{"id":950,"date":"2007-09-18T02:01:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T02:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=950"},"modified":"2014-08-29T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T08:01:14","slug":"still-a-forty-niner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"Still A Forty-Niner"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt was 30th August 2007, Merdeka Eve, and I was going home after work. I just intended to hop on the bus and not join the festivities, but as I passed by Masjid Jamek I heard a commotion and followed it for a photographic journey!<\/p>\n


\nUnlike road signs, some arrows are not so clear.<\/p>\n


\nI followed Alam Flora workers down to Dataran Merdeka. They had a task – to clean up the trash.<\/p>\n


\nSome saturation play will follow.<\/p>\n


\n“Man, I need a new belt.<\/i>”<\/p>\n


\nThere was a row of bikes, old and new.<\/p>\n


\nSoon I found myself deep down in the crowd!<\/p>\n


\nAha! A platform just for people with big cameras! Spot a Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan and a Sony 75-300mm F4.5-5.6 up there. Yes, more than one Alpha male there.<\/p>\n

Despite bringing the Tamron 200-400mm F5.6<\/b> (there, my first official mention of it) I found I could not get anything interesting other than a sea of hands waving flags. Thus, the fisheye or going down to shoot kids with bright prime lenses would be a better idea.<\/p>\n

(Okay, fine, the first shot was with this bazooka lens, too.)<\/p>\n


\nAn unidentified host. 330mm F5.6 1\/15s.<\/p>\n


\nYou can’t tell from this picture, but his eyes are open. 400mm F6.3 1\/15s.<\/p>\n

I then realized I was deep in, and I wanted to get out. I found an outstream of people. However, this outstream had people cutting me and rubbing their sweat against me! So I realized that the instream was dry, and grazed against them to keep myself dry. Heh.<\/p>\n

I got home before midnight. Great success!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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