Thursday, May 23, 2013

Weigh Lost Program 2

My weigh lost program regime was in full swing.... this time I wanted to try going to walk all the way from Clarke Quay up Fort Canning Hill get out from another end of Fort Canning Hill, then go on to Parkway mall, and from there to Dhoby Ghaut MRT station, then down to Little India, Farrer Park, Boon Keng, Potong Pasir and finally Woodleigh. In actual fact, I would have wanted to walk back home in Kovan. But gave out after reaching Woodleigh.

The load I carried with me was:

1) Backpacker BBK-4 canvas camera bag (see my review)
2) Olympus OM-D
3) 12-50mm lens
4) 40-150mm lens
5) Gitzo 1-series Basalt traveller tripod
6) Sirui C-10 tripod head
7) NDX400 ND filter
8) Olympus FL600R speedlite
9) 1 bag of batteries
10) 1.8litres of mineral water (3 bottles of 600ml water)
11) extra memory cards
12) sunglasses
13) lucky red cap
14) various adapters
15) 2 little torch light
16) remote control for my OMD
17) etc.

All of these added to around 10kg of equipment and weigh.

Anyway, I reach Clarke Quay MRT at 1145hrs on the Sunday and started my walk. It was blazingly hot that day, my little red cap doesn't seemed to be able to keep out the sun from my face, but I journey on... I believe in this verse... no pain no gain.

 1/320sec, f10, ISO: 200


 1/25sec, f13, ISO:200

 1/100sec, f6, ISO:400

For the next 3 photos, I used my trusty old ND filter to cut down on the speed of my camera in a bright hot day. It is import to do that so that I could give a blur to the vehicle moving while keeping the background straight and steady... the build in IS of my OMD helped too.

 1/6sec, f22, ISO:200

 0.5sec, f5.4, ISO:200

 0.3sec, f5.2, ISO:200

Well... nearing and in Little India, I am pretty amazed by the number of older buildings.

 1/1600sec, f4, ISO:200

 1/640sec, f4, ISO:200

 1/2000sec, f4, ISO:200

 1/1600sec, f4, ISO:200

 1/400sec, f9, ISO: 200

Well... Little India is not the only place with loads of old buildings...

The photo of a Hindu temple underneath is pretty old... and it was not in Little India... in my opinion, Hindu Temples are a piece of art. And I thoroughly loved that type of architecture.

 1/4 sec, f5, ISO: 200.

Well, I used my ND filter here because I am shooting up the sky... and it gave me the reassurance that the sun would not fried my sensor.

 1/4sec, f5, ISO:200

 0.4sec, f5, ISO:200

After that, I took a number of photos along the way, but those are lacking substances, so I decided to to showcase them here... anyway, there are still a couple of photos that I am pretty pleased with... like the following,

 1/400sec, f10, ISO:200

The above is an old fire station, I am not sure if it was still in operation, but it sure is a pretty sight.

And there... it concluded my walk. Actually it was pretty fun, but I felt weird towards the end of the journey and decided against walking further... or I might just lose it and there will be no more walks for me.



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