High Key

Here are my feeble attempts at high key photography. =X
I might have to reshoot them to get a whiter background. Kinda fun!
Time to invest in a proper white poster-ish or canvas thingy for the background.
I just randomly picked up a Twilight movie poster, turned it over, and used it as the background. Kinda cheapo, but at least the poster's finally put to good use!

I placed a transparency material at the bottom. So that it hopefully brings out more reflection of the wine glass.

Comments from Ms Chiang was that the background can afford to be whiter coz it looks kinda warm-ish here. Ok, will try it soon!

Low Key

These are shots of the outdoors. I don't really know how to take low key shots of objects while having a black background yet (shall ask during class!) so I just tried the outdoors at night. And I think I'm pretty happy with the results!


I was at the railway station and just thought I might try some low key lighting. So I set my camera to spot metering and fast shutter speed. And voila! I think it's quite arty-farty (personally), but I think it's kinda boring as a subject. Haha.



Journey-ed to The Cathay! I think it looks pretty awesome. And I think it'll look even better in black and white.


Colourful lamps outside The Cathay. I wonder if this counts as Low Key - the background is kinda distracting.


Steps of SOTA. I kinda like it.


National Museum. I like how the building was being lit up.
Shot with spot metering and slower shutter speed. I think it was 1/4 of a second.


Another shot of the National Museum.



Boyfriend and I were soon tired so we headed over to Selegie Road for the famous Tao-huay and Youtiao.
I liked how dark the alley was and I thought it'll be a good place for low-key shots.
And tada!
I hope it looks kinda eerie/depressing/dark...

Experimenting with keys

I admit that this post is kinda late. My apologies.
So last week, we were told our Assignment 4 will be on High Keys and Low Keys - something different from what I had been shooting (mostly casual shootings) so far.

I decided to just try out high key photography during our in-class exercise. I just picked a few subjects (not that they are difficult to find since WHITE apple keyboards and mouse are everywhere) and started to try out shooting with spot metering.

I've never really tried out spot metering before and now with the discovery of it, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have more fun with photography! :):):) Especially for this assignment which I think is gonna need a lot of it.