A guide to composition

Want to know how to compose better pictures? Here's a few tips:

1. Rule of thirds
Imagine dividing your image into a grid comprising of nine squares. The idea of rule of thirds is to place the focal point (eg: a person, a flower) of your image at any point where the lines of the squares intersect. Doing so would make your picture look more dynamic/interesting as opposed to placing the focal point at the center. (this may be familiar to architecture students)

Rule of thirds can also be used in placing horizons (for landscapes). You may choose to place the sky at the upper 1/3 if the scenery is more interesting - conversely, if the sky is more interesting, you can include more of the sky and place the scenery (land) at the bottom 1/3 of the picture.

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2. Lead-in lines
Lead-in lines in a picture will guide the viewer's eyes into the scene. Ideally, the focal point should be placed along these lines, creating a sense of suspension. (eg: building at the end of a road) Lead-in lines can comprise of anything: fences, rivers, roads and so on. It is suggested that lead-in lines be placed diagonally.

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3. Foreground interest

The basic idea of foreground interest is to place a nearby object to emphasize depth and perspective when you plan to shoot distant sceneries (eg: sunset on the sea). A foreground can comprise of any object: rocks, branches, leaves, so on. A high f-stop number is recommended (SLRs: F/13-F/20, Compacts: Landscape mode or anything with increased sharpness), along with a wide focal length (lower than 30mm). 

 

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Most importantly, do remember that this is only a guide, NOT rules that you should follow rigorously. How you plan to compose your picture is entirely up to your creativity.

Wanna learn more? Feel free to join our classes =)

Introduction to EXCO

Dear TPC members ,

I would like to introduce you with our EXCO's ,

The followings shots were taken by our techies : Clayton Chew , Cross Chen , Mohd Saiful, Alvin Low , Lim Boon Seong ,

All credit goes to them.

Note : All picture were taken in Student Life Center at May 14th , 1pm

President : Lim Boon Seong ( just call me Boon, )
Contact : 017 554 7576 ( prefer sms over calls )

Scope : I guess is self explanatory.

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Vice President  : Alvin Low

Contacts : 017 2455 696

Scope : Supervising on Events and make sure it run smoothly

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Vice President (Techies) : Vacant

Contact : N/A

Please feel free to apply for VP.

Just send your application form and with the title :

"I want to be a VP "

I (Boon) will meet you up and discuss about it.

Note that you have to endure a month of probation period for this.

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Treasurer : Justin Kon Keon

Contact : 017 697 5818

Scope : Collecting Fees

If you want to pay members fees or any fees,

please do drop by at our EXCO meeting every Thursday

You can help your friend to pay as well.

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Treasurer : Ariel Toh

Contact : 017 267 0706

Scope : Keeping record of Club Funds

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Secretary : Dila

Contact : 017 - 2977 156

Scope : In charge of keeping record of Club Activities

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Secretary : Aliza Sara

Contact : 014 222 3637

Scope :In charge in preparing proposal and applying for events.

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Membership EXCO :

Name: Sudhan Jayamohan

Contact : 017 460 2609

Scope : Deals with application of new members.

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Membership EXCO : Vacant

Contact : N/A

Scope : In charge of handling current members.

If you are interested :

Please submit your application form along with the title

" I want to be membership EXCO"

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There are 6 Groups :

1) Event Management Team ,

2) Publicity and Marketing

3) Event Covering Team

4) Design Team

5) Online Resources Team,

6) Techies

All of them have a Committee of their own ,

please do approach respective team leaders if you are interested to join the team.

As for Techies , if you are interested in sharing your skills and guiding beginners ,

Please do contact Boon ,

And Techies can help out in other Teams as well.

Note: All Techies is under direct supervision of President.

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For Group Leaders ,

Event Management Team Group Leader : Catherine

Contact : 012 9748 717

Scope : In Charging of Creating Events for TPC

Picture will be uploaded soon

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Publicity and Marketing Group Leader : Cross Chen Jia Yun

Contact : 016 2212 474

Scope : In charge of making Publicity and Marketing for TPC

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Event Covering Team Leader : Rusydie

Contact : 013 209 5475

Scope : In Charge Event Covering for Taylors

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Design Team Leader : Yu Kee

Contact : 017 2566 428

Scope : Design anything that can be designed.

