Activity: Nightscape Shooting

This is an alternative activity for those late nights. Other than the prata suppers, shisha-ing (hookah) and pubbing/clubbing. 

Things you need for this activity:

- A camera

- A tripod

- An excellent buddy who will take turns in helping to carry the stuffs :p

Sometime last year I had this assignment for school in which I was supposed to take a panoramic photo of Singapore's night skyline. It was quite an exciting task because:

1. I have never tried something quite like this. 
2. I had just bought myself a second-hand Canon 500D
3. It gives me an excuse to give my parents to be able to go out late at night. Haha!

Thinking about Singapore's skyline, you will undoubtedly think of Marina Bay Sands, The Esplanade, and our very own 'Ferris wheel', The Singapore Flyer. All these photos were taken sometime in May 2013.

What you had to do is to actually take a series of photographs as above - each photo should have an overlap of about 20% between adjoining frames. You can't use your camera's auto settings for this. Using Photoshop or any other editing programs you can easily find online, just stitch them together and wait for it...

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             (,) )...  zzzz 

TADAA! (Actually it's not as simple as described above. LOL)

After I'm happy and tired with the shots we had taken (because I'll be graded for this), we decided to set up the tripod but this time for ourselves. :) It was already close to 2am and there were very few people around so we didn't have to feel awkward or paiseh.

We didn't imagine that it would be so fun. It's like having our very own photoshoot with the scenery behind us. (Actually you can see most of the buildings had their lights out by now). After that we walked around and looked for things which we can see at that particular hour.

Of course all the shops were closed.

We then headed to Marina Bay Sands. It was my first time in there so I was quite fascinated with how reflective the floor is. HAHA

  

We headed up to the 57th floor because well, there's not many choices we had since most of the floors require room passes to access them.And we were greeted by this beautiful view!! It's almost as shiok as being on the topmost floor. I had problems taking a better photo because of the reflections. Both of us were so tired by then but the view was certainly a wonderful end to our day. :)By the way, if you wanna catch the light show, you can view them every night at 8.30pm and 9pm. And on Saturdays, there is another show at 11pm too. You can find more information about the Marina Bay Sands Light and Water Show HERE (pretty awesome pictures!)

These photos of the MBS light show were taken using my iPhone 5. Quality was not good at all so I did some editing to them :p These were taken near the Merlion at Merlion Park.

Overall, it was a memorable outing for the both of us. What drove me to write this post was when he recently mentioned that he missed this particular time we had our night shooting. :)

I hope you liked this post. Tell me what you think and maybe try it out too! It is indeed a nice keepsake at the end of the day, having your very own panorama of Singapore's skyline. Even if it doesn't work the first time, take it as a challenge yup! And if all else fails, you can always set up your tripod and take some selfies. hehe Happy Shooting!

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