Motion & Stillness

April 23, 2008 | Filed Under Event, Kluang, Photography | 4 Comments 

…was the previous internal competition topic of Photography Society of Kluang. I submitted 2 photos. Many veteran advised me not to submit this photo as the motion is too little to bring out the objective of the topic. I didn’t listen to them as i really like this photo and spent a lot of effort to shoot this, not to mention the amount of chicken fluff I sniffed in. Some even bet that this photo can only get 4 marks out of 9

On contrary, most of them prefer this pool ball photo…

Well, at the end, this pool photo was kicked out from the winning list and my chicky photo got a consolation place.

I guess it is hard to foresee what the judges want. So which one do you prefer?

Funfair

April 5, 2008 | Filed Under Event, Kluang, Photography | 2 Comments 

The fair lasted for 1 month during the last Chinese New Year. During the 2 weeks peak, car park was totally full from 8pm onwards and the main road towards the fair was terribly congested too. I was there after the long holiday. I guess it would be a great time to spread my tripod leg as the crowd will be lesser. Yes indeed, no crowd at all! None of the machines are moving. Before the sky turned totally dark, I took up the courage & requested the operator of euro wheel to spin the wheel for me. The kind Australian lady just smile and press the button immediately with no questions asked. Really appreciate her help very much.

Meanwhile on the other side, I was stopped by a local game stall operator as she forbid me to shoot any photos in the funfair. She said ‘Hey you can’t shoot photograph here, don’t you know that? Photography is not allowed here!’ (I’m not sure if she will say the same to those who snapping tons of photo with their handphone) With a big smile i replied ‘Oh I didn’t know that, there is no indication in the front gate. I’ve been shooting for 45 mins and so far you’re the only one that stop me’ (Mind you, I don’t even shoot her face, I’m shooting at still objects). Without wasting my time to answer those silly questions that started to pop out from her mouth, I moved to next stall.

Due to prior encounter, I asked the stall owner politely if I could shoot his game stall. He said ‘Please, shoot as much as you like and do include this soft toy too’. As he talked he put the soft cute little cow infront of those tiny balloons…

There you go…