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Copenhagen is a vibrant city with excellent nightlife across each and every corner. During 1st weekend in June, Danish are coming out to town to celebrate nightlife with whole evening of street dance parties, mobile clubbing and contemporary art festival to welcome the arrival of hot climate of Summer. They called it the Copenhagen Distortion festival 2011. This 5-day-middle-size-street-festival stretching from first Thursday to Sunday of each June, is organized by the NUS/NUS company, a non-profit cultural event organization of Copenhagen. The festival is held on each day in different areas of Copenhagen with streets being closed for the event.
I have long heard of it and it was one of my reason to visit Copenhagen on my Europe Travel last month. I was lucky enough to have the 1st celebration of 1st June in the city centre around Stroget area, on my first day in Copenhagen. After checking into our hostel nearby, I grabbed my cameras out to take some travel photos for the festival.
Crowds started to draw into the Stroget and surrounding areas since 6PM. Jean and I were there strolling down street after street enjoying people watching with Tuborg in both of our hands. There are kiosks selling crepes and waffles all over the place. Not to mention mobile bar selling beers, mostly local such as Carlsberg and Tuborg.
Each club or bar has its own theme or idea of advocacy, as we saw groups of Danish dressed up differently and marched towards their spots of action. Some are dressed up as movie characters, death bodies, ballet dancers, and so on.
Not only crowds but bicycles as well were seen all over the streets. Copenhagen is one of the city outside China with the most cyclists around.
Everyone seemed to be having a great time in this festival of Copenhagen Distortion 2011. We enjoyed our time there as well, albeit it’s our first ever evening in Copenhagen. Here are some of the other photos that I captured in the festival, before having too much alcohol in my stomach and the sky getting darker.
A mobile dance floor set up beside the “Church of Our Lady”. It was still early when I shot this photo. When I got back there later at night, the whole are was packed like h*ll!
Caribbean music and dance show…
Com’on ladies, cheers! (A common homosexual scene in this gays and lesbians friendly city of Copenhagen 
) This was the last shot I took in the festival as I had to stopped shooting and started drinking!
Click HERE to view all photos captured in “Distortion 2011″ and Copenhagen in full resolution via Flickr.
For more information regarding the Copenhagen Distortion 2011 festival, visit http://www.cphdistortion.dk/
Final words. Even though there were ten’s of thousand people flocking into the area for this celebration and made every streets jammed up, we felt extremely comfortable and safe partying around without any uneasy feeling and bad experience as tourists. Copenhagen is definitely a fun place for nightlife as a traveler. Thumbs up for this!! – Travel Feeder, your ultimate photo travel blog
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This is my first attempt to shoot KLCC Petronas Twin Tower in Kuala Lumpur with my new travel DSLR Nikon D7000, hand held at night! The result was amazing to me! I could never believe that I was able to capture any travel night scene without dragging any bulky tripod along with me on travel.
KLCC Petronas Twin Tower was once the tallest building in the world and is still now the tallest twin building in the world measuring 451m high. It is the most prominent icon in Kuala Lumpur and perhaps in the whole Malaysia. The whole tower is lit up beautifully at night from 7PM until midnight. The lighting effect is further enhanced with lights evenly reflected by its steel and glass facade. Below it is the Suria KLCC shopping mall facing an artificial lake in front with fountain display intermittently.
Some EXIF info: Photo taken with my Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 18-105mm kit lens. Shutter speed 1/15s and Aperture F8.0. Focus distance was set to 18mm. ISO 1600. Auto White Balance. No flash fired and -2/3 exposure stop compensated with Matrix metering.
Double deck skybridge at 41st floor.
Some EXIF info: Photo taken with my Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 18-105mm kit lens. Shutter speed 1/10s and Aperture F8.0. Focus distance was set to 105mm. ISO 1600. Auto White Balance. No flash fired and -2/3 exposure stop compensated with Matrix metering.
Islamic art building architecture profile.
Some EXIF info: Photo taken with my Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 18-105mm kit lens. Shutter speed 1/30s and Aperture F8.0. Focus distance was set to 105mm. ISO 1600. Auto White Balance. No flash fired and -1 full stop exposure compensated with Matrix metering.
As opposed to its thrilling night view, KLCC Twin Tower, KLCC Suria and its lake are equally attractive during day time. For travelers who wish to see these attractions as well as sun bathing at beaches around Malaysia, the best time to visit Malaysia to enjoy clear sky and bright sun is actually now until the month of March.
I’m going for Holidays again this weekend to capture more Malaysian destinations scene. So make sure to come back for more exciting travel photos! – Travel Feeder, your ultimate photo travel blog
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I have recently posted a White Balance setting explained for DSLR write-up on my photography blog. For those who are still wondering what is White Balance and why it exists in digital cameras, check it out now before you find out that your travel photos are all lacking some eye-catching elements.
Why setting White Balance is so important in travel photography to me? I’m passionate in taking photos on travel. I advocate capturing what a travel scene looks like in actual, no better, no worse. In order to achieve that, setting my Nikon D7000 White Balance (WB) manually is sometimes unavoidable. Capturing sunset during my recent trip to Port Dickson for instance, leaving my camera in Auto WB mode didn’t able to satisfactorily capture the dramatic sunset colours as what I saw in actual. I had to manually tweak the WB setting to deliver what you see here as below.
This beautiful sunset is exactly what I saw in actual. If I shot it in RAW and set the White Balance later in editor, I would had forgotten how the actual colours looked like and would not be able to produce back the same rich reds and orange. Then what’s the point of taking travel photos if I can’t record down what I see? Unless I shoot both JPEG and RAW, but then I need to double my SDHC cards capacity!
However, there are exceptions.
After shooting with the correct WB setting on the above typical KL city skyline scene at dusk, I may feel like being naughty to take another few shots with WB presets, such as Shade, Cloudy or Tungsten WB, to produce something dramatic, like the one below…
There is no right or wrong WB to use in shooting photos with DSLR. As long as you like the end result, it would be your preferred WB setting. To see how an image would turn out with different WB presets, check out my in-depth White Balance setting explanation. – Travel Feeder, your ultimate photo travel blog
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