Wangfujing Night Market

Wangfujing Night Market
Originally uploaded by alexthomasphoto

This is an image taken by a friend of mine who is studying documentary photography - in China.

"The Wangfujing Night Market has a selection of exotic Street food on the Snack Street. Deep fried insects, scorpions, and sea creatures can be found, along with other animals and animal parts not ordinarily consumed as food in the west"

I like how the man smoking the cigarette gives the impression of 'attitude' and rebeliousness compared with the rest of the bokeh'd out guys toward the left of the image.

Flame ON!

Ellesh and Leena Wedding
Originally uploaded by SunnyPhotography

Captured at 1/5000th of a second, this image captured the flames from a religious, spiritual and holy cerremony carried out before a Hindu wedding.

Personally i love how the raw fire has been captured - as if it has been contained.

Any comments??...

5D Mark 2 at Focus On Imaging '09

here's some more footage of the 5D mark2 with two different lenses; the first being my favorite lens, the 50mm F1.2L lens; and the second being the 24-105mm F4 IS L lens. For those of you unfamiliar with canon lens terminology, 'L' stands for 'Luxury'. According to canon, "these lenses use special optical technologies [such as] Ultra-low Dispersion UD glass, Super Low Dispersion glass, Fluorite elements, and Aspherical elements to truly push the optical envelope."

Also, IS stands for Image Stabilisation which as the canon rep in the second video discusses, is arguably better than in-body stabilisation methods. The reason, i'm not sure, but i AM sure that he believes it with all his heart. Anyway.. here's the vids!

p.s. you might want to watch them in HD!

Broadcast Video Expo - Earls Court

I went to the Broadcast Video Expo event at Earls Court on Weds 18th Feb 09 with a videographer friend of mine. The equipment there was absolutely awesome! From consumer products to high end cinematography equipment such as the RED range of pro video cameras (which have a res of 4x 1080P!)

I got to play about with the Canon 5D MKII on a Steadicam Merlin. I obviously hadnt mastered the technique required to use it like the pros do but after 5 mins or so i was used to the silky smooth motion it gave and how to control it. After figuring out how to record from live-view on the 5D MKII I recorded this video... (please rate it and subscribe!) - its best to watch it in HD via the link from youtube.

how cute is that!?

just imagine how difficult it would be to catch a shot like this.. it requires the 2 P's.. patience and precision. (and a nice lens..lol).

Venice - the Biennale

Venice - the Biennale
Originally uploaded by SunnyPhotography

This is the whole of the pavillion as described in the previous post. It brings back memories! I want to go to venice again!lol

sunny :p

Venice - the Biennale

Venice - the Biennale
Originally uploaded by SunnyPhotography

An image from Venice that i quite like. It is the side of a pavillion by the river. It is essentially a mirrored glass box with the inside painted red and a tall tree standing directly in the centre of it.

Sunny :p