This ginger plant flower was taken at Singapore Botanic Gardens. This is a good choice of using spot metering as the flower was lighted by the sun while the surrounding were in shadows. With spot metering, the camera will only measure a very small area of the scene (between 1-5% of the viewfinder area). This [...]
Posted on February 24th, 2012 in Photosharing, Techniques
Singapore Botanic Gardens(SBG) is always a good place for budding photographers. Today I would like to share a photograph of the Bandstand. Extract from the SBGwebsite : “A bandstand was erected in the early 1860s as a focal point of the original landscape design of Singapore Botanic Gardens. The present octagonal structure was built in [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2007 in Photosharing
I enjoyed nature macro photography and spends many hours in the outdoors shooting flowers and insects. This photo of a damselfly is taken at Singapore Botanic Gardens. Here a shallow depth of field is used to throw everything other than the head of the fly into a patch of blur. This in turn created a [...]