Cross Path – a Night Cinemagraph

Last week I took another trip to this location near Chinatown, on an overhead bridge, where I was trying to create the above night cinemagraph. I was there in mid December 2016 where I made some nautical twilight photos for my project, Not Quite Night, of the same photo title.

Days after making those photos, an idea came into my mind on creating cinemagraphs at night. I wrote down some interesting ideas on my digital notebook, Evernote. It's 6 months now and finally I got the chance to create one using my iPhone 6 Plus. I know it's not the best tool to do video with its quality limitations but for a start-up, I think it's good enough. Previously I've created Everlasting Heinken – my very first cinemagraph, with my iPhone too.

For Cross Path cinemagraph, I spent more time to process it and refine it than the first one, and in the end the result pays off. I would continue trying to think more new interesting ideas and create more in the near future.

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Night Street Photo – Trishaw Workshop

I took a stroll along Joo Chiat Road last week and came across this trishaw repair shop. I believe this elderly man is the shop owner and he seen to be exhausted after a hard day's work. Head bowed with opened arms on knees and sighed. It was 8:30PM (SST) when I made this environmental portrait.

To show some close-up details of his working environment, I decided to do a 16x9 vertical panorama crop as shown below.

Photo info: Apple iPhone 6 Plus on Camera+ app and post processed in Snapseed. Black & white conversion in Photoshop using Nik's Silver Efex Pro 2.

Night Street Photo – Joo Chiat Street Under Full Moon

Night Street Photo – Untitled

Not Quite Night series #48 – Split Head 2

Not Quite Night series #47 – Shadow in the Light 2

Not Quite Night series #46 – Sunset Industry 2

Not Quite Night series #45 – Sunset Industry

Not Quite Night series #44 – Perumal Blue Stars

Not Quite Night series #43 – The Beginning of Departure

Not Quite Night series #42 – The Alter State of Nirvana

Night Street Photo – Night Blossom

New Playground on the Block – The Crooked Houses

It's been a long while since I last made nocturnal photographs of playgrounds...

Not Quite Night series #41 – Loiter Away In Twilight

Not Quite Night series #40 – When Sodium Vapor Hits

Not Quite Night series #39 – Underpass

Not Quite Night series #38 – Evening Stroll

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Not Quite Night series #37 – Abandoned

Not Quite Night series #36 – At The End of Arrival

Not Quite Night series #35 – Dakota Crescent

Not Quite Night series #34 – Dakota Crescent

Not Quite Night series #33 – Dakota Crescent

NOT QUITE NIGHT Digital eBook Launch

Hey night dwellers! Tonight I'm proud to present you my very first digital eBook for NOT QUITE NIGHT. Below are 2 respective platforms where I uploaded to and shared my new eBook.

My Zenfolio Website

ISSUU.com

It's not the kind of book you see on most book stores, rather it's a simplified 40 pages eBook in which it contains only 28 NQN photos I made since I started out last mid-August till end of 2016. I hope you enjoy my eBook as much as I love making them. Thank you!

Night Street Photo – Pongal Graffiti

Graffiti artist at work, in celebration of the annual Pongal Festival. Another panoramic shot of the graffiti. All captured on iPhone 6 Plus on default mode and post-processed in Snapseed and further enhanced in Photoshop.

Not Quite Night series #32 – Dakota Crescent

Not Quite Night series #31 – Dakota Crescent

Companionship

Not Quite Night series #30 – Dakota Crescent

This first photo in 2017 was made 3 days ago at Dakota Crescent between 1915hrs to 1930hrs. I got my iPhone 6 Plus laid horizontally on the ground getting the the lowest angle possible. Made a couple of shots on default mode and tilt-shifted in SHRWT for the vertical lines correctional. Next post-processed in Snapseed with further color contrast enhancement in Photoshop using Nik Color Efex Pro 4. It's cropped to 16:9 aspect ratio for the wide pano-cinematic effect.

Not Quite Night series #29 – Rochor Detracted

Not Quite Night series #28 – Rochor Aisle

Not Quite Night series #27 – Back Alley

Not Quite Night series #26 – Cross Path

Not Quite Night series #25 – Shadow in the Light

Not Quite Night series #24 – Emerald Hill

Not Quite Night series #23 – Emerald Hill

Not Quite Night series #22 – Porch

Not Quite Night series #21 – Umbrella Tree

Not Quite Night Project Logo

Tonight I am proud to present to you a new logo for my new photography project, Not Quite Night. For the past 4 months most of you readers have seen most of my NQN photos which are posted weekly here in this blog site.

In case some of our new readers do not know about Not Quite Night. NQN is a collection series of night street photographs made with a Smartphone camera, during the specific twilight period between 7:05PM to 7:25PM (Singapore Standard Time SST).

Created this simple animated banner out of fun.

The main reason why I use a Smartphone camera is simply it's light, fast and convenient. Nothing wrong to use a digital SLR camera for that tact sharp image quality and RAW image post-process but NQN is pretty much like an impromptu, guerrilla-style kind of night photography. Wherever I go during the twilight hour and when I spotted a night scenery I would take out my phone camera and snap away. For a DSLR, its size is quite bulky and setting up can take up certain amount of time especially when a tripod is deployed. This definitely slow me down. During that short time period of 20 minutes, I need to work fast and make as many different perspective shots as possible. Suffice it to say, a Smartphone camera is obviously the right choice as we carry it with us all the time, never leave home without it.

Well, there's an alternate option which is a mirrorless camera. With the advanced digital technology mirrorless camera is capable of producing tact sharp, good colors high quality images with fast shutter speed and low digital noise at super duper high ISO. Its compact size makes it convenient to carry wherever you go. I'm considering on this option but for the time being, I'll stick to my Apple iPhone 6 Plus.

Back on NQN, there are some similarities in ambience lighting between dawn and dusk. Though NQN could cover two different timelines, I chose the latter for its environmental atmosphere which opens up a greater possibilities in the aspect of night photography.

As of today onwards, all NQN photos will be watermarked with this logo. That's all for tonight! I hope to receive your continuous kind support. Until next blog post, take care and lights off!

Not Quite Night series #20 – Phone Booth

Not Quite Night series #19 – ESSO Station