寧 Serenity: Part 2

I started using Instagram about 2 months ago. As I wrote on SML Pro Blog: Photography requires no expensive cameras, lesser cameras are challenging to control, but because of that it challenges me to push what can be done on it.

So now I have more photos for the Serenity series which have received great feedback on both Instagram and Facebook — #smlthankyou!

These were all taken with the iPad 3 or iPhone 5 and processed using Snapseed — very grainy but also very fun. I was actually surprised that they receive so much positive feedback because they are simply snaps from my home office.

“Rainy Day” Serenity 寧 / SML.20121125.IP3

“中國山水” / Serenity 寧 / SML.20121126.IP3

“Rainy Frozen Breakfast” / Serenity 寧 / SML.20121127.IPH5

“Silence before the storm” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20121130.IP3

“Fog over Victoria Harbor” 寧 Serenity / SML.20121130.IP3

“Change takes time.” Serenity 寧 / SML.20121207.IP3

“天地一沙鷗”（Jonathan Livingston Seagull) 寧 Serenity / SML.20121220.IP3.Serenity.BW

“雲起龍襄” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20121221.IP3.Serenity.BW

“風和日美 時和年豐” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20121222.IP3.Serenity.BW.SQ

“雙鳧一雁 絶世無雙” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20121222.IP3.Serenity.BW.SQ

See also full set on SML Flickr. In usual fashion, everything published via Creative Commons (CCBY) so please feel free to print them yourselves. Limited edition prints available (3 Eds). Please email seeminglee+photo+rfi@smluniverse.com for details.

Related SML Photo Blog: Serenity

Happy Valentines Day!

Most of you know by now that I have been working on a Kiss project (More on SML Flickr) for a while now. For this valentine's day, I thought that I would post some recent photos of the project here. These are new so they're mostly shot with my new Canon 7D! :)

Kisses in black and white

Kiss = Love + Affection + Compatibility

Kiss is an active project of mine. I have been working on it since 2007. I rarely photograph in the studio, so most of these were taken in real life, usually during events were I happened to be photographing.

I usually try to get permission after spotted the love birds in their acts. The photos were shot after I gained permission, but as love is in the air, they generally came out fairly natural as they could care less about whether or not a camera was pointing to them or not! (This is true even for my own self portrait with MMF!)

See the whole set on Flickr.

1. Ideal Husbands: Marlone Star + Chicago Tigerboy



2. Kiss (name withheld)



3. Kiss / Ideal Husbands



4. Kiss: Kevin Aviance + Friend



5. Kiss between friends. It's a friendly kiss as the guy is gay and the girl is straight, but they came out just as sweet.



6. Kiss: SML + MMF. Self-portrait. See also SML Photo Blog: Taking the umbrella outside of the studio.



7. Failed attempt while photographing Bert + Ernie. See SML Gay Blog: Bert + Ernie / SML Ideal Husbands.

MMF / SML

Magical things happen when love is in the air. Also see full set on SML Flickr: MMF / SML

Technical info: handheld Canon 580EX from left, remote via Canon ST-E2 on Canon 10D body mounted on a tripod. Shot with Canon 24-70 f2.8L lens.

MMF at Deadyard in SML Studio


MMF at Deadyard in SML Studio


Kiss: SML + MMF at Deadyard in SML Studio


Kiss: SML + MMF at MMF home. Shot with the Canon SD 850IS


Related SML
+ SML Flickr Sets: SML BW 李思明黑白攝影
+ SML Flickr Sets: SML Men
+ SML Projects: Ideal Husbands
+ SML Projects: Kiss

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