photo of the week #5

One of my favourite shots so far, taken on 3 Feb this year after my second outing at the Singapore Airshow. I love this shot for many reasons. The first one is obviously the interesting shadows on the wall and their reflections in the glass and floor. The second reason is if you look closely at the left glass wall, you will be able to see the reflection of the partially-hidden control tower, but if you look to the right of the picture, where the tower actually is, you'll see it's over-exposed. This little detail I hadn't noticed until it was accepted, haha. And here's the thing - you have to be at the right place to get the tower in the shot, something that I hadn't planned for.

The third reason is the timing of the shot. One cannot take this photo at any time due to the different angles of the sun throughout the year. I believe the beginning of the year is when you'll get this kinds of reflections. I went back to the airport recently and took the same photo from about the same spot and here's what I got:

Definitely not as interesting as the shot above. Maybe the lack of shadows is due to the overcast weather. But even if it is so, not everybody can wait for the sun to come out for a good picture. I just happened to be there at the right time. ^^v

The fourth reason is that the photo made it despite containing a lot of noise (you can see it in the black part of the 'Changi Airport' sign). I shot this at ISO400 and strained lots of eye muscles removing the noise, only to have it added back when I uploaded the photo onto A.net. I took it from the queue, but a few days later I said what the hell and uploaded it again. I'm glad I went for it.

And that's the happy story behind my 15th photo on A.net. In future PotWs, I will try to describe the photo in greater detail, like why I took it, and what it means to me etc. I realise my posts have been rather short and boring and it's always nice to know a little story or two behind a photo. So I shall try to do that. In the meantime, I am going to plan my next photography outing and then dream of my 5D Mark II.