Author Archives: Tan Kahong

About Tan Kahong

I am: A designer that love travel; A traveler that love photography; A photographer that love reading; A reader that love technology; A user that love design

Abandon Beauty

The 2 mannequins at the back alley behind my office. Continue reading

Posted in Picture of a day | Leave a comment

Fall in love with the lighting in Australia

After the Shangri-La trip, I wanted to explore more of the back light technique and Australia has given me the best opportunity to practice with its light. For those who live away from equator might not understand how prestigious of the light in golden hours, but it’s the limitation for us who live in Singapore. Continue reading

Posted in Portfolio | Leave a comment

Light from Heaven (Extending view with panoramic)

With the technology’s help, some technique have been much easier to achieve, panoramic is one of them. That’s no big secret about panoramic, just some understanding, preparation and setting on the shot and then a few awareness on post-processing follow by a few clicks. Continue reading

Posted in Photo Note | Leave a comment

Which way (Colour is the music)

Consider this, the colour in photography is as the soundtrack in movie. In movie, sound is one of the most important element for building up atmosphere and it does the same to me on photograph. Continue reading

Posted in Photo Note | Leave a comment

Crossing (Wait for the moment)

One of the most important in photography is capturing the moment (The Decisive Moment, Henri Cartier Bresson) and that’s is one of the beauty of photography. And today, we understand it’s not how fast we react to the scene, but how we choose the scene and story, when the shutter is click you pause the moment, including the decision if it made the photography. Continue reading

Posted in Photo Note | 1 Comment

Different world (Contrast in Composition)

Contrast is very much like a conversation in the picture, they respond to each other, back and forth, create flow and atmosphere. Once the contrast is in place, the composition need to take place for it to express. We could have the left-right, top-bottom, diagonal or outside-inside (within). Continue reading

Posted in Photo Note | Leave a comment

Move in the city (Understand your shutter)

We could use a ruler and a pencil to draw a nice architecture drawing or used the paint brush to paint the beauty of the dancer under the sunset. But we won’t use the ruler for sketching the dancer or use the paint brush to draw the architecture drawing, will we? Continue reading

Posted in Photo Note | Leave a comment

Abandon House (Don’t be afraid of light)

We know, it is all about light. It’s also our experience that told us light can be either our best friend or worst enemy. Thus most of us would avoid direct pointing light (I know it has been ruins countless frame of your shot). But what you have not known is you might just missed out the magic moment when the light fall in straight on your canvas (censor or film). Continue reading

Posted in Photo Note | Leave a comment

“On The Road Again” group travel exhibition

“On The Road Again” exhibition is a group exhibition base on travel theme of 6 photographers, from 8th – 24th July 2009 at 2902 Gallery, it’s also my very first exhibition. Continue reading

Posted in Announcement | Leave a comment

Empty

Light and shadow created space, and space ain’t empty. I wished the light shine on my and cast a shadow, that give me beautiful space. Continue reading

Posted in Picture of a day | Leave a comment