Look Into My Lens

Hi

2008-07-21T23:28:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of update. I've been busy these days, and i didn't really go out and snap any shots. Anyway, i upload most of my shots in flickr . I've been getting comments on one particular photo.

I took this lily photo at CyberJaya. I could have take a better picture, if i wasnt wearing my leather shoes. The comments i received, encourages me to snap more quality shots in the future.
Thank you for those who commented.

An Evening In Cyberjaya

2008-06-10T18:47:00.000-07:00

So i went to Cyberjaya yesterday, and i dont want to miss a chance of snapping shots there. Most of the shots were taken at, Cyberpark. The rest is taken in front of Majlis Perbandaran Sepang.

All photos were taken with Canon Powershot A470

Pulau Chime or in English is Chime Island. Now why did they call it Chime Island?

It was so nice being at Chime Island, the sun was perfectly radient, the wind was so windy and nice, and lastly the chimes senerating me, i felt like sleeping there.

Met up with this friendly bird. Initially i thought it's legs were stuck between those planks. As i approached it, it flew away.

I really love this picture. It's so artistic. Would be nice to just sit there and enjoy the view.

Another beatiful view of Cyberpark.

This is a clock, operated with the power of sun. Watch the video below.

Waterlilies. One of my favourite flowers. Too bad, i couldnt get close enough to them, as i was wearing long pants, and shoes. I hope to get good shots in the future.

Water droplets on top of leave. I guess this is where the idea, waterproofing comes from.

Spotted this small tiny insect, as it ran through my glasses.

Beautiful flowers under the sun. When i look at them, i think of Sunflowers.

Bed of flowers.

Macro shot of flowers.

Port Dickson

2008-06-08T21:06:00.000-07:00

I went to Port Dickson few days ago. Port Dickson is one of the famous beach in Malaysia. Here are some snapshots of Port Dickson.

All shots were taken with Canon Powershot A470

The Beach

~ The beach would be nicer if the water is blue or green colour, but still it's beautiful ~

Exposure Time : 1/200 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/10
Focal Length : 8mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

~ The Seaside ~

Exposure Time : 1/640 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/3
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

~ The sky, the land, and the beach ~

Exposure Time : 1/160 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

~ Beautiful Sky ~

Exposure Time : 1/1600 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

~ The sky is turning dark and gloomy ~

Exposure Time : 1/1000 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

~ . . . and it's very bright. This could be only one thing . . . ~

Exposure Time : 1/250 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/3.5
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

~ . . . Sunset is coming! ~

Exposure Time : 1/320 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/14
Focal Length : 15mm
Max Aperture : 4.34375
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

Sunset:

~ Everybody loves sunset ~

Exposure Time : 1/640 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

~ The tree is trying to capture the sun ~

Exposure Time : 1/640 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

~ It's so nice to see that one thing billions of people watch everyday ~

Exposure Time : 1/1000 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

Others:

~ Dark and lonely house to stay in ~

Exposure Time : 1/8 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-250
F-Stop : f/3
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

~ A beautiful flower which i manage to capture ~

Exposure Time : 1/500 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/3
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

~ HDR picture of the seaside. The blue thing there is a small stall which sells swimming equipment ~

Exposure Time : 1/80 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-250
F-Stop : f/4
Focal Length : 12mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

~ HDR picture of sunset ~

Exposure Time : 1/100 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-200
F-Stop : f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

~ The moon? ~

Exposure Time : 1/1600 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

How Macro Can You Go?

2008-05-18T23:57:00.000-07:00

Hi, sorry for the late update! :) This time, i want to share with you guys, some of my macro pictures.

Firstly, what is Macro? Macro is the term in photography for close up focus on a subject. Most of the time, the subjects involve are, flowers, insects, details stuffs, words from books, or letters or electronic circuit board. Here's some of my shots.

