Over the week I signed up for a photography conference called Charge Up, organize by live wire media. It’s a 4 day conference but due to some unforeseen issues I only manage to attend the 2 days, the 3rd day we were given as task/project and would work in a group to come up with a montage for certain NGO/Ministry. Sadly I wasn’t able to join the rest of my new friends there and since I was home all night, I decided to make this lil montage. Please don’t take this montage seriously as it’s meant to be a joke. 
Just to have some fun…since I missed the event.
Enjoy the montage yea!
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Charge Up 2010
January 17, 2010A New Year Resolution
December 31, 2009It’s almost the end of the year now, and it’s been one year and a half year since I started photography and owning my 1st ever camera. It’s been a fantastic journey so far. I’ve learn how to be a better person, make new friends…amazing friends, and not only have I get paid doing what I like, I get to make people happy with what I do. Besides that I’ve also got blessed with opportunities to shoot with people who I’ve admire from reading their blogs, Jenny Sun, Patrick Low, Edwin Tan and Andy Chin. This all would have been possible if it wasn’t for Grace Tan from Wedding Story and Alex Lam from Integricity and the team of people behind Shootfest. I’d believe that my journey would not have been boosted forward without this event and therefore I do owe you guys as well.
I started out learning my photography from forums and the internet, but with the guidance of my new found friends sight and perception with details and things around has changed. I’m not sure how exactly to put things in to words but I do sense the difference from what I see now when I walk around.
Besides meeting a whole bunch of great local photographer like Louis Pang, Robin Ng, Ian Chong, Jon Low and many many more I’ve also had the opportunity to meet greet and talk to international ones like Jerry Ghionis and CM Leung. I must admit it was a definately a great honor and pleasure to be able to talk to these people. I’ve been wanting to meet Jerry since I saw Masters of Wedding Photography and since then have fallen in love with the way he does his work. Hopefully next year I’ll get to meet Joe Mcnally who would be in KL for a workshop and seminar.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the ones beside me for their support and chance to grow my career in photography. Oh I must not forget the wonderful brides and grooms who I’ve shot too…without the chance to shoot your wedding I would not be who I am today or have grown to who I am. Thank you once more for entrusting me with probably the biggest event of your life, and you and your other half be bless with the joys of life.
I’ve decided to be a little more active next year in photography, not in terms of getting more jobs but in terms of using the camera more. With that I would TRY to take a picture a day and post it on flickr and maybe my blog. Hopefully I could successfully have a complete 365 album.
With that I would like to wish all of you a Happy New Year and may the coming year be better for all of us, I know I may have missed you many many names but it doesn’t I do not appreciate you help, advise or your presence in my life. You know who you are if you know me 
Cutie Pet Fair 2009
November 22, 2009I know this is a photography blog but I’m doing this for the sake of these beautiful pups which need a home. There’s this Cutie Pet Fair in Central Park in Bandar Utama (just beside 1 Utama) and there are some dog associations there which are offering pet adoptions. One of them is Malaysia Dogs Deserve Better and House of Happy Furmily. These 2 association or group may not be well known and to be honest even I am not aware of them till recently. I’m doing them a favor as I feel these dogs deserve a hand from us animal lovers and to play our small parts lets try to adopt or at least donate a few ringgit to them.
Details are on this poster, do drop by if you have some free time to check out the pet adoption
These dogs can be adopted with a low fee of RM50.00, so do help out in providing these lovable darlings a home and I’m sure they will be faithful and thankful to your deeds.
This cute buddy here had some injuries on his back, now that he is healed he is a pretty playful and active young chap, pay him a visit tomorrow.
April here is suffering from some heart issues, her medical fee is around RM100.00 ++ per month, If you happen to drop by please do donate something to House of Happy Furmily. One thing I like bout them is they do not set a limit or minimum requirement to the donation..so do your part and have some sympathy to these poor sick dogs and donate as much as you can
Discovering the Apple
October 15, 2009
So about 2 weeks back I made an investment in getting a new notebook. It’s been some time since my last upgrade and I’ve decided to try out Apple, or some would refer it as Macintosh. There were several reason that made me consider this slight “jump” from a windows environment to a mac. One was it was said and claimed to be more stable and somewhat virus free. The mac does have its’ own virus but they don’t have that many compared to windows. But what really attracted me the most was when I was previewing the new OS X - Snow Leopard (version 10.6) which fascinated me as I saw things working fast and all.
So I’m sure you’ll be asking now..so what does this have to do with photography? Well…to share how I did my assignment with almost 0 knowledge on how things work on a mac..I manage to install programs and deliver my slides/pictures and present my work to my client in this a matter of days after buying the mac.
Oh I also forgot to mention that I went to the mac for 1 very important reason…the “wholesome” factor. In macs you pretty much can do most of your stuff from right out of the box. If you purchase one now you get Ilife which has idvd, imovie, iphoto, garage band and iweb. I’ve seen garage band in action and I do write some songs on my own last time..it’s really impressive with how easy it is to use. Idvd is also awesome for making dvd and it doesn’t take long. Along side with the other application it really makes the mac a complete multimedia machine for those who wants to create simple videos,blogs,web pages and almost everything related to media.
