{"id":1503,"date":"2011-03-17T01:57:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T01:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2011-03-17T01:57:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T01:57:53","slug":"convention-al-pha-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Convention-AL-pha Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf5.jpg\"><br \/>\nNow, for more from the Sony Alpha Convention 2011! Here&#8217;s George Wong, the new Head Of Department for the new Sony Alpha Business Department.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf2.jpg\"><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the Sigma 12-24mm F4.5-5.6 EX DG on my Sony Alpha 900, giving the record widest rectilinear angle of view.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf1.jpg\"><br \/>\nOn the opposite end of the spectrum is the Sony 70-400mm F4-5.6G SSM on display.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf18.jpg\"><br \/>\nWe went for talks. Here&#8217;s &#8220;Nat Geo&#8221; Shaiful documenting his attendance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf3.jpg\"><br \/>\nThere were mimes and a caricature artist. Cool! I didn&#8217;t get round to getting my caricature done, though I did get the silent treatment from those dudes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf4.jpg\"><br \/>\nEvery now and then, the dancers would pop up and perform.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf6.jpg\"><br \/>\nA live studio shoot, where the resulting picture would become the front cover of a local photography magazine of whose title I do not remember.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf10.jpg\"><br \/>\n<b>Eddie<\/b> being Gary Friedman&#8217;s Voice Activated Lightstand. The effect was that of a softbox.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf11.jpg\"><br \/>\n<b>Din<\/b> absorbed in the performance. <b>Three layers deep!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf12.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe statues cast shadows.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf13.jpg\"><br \/>\nWe learnt about perspective to give depth to a picture from <b>Nikt Wong<\/b>&#8216;s talk about <b>Street Photography With NEX<\/b>. Gotta have the foreground, subject, and background. <b>Three layers deep!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf14.jpg\"><br \/>\nLeading lines give a sense of location.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf15.jpg\"><br \/>\nLadies and gents escalator.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf16.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe dancers from a flash mob. It was announced in the itinerary itself!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf17.jpg\"><br \/>\nHold it right there&#8230; if people know about it beforehand, it isn&#8217;t a flash mob anymore!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf19.jpg\"><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know who shot this but it is a damn cool shot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf7.jpg\"><br \/>\nOn Sunday, before reaching the KLCC Convention Center, I took some street photos with keeping the 3 layers and perspective in mind.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf8.jpg\"><br \/>\nOkay, maybe nothing much here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/sacf9.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe heart of KL is filled with foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1502\">Convention-AL-pha Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, for more from the Sony Alpha Convention 2011! Here&#8217;s George Wong, the new Head Of Department for the new Sony Alpha Business Department. Here&#8217;s the Sigma 12-24mm F4.5-5.6 EX DG on my Sony Alpha 900, giving the record widest rectilinear angle of view. On the opposite end of the spectrum is the Sony 70-400mm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}