Pictures taken with Canon Powershot A470

Flowers:

~ I thinks this flower is cute. It's actually very small flower, i dont know it's name. In my country (Malaysia), they call it Bunga Semalu. Semalu comes from the word "malu", which means shy. The leaves of this plant, will "close it's self up" when something touches them.~

Exposure Time : 1/160 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-200
F-Stop : f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

~ Really one beautiful, redish flower.~

Exposure Time : 1/60 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/3
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

~This "seeds" or "fruits" are from the flower above.~

Exposure Time : 1/80 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F-Stop : f/3
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

Insects:

~This spider is sitting on my brother's hand. The spider is very small, and hard one to take. It kept on jumped on my camera.~

Exposure Time : 1/400 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-200
F- Stop: f/3
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

~ The same spider again, this time, it's resting on a leaf. It's kinda hard to get it seat still. Click to enlarge the picture, you'll be able to see it's mysterious black eyes.~

Exposure Time : 1/160 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-200
F- Stop: f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1.92
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

~ A mysterious insect. It's kinda funny, how the insect is "posing" for this shot.~

Exposure Time : 1/640 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-200
F- Stop: f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1.92
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

~ I think this picture would had been better, if i had used a dSLR, with Macro lens. I'll be able to focus on that small insect.~

Exposure Time : 1/160 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F- Stop: f/3
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

~Flies having. . . err making love.~

Exposure Time : 1/125 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F- Stop: f/3
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

~ A close up of a fly.~

Exposure Time : 1/250 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-200
F- Stop: f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 4
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

~ An ant, with flower's "fruits".~

Exposure Time : 1/320 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-200
F- Stop: f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

~ A close up, of the picture above.~

Exposure Time : 1/160 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-200
F- Stop: f/9
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Auto

Objects:

~A macro shot of the top of fence. Pretty nice, shot!~

Exposure Time : 1/250 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-80
F- Stop: f/3
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 3.15625
Digital Zoom : 1
Flash Mode : No Flash
White Balance : Manual

More Edited Photos

2008-05-05T02:27:00.000-07:00

Here are someshots i took last week. I decided to edit it, to make it more creative, you can give your opinions on how it look, and how i can improve more. As you can see, I've tried out different picture, with different ways to edit. So roughly it shows, some emotions, colors, and value of the pictures.

To Edit, Or Not To Edit?

2008-04-24T19:45:00.000-07:00

Hi, I'm sorry for not updating this blog for a long period of time. I cant find any place to send my camera, to be repaired, and i cant use my phone's camera to snap any shots. So thus, i cant update this blog.

I want to share out, the idea of editing your pictures, after its taken. For me, i feel editing a picture, is an art and had to be done carefully in order, not to destroy the picture or make it looks so fake. These days many photographers and graphic artist uses editing to either make their shots much more interesting, to add more details, and also to cover our some spots which not meant to be there. Like models in a magazine. Their face aren't perfect, maybe there's a pimple here and there, or their eye colour does not match with their clothing, or even to make them look much more taller, or thinner.

My friend, Jason recently introduced to me Picasa, a free software by Google. Currently I'm using it, to edit my shots, not only to hide out bad spots, but also to make them much more "colourful" in a sense.

Here's some examples:

Edited picture. Look how it turns out to be. Much more live-lier and more much colourful, right?

The original one. It looks boring, despite it's the original shot.

Here's another:

I purposely make this picture dark, for the mysterious feeling. If this was a real car advertisement, it will make people wonder how this car looks like. NOTE: I left the word Nissan on top of it. Never forget that!

I admit this picture is waayy out, with the colours. But it gives the "wild" feeling to the car, and the surrounding.

Editing pictures also able to make the picture, feels much more classic. Like the picture above. Look at how i managed to transform a plain boring picture, into something more "vintage". It's like taking a document, or old paper, and soaking it inside coffee drink, and then the result is the document looks old. This function is great, when you snapping wedding photos. Oh and most cameras have this function too, its in the colours function, choose Sephia.

I really love how this picture turns out to be. For the original picture, i didn't use flash at all, fearing that with that the distance of the flash and the mug, will spoil the picture. After editing it, i manage to "insert" some light to the mug, and blur the small surrounding of the picture. But i think i might have blur-ed it a lot, though. So if you are scared to use flash at certain times, you can edit your picture, and insert them according to your own preference.

