Chung Cheng High Main celebrated its annual Teachers' Day Celebration today. The theme of this year's celebration is 'My Teacher, Our Superheroes'.
The event started off with the teachers walking into the Grand Auditorium as their students cheered for them loudly. The Principal, Mr Pang Choon How, gave his opening speech, followed by the Chairperson of the Parents Support Group's (PSG) speech to thank the teachers of the school. Then came their dance performance featuring the student choreographer, Calvin.
The Dance Club then danced to a retro song 'Eye of the Tiger' and both the English and Chinese Drama Clubs performed a skit 'Us' , describing how people in our daily lives can be superheroes even though they don't have super powers.
Mr Pang led the teachers' pledge afterwards and also cut the cake provided by the PSG. Mdm Tan, the Vice-Principal, gave the awards to outstanding teachers of the school, with Mr Almie being the only one winning the LEAP Awards for teachers this year.
Mr Jonathan Yap and a group of students also performed the song 'Thinking Out Loud' by Ed Sheeran and a group of teachers even went on stage to do a contemporary dance to it. Finally, a group of teachers danced to 60s oldies right after the previous performance as it serves as an introduction to the Teachers' Day Dinner's theme 'Retro'.
Below are some of the event photos. The photographer for this event is Hoe Jian Wei from 3 Empathy.
Written by Hoe Jian Wei
The Dance Club then danced to a retro song 'Eye of the Tiger' and both the English and Chinese Drama Clubs performed a skit 'Us' , describing how people in our daily lives can be superheroes even though they don't have super powers.
Mr Pang led the teachers' pledge afterwards and also cut the cake provided by the PSG. Mdm Tan, the Vice-Principal, gave the awards to outstanding teachers of the school, with Mr Almie being the only one winning the LEAP Awards for teachers this year.
Mr Jonathan Yap and a group of students also performed the song 'Thinking Out Loud' by Ed Sheeran and a group of teachers even went on stage to do a contemporary dance to it. Finally, a group of teachers danced to 60s oldies right after the previous performance as it serves as an introduction to the Teachers' Day Dinner's theme 'Retro'.
Below are some of the event photos. The photographer for this event is Hoe Jian Wei from 3 Empathy.
Written by Hoe Jian Wei
Moving on to the technical parts of the event, let's analyse the photography of this event. I believe this is the first event to have all shots taken in RAW file format. What does it mean? Well, it means you don't have to put in so much effort in taking pictures as mistakes such as exposure and white balance can be solved in Photoshop, Lightroom or any other editing softwares.
What is RAW?
RAW is a picture file format that most higher end DSLR cameras should have and it splits a picture to different layers (exposure, white balance etc.) for editing. A RAW picture is a lot more detailed compared to a JPEG one. For example, if your white balance is off, you can correct it through editing.
What is RAW?
RAW is a picture file format that most higher end DSLR cameras should have and it splits a picture to different layers (exposure, white balance etc.) for editing. A RAW picture is a lot more detailed compared to a JPEG one. For example, if your white balance is off, you can correct it through editing.
As you can see, shooting in RAW can enable you to correct white balance (temperature and tint), exposure, contrast and all the other layers. Although this function is also available for photos in JPEG, the final product will not be as good as if you edit in RAW.
This is an example of a photo I saved as I shot in RAW format. The one on the left is the original photo and the one on the right is the edited one. The same picture can also be edited in the JPEG format, but this is the best result it can get if it is edited in JPEG.
The photo on the right is edited in RAW and the photo on the left is edited in JPEG. As you can see, the JPEG one is of a lower quality compared to the RAW one as the skins of the people are more red.
advantages of shooting in raw
- It can save your wasted photos as mentioned above.
- It is more detailed, which allows the user to make a creative shot through editing.
(Click to enlarge) This is an example of a High-Dynamic Range (HDR) shot. As you can see, the original picture (Right) looks like a normal and dull picture but it was turned into a HDR shot as it was shot in RAW and thus enabling editing to be simpler.
- You don't need to spend as much effort in taking the picture as it can be compensated with editing
disadvantages of shooting in raw
- It still can't save your motion blur shots. Thus, you will still need to ensure that your camera is stable before shooting.
- A photo in RAW format has a far much larger size than the same photo in JPEG format. If you are using a 8GB SD card to cover the entire event in RAW, it can only store 100-400 photos, which is obviously not enough. In contrast, you can store 1000-5000 photos if you are using the same SD card to cover the entire event in JPEG, and you most probably won't even use up the entire space.
- It is not a common file. Windows Gallery can't read RAW and sometimes even Photoshop can't.
- There are many different types of RAW files. For Canon users, although the camera says the picture format is available in RAW, RAW is available in only CR2 format and you will have to convert it to either DNG (Photoshop version/compressed version of RAW) or RAW. (I prefer using DNG as it is easier to convert and the adobe converter for RAW to DNG is free.)
In conclusion, although RAW is obviously a much better file format to use in event photography, you must ensure that your computer is equipped with the applications to edit and open RAW photos and your SD card must be able to store all your photos. (I would recommend using a 32GB Class 10 SD Card for event photography in RAW.)