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New Kid in Town..

2011-02-07T00:48:00.000-08:00

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Penang holiday trip!

2009-12-01T18:14:00.000-08:00

Just back from my penang holiday trip, well...almost 2 weeks d..haha..just lazy to blog cos uploaded all my travel pic on my facebook account .

in short, the holiday was fun and we manage to eat lot of the local food. My 1st time went to penang , so much different compare to sabah. we have less tall building and they have more we have less biker and they have plenty, we drive on the road and they drove on the white line -.-..haha...scary man..

but 1 thing are very good..No illegal imigrant aka pilaks! !

If i only can show 3 picture to describe penang town..this 2 will be it.

3rd picture no need to post d..of course food picture!!! and too many food...i cant choose which to post...hahah

Road Trip - Part 3- Kota Merudu

2009-10-19T21:14:00.001-07:00

As Promised..part 3..last part for the mengatal, kota belud, kota merudu. road trip

After we finish shopping at the pasar tamu kota belud. we checked our time. just 11.30 am..
original plan was reach kota belud and go home..but then, too early..so we decided to head up to kota merudu or where ever it take us...haha...we decided to turn back at 12.30 no matter where we were at that time.

and...1 hour trip..can get us to..kota merudu..we reach there 12.30pm no joke...just nice..haha..

more padi field

the road to kota merudu...sweet...but many patches..not as nice as kota belud road

somemore.......

finally!!!...jambatan to kota merudu!!! i never been here..haha..my 1st time

reach!!!

nice quiet town

stop by milimewa to buy some drink and to cold down the car abit..

cooling down in progress..not hot..but just to prevent..cos on the way to kota merudu got some hill. and the bumpy road..check anything got loosed or not..haha

posing man..

on the way back..

and after 2 hours from kota merudu...we reach kk.
the car....
Before

After some tlc...tadaaa...so clean

Road Trip - Part 2- Kota Belud

2009-10-19T19:49:00.000-07:00

Continue with part 2 for the road trip...now we have reach kota belud..

tadaaaa! After about 1 hour of driving , we touch down!...haha

we almost wanted to turn back..cost kinda jam..lol..lucky we dint..cos dunno wat happen..no car also but the round about just jam..

see how their bomba compare to our bomba

the good ol town..koboi town

Same town..diff view

and the temple opposite the padang, dint open tho

on the way to pasar

kota belud famous tamu

nice...so grand ...haha

not much selling...cos the week after this trip is the Tamu besar festival..so i guess ppl are readying for the big day.

durian...lalalala

part 3 comming up! last part, promised!

Road Trip - Part 1- Mengatal

2009-10-19T19:20:00.000-07:00

Yeah....road trip again!...i think i watch too much top gear ..haha...suddenly wanna road trip. so..we plan another 1 short road trip. initial plan was tambunan-keningau-tenom. But...after some research...i kinda worry my car kenot make it...i only drive 2004 proton ...haha..so we change and go to kota belut and kota merudu. find some food!

our trip kk-->Mengatal-->kota belud-->Kota merudu.

1st stop...mengatal ngau chap!!! most famous!! MUST GO eat if you stop by mengatal.

The stop...just simple and old school kopitiam

start by having some toufu..not some..1 person 1 biji taufu

the meeeee supppppppp kerbau!

half way there

After that, hit the road bebe...oh..before that..we stop by at Pasar mengatal..
saw this teddy bear...sad sad view...we often aiming for toy that cost few hundred or thousand..but some kid only can affort such old and second hand toy...how lucky we are.

the bear..lonely and sad looking

then baru we go...the road..damn syok...strait only.

after some time...still

alot car wash at the road site..if u are paranoid by ur dirty car..can stop by there..haha

last view before i end this part 1 of our mengatal, kota belud, kota Merudu trip.

Road Trip part 2 - Beaufort

2009-09-23T21:50:00.000-07:00

Another road trip from my raya long holiday. This time we went to beaufort because my friend ,anson said that there have very nice tau sa piang.haha

It took us around 1.30 hours to reach there. road was nice and flat.about 90+ Km from kk town.
there are only few shop at this small town, due to raya celebration, alsmot 50% of the restorant are closed. lucky there are few more open and the most important was , the bakery open.

