These four photos below were photographed during a full-dress rehearsal of a Malaysian cultural parade. In the first photo, you can see some photographers (actually, photography students) in the foreground and will be wondering as to why I didn't just walk up close to the scene for a bigger viewpoint like they did. There are four reasons of which one is I wanted to capture the particular atmosphere with the 50mm lens without using flash. And another was I had two other EF lenses with me, the EF 135mm f/2.0L USM and EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM. Third, the students were using zoom lenses with variable maximum apertures and were shooting via tripods. Fourth, getting closer meant I couldn't get more of the overall scene into the picture since I didn't bring any wide-angle lenses on that night. Plain overall view The Kadazan dancers were directly in front     I got closer for this (w/fill-in flash) They were one meter away to the right side For the female indigenous Kadazan tribe dancers from Sabah, I only needed to stay put and the EF 50mm f/1.4 USM lens got the scene on film. The same goes for the next two photos although this time around, TTL flash illumination in Tv mode took care of the lighting situations for me - at this point, I had shot a number of rolls via available light and happened to give fill-in flash a try for a change. Next, a dimly-lit Petronas Twin Towers at night was easy to be recorded on film with the 50mm lens - the exposure was at 1/15 sec. at f/1.4, handheld. From available and low light shootings, the 50mm standard lens can also be used for daytime shooting conditions. The apartment building was shot out from a moving car's windows as the vehicle sped past. Twin Towers at night A suburban apartment block     Interior of Hong Kong airport A plane getting ready for boarding Next, the huge interior of Hong Kong SAR's Chek Lap Kok airport was easily captured on film, with the small outlines of people on the extreme left giving anyone an idea of its sheer size. The last image was photographed through the glass panel from inside the departure lounge terminal as I was waiting for my flight (that's the plane) to commence passenger boarding. Text and photos by Philip Chong. Copyright 2001 by Canon Marketing (M) Sdn Bhd << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 .