I am not photographing an illusion created by shooting through glass. There is no glass, only a frame. Neither is this a distorted reflection off a skyscraper window. It is the actual shape of the buildings. Notice how the other buildings are not bent? I like the design of the The Capers in Sentul East. It dares to be bold and different. KL’s skyline needs more funky architecture.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f6.3, 1/100 sec.
A dilapidated but occupied old building in Chinatown KL. Watercolour filter was applied. The tragedy about our old heritage buildings is that they are either left in disrepair or the windows are replaced with mismatched aluminium framed black tinted glass. Sigh.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f9, 1/250 sec.
I ran into a nice bunch of teens visiting the landmark Stadium Merdeka. One of them had a dSLR. As I stopped to observe, another boy climbed up the gate. Thought he was going to pose with a peace sign (V-sign). He did. Then without warning, he flipped and somersaulted across the roof. This is a stacked double exposure of that moment I photographed from the car.
Asked them later where they were from and the shy and polite kids said they are from a school in Puchong. They rode a motorcycle to town to sightsee. I am not sure if this is safer than street racing though.
Other Moral Of The Story: For street photography, keep your camera in continuous low burst mode instead of single. Or 4 fps in the case of the OM-D. Its high burst of 9 frames per second mode is even better but it can shorten the camera’s shutter life if used indiscriminately.
Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f11, 1/400 sec.