The tadika.

I think this is the dewan or maybe old part of the tadika.

Gmart! the biggest shop in the town. sound like"jimat"!!! haha

so rare to find this kind of shop now in kk.

Even this are made out of wood.nice!

More view of the town.

After we ate at the mamak stall. some nasi briyani. we proceed to find the tau sa piang .

The bridge to the other side of town.

the shop here are abit new compare to the place before the bridge.

tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...found it, by luck. As we was rounding that place.I was cursing why those car double park at the small alley.Then rach spotted this bakery....and common sense kick in. must be the one we looking for..haha

shop at lorong kecik

if u ever go to beaufort..make sure to buy tau sa piang and curry puff from this shop.tau sa piang on rm0.90 BIG to compare to kk punya tau sa piang -.-

shake shake...1 hand hold plate, other hand snap

see rm0.90 !

The aunty saw us sapu her tau sa piang. so she asked us " wan curry puff or not?"
we said ok and turn out sedap!

see...even the plastic go along with my car interior colour! haha

on the way back...strait road..and smooth!

last...fuu...the "tangga ke heaven" can be found in beaufort.

Holiday Road Trip Part 1-Tuaran

2009-09-22T21:50:00.000-07:00

There was a long holiday for every Malaysian last week, i believe some friend still holidaying now.

i travel to tuaran last week, my original plan was to go to Karambunai resort and take some landscape photo, but i lost my way there..yeah...sesat.. haha i was on the road to kota belut, before i call my friend and then turn back.

on the way back, we go to few resort, tuaran beach resort, nothing much, deserted. even a wild monkey bang my car..lol..lucky it no die, then we go to rasa ria resort.
This resort have a very nice beach, wide + white+ clean beach.

The walk way to the beach area

i think this is the beach cafe, wasnt open when we reach there ,maybe open only at nite. I have no idea. a very nice place indeed to have a tea while watching the sun set

The massage tent. very nice and romantic place.

the super nice beach!!

The garden

Entrance to Narnia! and the gate keeper....rm 10 each pls to enter narnia.

the gazeboo!!! if u plan to have a wedding by the sea side. this will be a very nice place.

Of course, i did make it to karambunai before i head home. But the place are somehow losing it charm..dint snap much picture there.

handpHone cover.

2009-08-28T19:51:00.000-07:00

I asked rach to make a hand phone cover for me since she into sewing stuff..kekeke
her blog here http://snipsnippitysnip.blogspot.com/ visit her to see more sewing stuff

i i take this chance to do a product shot...but my white box become my "bakul simpan barang" oledi..hahahahaha..so i just take some white background to shot this.

actually, this is harder then i thought it would be, the cloth some how respond diff with the light..
tried so hard to eliminate the shadow but not enought light source..and as u can see the black is the vividest it can be...cant make it more black even tho in real life it more darker in colour..and the red almost toooo vivid..hahaha...so hard!!!!!

This is how it look when no Hp inside

When fully close from behind

see, just slip in can d

windsurf pic!!!...even got lubang for my rope thingy

Finally, i got a decent sport photo

2009-07-31T20:19:00.000-07:00

After few weeks of trying finally got me a decent photo of my friend windsurf. X Games Style!

best view full screen here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeaw/3776230523/sizes/l/

exif
lens 70-300,A200
Zoom - 135mm
-F7.1
Speed -1/250
ISO-200

Long time no update..

2009-07-22T17:49:00.000-07:00

Long time since my last update, been busy with some minor stuff on work and life...

let me update with sunset and lets us compare Mabul's and tanjung aru sunset..haha
#1

This two shot is from mabul, please ignore the dusk, it clean oledi..haha

and this two is from tanjung aru...

so which place u prefer to holiday at..for me...i still love tanjung aru..mabul somehow are boring and pack with ppl and house and also becos......................

see...u cant do this at mabul or at any other beach except tg aru..hahaha..romantic sunset walk with ur bebe..holding hand...even the sun happy for u.. ..ok..i just making story...

Sunset With flash..

2009-06-16T22:43:00.000-07:00

Did a quicky photoshoot with Rach and anson..see this kind of photos alot in internet...so trying to recreate the mood..using 1 flash only..still having some problem with the setup. hmmm...need to do more testing.

