First post of the year, 2010! Happy new year to everyone! I didn’t manage to achieve my aim of shooting and developing 1 roll of film every month as I was busy during December. I need to buck up!!!
New year resolution of 2010:
1. 1 or 2 roll of films every month.
2. Posting of photos every month.
3. Get a new lens
Back to topic, I went to the Singapore zoo in December. It’s been sooo long since I visited the zoo. There are many new things. One of the new thing that I enjoyed was the boat ride. The boat ride went around the Mandai reservoir, from 1 end of the zoo to the other end. I find the ride a bit too short but still enjoy it. The scenery doesn’t feel like I am in Singapore. I felt peaceful and relax, unlike the fast pace feeling when you are in a city.
1. White tiger
2. Hippo (used to like hippo when I was young)
3. Lizard??
4. Group of baboons waiting to be fed
5. View from the boat ride (Tried some photoshop effect)
I saw some nice photos from echeleon at http://echeleon.livejournal.com/23522.html?view=221154. His panoramic photos were taken by taking multiple shots/exposures on his Holga 120. After learning some of the techniques from him, I decided to try it out on my Holga 135BC.
There are some differences between the Holga 120 and Holga 135BC. For echeleon’s set of photos, he is only allowed 12 shots whereas I’m allowed 36 shots. He can also calculate how many clicks he should turn for each shot. For my testing, I found it hard to calculate the number of clicks. As seem from my photos, the number of overlapping is different between the SMU and the Sentosa shots. Echeleon’s overlapping is more consistent.
In summary, this is done advancing the film bit by bit and moving from one direction to another direction. For example, moving from left to right. For my case, I use a tripod and turning the camera in a 360 degrees. Once you takes a shot, move your camera and advance the film a bit to get the overlapping. It is really hard to judge the number of clicks on the Holga 135BC. I tried to do 4 multi exposures on the SMU photo and 2/3 multi exposures on the Sentosa photo.
I used Fuji Astia 100 film to test this. 
1. SMU/ National museum (Click here to view in bigger size)
2. Sentosa (Click here to view in bigger size)
Other photos
3. Sunset
4. Beach
This roll was taken when we went to Hong Lim Park (Chinatown) for Director Goh’s MV. I did something stupid again! I OPENED the back of the camera AGAIN. Haha. At least this round, I got some surprise! The film used was Fuji Astia 100. The last time I use Fuji Astia, I got a yellowish tone after cross process. Due to the overexpose, I get a pinkish, yellowish, greenish colour. Some of the shots were taken at Vivo City and Bugis.
1. Singapore Flag (weird colour)
2. Mei Mei
3. Chinatown Point’s Ceiling
4. Vivo City
5. Playground
6. Thin snowman (Normal colour of Fuji Astia)
This roll was taken in August at Vivo Ctiy and Suntec City. I used the tunnel vision lens on most of the shots. I found a Konica slide in my fridge and decided to used it. I think I brought the rolls quite sometime back. After developing, I was disappointed with the Konicachrome 200 film. There isn’t any colour shift like more slide when cross process. My photos turned out to be very very grainy. I still have 1 roll of Konicachrome left. I don’t think I will use it any more. If anyone is interested in the film, you can contact me as I intend to give it away.
1. Vivo City
2. Kids playing with the fountain
3. No fishing!
4. Gate of Botanic Gardens
5. Accidentially multiexposure
6.View from the restaurant
Congratulation to Jeffrey and Wendy!!!! We went to shoot a wedding MTV for their big day on 20th September. I had some fun shooting them for fun. There was enough time for us to go to 2 places, SMU and Sentosa.
I wish them happily ever after!
1. Toot toot jeff (Taken by DS)
2. Sweet couple (Taken by DS)
3. While waiting for Duckie to come
4. At sentosa, model!
5. MTV production. Director Goh
6. Our wonderful assistant/driver/helper
7. ME!!!! Taken by Director Goh, having fun during break
8. Sunset
