Category: Nightscene

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 😀

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…

I had the chance to visit Hong Kong again (for the umpteen time) last week as a business-cum-leisure trip. On our leisure day, CY was insistent that we stay all the way till the evening for the spectacular fireworks over the Sleeping Beauty Castle in HK’s Disneyland. Although I didn’t bring my usual full gear for me, the S5 IS came in handy for this shot which was taken handheld in full manual mode. No regrets for having to brave the rain in the day, and to stay all the way till the evening at Disney’s 🙂