[limwl27] APWP 2014 - Between cityscape and kids

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25 Nov 2014 (Tue) - Orchard Gateway
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm / 22s / f8 / ISO100 / Light Trail app

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I used the Takeway T1 mini clamp to hold my camera outside of the safety glass barrier for this shot. The whole setup is rather stable but I am holding the camera just in case. That caused some shakes and hence the photo is not very sharp. I'll attempt this again during the blue hour someday.

 

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27 Nov 2014 (Thu) - Starry night in the city
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 23mm / 30s / f8 / ISO400

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After being woken by my daughter at 4am, I couldn't fall back into sleep so I decided to give this a try. I tried this on a single exposure with around +1ev. The initial pic didn't look like there is anything in the sky. Using C1, I added a layer for the sky with a gradient mask. Then, I up the contrast and clarity while lowering the brightness to bring out the stars. It's not obvious but at there there are some stars I would give this a try in a less light saturated location some time.

 

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27 Nov 2014 (Thu) - Donald Duck plaster
Sony A7S on Mitakon 50mm f0.95 @ 1/60 / f0.95 / ISO320

This lens is not so sharp (a little dreamy) at close to MFD (0.5m) but at portrait distances (> 1m), it's really sharp and good. Compared to my old Rokkor 58mm f1.2, it's the opposite - Rokkor is sharp at < 1m but has a soft glow beyond that. This is my fav bokeh lens nowadays!

 

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28 Nov 2014 (Fri) - Fun with fisheye lens
Sony A7S on Minolta Rokkor MC 16mm f2.8 fisheye @ 30s / f8 / ISO160

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I was cleaning up my dry cabinet and decided to bring this underutilized fisheye lens out for a few shots. According to the web, this was one of the lenses which Minolta showed Leitz when they are working on the collaboration long time back. Leitz took this design to produce it's own Elmarit-R fisheye. It's a pretty sharp lens except I usually don't bring a fisheye out - it's a specialty type of lens.

 

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29 Nov 2014 (Sat) - X'mas at Raffles City Shopping Centre
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm / 0.6s / f11 / ISO100

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I tried to use the mini clamp for this but the railings are too width. I ended up resting my camera on a V shaped corner and shoot this with OSS (optical steady shot). I would have love to have more movement in the pic though.

 

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29 Nov 2014 (Sat) - X'mas at Raffles City Shopping Centre
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm / 6s / f11 / ISO100

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I had to tilt the camera quite a bit to get the tree in. The keystone is corrected in PP. The spots are not flare but artificial snow that hit my filter. I can't seems to get rid of it nicely so I just left it there :/

 

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30 Nov 2014 (Sun) - Beneath the hanging X'mas tree
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm / 1/30 / f4 / ISO100

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I took this below one of those hanging X'mas tree like deco in Great World City. The lights are smaller than I expected though.

 

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1 Dec 2014 (Mon) - Taking a break
Sony A7S on Mitakon 50mm f0.95 @ 1/60 / f0.95 / ISO640

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2 Dec 2014 (Tue) - Drawing
Sony A7S on Contax Zeiss 85mm f1.4 @ 1/80 / f1.4 / ISO100

 

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3 Dec 2014 (Wed) - Rise and shine
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm / 1/30 / f8 / ISO100

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Nice sunrise against a blue sky this morning.

 

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3 Dec 2014 (Wed) - Pinkish sunset
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm / 30s / f11 / ISO100 / Haida ND1.8 filter

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And a nice sunset today too.

 

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4 Dec 2014 (Thu) - Disconnected
Sony A7S on Mitakon 50mm f0.95 @ 1/80 / f0.95 / ISO100

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5 Dec 2014 (Fri) - Bishan Community Club
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 21mm / 62s / f8 / ISO100 / Light Trail App

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6 Dec 2014 (Sat) - Yacht Birthday Party
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm / 1/320 / f8 / ISO100

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While heading back to dock, the sun finally came out. The yacht is diagonal to the sun so the sky looks blue and good.

 

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6 Dec 2014 (Sat) - Yacht Dock panorama
Sony A7S on FE 24-70mm f4 @ 24mm / 1/200 / f8 / ISO100 / 6 shots panorama

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Rare panorama attempt. I took this handheld with 1/3 overlap each frame.

 

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7 Dec 2014 (Sun) - Moving clouds
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm / 120s / f11 / ISO100 / Haida ND3.0 + ND0.9 stacked

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Tried stacking 2 filters on 16mm and it's still good. Vignetting corrected by 0.6EV in PP.

 

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7 Dec 2014 (Sun) - Lightning
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm / 61s / f8 / ISO100 / Haida ND1.8 / Light Trail App

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Finally caught the lightning during this rainy season. I had 3 attempts using the Light Trail app at 1 min, 2 mins and 3 mins. The 1 min exposure turns out best probably because it's when the lightning is most intense.

 

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10 Dec 2014 (Wed) - Han's Kopi
Sony A7S on Mitakon 50mm f0.95 @ 1/80 / f0.95 / ISO100

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Testing some bokeh shots. This lens performs better at portrait distance but since I cannot get my daughter to cooperate, I'll have to shoot this cup at MFD.

 

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12 Dec 2014 (Fri) - Gardens by the Bay - Cloud Forest Dome
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm / 1/4 / f4 / ISO500

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I tried for a longer exposure with the Takeway T1 mini-clamp but there were many people moving in and out of the platform which resulted blurred images. So I had to take this wide open with OSS on 1/4 on the clamp. Idea is to complement MBS evening view with the waterfall.

 

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12 Dec 2014 (Fri) - Gardens by the Bay - Yuletide Festival deco
Sony A7S on FE 16-35mm f4 @ 35mm / 2s / f11 / ISO100

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Movement through the gates ...