This is the setup...flash hand held by anson..haha...Metering at the background and flash to light up the subject

The outcome..

Next time i would like to try this setup...to brighter the background and also softed the model face..and more dramatic sunset(Actually sunset was nice..just that by the time i found the good setting the sun oledi gone..but still a good image i think..:)...)

VIP STYLE SOCIETY Photoshoot - Final

2009-06-16T20:12:00.000-07:00

Here is all the photos for the VSSM photoshoot..More at my Facebook account.

learn alot from the photoshoot..and i thanks all the ppl who come support and make it a success photoshoot.

the model are Cute Chiaki and Pretty joana ...It kinda presure me..cos when we gathering at likas then this 2 model came. i was thinking to my self " damn.. hot girls..if i cant take nice pic of them i'm screwed.!!!!" haha.. pretty akward at first, but thing getting more fun as more time spend on the photoshoot.toward the end..it was much more easier to shoot.

#1. This is the place we shoot

#2 this is The models. left chiaki, right Joana

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

Honestly..my fav will be pic no 5..Hope there will be more chances to work with them again. but before that i have to make sure that i can give them more then this photoshoot..hahaha..

VIP STYLE SOCIETY Photoshoot batch 1

2009-06-08T22:12:00.000-07:00

As many of u guys know...I organized a photoshoot for my Vipstyle society member. Our second session actually. this time manage to find 2 lovely model to pose for us. millions thanks to them.

we started early. and gather at likas. reach the place and start shooting. Was using my 2 flash to do some strobish shot. but sometime my flash just wont fire..will do more research on this area tho.
the scene was chaotic for a moment..haha..many photog running here and there..and ppl are all around. haha..but we manage to take few good shoot. And the most important is we all having fun fun fun~

Just click on the picture or goto flickr to see the bigger view

my opnion..car detail are lost..not enough flash i suppose..that y i edited become like artistic ..haha..to cover the flaw..haha

part 3 ...

2009-05-14T02:03:00.002-07:00

ok..i left out some pic..haha..suppose to be 2 part only...but dunno how..some pic dont wanna show up...

Group shot...toooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many bling bling!!!!!!!

Bro lam's city...look like mustang eh..

ok..this time i sure no more left out..haha...C&C are welcome..let me know where i left out.

Part 2 photoshoot

2009-05-13T03:01:00.001-07:00

Here is the part 2 pic that i promised. Taken same day. We dint have enough time to set thing up for the 2nd shot, as the security only give us little bit of time to park there..still, they allowed us to take photo. thanks pak security..haha..appreciated it man.

part 2, except the 1st pic.. all under shade...muchmuch more nicer eh..:)
#1

#2. some edit, can see some flaw..hehe. But i love the background!

3, personaly, i love the 2 pic below. light and detail are ok..at least for me.

4, Look like product shoot or not? hehehe..

some random...u know u got pimped when..u can see some guy try to take the rim pic!!
haha..that would be my fren jack.( also photog)

Car Photoshoot.

2009-05-10T21:29:00.000-07:00

Did another proper car photoshoot again for VSSM car club.
we did Few places, morning at likas park and then we headout to yayasan sabah to shoot again.
This is our 1st ever official photoshoot.

the sky was bright and hot..wanted to do again on sunset but all of us have to go back to celebrate mother day. Balck car and bling bling rim are hard to take picture. they reflect everything, even the photog that stand in front..

and the car become blue-ish coz reflected by the light.but nothing some PP cannot fix.haha

Unedited - except pped the background, some unwanted car behind the scene,
Notice the car hood colour, is blue instead of black. And the car colour is faded, not so black anymore.

Edited - colour and level
Notice that now the car are more in black colour. And everything look more elegant ?
this is the true colour of the car

stay tune for part 2! and those interest to modeling for us are welcome.

save the puppy, Doom to the Resident!

2009-05-07T19:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.mycen.com.my/rescue/index.html <---go here for more info...and damn to the resident of pulau ketam...in short : they round up 300 dogs to a deserted island. Then spca found out, they try to help this dog, as there are no food at the island and dog eat deAd dog to survive,
mean time, the resident hike up boat fair after all the sin that they have done...shame on them.
good news is.many ppl aware of this issue and many offer to help and rescue mission is currenly on going.

if this happen here at kk, i sure alot will go volunteer..but sadly, too far away...so hope all can offer a prayer and maybe some spare change for them.

bling bling..

