Last Chinese New Year Photo of The Year of Tiger
15 days of Chinese lunar new year celebration is finally over. The Chinese Valentine’s Day or YuanXiao (元宵) was the last celebration on the 15th Day or yesterday. Everything is back to normal today. Shopping malls stopped playing back New Year songs. All new year decorations around town have been dismantled. I’m reluctantly back to work now! 🙂 As my life will go on, a last piece of photo taken during the new year celebration is posted here as a conclusion to my celebration.
As usual, I took the shot with Nikon D60 and Nikkor 35mm lens. Firing a direct fill flash helped balancing those shadow areas nicely and 1/200s fast sync shutter speed proved to be useful to freeze their action. To avoid my wife from murmuring me, I’ve added some soft skin effect to hide some of the blemishes! Haha! 🙂
I love this portrait. It was captured in Genting Highland during CNY this year. A strong feel of Chinese New Year with Cherry blossom as background. Smiles from both Jean and Chloe’s face look wonderful to me. Hope you like it too. That’s it for the Year of Tiger! – Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog
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Both of them are so sweet. Love their smile. 🙂
- March 2, 2010chinese new year over already 🙁 great shot with a pretty background. ahh u use fill flash.. i should try that.. did u use flash for the previous photo on ur 2 kids as well – the image is very sharp!
- March 2, 2010@Che-Cheh,
Thank you! Thank you! I love it too.
@lechua,
- March 2, 2010No. I didn’t use fill flash for the previous photo on my 2 kids as the overcast weather did not cause much shadows on the kids. What I did was just shooting them with +ve CV. However, I did sharpen it in PS… 🙂
@cecil: what is +ve CV? Is it “exposure compensation”? So u also use PS lah! hehehe
- March 18, 2010.-= eunice´s last blog ..Universal Studios Singapore [1/2] =-.