Fiat Bravo

Tree of life

Models shoot

Last Sunday, Mr. Zainal Abd Halim (a renowned REUTERS photojournalist) was here in town to give a photography talk titled "My job, my passion.." at the Federal Hotel Kuala Lumpur. He spent years in the field from Afghanistan battlefield to Beijing Olympics, witnessed world events through the lenses.
After the talk, we had some models shooting session.

Carney (shot with beercan (Minolta 70-210 F4))

Lovely smile

Closed up

Wide angle

Soft dreamy effect

Cute kid

Behind the scene

Eye on Malacca

Exposure:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture:	f/16.0
Focal Length:	12 mm
ISO Speed:	200

UK number plate in Malaysia?

Saw this Bentley with UK number plate in Pavilion yesterday.

Sunset in Nottingham

Taken at 7pm sunset in Nottingham. Love the clouds and the way it blends with the building.
Shot with Dynamic Range Optimiser (DRO) Level 5.
Out of camera jpeg.

A850 and A900

Hands on on the new Sony Full Frame A850 and A900, the only differences are matte body finish, 98% coverage viewfinder and 3fps. You save 1k for it, quite worth it huh? It's even cheaper than the Nikon D300s, where to find a full frame camera with that kind of price tag?
Sony's marketing strategy is superb, first with the introduction of the A230/A330/A380 to lure all the compact/prosumer camera users or even new camera users to venture into DSLRs world , then slowly poison them with the pro-entry level A500/A550, then with the upcoming mid-range (highest range for APS-C sensor) A730 and the two full frame A850/A900.
Sony is building up their DSLR market status. I am sure one day it will overtake other competitors.

KLPF

Some photos from Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival in Midvalley last Saturday.

High Key Photography

I gave high key photography a try. High key photography simply means over expose your photo but not excessively. It normally preserve the dark colour, or more technically the shadow part but overblown the bright colour, or in another word, the highlight. It normally brings out the 'happy' mood of a photo.

This is the normal portrait photo that is abundant all over the internet.

The skin tone is still there but with a little bit over exposed, the subject stands out more.

The details of the hair and eyes are still there.

A coloured high key photo.

Sepia mode.

This is a lil bit over-exposed though.

I like the light falls from the top to show the hair light.

Macro

These are the macro shots from Zoo Negara. We paid extra RM 5 just to visit the butterfly farm with only a few pathetic butterflies.

Butterfly life size on red flower.

Butterfly close up.

Fruit Fly (Tephritidae family).

Immatured cricket.

Scorpions

took these at zoo negara.

this was shot without flash


this was shot with flash


this was shot with slow sync flash

amazing isn't it?
the first photo shows how the scorpions look like when you see with naked eyes under UV light.
the second photo reveals the real colour of the scorpions when you see under normal light.
a mixture of normal light and UV light will produce blueish colour as what you can see in third photo.

Big Boy and Patrick

KLCC views

klcc in blue sky

klcc at night with full moon!

public bank

puppies!

we dressed them as cowboy, jester and rambo.

Puppy

Fly close up

Candy Product Shoot

Bug!

Found this bug at nottingham.

Vintage Camera

Kodak Pony 828 with Anaston 51mm f/4.5

Early Flash

Kodak Medium Format?