2009-04-28T19:57:00.000-07:00

Did a car photoshoot last sunday ...trying to make it look elegant..as the car theme is vip style.

for the shot.. placed a flash at 1/8 power zoom in to around 25-35(cant remember) place on a tripod and fire 45degree down to the car..another flash on the front side..aiming at the bumber
at -1power( set using the flash power on camera..so i dunno wat the power if converted to normal output)

and the outcome..

2 black Dude

2009-04-20T22:24:00.000-07:00

long time dint update my blog..nothing interesting shot lately , was busy doing something else..and flu again!..

last sunday went to kyc to buang some time, while waiting for anson finish his law meeting, saw this black bird on the tree branch near me.

after it gone, another bird came, maybe wondering wat am i doing or maybe the bird want some attention from me ..haha..minta puji ni burung

Studio shot..

2009-04-05T18:50:00.000-07:00

Since i get my old vivitar flash in working condition again...well not 100% working lah...as now it only can use as slave(use to have slave mode and normal mode) which is good enough as i can set the power output with this flash.

my setting is..1 flash at her upper left and bouch to wall and back to her, then another flash at 1/8 power 50 mm on her left firing at her hair, a fan on left side to make the hair fly~~

Below is the setup..

Kundasang and Wireless flash

2009-03-30T21:27:00.000-07:00

Did some wireless flash again, when to KYC and do some photoshot with rach.
set the flash to 85 mm as i wan the light to focus on her only...and this is the result after some trial and error.

Another story, when back to ranau for" ching ming" last sunday. wanna do ranau town shot, but the weather there are too hot to handle and my stomach ache..haha..after finish my business oledi no mood to take pic, but i did buy a RM4.50 selipar jipun!! wohoo..haha..on the way back, we stop by at kundasang town, rach wanna buy some vege back.the scenery was kinda messy, wit all the construction eq all along the side of the road , luckly i manage to get a nice spot and shot a landscape of kundasang. edited to make it look like those film camera effect.(i love the real film colour.)

Bigger picture can be view HERE

Sunset...at last..

2009-03-25T02:08:00.000-07:00

At last!, I got my chance to take sunset picture. wohoo!

waited this for long long time..the dark Small Cloud look like sabah map...haha..got zoom version, see if i got time to put it up. :0!!.

btw...i'm thinking of making something like picture short story kinda thing. like we go some place, shoot and take the 3-5 pic and make a short story. like this can learn more about lighting and etc etc...haha...who interest, do let me know ya..thank you :)

Green Dude got lucky!!!

2009-03-22T22:52:00.000-07:00

shot tis pair of parrot busy making sure the future dont run out of bird..haha
lucky for them and lucky for me..1st time see this kind of bird mating..haha
happy with my shot, thank to the workshop i went to..i manage to set the correct exposure

Below is a ladybug , shot this only using reverse ring..havent got my macro gear yet.
but addtional this and my last macro shot is, i got a extra wireless flash , put on the right side on the bug and fire at HSS mode.my best macro so far..hehe

Alpha TT session

2009-03-20T18:28:00.000-07:00

Join a mini TT with alpha guy ..was there late..work lor..wtd..
learn alot of new stuff...and of course lot of new poisons...

some pic of the night..
the mangsa kejadian..rach became the Free model of the night..so did i..was fun tho..haha
learn wireless flash..some light thingy, some strobist thingy...and kysham ( the sifu) was kind enough to show us this.

The session ...asking and explaning

The F58 flash..damn this flash is good...can strob, can cobra mode tilt..power at 58..
love of stuff....might get 1 NOT in the near future tho..haha.

and if i not mistaken, the only flash of this kind..for the turning effect, that y they nick name it cobra..haha

boy flash :hey girl...wanna love love?

girl flash :hey boy...love love is nice...but i wan u to meet my family.okay?
boy flash : sure...are ur family big?

girl: this my my family...say cheese!!!

haha...ok..enough with the not so funny dialog..but look at those gear...enough to buy my car..

