Robin Wong

Seeing Colorless Squares

noreply@blogger.com (Robin Wong) — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:17:00 +0000

It has been a long, traumatizing week at work place and the only consolation I had to cap off the otherwise fruitless week was something I looked forward to very much, my shutter therapy session, and this time, I have a guest from Sydney, Australia, Tom Truong! Together with usual suspects, Nick Wade and Kelvin Ng we attacked Petaling Street in the morning. I used my newly acquired Sony A57 and one lens only, the 50mm F1.8 lens. I shot everything in RAW, but as I was processing the files, my hands got a little itchy and I started cropping everything in squares, and yes, suddenly the black and white bug bit me again. In many cases on the street photos, I actually preferred the square format presentation. I do not know quite how to explain it, composition seemed to work better generally.

All images were taken with Sony Alpha A57 and 50mm F1.8 lens

Your Neck is Mine

Friendly Stranger

Leaning

Waiting

Push Harder

Double Dragons

A Box of Vegetable

Piercing

Prayers

On the Road

Laugh

Pavement

Tom Truong, a professional photographer from Sydney, Australia.

Nick Wade, finally out shooting!! Been missing you for a while

Oops, I thought I shot more of Kelvin, but this was the only one I had. My bad.

So what do you guys think of squares and black and white? I am loving them.

Panasonic GH3, Sigma 35mm F1.4 and Tom Truong from Sydney!

noreply@blogger.com (Robin Wong) — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:36:00 +0000

Tom Truong, a professional photographer from Sydney, Australia is in town again, and I managed to catch up with him over dinner earlier tonight! Do check out his amazing photography work on his portfolio website here (click). It was great hearing stories from a real, working, professional wedding photographer from another land, and surely there is much to share and learn from each other. He has got his hands on some of the latest and most interesting gear as well, such as the Panasonic GH3, which he intended to use mainly for video shoots. His main gear for his professional work is the Nikon system, and the latest addition to his Nikon was the new and highly raved Sigma 35mm F1.4 lens! Tom exclaimed how amazed he was using the Sigma lens on his Nikon D800!

Initially Tom suggested me to review the Panasonic GH3 (he brought along two lenses with it, the 12-35mm F2.8 as well as the 35-100mm F2.8). I do not have time to spare for reviewing the Panasonic GH3, I really want to, believe me, but I am tied down with my current day engineering job which pretty much sucked out all my free time dry. Then I suggested to Tom, why not he does the review himself, so I can feature him and his GH3 review on my blog here? It would be some sort of like a guest-blogging thing. Tom seemed to like the idea, and surely, he would need time to shoot and compose his review, and lets hope that really will happen!

That GH3, it actually felt like I was holding a real DSLR in hand. Rather large and heavy. It is interesting to see Panasonic taking such different approach on Micro 4/3 system.

Robin Wong

Seeing Colorless Squares

Panasonic GH3, Sigma 35mm F1.4 and Tom Truong from Sydney!

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