Cityscape Disaster : Transformers

Okay so I went a little crazy and decided to add another photo to the Cityscape Disaster series. The older series was about natural disasters and this one is just... highly unlikely. It was heaps of work but hey, I would be lying if I said it wasn't fun to make. I learned a lot since I did the previous series but this took me a whopping 3 hours to finish. Most of the editing time was taken up by the little details added for realism.

Admittedly, it does not look consistent to the style of the previous series because I decided to retain more natural colors on this one. And sticking to the movie, I decided not to break tradition and added the excessive trademark lens flares. The background photo was taken at the Lintas highway.

Note: I haven't mentioned it but this semester's exams are over! It has been since Friday :D Interestingly, the Tsunami photo which is the first from the series, was also made right after my exam last year.

Here are the links to the previous posts from the Cityscape Disaster series.
Cityscape Disaster : Tsunami
Cityscape Disaster : Tornado
Cityscape Disaster : Meteor Strike

Extinguished

I'm not sure what it is with me and spotting fires recently but this car was on fire barely 5 minutes before I could get a photo of it. It stopped on the road between Luyang Clinic and BTC Restaurant here in Lintas last night.

It seemed like the restaurant staff (I assume) had already put out the fire with fire extinguishers and we were told the owner of the burnt proton perdana was sitting safely in the restaurant.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! We had an awesome view of the fireworks from the waterfront last night. I didn't bring my tripod along so I had to take the shots hand held.

[Update] Added two more photos :)

Heroes

It has been pretty boring recently with the lack of futsal and stuff so I decided to have this shoot with Bernard, revisiting a project I did the last time around click here. The idea of course is based on the television series, Heroes.

Credits to Bernard for coming up with the idea for my pose with the red and blue fire.

oh and Selamat Hari Raya to all muslims :)

Endless Dreams

I'm starting to feel lazy. I have a cold and there hasn't been much headway in my revision and to top it off the gloomy weather is giving me a slight sense of foreboding.

Fireworks

The Chinese new year was greeted with hundreds of colorful fireworks sent exploding into the night sky. The spectacular display lasted for quite a while as people from all over the city were using up as much as they could for that very moment, as if competing with each other ;p It really sounded as if it was war.

This is actually my first time capturing fireworks :)

These are some of the fireworks that I captured. Before and after the new year. A couple of the photos have black lines across them because of the power lines that were outside my house. The second photo appears to have a spiralling effect because of the camera shake.

The photos are all taken at 5 seconds shutter on a tripod [except for the third photo which was hand-held with the shutter at BULB] with the aperture at f/14 with my 18-55mm kit lens.

Burning out the Hornets

The DBKK responded to requests to remove/destroy/burn this huge hornet's nest that was on a hill near my house. We had to close our windows to make sure the hornets don't fly in. We even brought Chester and Happy into the house.

The whole thing took about 10-12 minutes for the whole nest to collapse into sparks and charred debris. It was pretty awesome. Some flaming debris landed next to a plastic water tank that belonged to my opposite neighbor. One of the DBKK workers quickly went and removed it before it caused any damage.

Bush Fire

The beginnings of draught season has just made it's presence known as a bush fire had sparked on a hill not far behind from my house. The fire began in the early evening with plumes of smoke and sparks rising into the sky and the fire blazing ever brighter as time went by with the distant sound of crackles of burning wood.

Being on the bottom of the hill, we didnt know much that was going on, wether or not a fire engine had arrived. Concerned neighbors came out of the comfort of their homes to observe.

The night went on and it seemed like the fire began to creep closer but then, not long after that, the glow of the fire and the noise of the crackling wood began to die down as the fire engine which was only just visible through the trees had arrived to put the fire out.

Doom

I was bored so I blended this picture I took looking into a car side mirror with a picture of a nuclear explosion I found on google and added a reflection on the car window to add more realism; though im not sure if I did the reflection right ;p

Fire In The Hole

On our way to town my mum and I came across a van that had caught fire and was slowing down the traffic as drivers had to switch lanes. We drove by and I took some shots of it.