Some macro and bird

2009-03-17T19:09:00.000-07:00

Lately raining almost everyday , and everyweekend also kinda have something to do..picture also less time to take. blog also dint update..haha..so this time going to update long longgg..

here some shot i like to share.1st is my fly macro shot.
take so many shot but still not so good. so hard to focus as i only using reverse ring.haha..and the on board flash not help much..but no worry.....new baby comming sonn

and then, last sunday took this michael jackson bird.haha..black and white. just before i went fishing wit my fren. so rare to see a black bangau..

and lasty...a king fisher!!!! too bad..it soooo farrrrrrrrrrrr away..even using my tele lens also no use..can take but lake alot of detail..haiz..time to save for that tele converter.

got more..haha..took this flaying egret..damn fat 1..kinda like this photo...better if i manage to capture the back feet also...but this thing fly fast lah..

New addition..

2009-03-09T22:54:00.000-07:00

New addition to my camera family! got my self a battery grip last week, just too busy and lazy to blog about it..haha..

yea...now my camera can hold 2 battery at a time and i can do vertical position with ease...
beside..it really look macho with complete pant...haha..tho it abit heavy but i kinda like the heavy feel...for now at least...haha

pic show the new look with battery grip.

Photo: MR GOOGLE!

another thing...been rianing since friday..haiz...was planning to take some sunset from the 3 days holiday..end up rain every evening..-.-...

Lens Filter, Protect ur lens now!

2009-03-02T19:37:00.000-08:00

Dint take much photo lately..due to the weather, work, and also this damn flu...-.-...

but i got my self 2 hoya filter !! yea....just some normal uv filter..buy 1 free 1..!!! wohoo..
actually i buy 1 rach buy for me 1..so consider buy 1 free 1 also lah..haha
ok, the use for this filter is to protect ur lens from scratch. there no way to replace the lens except buy 1..or is there? but i guess the cost will be expensive.. after all this hoya just cost rm45 a piece.
rm 45 to protect ur few hundred lens is small small invesment only...
This the the packaging..2 hoya!!! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~~

This is how it look like when screw into the lens .
setup: soften light from right of the photo and flash to fill the back part

One abstract photos from me this week. taken at a grass area. with warm orange light from top.
snap and i turn around..this is the result..i like it..the colour blend in so nicely.. hahaha

Some happy news...

2009-02-25T00:08:00.000-08:00

Update with my new purchase. this time, i bought a LCD screen protector.
now i using the sticker type of screen protector, not good enough. so i get my self 1 of this..
Cost rm 50..not much to protect a screen worth around rm 350-500...people told me that this thing is hard to get for sony.
i read at some 1 blog(sorry, i cant remember the blog address)
he said" this thing is as rare as panda" hahaha...i did as few forummer and they give me the same answer..so i just try my luck and go wisma merdeka sony center to find out. and guess wat.
LAST 1 UNIT..and the unit is just the one i need...woohoooo... finaly some luck after the flash broken :(.

here is how it look like when attatched to the DSLR. yeah...now i look abit pro..even tho not pro..got the look also ok lah..hahaha

sad news...

2009-02-23T18:53:00.000-08:00

sad new for me..my flash just dieded...

ok..i bought the flash for half it price at rm 200... new 1 is around 480. so the price is consider okok also lah. got to use it only for 1 week. then it died on me.

flash not suppose to died so easily..i have no idea wat happen..maybe just some lemon hand i got.

cannot blame the seller also..when i got it it 100% working. did some wireless and all ok... just after i use it die on me..haiz..my hand got special power maybe..shorted the circuit inside..haha..some say send for repair..but i guess the repair bill will be more then the flash it self. so wat to do..only can sigh lo... budget for another flash again...sad sad...that all lah.. no mood to take pic.. sad sad flash..

My flash arrived!

