Oct 31, 2013

Some Behind the Scenes Photos

You know, I very seldom thought of how I looked like when I was shooting, and certainly when I have been shooting with many people who tagged along with me on the streets lately, more and more photos were taken of me while I was shooting away, and when those photos came back.... I almost always went "whaaaaaattt....... no waaayy I looked like that!!!". Honestly, I never knew how I blended with the street while I was shooting, that was one mystery yet to be solved. 

Awwww please don't walk away...


Before walking away...

I actually thought I was standing a lot closer when I was taking this shot, but my estimation on the field has been wrong all along. What I thought was less than a meter away, turned out to be about one and a half meter distance. Trust me this was a grave mistake, because my engineering background requires me to estimate distances rather accurately. 

The usual headshot street portrait

He liked the shot too!

Always happy to meet amazing photographers

I am afraid of heights actually! 

I don't shoot with tripod often. 

And I did not know I held the camera like that! I did not know my fingers can bend so much as well. 

Special thanks to Jackie, Siew KS, Jason, Nick, Khong and Shaun for the photos. 


16 comments:

  1. Love the details!!! Gosh....that's small!!!

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  2. So you would always ask before you shoot someone and then show them what you shot after? Curious cause I think the hard part is asking. :(

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    1. Here, read this, http://robinwong.blogspot.com/2012/03/approaching-strangers.html

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  3. Hi Robin,

    Thanks for you're Olympus support, I bought the EM-1 + 12-40 today, will let you know when it arrives!
    You can follow the updates on my new website!!

    www.oldersom.nl

    Kind regards

    Rick

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  4. I know about the surprise of seeing yourself while shooting. Years ago, I met an online friend and we went to a state park with wildlife and I was moving slowly to photograph a duck, but it was ready to fly away. I got my shots, including some wing flapping, and then, he uploaded a shot of me, and I had to laugh. At least, I wasn't on the ground looking up at a building that time. :-D

    You do some enjoyable work. Does it matter how you look or how you see yourself looking?

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    1. Hey Sakamoto,
      You were right, it does not matter how I look, appearance is not important, but I was just curious how people look at me, because that is exactly what I am photographing!

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  5. Aww my photo is there XD
    Can't wait to get E-M1 then let's go shooting again ;)

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  6. A big thank u to your accompanying photographer friends for your 'caught in action 'shots .:)

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  7. Robin which tripod are you using in the photo above?

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  10. If you'd want to see something funny, you should have seen me in the past doing wildlife photography. I'm a big and tall person. So picture little petite me, with the grace, suppleness and stealth of a charging rhinoceros going through the undergrowth of the woods with a not-so-small medium format body and a colossal 300m Zeiss Sonnar. Ah, the good old days. I did manage a few really special shots though, and a few of the sky when I missed the trunk of a tree.

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