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Online Resources Group Leader : Keat Hoe

Contact : 017 202 9812

Scope : Handles FB , Flickr , And Blog account for TPC.

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To know more details on becoming a member of TPC , please go to "How to be a TPC member"

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Techies Group Leader : Saiful

Contact : 014 558 4051

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Techies : Clayton Chew

Contact : 016 468 9978

Picture will be uploaded soon

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Techies : Cross Chen Jia Yun

Contact : 016 2212 474

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I would like to emphasize that our Techies are helping out on a voluntary basis.

Please don't take them for granted.

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End Of Introduction

Boon Signing off

How to become a member?

Hi, Everyone.

I have realized that this blog does not have any post regarding on joining TPC, so here is the detailed description on how to participate in TPC activities :

Step 1 :  Paperwork , 

Please do the following and you are members of TPC, 

Submit your application form in following format

to Taylorsphotographyclub@gmail.com

Name: 
Student number:
Contacts number:
E-mail address:
Programme : ( if you are not Taylorian , please state where you from)
Typer of camera owned/used:  ( if you do not have any camera , please state it as well, handphone doesnt count )
Years of experience using a camera: (when you start attempting taking nice photos, state none if none)

What you want from the club : (covering events , class , competition, outdoor trips, studio photography, networking, just for fun ,) 

What is your free slot during weekdays/ weekend: (this is for the time for classes)

*NOTE : Please attend our EXCO meeting if you are interested in becoming part of our EXCO team. We have our meeting every Thursday from 12 noon to 1pm at Student Leader Room 1 
( Inside Student Life Center) 

Step 2 : FEES

You will need to prepare : 

1) Rm 5 for member fees ( it will be sem based subscription ) 

2)And Rm 25 for Club t shirt , it is a MUST for those who wanted to cover events.

You can pay the fees in any general meeting to Justin
or set an appoitment with him in his mail , konkeon@gmail.com

As for trips, we will annouce the fees and we hope that you will take initiative to find him as well.

If you have submitted your application form but din't pay us yet. You are just a pending member of TPC,
you are not entitled to any TPC member privileges.

On personal note, I hope you can pay the members fees and support us financially. I am really passionate in making this club the best club ever existed on Taylors. However, the club are operating on tight budget and our EXCO's are really trying our best to perform in these conditions.

Step 3 : Like us in FB , Join us in Flickr pool , And Follow us in blog.

Here is  our facebook account . Please add us in order to get notifications from us.
We will post our event there and invite everyone in our FB friends list.
And whenever we update a post in blog, we also share it in FB.
PLEASE "share" TPC link whenever you see it.

Here is our Facebook Fan Page. If you want to share your pictures and learn how to improve it , feel free to post it here, or if you found out any secrets of photography that you wanted to share, please do it here as well. If you felt your pictures is perfect , you also can boast it here too.

Here is our Flickr Group Pool. Join this group means that TPC's Flickr admin can add your latest uploaded photo into our photo pool. Once he added your pictures, you can see your pictures being display in our blog picture slides. ( It is the slideshow you see up there if you are wondering what I am talking about)
If you wanted to raise up the chances of your pictures being displayed in blog, please add
boonboon2k2  or .keathoe. 

And lastly , If you are seeing this post, that means you are in our blog. You can "follow" us so you can get RSS feed from us whenever there is new post up in this blog.


The only way you can get the most from this club , is by being active and participate.

If you are here expecting to create good shots without doing any practice on your own, I am sorry to tell you we can't work magic here.

We can guide you to be a better photographer, however you need to walk the path on your own.


Boon signing off.

Guides : Cost effective Image stabilizer

I think the video explains it all, 

I used to have one in my equipment list.

Boon signing off.

Hot Shots

I've linked both images to the same page, which contains brief guides how they took these shots.

I thought they were amazing and wanted to share with you guys.

Its good to know how to take good pictures of fire.

Besides, once you learn this, you'll have a reason to play with fire. (:

So, from today onwards, if you see one of your neighbor's house on fire, seize the opportunity!

Step 1 : Go grab you camera.

Step 2 : Try to snap few good shots.

Step 3 : Now go find your handphone and call the fire brigade. 

And while waiting for them to come, snap a few more. :)

Have fun,

Phla'Sher.