{"id":753,"date":"2006-11-03T04:11:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T04:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=753"},"modified":"2014-07-08T07:40:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T07:40:55","slug":"dang-wang-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"Dang Wang II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here comes the finale to the Dangi Wang<\/s> Dang Wangi pictures. But first, a trip on the monorail, in infrared, with infinity focus on my Fujifilm Digital Q1 manual-focus infrared-modded camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nLeave me behind.<\/p>\n


\nPylon.<\/p>\n


\nThe city looks weirdly like a patch growing amongst low-rise buildings.<\/p>\n


\nStadium Merdeka.<\/p>\n


\nThe new mosque near Hang Tuah Monorail. (All these shots on a moving monorail train. Hail the infrared-sensitivity, which gives me a sure 1\/2000th of a second exposure, fast enough for all motion!)<\/p>\n


\nI got back in color on my old Canon Powershot A520 for this, from a window in Berjaya Times Square.<\/p>\n


\nAthena<\/a> is not mirrored.<\/p>\n


\nWe headed to Dang Wangi, with a most discriminatory signboard. No rempits<\/i>!<\/p>\n


\nThis was not shot in monochrome. I don’t know how it got this desaturated.<\/p>\n


\nStill standing.<\/p>\n


\nRaymond<\/a> metering.<\/p>\n


\nThey closed the site where we camwhored previously<\/a>!<\/p>\n


\nThere was another still open, but not as appealing.<\/p>\n


\nSo we, uh, took pictures of ourselves. *insert CGI sequence zooming in to my camera, to see…*<\/p>\n


\nGrace<\/a>!<\/p>\n


\nWithout an infrared-passing filter, certain objects (like Athena’s bag) absorb infrared, thus reflecting normal light only. The rest is that color because it reflects a lot of infrared.)<\/p>\n


\nIt makes for a very cool accidental color-accenting effect. Most black shirts appear bright in infrared, but some don’t and may be used in infrared photography for cool effect.<\/p>\n


\nA stairway near the station. The softness and vignetting are a natural byproduct of the cheap manual focus lens. Digital lomo baby!<\/p>\n


\nAthena took this.<\/p>\n


\nWhy’d they rip a shoplot apart, I do not know.<\/p>\n


\nMoss.<\/p>\n


\nGrace the eternal camwhore.<\/p>\n


\nAmazing; the Proton car absorbed infrared.<\/p>\n


\nWe then ran to The Bodhi Tree for food as it started dristling and the mosquitoes marked their territory at dawn.<\/p>\n


\nGrace through the 52mm Hoya R72 infrared-passing filter.<\/p>\n


\nSneak preview of things to come. Grace’s friend Kok Kiong had an Olympus E-500 digital SLR and I got to play with it! While I’d been wondering why their lenses were all so short, like 40-150mm F3.5-4.5, it was justified because the dSLRs had a 2x crop factor. So it would crop (somewhat) like a 80-300mm on film (or around 55-200mm for a dSLR with 1.5x crop factor.) Yep, the viewfinder was dark because of the 2x crop factor. However, the 300mm-like crop was at F4.5! That was brighter than the budget lenses which usually end at 200mm F5.6. Both the 14-50mm and 40-150mm had 52mm screw threads, so you can imagine how small they were. No wait, here’s a picture.<\/p>\n


\nWe dashed through the alleys in the rain…<\/p>\n


\n…and reached Dang Wangi LRT station, where, uh, KJ<\/a> dictates his plan for world domination, and an interested twisted sadistic tyrant listens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here comes the finale to the Dangi Wang Dang Wangi pictures. But first, a trip on the monorail, in infrared, with infinity focus on my Fujifilm Digital Q1 manual-focus infrared-modded camera. Leave me behind. Pylon. The city looks weirdly like a patch growing amongst low-rise buildings. Stadium Merdeka. The new mosque near Hang Tuah Monorail. […]<\/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-753","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\/753","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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6568,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/6568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}