Thomas Shum Photography

 Today we are starting to create our own webpage. Here is the template I will be using for my project of creating a webpage. This is the template home page. Step one, changing my name on the upper left hand corner. Step two, I have changed the font from default into Marcellus, which I will be using it in the rest of the project.  Step three, I have modified the footer. The copyright information has been changed into "©2023 by Nga Pok Thomas Shum", with the font format into Marcellus. Step five, I have changed the background picture into a shoot that I took in 2022.  Step six, I have added 'Photography' under my name on the left hand corner, with font 'Marcellus' and the size 22 in used. Step seven, the items of the horizontal menu has changed into only 4 sites remaining, which were 'Home', 'Portfolio', 'Contact' and 'About' respectively. And finally, here is the homepage that I have created for the project.

 For my photo project, I will be creating my own images. I will be looking into Thomas Struth, who is best known for family portraits and black and white photographs of the streets . Instead of studying anything related to photography, he enrolled painting in the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf in 1973.  Below was a photo that was taken by Thomas Struth in Tokyo, 1986. The photo was taken with film camera with a black and white film(B&W), as there were burning marks on the left side of the frame. It might been taken in a very early morning, as the background was bright enough, and the shops were closed from business. The location of the photo taken might be in the city centre of Tokyo, as the train system including the train and the station in the background were elevated, which is not common in the suburbs, as well as the advertisement over the apartment buildings. The photo showed the quietness as well as the differences between commercial (the hotel in the background) an...

  5 STEPS TO SET SMART OBJECTIVES (EXAMPLES) After considering my Milanote and my initial ideas, I have decided to take 10 cityscape photos. And now I am writing my SMART objectives, which means specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. My photographic project is to take ten cityscape photos for my website project for this term. The topic will be cityscape, considering mostly architectures, and I will mostly be using subtitles to help telling the stories of the pictures. I will be using a Nikon Zfc and a Nikon Z 24-70mm F4 in order to complete the task before the end of November.

 My interests are civil and military aviation photography and I seldom take street/portrait/landscape photography. In the final project, I am thinking about to get well use of my strength, which is aviation photography.  My initial idea was to take pictures of different aircrafts with different compositions of photos, for example, some of them will be close-up shots, while some of them will be panning shots. Some photos will be shoot in the near future, while some of them will be used from archive.

Milanote: Photography Topic The Milanote reveals some of the shots that I might reference to. These are the photos taken by skilled aviation photographer, with different techniques being used, for example, night-shots includes night-panning and long-exposure.  I will be using a Nikon Zfc for my main camera, while my lens would be a Sony 200-600mm F5-6.3 G OSS with a Megadap ETZ21 Pro adaptor, a Canon EF 70-300mm F4-5.6 IS II USM with a viltrox Ef-Z2 0.71X Reducer Speedbooster and a Nikon Z 24-70mm F4. From my archive, there would be some photos that taken with a Nikon Z6II and a Canon EOS M5 while lens would be a Nikon AF-S 70-200mm F2.8 G VRii and a Sigma APO 70-200 F2.8 EX DG OS HSM.

  We were asked to complete a practice creating an advertising. Here are the steps of my classwork for week two. Step one, after starting Adobe Express, I opened a new a new page for the logo. Then, add the logo to the page where I was working with the poster, which added a background photo already. Afterwards, adjust the logo and the background photo. Finally, add a slogan for the advertisement. And the final work is completed.

  I choose the topic of cameras or lens. The reason why I choose the topic which is relevant to my hobby and will be my future career. In this post, I will discover different advertisement from different camera company, such as Canon, Sony and Nikon.  Sony: Sony A7C, Go Beyond • Ads of the World™ | Part of The Clio Network  Above is the Sony Alpha 7C "Go Beyond" pre-order advertisement, revealing A7C by the model holding the camera and a slogan in the middle of the advertisement. Below was the Nikon D750 and D3400 advertisement, using the Nikon's classic "I am..." campaign slogan ("I am Love at First Click" in this case), with a picture which was shot by the camera being advertised. Facebook Nikon UK & Ireland on X: "Don't forget that our Nikon Z series product tour starts from tomorrow. Come and visit one of the stores for your chance to try our the new products first hand with our Nikon experts. You can view all of the upcoming dates and...

In order to make our own solo sequential images, it is important to do some research. For the topic of sequential images, I have found some interesting and inspiring sequential examples.  Talking about sequential images, Elliot Erwitt is the photographer has to be mentioned. This is one of his famous work that of a man throwing a stick from his dog and then being disappeared. The photo was presented in a way that frame by frame. MMc401.1 narrative project (caseyjnarrativeproject.blogspot.com)  Here is another sequential image that I have found on the internet. Shai states that sequential images are ways to express a moving object in a photo. It is a photo taken by Steve Granger, presenting a continuous maneuver of a stunt biker flying over a ramp, with all the shots being combined into one.                                                ...

 Our homework for this week is to make a sequential images by ourselves. I chose this series of shootings from my archive, in which it has to throwback when I was taking night shots in Tokyo Haneda International Airport. Here is one of the final works I have done for the week. In the work, I wanted to show the scene behind of a plane being pushed-back because it involved cooperation between different departments, and it is very nice to take long exposure in the night as it may give me some surprises. It was a Boeing 777-200 from All Nippon Airways (ANA) being pushed-back and then taxi. I have used a continuous long exposure, so that the pictures would not become noisy as I used a low ISO setting, as well as I can take a couples of pictures. Therefore I set my camera into 15s, f/10 and ISO 100. First, I have to import my pictures into Lightroom Classic (2023). And the next steps were to check them out in the library and to edit them. After editing, then export to the computer and to...

  For Week 1 classwork, My partner was Pedro and we decided to take some shots of him jumping from the top of the staircase. The reason why we chose the idea and topic was it is easier to complete the work as we just had to use burst continuous mode to shoot. We have to find a place that it looks not dangerous as Pedro have to jump off from the staircase, so the location was a small stair behind the Art Factory. The work itself looked not bad, and we did not have to another shot. After taking the pictures, we used Contact Sheet to help us to make the 22 photos we took into one frame of photo.

 This is Thomas from Hong Kong. I am writing my blog so that I can record my studies in the Digital Arts in the De Montfort University in Leicester. I have started my aviation photographing journey since 2018, that I found I am passionate in doing so. Not only general aviation, but I have also tried military jet-spotting in this year, which I was excited for a couple of years already (due to lockdown during the pandemic). It turned out that military aviation photography is much more challenging than I expected, and I am looking forward to visit different air bases as well as different Low Flying Areas (LFA) for taking pictures of fighter jets flying through. The above picture is a McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet from VFMA-115 was on it's short final into Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa. While the lower picture was a McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle flying over the the valley in Machynlleth, which is also known for the iconic Machloop. Plane-spotting has become part of my life a...