Weekends and 35mm – Part 2

The more pictures I take of Hannah, the more I’m convinced it’s incredibly hard to take pictures of children! Specifically; they don’t pose on demand, and they’re constantly on the move. Out of say every one hundred pictures I take of Hannah, roughly about three quarters would be usable (as in in-focus + correctly exposed + acceptable composition with cropping), and of that number, perhaps just a quarter of them would be memorable.

The biggest challenge I face now is subject motion – Hannah will not remain still. So the only thing left for me to do is to ramp up the shuttle-release speed to 1/250s or faster when possible , and it’s not always so unless there’s reasonably good light. Shooting wide open at f1.8 isn’t always viable either, with the shallow depth-of-field I have to deal with as I typically take pictures of Hannah up-close.

In any case; pictures taken today on Sunday, and just before we headed out for dad’s birthday lunch at Wah Lok Cantonese Restaurant.=)

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At Greenwich’s kopitiam. Hannah was moving about, so some sharpening was necessary in post-processing.
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Getting fed french-toast for her breakfast.=)
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She wasn’t really dressed to play in the water feature area of the compound, so we’ll return here on another date for more pictures.
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The sunflowers at Lentor were in full-bloom. There’s a bee collecting nectar which you can just about spot in the lower-left flower.=)
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Shot with the very non-macro 35mm, and as far as minimum focusing distance allowed me to!
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Hannah learning from Daddy.=)