2009-02-17T20:54:00.001-08:00

Oh yea. finally have flash!! wohoo...so happy..new toy new toy!! ok.i ordered a vivitar flash ,
a 3rd part flash for sony. sony flash cost too much..waiting the price to go down then i grab 1..hahaha

this flash can have slave mode,manual mode,and ttl mode,
can up down 45-90 degree, build in dissfuser and bounce card
left right 270 degree..support slave funtion..not wireless, just slave. good enough for beginner like me.
might get another 1..so i can strobist abit..just love those lighting effect!!damn...now i alittle addicted to wireless...looking into wireless radio...but..not so soon tho..hahaha..i still funding for my tele converter..

here are some example of the flash..just got it for 1 day....havent fully test it function and the usesage..but some sample pic nontheless..

the picture of the flash( the Wb is way wrong...guess i'm too exited with the new toy..haha)

tested on ELMO with slave mode!

yeah...now i can play peek a boo with the new flash..hehehe. seem like i need another flash on my camera and another for slave eh...

Reverse ring..

2009-02-15T20:07:00.000-08:00

I just purchased a reverse ring for my lens. What is a reverse ring? reverse ring is a ring that can let u reverse ur lens. so u can explore macro / close up with the limited budget.

Just got the ring last sathurday. only have 2 day to test it. with this ring, everything will be manual setting. and kinda hard to use as everything suddenly become so tight and near.haha
but i'm sure with some practise , i might get few lucky shot with this thing.

So far the main problem is to give my subject some light as the lens blocked all the light and the onboard flash will never reach the subject due to the distant between the lens and the subject is way to close for the on board flash to flash it. so..i ordered a flash!!!!! yea..a flash finally!...shud be arrive around this week..meanwhile some early testing of the new technique and the ring.

all shot with iso1600 at 1/40 speed, manual mode , on board flash, and bright sunny afternoon

My work shirt..

Butterfly..not so sharp..but it show the potential of this technique

my best shot so far..:)

My new fav shots...

2009-02-11T20:11:00.000-08:00

Been taking bird photos this few days...kinda nice and challenging ..u dunno when they gonna pose for u and when the light is just right to snap their pic.using 75-300mm to shot.time is around 2-3pm. nice sunny day

I also ordered a reverse ring for my lens....stay tune for "poor man" macro shot next time. hahaha

Butterfly farm!

2009-02-02T21:42:00.000-08:00

I visited the butterfly farm when i was on my 1 week holiday..the butter fly farm are at somewhere near gunung emas and half way to tambunan. the road are wayyyyyy nicer then kk road.
You can find more detail here at Massy's blog.....she the 1 that make me wanna go there and see
see..somemore cold cold mah..so syok. anyway..here is the picture..more at www.flickr.com/yeaw

I'm back!

2009-02-01T17:05:00.000-08:00

Finaly back from long holiday, though my brain n body are still in lazy mode..but going to wake them up after i finish this entry..no more long holiday till may i think.

i manage to snap lot of pic during my holiday, got bird, i even go to butterfly park after i read massy 's blog. Anyway, yesterday was the "open house" for KYC..they invited 1 dragon , 2 "chi ling" and 5 lions...lot of ppl...there was some teenager who go infront of me and blocked my way..-.-...so rude..but since it still CNY..no point arguing..so i change place..and manage to get this lion! they were from yik nam school..world class performer.

Happy Chinese New Year!!!!

2009-01-22T17:19:00.000-08:00

Gonna update my blog before i go on a very long holiday..tomolo till next sunday..total = 9 days!!! ahahaha..so a long long entry this time. before that..GONG XI FA CHAI! Happy Chinese New Year 2009 to all and may all wish come true!!!

ok..continue with the windsurf update 1st ..remember i said how important this 3 month for us(windsurfer), because every year from jan to march...the wind will change direction and the blowing strengh will up from normal 5-7 knots to 15-20 knots. and the wind is cold, that y u feel cold nowadays cos the wind blowing from Mount Kinabalu direction. so all the icy cold air will be blowing toward kk town. So while we went surfing, Rach is the 1 have to take all the picture, i kenot take cos i playing also..HAHAHAHA...

But it is damn hard to take picture when the sun is around 3pm bright and the sea reflection + all the windsurfer all far far, i dint try to take some pic before i go out and try the setting that suit most for the condition , i still dun have polarised filter, i dunno if that can imporove the picture quality..

The pic..taken by me..All 3 pic are taken using SAL75-300mm.

Now pic taken by rach of me!!! haha..tidak tau malu lah...

