Category: Candid

Candid, people photography

First Class Portering


I was at Terminal 2 of the Singapore Changi Airport yesterday morning trying something different for a change — indoor people photography — when I came across these porters busy helping ferry baggage for the first class air-travellers. The reflections of the patterns off the floor contrasting with the silhouettes of the porters caught my eye. I like the grid-like floor patterns and the saturated reflections which, together with the strong silhouettes, provide visual interest to the whole shot.

Under Construction


While going through my collection of pictures in updating/revamping my photoblog here, I came across an image of a construction worker that I took at the Singapore Management University construction site at Bras Basah Road in March earlier this year. The original image had a the worker placed against a bland, white sky. In tribute to the diazochrome technique that my father pioneered earlier in his photographic career, I have turned the background to a deep, saturated blue in similar style, albeit made much easier with the use of Photoshop now. I like the cacophony of colours created between the contrast of the deep blue, versus the orange, fiery colours of the beams, scaffolding as well as the helmet of the worker. The expression on the worker’s face provided a touch of human interest to the shot.

As The World Goes By


This lady was so caught up with her mobile phone conversation (and copying something down furiously) that it seemed that she was oblivious to the world going past her. This was taken outside the Kuan Inn Temple in Singapore earlier in March this year. I have cropped this to a panaromic shot for a much tighter composition.