Your Spirit, Our Inspiration

For the 3rd year running, TILT has been covering the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon (SCSM) as the Official Photographers. With our largest team to date (comprising of 8 photographers and 4 photographer assistants), we had a combined 73 hours of photography coverage on 6 December 2009.

After taking a total of 25.6GB of photographs which amounts to 9379 photos, we sat back and reflected on why we had always enjoyed taking SCSM. The tagline of “Your Spirit, Our Inspiration” definitely is definitely apt in explaining the reason.

In all 3 years of coverage, we witnessed the grit of tens of thousands of people enduring a punishing 42.195km route running their own race. There are the elite runners who come in at a breath-taking 2hr 10mins timing and there are the everyday people who push their way through and come in at also a breath-taking 9hrs. Their spirit and endurance is what we should applaud.

Your spirit was shown through friendships formed on the road.
You cheered each other on!
You helped each other as you struggled on!
You continued on the even though you were in a cast!
Your hands raised in unison as you crossed the finishing gantry!
Spiderman, the Witch, a Bride, Santa Claus, Super Woman! These were how some of you had assisted in making the marquee event of the year a more colourful event!

This year, we witnessed how one man raced to the finishing line armed with a bouquet of flowers, a ring and a banner professing his love to his girlfriend.

Your spirit is our source of inspiration. Your marathon makes our race for you worthwhile. We thank the 50,000 people who took part in this year’s Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon for being a part of TILT’s memories.

We look forward to SCSM 2010 and may your spirit be our inspiration again!

To view some of the photographs taken, you may visit our Facebook page.

Follow the Rhythm, Be Part of the Action!

In less than 48 hours, there will be 50,000 runners lining up at the Padang for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon (SCSM) 2009. For the very first time, SCSM has released a viral video. Aptly titled, “Follow the Rhythm, Be Part of the Action!”, it comprises of a catchy tune (music is produced by Koko & Syaheed from Bedsty Music) with vocals from Kevin Lester (Sixx) and very simple moves by Bill Calhoun, the entire video was produced by m:idea from Ngee Ann Polytechnic!

SCSM 2009 is attempting to do this at the starting line. Will you join in? We certainly hope you do. With our largest team to date (comprising of 5 photography assistants and 8 photographers), we certainly will be present to follow the rhythm and capture YOU being part of the action!

Remember, if you see us that day, wave to us! Pose for us! We will not disappoint! See you there on 6 December 2009 in Singapore’s largest scale running event and we hope you enjoy the run!

Float to the 8th Anniversary Special

We are excited!

In a mere 32 days time, the 8th Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009 will be here again. This will be the third time where TILT will be the Official Photographers for Singapore’s marquee running event.

In 2007, we saw a team of 3 photographers covering the entire route to capture the essence of the event.
In 2008, we saw a team of 6 photographers and 2 assistants working non-stop for 12 hours on race day for the 50,000 runners who were present.
In 2009, plans are in place for a team of 7 photographers and 3 assistants to be on-site to ensure the smooth delivery of photographs for the 50,000 runners! This again sets the record for TILT.

Similarly, in this 8th anniversary, the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon have experienced a sign-up of 50,000 runners in a record time. To further commemorate this special event, they will also be organising a special Race Entry Pack Collection for 8,000 runners to be among the first to collect their race packs.

This special REPC will be held at the Floating Platform at the Marina Bay on the 28 – 29 November 2009, between 10am – 7pm.

Interested runners will need to ballot online to stand a chance to collect their packs earlier. Each runner can only submit their name and five others.

Details of the e-ballot exercise are as follow:
Start Date: Monday, 2 November 2009 at 10 am
End Date : Monday, 9 November 2009 at 11.59 pm

Successful runners will be notified via email and SMS between 18 to 22 November 2009.

We will be there on the floating platform and we hope to see you there!

H-TWO-O Ultimate Photography Challenge Merit Winner

H-TWO-O Ultimate Photography Challenge 2009 was organised to celebrate the essence of Sports and to harness the unity, camaraderie, strength, endurance and feeling of achievement.

TILT, with our speciality in Sports Photography, took part in the competition and won a Merit Award (Open Category). Due to the sensitive nature of most of the sporting events, where we were the official photographers, such as

Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2007 – 2009

WaterFest 2007 – 2008

Aviva 70.3 Ironman 2007 – 2008

Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic Games 2008 / 2009 Season 2

Photographs taken during these events were not submitted. As such, we submitted a photograph taken during the Singapore Paintball Novice Series 2009. Below is our entry.

To read more about our previous post, click here.

In the thick of it all

The Singapore Paintball Novice Series 2009 (SPNS 2009) Leg 3 ended with a bang at West Coast Park on 18 October 2009. The action from the 12 teams of 5 pax each was fast and close. TILT, as the official photographers, was in the thick of all the action with 2 photographers.

In this final leg, TILT had also deployed a third pseudo photographer. A camera, triggered by remote, was placed at strategic locations under the bunkers so that we can be in the thick of it all. In addition, we were constantly in the line of fire so as to paint that perfect picture. Our 12 bruises all over our bodies, together with the huge amount of paint splatter all over our 3 cameras in the 8 hours of coverage said it all.

In fact, the marshalls were worried for us and even suggested that in the future, we should be wearing paintball padded clothes so that we can be a little bit more protected. This is our commitment when it comes to sports photography as we believe strongly that for good photographs to come, besides good technical skills together with the ability to anticipate, one of the key criterias will be to stick in the mud together with the athletes and weather the storm.

