Chinese Acrobats' performance at Capsquare

Chinese New Year is upon us again. I must have been really busy or very lazy and inefficient. Why? Only now, that I am reviewing the photographs that I took last year.

I saw a similar performance yesterday at the centre, Capsquare, and my reflex-action was to take out my Lumix LX3 to take some photographs. Then I 're-holstered' it. Reasons are many, as the following photographs will illustrate.

Actually, the main grouse is the background. It is just too distracting. With a DSLR, I could probably 'blur' that through good use of depth-of-field. Lumix LX-3 has a manual function too, but what the heck, it is supposed to be a point and shoot!

Otherwise, this is a gem of a shot. Your thoughts?

Food, Food, Food

I was invited by Jaen, an ex-colleague, for dinner at her house on Boxing Day. Lots of good food, but just could not remember the names of these starters, main courses, and desserts.

Anyway, having these pictures on this blog just to touch on the subject of food photography.

As these unedited images taken by a point-and-shoot Panasonic Lumix LX3 shows, they still looks pretty good. So, why bother with professional work taken with professional DSLR's?

Too bad I did not bring the big camera to take shots for comparison. But I will somehow highlight where it would be better to have 2nd and 3rd sources of light so as to paint a better picture of the great dishes.

This looks plain 2 dimensional. Better to have some light at the side and the distracting over-exposed part removed with controlled lighting.

With the other camera, I will probably open up the lens so that those rolls at the rear are 'blurred' more.

If I had taken care to remove the dish in the backgroud, then this would be alright.

Again, could be improved with better lighting

better lighting?

Oops, just off target. My fault.