Canon conducted what they call a photo marathon a while ago, which was well attended by a trigger happy battalion consisting of 600+ SLR-toting photographers with fancy L-series pro lens to serious amateurs with the newest prosumer cameras. The task was simple - one theme to shoot for every three hours, and four themes for the day. But the transport, locations, scope and means were left to the imagination of the photographers, and so were the ways to counter the pain in the limbs and lower back at the end of the day !
The first topic was the toughest one for me - 'Faces'
In a city of 4 million people, there were faces all around me. But somehow I'm yet to crack the code of successful portraits of complete strangers, especially the candid variety. So I resorted to my best resort - allegory and abstract.
Flight to the end of the tunnel
Unity
MAD about ONE
The second theme was outrageously simple ! 'Power - simply RED'.
For a moment, I considered buying some kinda cheap red filter and shoot the same things that I always shoot. But then I managed to put a special filter to my eye, which would only look at and respond only to red coloured subjects.
Fuzzy Red Holes
A little red corner
Melonious dunes
Strumming in Maroon
Simply Red
6 hours of photographing was already draining, especially on a warm, humid, hazy Singaporean day. The third topic demanded more of such outdoorsy photo-taking - 'A Slice of History'.
We started a trek along the oldest parts of Singapore's 200 or so years of history, shooting the last remnants of old preserved buildings, and the reminders of Singaporean history.
Suspended Animation
Eternal wait
A colourful lesson in history
Raffles Realms
The day was coming to a close, and so was my energy and enthusiasm to continue with the fourth topic which is quite an obvious one- 'Darkness'.
Fortunately I was shooting some extra unrelated shots throughout the day and picked up a few for this topic, and just spent a relaxed evening doing a peaceful activity - shopping :).
Can cause other darknesses
No Flash please
8 comments:
Nice job. Looks like you are more inclined to taking B & W pics. Eternal wait is the best of the lot.. who'z that featuring in Unity????
neat i say!! lemme guess, u took a close up of an ash poster!! rite??
The evil twin
thanks guys..but its not ash..some other model in an ad. but i cannot deny the similarity.
hi...arun just wondered abt ur creativity...thats very vital to a photographer...any one can take photos with recent tech..but creativity makes the man a good real photographer..which i grabed from ur shots in " photo marathon"
my favo photos in ur recent work
"Unity" - the way u cut the frame is too good.
"A little red corner"- here u r...its really fantastic idea to match to ur topic.. this is most attracted me..
"suspended animation"- oh again..a good snap to match ur topic..
"Raffels Realms" good good good very good its simply superub the way u looked the frame all are good...
arun iam not a professional in photography...to make comment on pics ....but i shared my views to u....
The last one is cute and so as the caption.
I like the Flight at the end of tunnel..and the framing IN Raffles Realm:) Nice shots!
Arun ji, Eppo intha cat muzhlikkum? Paavam. That cat may think the world is sleeping (there is a proverb... poonai kanna moodikitta vulagamae iruttu endru ninaikkumam). Raffles realms-la yaaro oruthar nikkirar. Aana ennai kaanome. :(. Irunga irunga. Enga amma kittaeyae sollurane. he he. Enjoy pannunga, kalakkunga, kalainga, kadala podunga. In total santhoshama irunga. All the pics are nice. Always i want to go to your blog to do some write ups atleast once a month or in 3 months. But hehe can be the reply. :D EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE(u can see my teeth ma). Keep up posting lots of pics. A tireless blogger. :)
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