Afya @ Bathe

My Model :: Afya Maisarah
Age :: 10 Months
Heights :: 70cm
Weight :: ~8kgs
Profession :: Toddler

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Maulidur Rasul

It's been a while being without a camera. That day, there was an announcement over the Surau's speaker mentioning about a parade in conjunction with the Maulidur Rasul.


I quickly decided to snap some photos through out the parade spontaneously. As this is the first time ever the Surau's committee organizing such event.

It was quite a shiny day and wearing Baju Melayu making the heat was pretty unbearable.

Well, IMHO this is the best shot of the day. The rest of the shots can be viewed in my Flickr.

Judging the MTC photo contest

I am glad that finally the whole judging process was over. It was way off the easy path. I would not say every submission was good but the really good ones were really good.

I hope there would more and more of this kind of competition. I was not only appreciating the beauty of these photos, but the value it brings to the mass. Even though it looks like we were restricted by the policies but that was the best decision ever met; in order to abide the policy and to appreciate what was supposed to be appreciated.

Photo I love most was the bird feeding the baby birds. Birds - OK, feeding them - was still OK, but while the mother bird fed the first baby bird and the second baby bird look at them like that; that was a moment with emotion.

Maybe you can have a look at it at this link. For me it was the best ever photo I've ever judged.

Link to the article in The Star

EDM Project :: MBSB Photoshoot

Got a call from Martin @ EDM to shoot for MBSB's book. This is one of MBSB's advertisement that's being used in the book. The background of UMNO building became side object of the subject.

I walked almost a kilometer to get this shot. Luckily there's a place to park my car. Shooting alone is not easy :)

Rainbow v0.7

Do you notice that there is actually 2 rainbows?

My Father

Last Wednesday, my father told me that he needs to submit his latest picture at work to the department.

I told him, why not we do some photoshoot in your office tomorrow?

The next day, I went to his office and photoshoot these kick ass photos! He loves all of them!

All pictures were taken using Nikon CLS. The group photos were also having great light from the side, which was also created using the CLS.

Nikonian CLS Class, 20 April 2008

Again, with only one female participant, it would not have been successful without the enthusiasm of the participants (of course when there's a girl model). Mostly professionals, include photographers for Akademi Fantasia and a lawyer, it was lot of fun, fun and fun!

Conducted at Sri Malaysia Johor Bahru, we've been the center of attraction as there were other tenants doing their seminars and courses. For a while, people were surrounding us, watching what were we doing in the middle of the walkway in the hotel park.

Look at how passionate they are when photoshooting the model. They do took good shots too!

One of my favourite. Shot by Zaidi. Look at the green background created using gel with CLS. The crossing shadow creates a great impact!

Here comes the portraiture. Enough tilt, simple pose and make use of the CLS settings to turn the bright background into a backdrop. Shot by Zamri Md Zan.

Magic!

Everybody pressed the shutter and the flash fired at once!

Nikonian Beginner to Intermediate Class, 13 April 2008

One of the participants, a mother, who just bought a D300 and enthusiatically attended the class had really amazed me. For some people, an entry level DSLR like D40, D40x or D60 maybe a good start but her.

Even though some of the participants are also those who have been in the scene for quite sometimes, I believe they are here to refresh themselves of the fundamentals, and DIG up our secrets, at NIKONIAN.

So that's why we are here! Providing classes and share out tips and tricks in photography.

Eventhough it's the Beginner to Intermediate class, we do some Studio Lighting to give them ideas of how it was done. Looking at the pictures, even if they took themseloves makes them feeling a lil steps further.


The class ends at about 6 PM after a busy Q&A session with the participants!

Wedding at Tanjung Pinang, Indonesia

It was the wedding of Ike and Dody. I went there as a relative, but I'm not gonna miss out photoshooting this colourful Malay Wedding.

Tanjung Pinang is within the Riau Island, of which the origin of the early Johor-Riau monarchy ruling a very long time ago. So it is not something new that maybe most of Malays have relatives in around Riau Island or KEPRI (Kepulauan Riau), as the indonesians live with shortforms!

In this picture, I'm taking a close shot of IKE, the bride, of whom is in the process of berinai. Like most of the local Malaysian Malay Wedding, applying henna is done prior to the wedding, and without the knowledge of anyone but the berinai event is done after the solemnization.

In Tanjung Pinang, berinai is actually the function of applying the henna and is done in front of everyone. They even have dance and the bride will have to lay down on a matress until the henna is fully dried off.

The next morning, the solemnization of the bride and groom is successfully carried out by only a single attempt. For some people, it's really a big deal, and so does them.

The above picture was taken using a simple CLS technique, as the surrounding was a lil bit dark and it's merely just a simple lighting technique.

Another CLS technique product. All the CLS was by assistance of my cousin, Hafizh who followed me there. It happened that certain tools was not taken with me and Hafizh had to hold the white brolly and the flash.

