best of times and more so on moving water.

The boat is moving and so are the bears, so there’s no time for do-overs. I set my camera on manual shutter and aperture and let the ISO float. This lets me lock in the settings I care about most (shutter speed first, then aperture) and not spend a lot of time metering.

In the early morning, I start out shooting at about 1/500 with a wide aperture; when there’s enough light, I push the speed to 1/1000. More light presents more creative choices for aperture: In lower light I need to shoot wide open, so I limit myself to isolating subjects against the background; more light allows me to stop down and put a bear in context.

5623. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS - SHOP INDOORS. Use tripod, manual mode, no people outside Cheers Store.

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: Use Manual and tripod for inside airport shops.

Cheers @ T4, Arrival Hall, Changi Airport, 7 Feb 2024, 5pm. 

 

Use Manual, Tripod

No people outside store to get a good composition image. Wait till shoppers outside go away. 

Canon R5,MANUAL MODE, 24mm, 1/60sec,f/11,ISO 200. 

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5622. PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Use tripod, AV, f/16, focus 1/3 from bottom to get overall sharp image.

PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Use tripod, f/16, focus 1/3 from bottom to get overall sharp image.

 Jewel Changi Airport, 7 Feb 2024, 3.11pm. Use AV, f/16 to get sharp image. 

Focus 1/3 from bottom on plants. Use tripod. 

If you don't use f/16 and focus on 1/3 from bottom, you will not get an overall sharp image of the background.

UPDATE:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2024/02/5622-photography-tip-use-tripod-f16.html

5621. Golden Mile Complex

 Golden Mile Complex is a mixed development gazetted for conservation in Oct 2021 after it launched a collective sale. Sold in 2022 for $700 million to consortium comprising Perennial Holdings, Sino land and Far East Organisation. Asking $800 million in 2019 but no bids.

URA incentives - allow developers to build a new tower block about 30 storeys high beside the main conserved building. Tax incentives provided, lowering development costs.

5620. PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: INDOORS. No flash. Use AV. Max ISO 400.

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS: INDOORS. No flash. Use AV, Max ISO 400.

National Skin Centre Consultation Rooms. 6 Feb 2024. 9am.

SINGAPORE - 6 FEB 2024: 9am. The decor, high quality seats and spaciousness of the Waiting Area for Consultation of the National Skin Centre reduce a patient's anxiety and boost mental wellness.

Canon R5, 24mm, 1/60sec, ISO 200, f/11.
I tried AUTO ISO. It is best not to use auto ISO as the camera can set it very high to ISO 12,800 and the image becomes very grainy. Set ISO 400 is OK for most lit indoor rooms or stores. 

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5619. PHOTOGRAPHY FRUITS in the shady place. Use AV, ISO 400.

  PHOTOGRAPHY FRUITS in the shady place. Use AV Mode, ISO 400.

  20240204_Ficus_auriculata_Singapore_SAFRA

  Its fruit is edible and often harvested from the wild. The fruits form as large clusters on the trunk, on branches and on the roots. It is not uncommon to discover a tree where the base is covered with hundreds of fruits. They can be eaten raw or cooked, used in jams, juice and curries.

Fiscus auriculata at SAFRA Toa Payoh is a fig tree with edible fruits. Anyone interested?

Canon R5, 50mm, 1/30sec, f/11, ISO 400. 

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