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Proud to be a child of God, a faithful son (I hope lol) a trying to be hardworking student, a part-time worker, a nerf/milsim enthusiast, a crafting and music lover and an awesome friend. to you :) Hope you have an enjoyable time reading about my life, as much as I have fun living it! |
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I am a university student who loves chocolate! Coffee is my best buddy when it comes to taking on my finals. I have a tendency to want to try and do so many different things at once and as a result, I've found my hobbies to be as such!
Nerfing is one of them, but aside from that, I also love arts and craft. I have my own startup, Thumbforlego at: where I sell my works! 
I love to do all sorts of crafting, so you will see me uploading posts of my leathercrafts, thumbdrives, replica guns, nerf gun modifications and gundam models! I'm fortunate enough to be blessed by really supportive parents and given the chance to explore many, many parts of the world and try out a plethora of activities. This is also how I discovered my love for film photography, videography and piano. 
The film photo above is unedited! My family loves cold countries xD. We managed to catch the northern lights twice! 
I've also gotten the chance to experience many of nature's wonders 
And my most freezing experience to date: riding a husky ski sled into the sunset (It was -38 to -40 degrees celsius and the huskies were pretty fast.) 
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Why 36000feetabove? This is the altitude that commercial planes cruise at and I have always loved the view up in the sky, being amongst the sea of clouds. :) Personally, my favourite favourite food has got to be airplane buns! Does anyone else feel the same way?! With a slice of butter and looking out of the window, I have yet to find an experience that can beat that. 
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Friday, January 27, 2017
Singapore Motorshow jsut passed about a week or two ago and it was my first time ever going in! Despite being always so close to the event, i just never went inside before and it was so different from what I would have expected. I expected it to be much more packed, abit like how the IT fair is like, but it turned out to be more like this!
Wow now the photo looks so much darker than when i was editing. I realized that well maybe those crystal clear sharp images would look better for car photos....?
I think the crispy sharp image looks better than trying to achieve that "film look" like what i do in my usual photos.
Surely I am used to taking scenery and people, portraits, so when I pressed the shutter button pointing at a car....it just felt kinda weird! Unsure is probably a more apt word to use here. When taking sceneries and portraits, I will have an idea as to how to take the photo. Which comprises of the composition of the photo; what i want inside the photo, and the angle of the shot to make things look more attractive, or to play out some leading lines, etc.
Suddenly when I point the camera at the car the first thought that shoots to the head is
"what angle to take it from?"
then a few thoughts follow
"Do I focus on the car or the girl?"
"From which angle do I take the car from?"
And after an evening of snapping only a couple of photographs while spending most of the time molesting the cars, I still am not confident on taking photographs of cars!
It's like no matter how you take photo of it, they kind of still look the same to me. And whether to take the back of the car, or straight up front, or from a certain angle... In the following two photographs, you can see how i tried to photograph the girl but miss out the car, but when I include the girl AND the car, the shot seems so far away?! So maybe we are supposed to pick either and just focus on that? The below photos also show the difference between having a crystal clear image and one that has more of that film characteristic to it! You pick your favourite.
 
Still prefer the crystal clear photos! Like something just seems "off" about the photo. Maybe it's because everything in the car show is meant to be nice and shiny and perfect and dulling it just kills off the look? After pondering about car photography over the week, on one of the occasions of friend meetups, I was quite disappointed that I couldn't really get the shots in the motorshow and hence decided to try it out on my car. Below, I tried one more film look shot with my car, what ya think!
 I think this "film" shot works out because of the single lighting and the background. Also, while editing the photos, I scared my mum into thinking I just repainted my car! I sent her this image below and she got a scare :P Many people believed it too! Hehehe. Jokes aside, I think that the orange actually looks pretty good on the car?? It has that certain liveliness to it! It feels brighter.  I think that car photography is interesting! Which angle really pulls out that look of the car. Whether to make it look menacing like a Lamborghini Aventador or a more fun/cute car like the Daihatsu Copen. It's a different style of photography definitely. As compared to architecture or scenery or portraits. So it's a new thing to learn!! One thing I do know is that there's always supercars parking at Millenia walk outdoor carpark, so that is a popular spot for car photographers in Singapore. I really really wish the government can remove those bans on car modifications and then we can really see the car modification scene bloom! It'll be so interesting to see, just like how you have car meetups in japan! Added some videos as to how the scene is like for car modification overseas! First one is in Japan, the second one is SEMA in America! |
