© 2023 Martin Liew Photography It's been a long time since my last night photography outing and postings. The previous night (5th May 2023, Friday), I made an effort to roam around after work. I came across this worn-out building and noticed the beautiful ambient lighting in the nautical twilight hour. I didn't have my digital camera and tripod with me, as it was an impromptu. The best camera is the one that I carry with me every single day i.e. my phone camera. Yes, I have not been doing any night photography for my NOT QUITE NIGHT a.k.a. NQN project for more than a year (the ent ..read more

Good evening nightographers! Last week, I shared 2 photographs I took of these dark "mirror" reflections, and tonight I'll be showing more photographs. In the top photo, I took a different approach to compose the subjects along with their own reflections, and also to show the surrounding environment. Read on as I share more... Read more ..read more

Good evening and welcome to another night photography blog post featuring the fourth Spacetime photo shown above taken with a Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm lens. Make the jump and let me share with you a little fact about this photo.  Read more ..read more

Good evening and here's a night street photo on a slow shutter speed that was shot with my Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm lens. I was attracted by the water reflection of the bicycle and the surrounding ambient lighting. I was lucky to capture this man walking by the parked bicycle with his right hand holding a can of drink. Somehow his hand was frozen still and in focus sharp while his whole body was in motion blur. Coincidentally, the drink can seem like resting right on top of the bicycle's rear mount rack. Move the slider to reveal the close-up of his hand and the drink can, and you'll kno ..read more

Last weekend, I visited the Singapore Botanic Gardens in search of more ICM subjects to photograph. By the way, ICM stands for Intentional Camera Movement. It is an abstract style of shooting that has no rules – it all comes down to moving your camera over a long exposure to create an artistic or painting-like effect. I got interested and had my first attempt a couple of months ago. If you're keen to find out, I have written and posted a blog on my experience here.  Back on track, the weather on that Sunday morning was awesome with warm sunlight and there were many visitors, be it stro ..read more

Good evening. It's a double eleven 11.11 today. TGIF! Featuring another triptych of Spacetime - night streets on slow shutter. The above animated GIF serves as a trailer. Make the jump to view each photo in high resolution. Read more ..read more

Good evening and welcome back to my night photography blog. Yes, I'm back. First and foremost, I hereby sincerely apologize to all my supportive readers for the long hiatus. Yeah, absent for 13 months without a single blog post until now. I have been on hiatus before, sadly. Honestly, I was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. I mean, I wasn't infected with the deadly virus but instead, it was the mentality part. I hardly go out at night to make photographs. Occasionally, I would go out in the day for some street shootings with a point-and-shoot film camera or a DSLR camera. Picking up st ..read more

Stadium West Entrance (right side) © 2007 Martin Liew Photography This was the West Entrance of the former Singapore National Stadium. It was illuminated by lights from the nearby construction site, with some faded tree shadows cast upon the signage pillar wall. The night atmosphere was fantastic and I was so compelled to take photographs of it. I took 2 bracket frames with 9 minutes for each. For the second one, I used a yellow filter lens but I prefer the first one, as shown above. Next, I turned the camera towards the left side of the West Entrance, also exposed 2 bracket frames ..read more

Ticket Gantry© 2007 Martin Liew Photography One of the many ticket gantries at the former Singapore National Stadium. We can tell that this gantry is numbered 20, half-hidden by the header board. Love the ambiance lighting and so decided to take this shot with my Shanghai TLR on Kodak TMAX 400. Subscribe to my blog Email Address  Follow me on my Instagram and NQN Instagram View more of my photography work on my website ..read more

Ticking Clock© 2007 Martin Liew Photography Tick tock tick tock... The clock was still ticking when I made this photograph at the former Singapore National Stadium in April 2007. 2225 hrs. The clock time was the exact time I pressed the shutter release on my Shanghai TLR with a roll of Kodak TMAX 400. A 6-minute exposure on Bulb mode at f/22. A manual strobe was fired from the camera right behind the pillar, out of sight and aiming at the clock. The area was really in very low light condition, hence the strobe light was necessary so as to show more details. Subscribe to my blog Ema ..read more