This is my assignment to capture the image of Gunung Panti and Waterfall of Kota Tinggi, to be framed into a reasonable size and to besubmitted to Jabatan Perhutanan as a souvenier to the Menteri Besar and Pengarah.
After a few times of 'climbing' up and down their office, they have then decided....
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What is so special about Gunung Panti? If you check out the above picture clearly, you will find out that somekind of chin (dagu) was formed at the top of that hill.
It does look like a damn big nipple to me.
My very initial intention was to capture this mountain/hill with the lighting of around 4.00-5.30 PM as the lighting was expected to be yellowish and mild, enough to light every inch of the picture that I'm going to capture. The sunset will face the hill from my side of capturing this photo.
When I arrived there at 2.30PM, the weather was bright but hrash thus the result was not as I desired. Rain poured all over me (thank god I managed to save all my gadgets) at around 3.45 and I waited, waited, waited and prayed so that the raining will stop soon.
At around 5.40PM, I was about to give up as I started to engine, the rain stopped and I happened to be able to capture this not so nice but very rare picture...
This very rare view of Gunung Panti of Kota Tinggi, Johor was captured after I've waited for almost 3.5 hours from 2.30PM to 6.00PM. Submitted.
Captured on November 16, 2006 at 6.05PM, ISO-100, F/32, 1.3s and 50mm focal length.
This picture of waterfall was captured on a bright daylight but wet! Submitted.
ISO-100, F/22, 1/5s, 25mm focal lengthAll image was polarized using a CPL.
After unwrapping the photo from the old base, the piicture was too big for my scanner so I crop-scanned from all the four corners and use the Photomerge script in Photoshop so I get this. The picture was quite damaged with a lot of stains and dirt on it.
After the a lot of repair and touching up, it end up with this.
This is what I've got after editing. The dull color is remained. 
Alternatively, I turned it to a black and white photo with extra black concentration. It looks very much more brilliant and the customer had chosen this for the framing work.
So the above is how the lamination was done. Even using the thick photo paper, the matte lamination was done real nicely. I was expecting an unsmooth lamition edge at the edge of the photo but they have done very well. It comes with a price, 4 times higher than the price that I used to do.
You may hardly differentiate between the wood border and the black mounting board that has become the background of the frame content. Very nice. I like this very much!
Some more perspective if the frame.
A brilliant final product!
