Big Family, Subtle Change

Using very subtle Depth-Of-Field change to direct attention. Because the kid in front is sharpest, the viewer is drawn to his eyes first. A moderate wide aperture (f3.5) creates a gradual transition to a softer background. I wanted to blur the faces of the two busybody taxi drivers behind. Once you understand how a lens renders this effect, you won’t be using your Instagram’s ’tilt-shift’ filter recklessly for selective focus 🙂 This family outing was captured on a fishing village in Pangkor Island.

Big Family, Subtle Change

Back To Life

Chow Kit Market springs back to life this morning (Sunday, 26th August 2012) after a week of inactivity. I like this market for its ‘multi-racialness’. There are also Indonesians, Bangladeshis, Cambodians and Nepalese. Is like a Little Asia. The area may be teeming with drug addicts, hobos, street urchins and parking touts but somehow I feel safer here  than inside a mall’s car park.

Back To Life