Feel The Wrath of My Lens

According the blog statistics, many have been hitting this blogsite for the whole day, speculatively waiting for this very entry. Many people turned up in Baling today to witness themselves the historic event, Shima’s house was practically packed with humans turning out from no where. However, the occasion went smoothly though that it was a bit of a challenge for me to cover the solemnization ritual in the morning. Fortunately for me, Kalai (flickr.com/suhaimisalleh) came to helped out with the coverage.

A number of media representatives turned up to the solemnization ceremony as well, though I wasn’t quite happy with some of them photographers failing to respect my responsibility covering the event photographically by zapping out of no where giving orders to both Helmi and Shima and putting aside photography ethics selfishly. To whomever the media representatives, you know who you are. I know you’re trying to accomplish your job timely and all, but doing such by zapping in without being invited is definitely rude.

Frankly speaking, I’m too exhausted to summarize the event for the day. Perhaps these pictures would sum it up on its own. To Helmi and Shima, both of you were such sports. Coming to this point is such an achievement for both of you for and congratulations are definitely in order.

The previous KFA event in Sik was a successful one. The event managed to gather thousands of Sik people, young and old, near and far, attending to see their beloved local football idol.

There was a friendly match being setup between Kedah and Sik’s football team which rendered a result of 3-1. Congratulations to both teams

The above video is about Nelson Marcelo San Martin Arriagada when he was playing for Kedah FA. Nelson and the team managed to secure 3 premier cups, namely the Super League, the FA League and the Malaysian League in 2 consecutive years. He’s been dubbed as the best assist Kedah has ever had. Unfortunately, FAM (Football Association of Malaysia) made a move to prohibit import players for the upcoming season of 2009. Thanx to Hazriq, I managed to broadcast this video reaching to the many Nelson’s fanatics out there.

Please do leave a comment or two if so that you enjoyed the entry

This is one of my project to produce a video for Kedah Football Association. This is one of many clips I’m uploading to share with everyone on the net, hence it can be browsed at my blog.

This is done with Nikon D300. Composed in Adobe After Effects CS4. I would like to thank my brother Nasfi and Firdaus (http://www.firdausradzi.com) for giving some pointers on how to dwell with AE to finally post it up here.

So, I was the official photographer for that day. I’m not gonna be reporting much on this. However for the statistics, I’m stating this; there were 194 participants, divided into 2 courses, east and west. And get this, 196 prizes were prepared for the tournament. So it’s like you don’t have to be really good at golf in order to earn a prize at the tournament

It was a tiring day. As a matter of fact, the tournament day was just a day after Kedah VS Brazil. I didn’t get much sleep on that very day either, so naturally, I was very exhausted when the tournament ended.

Oh well, enjoy the photos, and leave some comments. Thanx!

The recent “Tour Of Hope” charity match between Kedah and a Brazil club saw a disastrous atmosphere clouding the field area. It all started when the referee in charge managed not to control numerous episodes which resulted in a catastrophic aftermath. Players and coaches were throwing words at each other. The arrays of disputes were on both sides and the entity seen to be erecting all that, no other than the referee. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not siding on anyone, hence am merely telling from what I saw and gathered from various foundations.

Kedah lost at 4-1 despite all that. It was the first match that witnesses the actions of many new faces of the team. Many reported that they did well. I believe the coaches are still experimenting with a mixture of team composition especially the first eleven.

None the less, please leave a comment, or two after enjoying the entry

The challenge was to balance exposures of both the subject and the background. So, we gotta set our cameras on tripods to ensure no vibration effects the picture being taken. We setup 2 speedlights, one SB800 and the other SB900 with brollies attached. We then placed each of the speedlights to each side of the subject. As easy as that. As for our setup, the many of us used ISO 400, shutter of 1/5 and aperture of f/4.

Many thanx to all that came to make the meet a fun one

Quite a few complained about me not shooting the counterpart of my gender - female. It’s not that actually, it’s just me being choosy about who I shoot. The other excuse is that I’m not good at approaching females. I’m just being me, being straight at what I wanted of which at times, it scares then shy people away. Frankly, I’m not good at being flowery in words, being persuasive and all. All that being witnessed at my recent so-called-class at Kelana Jaya (behind UNITAR). I would start roaring and those who don’t follow according to the strobing setup would get some of that too

Well, I hope none of them is taking any of it personally, because I believe it is part of making them remember where the error and mistake were. I would like to thank Yusdi, Akong, Shahir, Ahmed, Anas, Aleeza, Chan, Kay, Ju and the rest (couldn’t recall) for turning up to the meet. Hopefully, everyone had a blast

Bunyamin and his friends came all the way from Bukit Jalil to fetch me up from Damansara. His friends, Rizal and Ibnu happened to be studying together with him at Bukit Jalil. We proceeded to have dinner at William’s at Kelana Jaya. Then after, a number of my other strobist friends called me up for a session.

Doing with what we had that very moment of time, we made to shoot Bunyamin and his friends with Bunyamin as being the premiere for the night. He happened to have a developed and in-shape sort of athletic body. Well, enjoy the photos

Idt (Nik Rizaf), a very good friend of mine, whilst studying at a boarding school in Beseri, Perlis is driving a BMW, a beautiful one at that. So I made to shoot his bimmer with some other friends - Yusdi, Akong, Ahmed, Shahir and quite a number more (sorry I can’t really recall). I did the setting up and others were eager to release the shutter open.

The setup was pretty easy. I attached 3 speedlights to a tripod. Then everyone get ready to release their shutter open. After that I started to go around the bimmer, strobing all 3 speedlights, one footstep at a time. Until I finish that process around the car, only the shutter will be closed. You would expect everyone using the bulb mode. So, if you were to be browsing the given links, you’d be practically see the same bimmer, with the same strobing mechanism, very much.

KFA needed new photographs for their players for the season of 2009. Not only that, the photographs will be used for the many official events involving any of the players. Since they’ll be processed mostly in passport size mediums, I made the decision not to include any background whilst photographing the players. So instead, I made the background in total white.

Some will note that quite a number of these players are sweating; hence I had the session paralleled with their training. I know I’m gonna make some of my female audience happy posting these photos up, but please, no naughty thoughts yaa

For the record, Mohd Helmi Eliza and Khyril Muhymeen were on their leaves (just arrived from KL). Do leave some comments if you appreciate my entry. As a note, at the time of scribing this, I’m in KL and yet to know when exactly I’m returning back to Alor Star. Thanx!