There’s of course some bad points which i find it really annoying, the wireless device isn’t very strong. I’m getting constant disconnection at my home in certain areas. But overall it has been a good experience and now I see why the influence of mac is getting stronger among others.
For those who wish to get themselves a macbook pro for photography usage. I would say the minimal 2 GB ram isn’t really enough if you’re concern with speed. I think moving to 4GB would be better as I run lightroom 2.5 and also photoshop cs4.
Oh oh before I forget, you know notebook these days don’t give you a windows cd or dvd when you buy a new one now? Usually they come with a recovery disc that has some bundled junk in them. I’ve tested some brands lately, Toshiba, Acer, HP and IBM’s and I must say I don’t fancy any of them anymore. Reason to this is because most of the time they take too long just to reinstall a simple operating system, and what made me furious the other day was Acer recovery disc had the wrong drivers loaded on to them! So I’m forced to redownload the drivers from the internet..so what if I have not internet?
Mac hasn’t gave me this problem so far and mine doesn’t come with a recovery disc. I hope they maintain this as this would make me a life long supporter if they do.
Ok probably enough promotion here and here some slick looking pictures taken from my bedroom.
To sum it up, it’s been a good experience so far being able to do most stuff on my mac without worrying about installing, finding and knowing which programs to work with which. Most programs are able to work with each other so it’s good and best of all things are made simple, so anyone can just pick up and produce professional looking work.
With this I end my sales pitch, I wonder if apple will send me some new stuff to test *hint hint*
12 April 2009 Full moon, simply beautiful
April 12, 2009I was driving back and saw a full moon, so why not capture this moment I guess there isn’t much to say
time of shot
11:52 PM April 11 2009
12:02 AM April 12 2009
A guest at my home
March 4, 2009My mother seem to have luck in finding abandon birdie’s the last time she found one which was very young and could not fly at all. Poor baby must have fell from it’s nest or something and I got no idea how my mother found it. It stayed for about 3 days or so and finally gave up living its life. We tried to feed it but I guess it was more heart broken and home sick.
Not too sure what kind of bird it is, but it looked like a crow
This time my mother found a smaller size bird..which is almost as long as my middle finger…but this time I think its one of those lil brown sparrows around. It’s definately smaller but it seems to be older and much more mature, with its’ feather all grown and all. It cold also fly a lil now. So far it’s been good and still surviving. Before today we had to force it to eat by placing the food in its mouth but today he’s already eating on his own…and it also responds to my mothers call. It would fly to her hands when its being called…which is quite cute and suprising.
here’s the pics of this lil fellow…we’ve not given him a name yet.
If anyone here knows anything bout bringing up a bird and training it to feed/find food on its own please do contact me. Would really like to have this lil fellow be free when it’s ready.
Colours Of Kuala Lumpur
February 19, 2009Went up to the hill side of Hulu Langat today, was a really cloudy day till KL tower disappeared in the haze or clouds and twin towers barely showing itself. Sunset wasn’t that beautiful…and I find myself looking at this hazy city I call home.
I could go for a holiday, I could leave the country to study, to work whenever I return home…this city which most would say is polluted and noisy and the lifestyle is hectic would be the place I call home and feel the most comfortable and safe. Regardless of how bad things are ironically it’s always assuring to know I am home…
Would my home still be beautiful if my visions were clouded?
Valentine’s 2009
February 16, 2009I thought I share my cute cake I got for Valentine’s…
Happy Valentine’s to all..though my post is 1 day late, or 2
Room-made shots
February 13, 2009I have pretty inspiring friends around me who do funny stuff at home, at least it’s funny to me. They would do self portraits, “product shoot” of their own belongings like, bracelet, hand phones and etc… so here’s my version of my lens. I wanted to take a picture of my camera body..but then I would not have anything to use.
Canon 55-250mm IS F4-5.6
my first tele lens which made me broke for a while as I did not manage my expenditure properly that month. I remember it quite clearly still, my colleagues and I were eating expensive meals and watching movies…totally lost track of my spending’s, also I bought a tripod the same month.
Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 EX DG Macro
My 2nd lens that I bought which I thought would be a good use..took a while to get use to the range since I was always using my Canon 55-250mm. Got this lens because of the F2.8 which I thought would come handy in darker situation.
Canon 70-200mm IS F4
I’ve came to a point where I believe that equipment will bring you to a certain level, as much as you need the skills to shoot good pictures and of course have the “eye” for a good composition. I’ve decided to stick back to Canon Lenses because I felt the contrast and quality of the image are better in certain lenses..and it’s been known that this lens is one of the sharp ones around. Comparing to the Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 DG Macro which is good but some would say, it performs like its price..not that good but not bad at all. I must say im quite amazed with this lens and its 4 stop IS ability. Im shooting at 1/25 shutter speed and still producing freaking sharp images…
Graceful dancer?
December 2, 2008This shot was taken on the 27 October 2008, was in Cheras Leisure Mall where this dance school was promoting itself and having some sort of convocation. So there were some performance and I was there with my out of focused camera…testing out how bad it was..turned out it was bad..it had some serious focusing issue..but it’s all okay now..sent it to canon and they recalibrated it..
here’s one shot which I kinda like…actually I like how this gal looked shes really really young and doesn’t look as old as her age.
I also did some editing to this pic…a slight feel of desaturation…I’m not quite liking it..I feel something is missing.