Rag Day 2005 Part 2

Rag Day 2005 Part 2 pictures are taken on Kodak E100VS. The colours came out a bit awkward, towards to bluish/purplish tint and overcast. I attempted to do some colour correction and PS.

Initially I didn't want this to be part of the Abstract category. But after some PS, this is the result. It's pretty difficult to tweak back to the original colour. You can notice some sort of colour leak . In this picture, it's red colour.

In the mist of finding ways to tweak the colour to be more acceptable, I decided to go towards making the pictures nostalgic. How does it feel?

Some friends commented the first picture looks rather cold, blueish tint, tends to give sad feelings instead of old/nostalgic type. How about this one?

Expired film

This would probably be one of the rare post without pictures.
My second roll of pictures taken at Rag Day 2005 is back, and the colours are horrible! The purplish cast spoils the whole film. This is most probably due to the age of the film. Well, I would scan the films and see what I can do in photoshop to restore the colour. If all is well, there would be a post of Rag Day 2005 Part 2.

Photoshop

I did some PS on the picture I took at Rag 2005. I find that I like this kind of desaturated look. How about you? If I have more time, I'll explore more on PS.

Rag Day 2005

This is a friend of mine posing for a static display. Shot with M42 135mm. Another shot appeared to be slightly out of focus.

While the rest was busying with float, I took the liberty of walking around all the floats. Shot this at TH float. Took a few shots of her, only this one seems presentable. If you would like to remove this, do email me. My contact is at the bottom of the main page.

This girl is from the costume department of my hall's float. When I was heading towards the dancer's tent, she and her friend were so exhilarated by the colours and pulled me over. Nice play of colours here ain't it?

When I headed to the dancer tents, my hall dancers have finished with their body paint. They spontaneously agreed to pose on the field for this shot.

They decided to try a different pose. I guess the pic would look nicer if all looked away. But well, they still look very nice when standing in the sun with the green and sky as background =)

This was taken during the presentation. Luckily, I managed to go into the photographer/videographer stand. But alas, the best place is taken up by the VIP. Some of them were busy sipping and chatting with others. I took 4 shots. After cropping, this seem the most presentable of all.

And finally, the grand finale. In the pictures are the KE float, floaters, KEWOCs, freshmen, seniors, alumnis. All who supported Float in one way or another.

Car shoot for friend

A friend asked me to shoot his new Nissan March. So I did. Shots were taken with a Nikon D70. Some PS was done because the sky was heavily overcast.

I saw this shot on some magazine or forum and wanted to imitate the shot. Hope it's acceptable.

Photos taken at XQRJ 2005

Joi Chua was one of the special guest performer at XQRJ (Xing Qing Rong Ji) 2005, which was held in UCC(University Cultural Centre), NUS.

This was shot on Fujipress 1600. Probably the 800 version would be better, with less noise. Colour cast while shooting stage events can be a headache.

Photos taken around Singapore

Taken at Xiao Gui Lin, located near Bukit Gombak Mrt. Shot on Velvia50, 35mm film. Scanned and converted to sepia.

Taken at Raffles Place, near Cavanagh Bridge. Shot with Provia100F, 120 film, when I had my Mamiya RZPro2 then.

I rescanned the copy above from the slide. Apparently this scan is better, in a sense that it can bring out more details in the shadow.

Photos taken at Kent Ridge Park

This was fortunately taken on my trusty C2040. Couldn't get the readings to fire the Mamiya. Damn.

After the sunset, this was what the view on Kent Ridge Park looked like. Provia100F, 120 film. F8, 4s.

Photos taken on a Malaysia trip in 2003

Taken in Melaka. This was shot with Tmax400. Pity didn't have a soft filter then. Had to photoshop it to give it a soft effect.
This building is located on top of A Famosa. I believe the building used to be a church.

This was outside a temple on Pulau Ketam. Shot was taken with Tmax3200. Wanted to try ou this fast film. Grains turned out pretty acceptable. When people are done praying with the incense, they will leave it in this.

This was on Pulau Ketam also, near one of the ship yards. Shot on Tmax400. Was playing with depth of field.

Different perspective from the black and white shot above. Same location, shot this on colour negative, Fuji200 superia if I remember correctly.

This is the kelong at the jetty of Pulau Ketam. This was a lucky shot. First time heard of reciprocity failure. Scanned this from colour negative. Hope the colours turned out natural. Some friends tell me it ain't.

About Me

I bought my first camera in 2002 Jan/Feb after I got my first month's pay working during the long holiday. It was a brand new Minolta Dynax 5 packaged with 2 lenses. I didn't really understood the concepts and theories behind each photo. When I went to uni, I met a few fellow enthusiasts, that spurred me to read up more and study more, and of course, shoot more.

I tried a few stuff, from different films, of consumer negative, portraits negative, positive film, black and white negative, high speed films etc. I even obtained a Mamiya RZProII, but eventually sold it off as it is not practical for me at this moment.

I am on the lookout of more and different opportunities to take photos. If you have any to offer or to advice on, feel free to email me. My address is at the bottom of the page.

Photoblog Created!

Welcome to Iceberg's Photoblog!

My name is Shih Yang.
This is the first time i'm touching Blogs!
Hopefully this can be a successful photoblog.
The nick Iceberg was already taken,
so I could only use my less popular alternative nick.. Berkyberg

I intend to use this blog to showcase and share photos I have taken since I picked up photography. Any feasible recommendations to improve the photos or to improve the site would be deeply appreciated.