NM3223 – Cel’s Photography Blog

Hmm.. I began this assignment with a vision… one that made me take a picture where a path leads into lush greenery. That place was the beach. The path was Bedok Jetty. That took 2 days of shots to fill up the missing pieces and 5 hours of hard work to piece together 400++ layers of photos. As it turns out though, this piece is going to the dumps.

Attempt 1: East Coast Park

And so the story goes: One day I’m in Europe and the day after, I’m back on sunny island Singapore(with its limited attractions and pale blue skies). The feeling of wanting to be back in Europe strikes me hard as I walk past Chijmes one day. I could not help but notice how it resonated with gothic and neoclassical European architecture. I call this, “A little slice of Europe in Singapore”. How i miss Europe. In order to capture the entire front portion of Chijmes, I stood in one place and took close to 200 shots(up, down, left, right) to get the fish-eye effect. Raffles City got in the way of this shot, so Photoshop to the rescue! If you notice, I gave Chijmes a golden glow to signify surreality(The question of “This is Singapore, isn’t it?”). All this was done using plays on shadows and highlights. This is my mind’s view, and I thought I’d let you in on it. The sky is also given a stronger dose of blue to resemble European skies(which is almost always bright bright bright blue). Comments please………………

Chosen for presentation: “This is Singapore, isn’t it?”

SELF-ASSESSMENT(Total: 9.5/10):

For this assignment, I went to many places to try out different angles of shots of various places and also played around a lot with Photoshop – to take away unwanted buildings/people from the image. The Chijmes photomontage is my best piece yet and I succeeded in making people think that it was a shot not taken in Singapore. I rate myself 9.4/10 for creativity and 9.6/10 for effort. (Total = 9.5/10).

Mark feels my work should be rated 8.5/10, as the discoloring of CHIJmes to a yellowish hue was not to his liking. To me, the discoloration was intentionally done to create a golden hue to the building and hence bring out the ‘Europe-ish’ feel.

PEER EVALUATION:

I like Paul’s photomontage of the lone man sitting under a tree. The picture looks silent, which brings out the theme of “The Day After”. The only thing I disagree with is the overpowering green colour of his entire image. With that, I rate his work 8.5/10.

I feel that Michelle’s idea on creating movement is interesting. She created overlapping squares where the man’s hands are portrayed as doing different actions. Also, I notice that most if not all of the squares in her montage are focused. This was what Prof Reddy was looking for in our photomontage. I give her 8/10 for creativity and 8.8/10 for effort. (Total = 8.4/10)

My favourite piece is by Jialin. It was really refreshing to see a change of perspective and use of colours. The next time I take a walk down Pagoda Street, I’m sure to remember Jialin’s photomontage. I give her a perfect 10!