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Splitting Image

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To photograph the Nine Emperor Gods Festival, you really need to spend at least half a day there. Go in the afternoon, stay there until night. Twilight hour is magical when sunlight and artificial light mix. Add rain to it and you have plenty of unique photo opportunities such as this puddle of rainwater on a table.

This is the 9th post of the 9-day Nine Emperor Gods Festival 2012. Thank you for the 900 odd likes on Instagram. Hope you enjoyed the series and found some of the photography tips useful.

Back to regular eclectic programming after this.

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It Never Rains In Southern Ampang

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It never rains In Southern Ampang. It pours, man, it pours… Without fail, it will rain every year, throughout the nine-day Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Ampang. Rain is good for photography. Dark skies, fire, smoke present dramatic subjects for the lens.

When you shoot giant joss sticks, try to include a human figure so that the viewer can get a sense of scale or size. Similarly, see how I included spectators together with the stilt walkers in the previous pic.

Title inspired by one of my favourite Albert Hammond songs.

It Never Rains In Southern Ampang

Moody Temple

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By steering your camera’s white balance carefully, you can enhance the moody lighting of a temple. Smoke, fire, silhouttes and a cool bluish tint are the ingredients. Photographed at a temple in KL Chinatown with the Olympus E-PL2.

Moody Temple