Singapore Freelance Photographer - Tips and Techniques

This site is created not only to share with you the photos I had taken, but more importantly is to share with you basic photography fundamentals and essential photography tips. If you are new to or a beginner in photography and looking for a website for more photography information, this website is best designed for you!

Being a Singapore freelance photographer, I constantly strive to give you my best putting my photography skills and knowledge at work.

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My Default Settings for Optimal Results!

Frequently I have answers on what are the camera settings for begineers to achieve optimal results. This has never been an easy question to answer. Different lighting, environments and conditions requires different settings for best results.

Nevertheless I always have some default settings to start off with, for your reference:

1)Picture Format: RAW, to deliver best quality photos with more dynamic editing possible.

2) White Balance: Sunlight, as I prefer warmer photos. (Anyway you can still change the color temperature if shooting in RAW)

3) Metering: Spot Metering, for more accurate exposures of my main subjects. Beginners may first start with Center-weighted, which also delivers good results.

4) Focus: Single point focus, as I want to be in full control on what to focus. Having the camera's intelligent to decide for me is a bad idea.

5) Shooting mode: Aperture priority, so that I can control the amount of "Depth of Field". Begineers can use Program mode which is perfectly alright, as long as you can enjoy photography!

If any of the photography jargon sounds alien to you, do check out "Basic Photography Fundamentals" to find out more.

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Having Fun With Long Exposures Hand-held!

There are many ways to shoot at night, having fun with long exposures. Not necessary that you will always need to a tripod when shooting with long exposures. You can explore shooting hand-held, exploring abundance of creativities in photography!

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One of the best subject to shoot is lighted moving object, with examples shown above. Get away othe worry of having blurred photographs as this may bring out a different perspective out of the scene. Now your mission is to get creative and continue to have fun with photography!