And last picture before long long long holiday...Please enjoy this sunset taken at tg aru sabah. with some HDR effect. Thank you all and GONG XI FA CHAI!

DIY Light Box

2009-01-20T18:05:00.000-08:00

Here is my DIY light box, i found this idea on many forum and internet, so i decided to give it a try since my office have some unwanted box and the size are just perfect for my little project.

this light box was very easy to make, just take a nice box, and some white paper which you can buy at any book store. cut few hole on the box then stick the white paper inside the box. then u will have something like this.

You are suppose to put the light out side the box, behind the white paper. Too bad i dun have very powerfull light, only have those emergency light, which are really not enough. and my built in flash only.
the outcome is like below. No pp to this picture, u can see abit underexpose here(ok..alot under expose), but that can be settle by bumping up the ISO and some powerfull light source. But the main purpose is archived, as u can see very little shadow on the camera, This is my "Product shot" hahahaha

A New Achievement For 2009!!

2009-01-18T18:36:00.000-08:00

Yay...i finally an official kinabalu Yatch Club member, after about 14 years of being call "Member Children" i finally have a membership by my self. Now i no need to use my dad membership. HAHAHAHA...
http://www.kinabaluyachtclub.com/public/intro.asp
<--- check out the site if you don't know what and where is KYC. short explanation, it is a private club base on water sport( but mostly ppl go there for the bar and sunset bar) it like a small comunity there, just like sutera or golf club, A person need to apply for the membership and pay the entrance fee. ofcourse, not every1 can go in, but if u own a boat, the chances are higher. for those lazy to click the site..this is how kyc look like. taken from their site

And thing got even better, last sat and sun was my 1st Windsurfing session after 1 whole year of no windsurf, due to broken sail :(..but now i can enjoy it again, but poor Rach, have to reput and wait me at the beach..end up she catch some cold..hahaha...i'll explain why this windsurf is so special on my next update...and some picture from my DSLR too..

Autoshow Model..

2009-01-12T18:32:00.000-08:00

Just finish my 3days(last fri-sun) at likas autoshow bonanza, supporting my club and fortunately, we won 2nd place. And also some roasted skin for all the member..hahaha
my 1st time cover fo event, i kinda the official photog to my car club(VSSM)....and i definately learn alot stuff expecialy shooting at event where u just have to ready for every moment.

anyway..here are some sexy , pretty model for ya all..

Damn, i really need a UV or even better for CPL filter...taking event like this under bright sunny day all turn out not so good. And flash gun is damn important, if 1 year ago u ask me take picture at bright sunny day with flash i'll say u crazy, now i know flash is a very very important light source no matter wat time or how bright/dark the situation is.

for this event, i just use my 18-70 kitlens..wanted to use my tele lens..but too small space..wan some model with nice bokeh also kenot..T.T..hahah...C&C are welcome.

Water Proof Digicam(olympus)

2009-01-08T23:37:00.000-08:00

Part 2 of my sailing with the HOBIE , this time my friend albert bring his digital camera, OLYMPUS wat model i not so sure, but damn good this camera. very clear and nice picture from the camera. if anyone of you wanna buy a waterproof camera,You shud consider this model( i not sure if there is other water proof camera out there..haha)
Here the pic. some edited, but u still can see the picture quality is not bad for a digital camera.
this can consider as a review from me.. wat u waiting for, go grab it now!

* Note: all picture are taken by my friend.

Night shot

2009-01-05T17:16:00.000-08:00

Some night shot here, still got no external flash at this moment.
i try set up the iso to 800 and 1600, using my 18-75 lens. I was not expect it to be good, but it really lot better then i expected. at iso 1600, i can take good picture with low noise. although sometime the camera focus dunno wat, make the picture to turn out to be super bright! and then super dim..-.-... i guess this is why they say SONY dslr not so good in low light condition. But still, it done a great job for amature like me.

here are the pic i took of our gathering at grace point, note that the light there are bright and yellow. setting 1600 ISO, A= auto, shutter speed= auto. programe Mode.

The last pic not really consider as night lah..but around 6.30 pm. cloudy condition.

oh, and btw, i learn to shot in RAW mode..hahaha..

and the 2nd pic, no, i dun have a fish eye lens ..i just testing out the new programe. ehehehehe

Hobie Cat!!

