by Callan At CaKe!, we are first and foremost, commercial and portrait photographers. However, all three of us have very different personal photography backgrounds; Kevin is very much a fashion/editorial guy, while Jingwen is a still life/nature person. My personal style is shaped on the streets, in a genre most people know as street photography. [...]
Novikov on the photographic art of creation vs happenstance
by Callan Oleg Novikov has a new article where he thinks out loud about the difference, if there are any, between art that is created, and art that just happens: Despite the seemingly boundless gap between art as purposeful creation and art as pure happenstance, all art is art, and we need to consider what [...]
What’s on your Christmas wish list?
by Callan Everyone loves Christmas, since this is one of the few (read: many) opportunities to spend money on things we as photographers need (read: want). I am, of course, talking about photography-related items, if not the whole venture lapses into fantasy-land territory. I can definitely put a Ferrari 599 on that list, but that’d [...]
Leica M9 — A Review
by Callan I’ve delayed this long enough, probably because there was a lack of motivation to write about this camera. I didn’t spend a lot of time with it either, a mere two days, but it was enough for me to reach the conclusion that I’d always thought I would reach. Before I get into [...]
SingTel Casting Call finale
by Callan (Note: Photo-heavy post!) We had the pleasure of covering SingTel’s Casting Call 2011 finale event last Wednesday, held at Sinema Old School. SingTel was looking for their “next social media star”, to host their YouTube segment titled “TGIS” or “Thank Goodness It’s SingTel”. Understandably, their focus was more on the video side of [...]
Callan Tham
An IT engineer by training, Callan was first attracted to photography as an equally geeky hobby. While the technical aspects of photography are fascinating, read what really inspires him.
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