In this picture, it happens that the assigned photographer, Reno from Tg. Pinang brought his backdrop and I decided to do the CLS with the backdrop

Reno, a very nice guy with the D70s with his videographer.

Photography Road Show - Station 1

The event was successfully held at Plaza Pudu on the last Saturday and Sunday, 29th-30th of March 2008. Nikonian Academy was involved in giving out talks about Portraiture and Nikon CLS of which was presented by Mr. Noorsham. The turnouts were outrageously out of expectation.

Our Nikonian Academy Booth, taken with a Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8 lens.

Noorsham during the Portraiture Talk.

All the enthusiastic photographers were there, photoshooting the models.

A few photos of the models taken using Nikon CLS. All models are from the SGX Faces

Formula 1 at SIC Sepang

It was a very bright Sunday morning. Gotta wake up really early as not to miss the early buses to Sepang. From Taman Desa, took the Rapid KL bus to KL Sentral, and from there to SIC.

Maybe just not my good day, the bus creates trouble as the bus was about to reach SIC. It took them about 20 minutes to come up with a replacement bus.

I was there from 10++ AM to 4AM. Here are some of the photoshoots.

Photography Road Show 2008, Station 1

Date: 29-30/03/08 (2 Days)
Time: 10.00AM – 9.00PM
Venue: Centre Court, Pudu Plaza

1st Day Program

10.00AM - Exhibition Start
11.00AM to 12.00PM - Portrait and Model Photography By Nikonian Academy
12.00PM to 12.45PM - Model Shooting – Open to Participants
3.00PM to 4.15 - PM Photography Talk by Billion Lim
“ Perfect Picture with correct lens”
7.00PM to 8.30PM - Nikon Capture NX
9.00PM - End of the Day

2nd Day Program

10.00AM - Exhibition Start
11.00AM to 12.00PM - Travel Photography Talk By Billion Lim
“Travel Zoom”
12.00PM to 12.45PM - Model Shooting – Open to Participants
3.00PM to 4.30PM - Studio Photography with Nikon CLS by Nikonian Academy
4.45PM to 5.30PM - Model Shooting – Open to Participants
9.00PM - End of the Day

The event is co-organized by Futuromic Photo AV SDN BHD and YL Photo Service. The participating partners are Nikon (M) Sdn. Bhd. and Nikonian Academy

Mary, Model Photoshoot, 2 March 2008

Model: Mary
Photographer: Noorsham/Izham
Makeup: Mazuien Ibrahim

Model: Mary
Photographer: Izham/Noorsham
Makeup: Mazuien Ibrahim

Night Outdoor CLS, March 1, 2008

Model: Sharon & Debbie
Photographer: Izham
CLS setup: Andrew Boey/Sean Liew

Model: Sharon
Photographer: Izham
CLS setup: Andrew Boey/Sean Liew

Model: Sharon
Photographer: Izham/Jason

This one last shot was taken using the first Nikon D60 model endorsed by Nikon in Malaysia. Nikonian Academy was honoured to become the first to review this one nice DSLR.

Model Photoshoot, March 1 2007. 03/26/2008

Model: Nurul Model: Qistina Model: Ieka Model: Qistina, Ieka & Nurul
All pictures were photographed by Izham.
Makeup by Mazuien Ibrahim

Space Photography Class in KL

There's another SPACE class on photography last week, from 27-29 February 2008. It was held at the Crown Princess hotel in Ampang, KL.

The participants are friendly. There is even a photographer with more than 20 years experience on camera.

Below are some snapshots of the class.
Using CLS! From left Yazrul, Azimah, James Bond (Fazli, an ex-Bernama), Rusdi and Maq.

Another CLS! Noorsham with Aziz, a D70 user.

Who did Noorsham pointing to? Me?

Taken with my 70-200 2.8L lens. This was taken during the discussion during the Photoshop class. From left, Zul, Sabri (30 years of experience), Annuar (hidden in red) and of course Aziz again.

Tell you. The class with the most number of Model. 3 models and a make up artists!

Aqiqah :: My Nephew - AFI

Afi.. Sibuk aje tangan dia nak capai the camera.

This sweet little girl is just 5 years old. Siti Nurhaliza is not her name, but people called her Siti.

She's so talkative. I used to fell asleep after being tired answering all her questions.

Smile! Eh he's laughing!

Cuaca sangat panas dan sebagai budak kecik, saya berhak berlengging di khalayak ramai.

* Pardon my Bahasa Melayu :p

Wedding - Azatul & Adee

Pictures from the Underwater World (SG)

Panning! Under the low light.

I don't know what the hell this was, which was shot using Macro technique.

Can you see the ketam? Cannot? Then you must be anak luar nikah :p hehehe.

Nemo nemo! So cute. After that Finding Nemo cartoon, I think Nemo is more to be found all over the coral nowadays. Other wise we would never notice of their existance.

The Jellyfish, and remember, Nemo are immune of these magical transparent creatures.

(More to come)