Snapshots: Andrew Chan
In the tech journalism circle in Singapore, Chan is acknowledged as a pretty decent photographer, having wrote a photography book and known to be absolutely mad about taking pictures. In this instance of Snapshots, Chan shows us exactly how to take travel pictures that will leave more than just a fond memory.
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Name:
Andrew Chan
Type of photographer:
Former semi-professional and camera reviewer
Equipment:
Andrew Chan was the ex-editor for a leading Southeast Asian computer and consumer electronics magazine and was also a semi-professional photographer. He has authored numerous articles, guides and a book about digital photography. His articles and photographs have appeared in magazines, corporate publications, advertisements, as well as newspapers. He has since left the editorial industry, but still maintains an avid interest in digital photography.
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About Andrew Chan:
Since young, I have always been interested in photography, but the real catalyst came when I joined a consumer electronics magazine in 2003 where I was tasked to produce the publication’s first digital photography booklet. In order to create a technically competent and educational product, I spent three months in intense research about the technical fundamentals of photography and camera technologies.
I like taking photographs where a camera can provide a very different interpretation to what our human eyes perceive: In particular, night and macro photography. In night photography, I prefer long exposures as it emphasizes and streak light sources while saturating the color of the skies into an amplified hue. And in macro photography, the lens magnifications involved present tiny objects in a surreal, larger-than-life perspective. In both these genres of photography, I feel happy when my photos surprises views with a new interpretation of familiar objects.
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Seoul City Landscape
Many compact cameras today have an automatic "panoramic" mode that stitches photos together to form a panoramic landscape. However, this cityscape of Seoul is actually composed of three separate photographs stitched together by Adobe Photoshop. If your camera does not have an automatic panorama mode, or if you are shooting with a dSLR, tips to achieve such shots include using a tripod to maintain a consistent height to shoot each component photo, and not to adjust camera settings--especially lens focal length.
Equipment: HP Photosmart C945
Exposure: F5.6; 1/200sec; ISO 100
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