Photography, Page 5 Category

Single Shot #8

Battlestar Galatica is a duelling roller coaster located in Universal Studio Theme Park in Sentosa Island, Singapore. One of the coasters is a traditional carriage (Humans) where the passengers are seated. The other an inverted track (Cylons) where the passengers are hung with their feet free. The Cylons will do 5 inversions per run. This is the one you see below.

The ride last an exhilarating 90 seconds along the 1 km track with top speed of  90 km/hr.

Photo Technical Data:

Canon 7D, EF 70 – 300 mm at 214 mm. 1/800 sec @ f/5.0 ISO 800 (Cropped)

 

Single Shot #7

Street cats have interesting behaviours. They can be cautious,  timid, curious. This one is aloof. Looking at me in the eye, he seems to be saying to me, “What are you looking at?”

What’s he saying to you?

Photo Technical Data:

Canon 7D, EF-S 17-55 mm at 55 mm. 1/60 sec @ f/2.8 ISO 200(Cropped)

Single Shot #6

Two holiday makers taking a snapshot to remember their holiday at the Universal Studio. The artificial mist is created at the base of the Universal Studio’s Globe. It was a hot noon shot. The model was trying to keep his eyes open in the glare and the the watery mist.

Photo Technical Data:

Canon 7D, EF 70-300 mm at 170 mm. 1/1000 sec @ f/5.0 ISO 200

Single Shot #5

The image below is a scanned photo of a Swiss Federal Railway (SBB – Schweizerische Bundesbahnen) . The location was the Zurich Hauptbahnhof (Main Railway Station) and the year was 1988. From my research, the train engine is a Swiss Railway RE 420 electric powered locomotive. It is one of the most common locomotive operated by SBB. These locomotives were produced between 1964 and 1985. It’s maximum speed is more than 75 mph. Some of the locomotives are still in service today.

Rail transport is a major mode of transportation in Switzerland and the SBB has an extensive rail network serving the entire country. This particular train operated between Zurich and Kloten Airport.

 

Photo Technical Data:

Nikon FM,  Nikkor 43-86 f/3.5. Scanned from negative.

 

Single Shot #4

The Singapore Parliament house was opened on 6 September, 1999. Construction and design was undertaken by CPG Corp, the corporatised entity of Public Work Departments. The construction cost of the Parliament House was S$115.2 million.

It occupies 2.2 Hectares of land and has a built up are of 19,765 sq metere

This photo was taken on March 2015.

Photo Technical Data:

Canon 6D, EF 24-105mm at 24mm. 1/6 sec @ f/5.6. ISO 1600

 

 

Single Shot #3

There’s no need to travel up to Penang to see the street art there as there are great ones right here in Singapore. The picture shows a portion of a large mural which paintings of South American Indians in Haji Lane.

In 2012, URA red-flagged the graffiti for removal as ‘it does not meet the stipulated pastel shades for conserved shophouses’. After hearing impassioned pleas from the public, URA reconsidered the decision and  said that they appreciates that the artwork characterizes Haji Lane and as such has elucidated that the guidelines for the shophouse facades are not exhaustive, or in other words, one-size-fits-all. Good call.

There are more art pieces along the lane and oh, by the way, you can fing great food in the vicinity.

Photo Technical Data:

Canon 6D, EF 16-35mm at 16 mm. 1/1000 sec @ f/4.5. ISO 200
Processed in LR6 to bring up the color vibrancy.

Single Shot #2

The second image I chose for this series is this propeller which belongs to the  starboard turbo-prop engine of an ATR 42. The ATR42 is a 50 seat, short-haul twin-turboprop airliner built in France by Avions de Transport Régional. ATR is a joint partnership between the Airbus Group and the Italian company Alenia Aermacchi.

The plane belongs to FireFly, a wholly owned subsidiary of Malaysian Airlines. It is headquarted in Malaysia and flies to destination in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. It is the one of the very few airlines that operates out of Subang Airport, also known as Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport. This airport is much nearer to Kuala Lumpur than the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) at Sepang.

Firefly airline has since upgraded their ATR42 fleet to ATR72’s.

Photo Technical Data:

Canon 7D, EF 70-300mm at 130 mm. 1/400 sec @ f/7.1. ISO 100

Link to the first Single Shot #1

Single Shot #1

This series will feature a single image from my collection with an accompanying snippet of information. I will be posting an image a week, or as frequently as I can manage, so do come back if you like what you see.

This is Star Cruise SuperStar Virgo, one of their largest cruise liner. The photo was taken on Nov 2011 at Harbourfront Cruise Centre, Singapore. Click on the image for a larger view.

This photo was taken when I was still shooting in jpg format. I couldn’t recover some of the blown highlights. Shooting in raw format would have given me more dynamic range. We do learn from our mistakes, don’t we?

Photo Technical Data:

Canon 7D, EF 70-300mm at 110mm.13 sec @ f/8.0. ISO 100

Some ship facts:

Launched : 23 Dec 1998	Gross Tonnage :  75,338 grt
Length : 268 m	Number of cabins : 935
Beam : 32 m	Passenger capacity : 1,870