Star Trails in the Night

Belly Dancing

Garden Party

Happy New Year~

Managed to catch this from the open space by The Sail and the NTUC building at Marina Boulevard, a surprisingly less crowded area to catch the fireworks. Not a single instance where we needed to squish among the crowds. Great accessibility too, the crowds quickly dissipated after the main event really smoothly. Will probably be there again to catch more fireworks displays.

Little India

Went to Little India to do the tourist thing...

A little more photos here.

Party Girl

Party Girl

I achieved this effect using a slow-sync flash so that the features can be clear enough with the firing of the flash. The aperture then stayed open long enough to soak up the light from the background so that the blurs give a sense of movement.

It definitely helped that the rest of the frame was generally filled with people wearing dark coloured clothes.

Note to self while using slow sync: need to watch out for the background light and the aperture speed so that light trails will not deface the subjects.

The Padang at Night

I was there waiting for the fireworks, but it turned out to be a bad session thanks to the wind that turned the intended fireworks shots into something that might be mistaken as aurora borealis.