Same as the mug picture above, i did the same thing. Insert some "light" to it. But i choose not to overdo this picture, because it's just nice, and also to show, roughly how to edit your picture, without making it look too fake.

Conclusion is, editing can be a fun thing to do, or played with. If you haven't tried it out yet, then i suggest do try it. It can improve your shots, and also create some creativity in your shots. But don't do it all the time, because you might not improve in taking better shots next time, and you cant improve as a photographer, but improve as a graphic artist :P

Nightmare

2008-02-25T07:50:00.000-08:00

Everyone goes through nightmares. Some will dream of the loved ones who died speaking to them in their dreams, some dreams that they died in their dream, some dreams of their enemies or greatest fear getting close to them, and there are other ways nightmares able to scare people. Now I'm going to present to you a nightmare which, all of us would had gone through

~In the dark, you could only see the light. It's like the saying " you will find light, in the end of the dark tunnel". But you can only see the light, but you cant go through it. How would you escape?~

Camera Brand : Nokia
Camera Model : N73
Exposure Time : 1/111 seconds
ISO Speed : ISO - 100
Focal Length : 6mm
Flash Mode : No Flash

~ You see the gate to escape everywhere, including at the wall of emptiness. You cant escape at all. You are stuck right there. There's nothing you can do, but to stare at the road to escape with cries of pain and loneliness.~

Camera Brand : Nokia
Camera Model : N73
Exposure Time : 1/50 seconds
ISO Speed : ISO - 100
Focal Length : 6mm
Flash Mode : No Flash

~ There is blood mark on the wall. You don't know whether it's from you, or from someone else. Could it be someone from your family? Someone you might have just . . . killed?~

Camera Brand : Nokia
Camera Model : N73
Exposure Time : 1/15 seconds
ISO Speed : ISO - 100
Focal Length : 6mm
Flash Mode : No Flash

~The sound of the water droplets, scares you. It reminds you of how lonely you were at that time. It's the only company you have at this moment. The whole surrounding of you is filled with the sound of silence. Only the sound of the water droplets is what you can hear. You are afraid that, the sound will go away, and there's nothing left to accompany you.~

Camera Brand : Nokia
Camera Model : N73
Exposure Time : 1/200 seconds
ISO Speed : ISO - 100
Focal Length : 6mm
Flash Mode : No Flash

~ Looking at the sink of emptiness, seeing how to water droplets break apart as it hits the metal sink, makes you think of how many tears you have shed when your heart is empty. There's no one there to say that "you are safe", no one there to say that "you're going to make it", and certainly no one there to say that "all of this is just a dream"~

Camera Brand : Nokia
Camera Model : N73
Exposure Time : 1/15 seconds
ISO Speed : ISO - 100
Focal Length : 6mm
Flash Mode : No Flash

Bora-Bora, anyone?

2008-02-20T19:09:00.001-08:00

~I'm sure some of you guys out there, had not heard of the island Bora Bora. It's a beautiful island, in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The island, located about 230 km (140 miles) northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef. By just looking at this wonderful pictures, it's really amazing, on how these photo can bring us to the place. As for me, by looking at this pictures, i can fell im at the island, and experiencing all this.~

~ Just look at the marvelous blue water, the coral, the fish, the resort. It's all great subjects to be photographed :) ~

2008-02-18T09:43:00.001-08:00

Chandelier

~ I like how this picture turns out to be. It's mysterious. It looked as if i's come kinda of gold accessory, something deep from outer space.~

Camera Brand : Sanyo
Camera Model : S4
Exposure Time : 1/49 seconds.
ISO Speed : ISO-63
Focal Length : 6mm
Max Aperture : 2.9
White Balance : Auto
Digital Zoom : 0
Subject : Object, Still-Life

~ If those two lights were not in sight, people would have thought this chandelier would be some kinda of sea creature (squid, maybe?), taken from deep from the ocean. In this picture, i find it amazing how those light didnt manage to shine away from the chandelier. It has the "light in darkness" feel to it.~

Camera Maker : Olympus
Camera Model : C-2000Z
Exposure Time : 1/60sec.
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 7mm
Max Aperture : 3
Flash Mode : No Flash
Subject : Object, Still-Life