Long exposure – Page 8 – engloy's digital photo gallery

Fireworks Preview

July 20, 2009

Fireworks Preview
Singapore will celebrate its 44th National Day on 9 August 2009 with a grand parade at the Esplanade waterfront. The traditional finale of the parade has always been a fireworks spectacular. I was around the area last weekend and caught a preview of the finale during the parade rehearsal. Fireworks are always tricky to catch on photography since it is almost never possible to predict where or when the light-bursts will occur. I had my camera set mainly on a fixed aperture and ISO speed while triggering the shutter on “B” mode and gauging the timing by feel. I think I might make another trip to this coming weekend’s rehearsal for yet another try 🙂

City Glitter

September 1, 2008

City Glitter
Formula One arrives in Singapore in less than a month… Alas, I’d be away from the country then. I think the drivers and visitors will be impressed by the night glitter of the city district when the race gets underway 😀

Colours of the City

August 23, 2008

Colours of the City
Fireworks are a welcome sight to the majority of us city-dwellers in Singapore. I made my way down to town yesterday to catch some pictures of the Singapore Fireworks Celebrations 2008.

On an aside… I have been searching for a good RAW converter ever since I moved up to my Canon 40D. I found CaptureOne 4 a disappointment although I was previously very happy with the quality I could squeeze out from CaptureOne 3 with my 20D RAW files. I actually bought a copy of Lightroom (version one) which looked initially very promising but was disappointed with the poor colors that I obtained. Adobe has now gone on to release version 2 of Lightroom which now comes with a new DNG Profile Editor system which closely matches the excellent colours I could get out of Canon’s DPP software. Given the excellent interface of Lightroom vs DPP, looks like I will be going back down the Lightroom path soon…