Neopan 1600

Pardon my ignorance, I don't know what church/cathedral this is. It's behind SAM. A really gorgeous building hidden away that people walking around town will almost certainly miss. Excellent building for photograph, no distracting elements such as the trees around CHIJMES. But erm cause' I only had my 70-200F4 L with me that day... I went into the backyard of SAM to take this photograph. Heh. The weird thing at the bottom left corner is a pesky little cone that sneaked into my frame. I moved it several times but it wants to be on my film too much. Ah wells. Made me miss a fellow photographer[tourist] who was at the entrance examining the wall at the gate.
Notice the blown out highlights of the sky though. I did some exposure bracketing for this shot. The -1/2EV one lacked shadow details with no appreciable gain in highlights either. The +1/2EV one was simply horrid, with low to no contrast on the building and obviously blown out highlights. I suspect a slower film such as the Ilford FP4 would have been better for these kind of work. I don't blame the neopan, after all it's a high speed film meant for night and indoor work.

This is taken along Armenian St, opposite the pub/club thingy that Wanzhen went to the other day. I think it was about 4-5pm when I took this photograph but it looks as though it's taken in the morning eh? Nice place, photographic opportunity lurking at every corner. Looks like a masterpiece to me [:P i over flatter myself once in awhile :D] I feel tempted to print it as a 12R or bigger
24mm P mode. Should have been -1/2EV

The Heritage Tree at the top of Fort Canning. Wonderful piece of a tree, its a flame of the forest grown in the shape of a rain tree and almost as massive. Sadly the bulk of the trunk has rotted away. I'm confident it'll be here to stay for long though, there're red ants taking care of this piece of flora. A wonderful symbiotic relationship.
Taken from the slope side of the tree. I was worried that I'll roll off the cliff into nothingness. Hahas, nah, I was more worried about my 2 cameras.

The Heritage Tree from halfway down the slope
Another view of the Heritage Tree from the "plateau" side.

The buyer of my battery grip called me to meet up with her. I noticed the beautiful lighting of the small path as the sun began to set. Must have been about late 5pm already. Ahh... nearing the magical hour for photographers.

Took this further down the hill... See, different direction of travel reveals different aspects of the same place. I'd have missed this shot if I went down the park along another path.

That's about all (: Hope you enjoyed the photos.
[and pardon the absence of any white balance. I prefer the warm sepia tones from the editing, so I didn't bother to remove any colour cast introduced.]

mm.. a little note about the film before I go. I suspect that the film is too shiny or something, I got some moire artifacts from some of the scans. But then again, I'm using a normal flatbed scanner and adjusting the lighting in picasa to get these photographs. I hope it won't become an issue. What I appreciate most about this film is the low grain at ISO1600. In fact, I don't see any grains from these scans, or at least they're significantly smaller than the resolving power of my scanner [which I admit, is pretty low]. Would I use this film again? You bet. Perhaps exclusively for low light work.
:D