Nikon's One Day Training at Puteri Pacific

It was on the January 6th, 2008.

So most of the participatns were Nikon users. I'm one of some lost people who were kantoi'ed to be using Canon but it doesn't really matters.

The most important thisg is that we're all gain a lot of things then.

During the model photoshoot. Everyone was really enthusiastic about it.

Nizam and Nizam, both photographer colleagues also attended the training.

Another photographer colleagues in action; Zaidi and errr err... lupalah..

Bila time model, semua semangat babe!!!

The three models.

My sifu, Mr. Noorsham with one of the product evangelist, which had his hold on camera for more than 30 years. (I wonder how old is he)

A snapshot preview. Full collections can be viewed in my facebook profile. (Those posed model pictures are not for public view)

Suatu petang di tepi jalan, Senawang

An evening in Senawang is a very soundful weather. Any kind of transportation will just ram their engine like no tomorrow and oftenly I was thinking that it will be good if I can have my Honda Civic around but it's just such a waste of time.

So one day, I decided to send my Nissan Frontier to a car wash by the roadside and get myself prepared with my camera. Wahlauwei. I can't believe my eyes.

Even a lorry have the guts to drag race with a MyVI. I stand just after the traffic light so I can see any vehicle accelerating.

That Satria Neo was finding its way after accelerating like mad and then being blocked with a logful lorry. Quite a breathetaking situation i was looking at.

Prang praaaaaaang! Like no one else is around! Remp It Loud!

Waaa uncle! You also ride your bike so fast. I was only able to capture you on my third frame. He took the corner from the other junction just like Randy Mamola!

Sape kata Nissan Frontier tak laju? Laju tu!

A real drag between a Satria and Wira, both Turbo'ed with kepish kepish sounds filling in the noise!

Aish.. Tengah laju2 tu boleh sempat lagi tengok saya?

Sceneries from Kebun

A scene captured using a polarizer thus resulting a highly saturated natural colors.

Another snap tilted more towards the sky.

Our eyes would always see things as dark but the long exposed camera would reveal everything.

Recent Project :: Photo Restoration

Recently, I was assigned a task to restore an old photo, shrunk it a bit and frame it. The old photo was just wrapped with a transparent plastic, thus the photo was damaged.

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!

Engagement: Hafizie & Mariana

Wedding :: Tasha & Azi

Gambar Kesayangan Hamba

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 length

All image was polarized using a CPL.