Wedding

This is my second time this year for taking (full coverage) pix of a wedding. One of my colleague and this time, a friend of my colleague. Others?? Yes, a few only, but only for selected occasion.

I don't really want to be a wedding photographer. Why not? I'm not ready for it (even though I've done a few). And also that I don't want to do this often. Well, I'm not good enough to be one. But thing I'm sure of is that I enjoy it.

I dunno what kind of photographer I want to be. Maybe I prefer landscape, sports, macro and photojournalism. I'm not even really sure.

Anyway, congrats to Azmirul and Evelyn for their wedding. I will finish editing the pics soon hehe.

Majlis Ilmu @ ICC

Went for a seminar at ICC today. There were also 4 separate galleries; Royal stuffs, astronomy and fossils stuffs, Islamic stuffs and lastly witch-doctor stuffs. I think the galleries will still be going on for a few weeks.


The Seminar


The replica of Jenglot

Bersama Rakyat

Today, His Majesty met his people at Padang SOAS. Starting with flag waving at somewhere near Lapau and then some performances at Padang SOAS.

After that, His Majesty walked around the field to see his people and giving handshakes. So many people were trying to get His Majesty's handshake. This went on and on until His Majesty arrived at somewhere near Tambing, where there is a new monument and also where His Majesty was going to have "santap" or Lunch.

After "santap", there was a group photo at the new monument and that was the climax of the event.

Accompanied by a female photographer (before "santap"), we chased the Royal family just to get nice shots of them. Taking pix of His Majesty wasn't easy. I mean taking GOOD pix of His Majesty :P

Not just of His Majesty but in general. We can't escape from taking really bad pix too. Even good pix need to be digitally enhanced to make it look more dramatic. Well, a software like adobe photoshop is needed. What we need to do is change the level/curve to its optimum, crop of we need to, change contrast/saturation and so on.

I'm still learning how to take good pix. I have acquired many information about photography from magazines but when it comes real action sometimes I forget about them. Usually happen when everything is in a hurry.


Left: Group photo @ Yayasan, Right: An entrance @ Padang SOAS


Left: Getting ready for their performance, Right: Kids eager to be photographed


Left & Right: Colourful performances


Left: Another performance, Right: Crowded


Left: Somebody's gonna get a handshake from Prince Abdul Malik, Right: Musical Notes & Performance


Left: The Crown Prince, Right: Waiting for His Majesty's handshake


Left: Police Cadets' musical performance, Right: Symbol of six


Red Carpet / A girl with a red Baju Kurung

Circular Polarizer

Been so busy with work and get tired! Not much time spent on taking pix. Tomorrow I will go to Padang SOAS for "Bersama Rakyat".

Today I caught some pix using a filter called a pl-cir (circular polarizer) attached to my lens. Well, not really attached. I have only one pl-cir and it belongs to my other lens (size 62mm). The lens attached to my camera is bigger in size (68mm). So lazy me to change the lens. I just need to hold it on front of my lens. Well, it doesn't really affect the images but it appears like a vignetting.

As far as I know, a polarizer is just to cut off (or just call it "to filter") excessive light from very bright areas (especially in the background such as the sky) without having to filter the light in dark areas in the pix.

A circular polarizer works the same ways but we can rotate it since it has two layers. We can rotate the front layer to achieve the best image.

Excessive light causes loss in colour and hence saturation. If we don't want a very bright background to spoil our pix, use a polarizer. It leaves the sky "pleasant" blue. Since we filter some amount of light from entering the lens, it means the shutter speed is becoming slower.

There are better filters called ND filters (means Neutral Density). These comes in different versions, some can filter more light than the others which results in better colours/saturation.

The pix below shows my models (hehehe)...

Sofrie & Ezan - The Engagement

Congrats to Sofrie & Ezan for their engagement on 16th of July 2007.

15th of July @ Nite

Feeling bored, I needed to go out. First of all, I was planning to go to buy a sensor cleaner but the shop was closed. But when I went there today, it was out of stock. I guess I need to find it in other shops. No idea where to find it.

Lets go back to last nite, still on the 15th of July, I went to Padang SOAS after going to the shop. Taking pix at night is not easy for me. I never used flash when shooting the pix below and that would be the best option. We have to deal with high ISO and slow shutter speed, which make the pix blurry. Here are some of the pix:

His Majesty's birthday

It's July 15th today and it's His Majesty's 61th birthday.

I woke up at 7.22 am and I rushed to go to BSB to watch the event at Padang SOAS.

The event was short as usual coz another event was waiting for His Majesty after this. But there will be a longer one on the 22nd this month (Bersama Rakyat??) with many performances. I'm looking forward to watching that.

Me, as usual, took some pix. I edited some of the pix and here they are:

















Don't have much to say...just the pix.

Big Day for Azri

Invited to Azri's wedding on the 1st of July. Btw, I wasn't the official photographer for his wedding. I took many pics because I wanted to...haha. Sayang jua...mun ada camera apa lagi.

Oh yea...I edited the pix using "Comic Life" using a software in my Macbook. Just for fun. Hmmm...Macbook?...yea!!...a new one...bought it and received it on the 2nd of July.

But I only show the 1st two pages in this blog. The rests are posted in my multiply site.

Appreciation Nite for 16th BASE Camp 2007

Been so busy lately and no time to update this blog. Anyways, i'm gonna post some pics that needed to be posted here.

I was invited to the 16th BASE Camp appreciation nite, on June 30th, as a photographer. So here are some pics...