Travel and Photography | Sultan Abdul Samad Building

Just to add a little bit of variety, I try to play around with slow shutter speed, just to get a sense of movement of the traffic here, since this is Saturday, where most people are on a holiday, this street are less busy than usual, so I have to wait a few minutes just to get the right vehicle passing by, I need some kind of striking and vivid colours like the red taxi there.

The Sultan Abdul Samad Building is located in front of the Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) and the Royal Selangor Club, by Jalan Raja in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The structure takes its name from Sultan Abdul Samad, the reigning sultan of Selangor at the time when construction began.

The building houses the offices of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture Malaysia of Malaysia. It formerly housed the superior courts of the country: the Federal Court of Malaysia, the Court of Appeals and the High Court of Malaya. The Federal Court and the Court of Appeals had shifted to the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya during the early 2000s, while the High Court of Malaya shifted to the Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex in 2007. | WikiPedia –

The Sultan Abdul Samad Building, once, were the icon of Kuala Lumpur before we have the Petronas Twin Towers and KL Tower, but still even though now we have another attractions around the city, this place still attracting a lot of crowds especially during school holidays, public holidays and since 2014 has been officially declared as Visit Malaysia Year, I decided to pay a visit here.

I spent almost three hours here, not really taking a lot of photograph but busy waiting for the tourist bus to arrived, I need subjects for my photograph rather than just the building. The tourist bus start coming as early as 8 AM, and after 9 AM, there were long queue of buses in front of the building, just across the road.

Just a little bit about photography talk. All of the photograph above were taken with 16-35 mm lens mounted on a full frame camera body. Personally the best time to photograph this building is during late afternoon, somewhere around 5 PM to 7 PM and just after sunset, if the weather is good and the sky is clear, you might get a “Blue Hour” kind of a photography.

Early morning is not very good here simply because the sun rise behind the building and will give you a backlighting and might be given some problem to your camera metering is you shoot it with a Program Mode, anyway, early morning light can also be great if you know how to play it right.

Travel and Photography | Sultan Abdul Samad Building | Kuala Lumpur

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