This wraps up the local action in the paintball community for this year and come 2010, we guarantee that we will be in the thick of it all again. We look forward to SPNS 2010 and hope that this local community will continue to grow!

For more photographs, please visit our TILT facebook fan page.

Intense in the Spirit of Sports

Sports in Singapore had always needed a boost. In a sport like Paintball, the support and boost needed is definitely much more. For paintball, the main competition in Singapore is the Singapore Paintball Novice Series (SPNS). Through this platform, the Paintball Association (Singapore) (PBAS) tries to garner as much support and publicity for the sport.

TILT had been very fortunate to be part of this competition since its birth. We witness the spirit of the sportsmen. The intensity and determination of the administrators and sportsmen, the teamwork, grace and gull of the paintballers are definitely worth applauding. All feelings and emotions can be aptly displayed through the photograph taken below during SPNS Leg 1, where we see a paintballer intense in winning at all cost against the backdrop of the SPNS logo.

We feel so much for the photograph and the sport that we had also submitted this photograph for a local competition, YEOS H20 Ultimate Photography Challenge, and we had since been shortlisted as one of the finalist. The photograph is open for voting and if you feel the same way as we do, do cast a vote for us.

The entry is aptly titled, ‘Intensity’.

Canon Sports Photography Seminar

With the reduction in price in DSLRs and the buzz about the upcoming Singapore Youth Olympic Games (SYOG) 2010, it is without a doubt that sports photography is on the rise.

In fact, over at TILT where Sports Photography is our specialisation, we have organised 3 runs of Sports Photography workshops to youth. As part of our belief in educating the general public, we will like to introduce to our readers the ‘Canon Sports Photography Seminar‘.

Sports Photography offers the full range of emotions which no other genre of photography is able to offer. Everyone loves a great sporting moment – be it tough fought victory or the triumph of an underdog. But for those who have tried our hands at taking sports photographs some time or other, you do realised that the challenges and difficulties are just as diverse.

If you are interested in the Canon Sports Photography Seminar, why not troop on down to listen to Albert Sim – veteran sports photographer from the Straits Times, who has been capturing the finest moments in sports photography.

He will share on how to anticipate the best moment to fire the shutter. The lens or camera setting you should choose to capture the moment. The best angles to capture the action for the various sports.

Happening on 1st August 2009 at Raffles Hotel (The Ballroom) from 1.30pm – 5pm, we will be there to hear Albert Sim. How about you?

The S$10 Million Deal

It is a big deal, in fact, it is the S$10 million deal when Standard Chartered Bank renewed its naming rights sponsorship of the Singapore Marathon for another four years. This year also marked a change in the event’s apparel sponsor from Adidas to New Balance.

During the Press Conference held at Battery Road, which TILT was covering as the Official Photographers for this year’s Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, it was revealed that Standard Chartered bank will invest another S$10 million in promotion and sponsorship fees for the marathon until 2012. This ensures the marathon will continue to grow and flourish in Singapore.

Incidentally, New Balance was the first apparel sponsor for the Singapore Marathon.

It is with great hope that this event can continue to be one of the premier Asia’s running event.

The event launch will be held on 16 July. For those ready to put on their running gear, they can run down to Raffles Place Park to sign up for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon (SCSM) 2009 and be prepared for 6th December 2009.

The First Youth Olympic Games

The Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (SYOGOC) has produced a brochure to publicise about the First Youth Olympic Games.

In their process of designing the brochure, they realised that they do not have a strong cover photograph which they can use. At the point of time, TILT was working on a project for SYOGOC. The project was to take stock photographs of the 26 National Sports Associations for publicity purposes. SYOGOC, then approached us and asked if we can assist in taking a good brochure cover photograph. Through our communication to them, we understood the requirements which they have and we immediately went about sourcing for talents and venue to take the photograph required. Through our clientele contacts, we managed to contact Republic Polytechnic to assist in this area and within 2 hours, we have the talents and venue secured. Very quickly, we reverted back to SYOGOC and informed them about the art direction as well as the confirmation of talents and venue.

Within 24hours, the photograph was taken and we emailed over to SYOGOC. Below is the response from SYOGOC.

Wow. I really like what I see.

Ellen NG
Senior Executive, Publications
Communications and Public Relations Division
Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee

In all our projects, we always seek to value add to our clients. The end result of a project is very much our baby as much as theirs and we are glad that we have played a part in assisting SYOGOC in producing their brochure.

To view the full brochure, please click here.

EXCITE!

Life’s a roller coaster.
Ups and downs, twists and turns.
Surprises and excitement, the spice of life.

What’s your passion? What excites you?
In the humdrum of life, what’s keeping you perky?
If passion is the fuel, excitement is the engine.

Life is exciting, and so is photography. “EXCITE” is the theme for Montage 2009, a photography competition organised by The Photography Society of NUS (NUSPS). TILT had submitted our magical moments of excitement with the sports photographs that were taken and we are glad that our entry had been shortlisted for the exhibition.

It had always been one of our goals to share, to inspire and to delight followers of our blog on the updates of design matters and we are thrilled to know that our entry was handpicked from over 1400 entries and will now be exhibited at Suntec Singapore.

Below are the details of the exhibition.
Suntec Singapore (Level 2)
Date: 6 – 20 June 2009
Admission is free

If you are free, why not drop by the exhibition and have a look at all the pictures that had help spread the cheer in this gloomy climate.

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