One Fine Day

I won my first Photographic Society of America Gold Medal for the best slide of the show in Mexico International Salon in 1968. I started to do derivative works in 1967. Due to my knowledge in black white processing, I started to use lith film to create picture with dramatic visual impact. One of my favourite technique was to retain the colour of a subject (in this example, the yellow umbrella) while changing the rest of the image for dramatic effect. By montaging the lith film (obtained by contact printing in the dark room), I was able to create a bias relief effect when I mounted the two pieces of film slightly out of registration. I wish that I had Photoshop at that time. Now is much easier to achieve such an effect at a click of a mouse. You still need a well composed image first to execute the techniques though!

This image happens to be one of my 24 colour transparencies in a pictorial panel that gained the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (FRPS) in 1970. Watch out for more images from this FRPS panel later in my gallery.

(Courtesy of: The National Museum of Singapore Permanent Collection, National Heritage Board, 2008)