2009-01-02T18:31:00.000-08:00

On new year day, was suppose to go windsurfing but somehow the wind was too light to surf, so albert rig up his catamaran and we go for a short ride. for so many year of sailing, this is my 1st time try out this kind of catamaran, and it is damn stable i tell u, better then i thought, more stable then those racing boat i use. hmmm...

anyway, rach took some pic of us and because the sun shine directly from front, the pic somemore become silhouette, but then i found a way to fix that problem , but of course not so perfect oledi the picture. That is why i put some effect to cover the defect part..hehe. here the pic. C&C are welcome

Baby Portrait

2009-01-01T18:19:00.000-08:00

Last week end i given a chance to take my friend's 10 month old baby, i have never take baby portrait except for my nephew, but that different story because my nephew like to look at the camera( tak tau malu)..hahaha.

our location was at beach hotel tg aru, time was around 5pm we start shooting. i bring along both my lens. lucky the weather was ok. lot of shade and nice background. here are some of the picture.

This is the boy..his name is hudson.

(up)i try some effect and combine the picture together. give it abit portait feel :)
(down) love this combination also, show the relation between the mother and the child

(up)this is basicaly wat i shoot. too many to uplaod, so i show u guy this to get an idea on the outcome.

(down)And this is the last picture, i love this picture alot. the light and the grass was perfect, and the lighting on the center of the baby was a bonus for me.

Happy new year 2009!

2008-12-31T20:46:00.000-08:00

Wish everyone a very good 2009!! May all wishes and dream come true and archive all the target this year.

Look What santa gave me!!

2008-12-25T18:39:00.000-08:00

This is my present from rach!!! wohoo...

it a book about exposure and lighting!!!! i havent finish reading the book. but so far so good, teach me lot of good stuff about light and shadow.

she" curi curi " buy for me, which mean...i dun have anything for her for xmas..aiya...

Golden Moment....

2008-12-23T03:42:00.000-08:00

This batch is all about " Golden Moment"

All this picture taken on different day. venue at Tg aru Beach. Using SAL 75-300mm

Here i try to put the boat directly under the sun to have the bright light .
Lucky that day the wind was light and the boat was travel slow enough for me.

this pic is edited , trying out the flare effect
*note: the 2 white dot is the effect not my lens dirty.haha

and this is just another sunset, doesn't really nice. thinking of invest in polarized filter to enhance
the colour.

A portrait and a Moon

2008-12-17T21:28:00.000-08:00

Update my blog with somemore picture.

1st pic is rachael at Tanjung aru beach. The setting is sun infront of her( that y she do the salute kinda pose..hehe) with tele lens to create great bokeh!
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And This is When i edited abit to become BW pic. personaly i like the BW version. It got more "feel" then the coloured version. wat say you?

The last pic for today will be the moon!! i zoom till 300mm! and this is wat i got!
have to set ISO setting to low, because the moon gave so much light. as my 1st few picture was too bright, like someone shine torch light toward me.haha

Xmas party and Wine Tasting...

2008-12-16T17:21:00.000-08:00

Went to kyc last week , got the children x'mas party and wine tasting..but the real motif is go there to wait for the "moonson wind" or as we windsurfer call it" North east" ,yea u can guess ,it named after the direction it blow from.but too bad nowind at all.

but i dint bought my self a White wine..i Not a wine guy, i never like wine and i more to those wisky. but this white wine taste so good that i have to get one for my self. so my wine + 1.

it a 2006 white wine , and only cost me Rm 50. promotion price( i have no idea wat the original price is, but i guess not much different)

setting light on the right and white cloth on the left to reflect my white light. abit under expose but i got no more light source to play with..hahahaha

Getting familiar with my DSLR

2008-12-12T22:46:00.000-08:00

Today is 1 week after i got my dslr, finally understand some of the main function. but still getting use to it so my pictures are still not up to the standard( i wonder when ever my pic are up to standard..haha) so here are some of the shot i try at my back yard,

C&C are welcome.

New Year! New Blog!

2008-12-10T20:43:00.000-08:00

preparing my new blog for year 2009!. hope new year bring new reader to my blog.

stay tune, as at today, blog just created, still under construction.

thank for viewing my blog.