Fly High

I took the above pic yesterday and the featured 'model' is none other than one of my colleagues. Since a few days ago I was into this 'flying' mood when it came to taking pix. It started with me asking them to jump. And yes! they followed what I told them to do (as long as they are vain) hehehe. Then it evolved into something what I should call 'running in the air'. It means you need to jump from, let's say, a chair and pretend like you are running so hard that eventually you will be able to fly.

Actually I took some pix and edited one of them and got the above result. The idea of writing the quote came into my mind shortly after I took some of the pix. One reason was because of a large empty space on the left side. Another reason was that I found it kind of inspiring if I put a quote because some posters put some words or quotes to motivate people who read them. And the quotes must also be 'synchronised' with the pix.

Anyway I will post some other pix soon. At the moment I need to rest a bit. Tomorrow I need to attend Maulir Rasul at Padang SOAS. And I might post some pix of that too.

Another Panorama

This time I used pix I took during MV Doulos visit to Brunei. That was last year.



As usual, I used Photoshop to stitch about 5 pix to obtain the above panoramic view of MV Doulos.

Panorama

I took this panoramic view of Padang SOAS during the 24th National Day. I took about 10 pix and then joined them together using Photoshop.

Actually when I took these photos, I realized there was a big lump of black spot on the pictures...that is after the second shot. It was so big that it ruined most of other pix. Yea that can be erased using Photoshop but still I didn't like it. I didn't even open or change the lens. After cleaning the sensor, I found it was a fragment of something made of plastic...sort of. It was about 1x3 mm in size. No wonder it appeared big in the photos. But in this panoramic photo, I erased the spots and here is the result:

Smile

I've finnalllly posted a new pic. This time I just wanna share a pic of my brother-in-law's nephew.

Cute!! Isn't he?

Skyline @ Singapore

I got a chance to take pix of Singapore skyline during my holiday vacation in mid Dec. I've never taken pix of a skyline before this. So this was my opportunity to take some. I took the pix sometime around midnite and after.

Even though I really wanted to take a lot of pics, I just couldn't. Well, of course bcoz of shopping and limited time. Me and my companions went to Sentosa Island but we were really in a hurry and we came late and the weather wasn't good. We also went to snow city but no cameras allowed.

Maybe next time I will try to take pix of skyline during "golden hours". Anyways, I put some pix below:


Left: Taken at Esplanade Park, Right: Esplanade


Taken at Elgin Bridge

World AIDS Day 2007

The World AIDS Day 2007 was organised by Brunei's AIDS Council. It was held at ICC, Berakas. The guest of honour was the deputy minister of the Ministry of Health.

This event is to make us remember and be aware that AIDS (or HIV) should not be taken lightly as a normal disease. From the latest statistics, the number of people infected by HIV in Brunei is increasing even though the number is still quite small, which is between 5-10 people this year. Who knows the number may again increase next year.

My biggest challenge was taking pix at low-light areas. There was no other choice than using high ISO settings. I did use the flash but not all the time. Pix without the flash are sometimes better, which also depends on the situations (e.g. distance, etc). Zooming in also causes the aperture to get smaller which means slower shutter speed and arrgghhh....shaky pix. Unless the lens has a fix (largest) aperture and much better if there is Image Stabilisation (IS). But now I can't afford to buy any of them. I should wait for a few years to get one, maybe.

Taking A Break

I haven't updated this site for a few months now. Same goes for my other sites. Just nothing interesting to post here at the moment and no pictures too. Plus, I'm just too lazy and too tired and no time to organize / edit my pix. No idea what pictures I should take too. No progress at all. Well, never mind that. Just check these cool photo sites if you have the time. I found these sites a few months ago anyway.

Daniel Zain Photography
Ansel Adams Gallery
G.Hjöll's Flickr Photos