Aug 26

I shall be leaving for the city of Makkah to perform umrah this coming September. I will try my best to bring stories, news and images from the holy city from time to time.

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Indeed I will be celebrating Eid ul Fitr in the Haram this season. I would like to sincerely apologize for my wrong doings over the past living years in all my scribing, writing, blogging. I am hoping that this will be the best Ramadhan/Syawal for each and every of us bettering the years before. Please, spare me no ill will for none that I have ever spared to any one of you. InsyaAllah.

PS: the picture was taken at Masjid Albukhary by Eman. Lighted by Ed. It’s a simple 1 light (SB800) with attached brolly from above of subject (which is obviously me)

Aug 19

Welcoming Ramadhan 1431, I threw visits to these 3 Masjids in my hometown, Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia.

Technically, it is made from 8,925 images. Per frame is made of 5 bracketed HDR shots with +-1.0 exposure jump. Processing of each and every frame, editing and rendering took approximately 3 days altogether. I hope you like it. Jazakallah :-)

Jun 25

Recently, I directed a music video by a local band, VistaByLuna. The time given was so little that it needed to be completed urgently. Happily however, I managed to finalized the video (from shooting to rendering) within less than 48 hours. It’s a straight forward video, no fancy editing whatsoever. No color correction, no clever motion graphics, no flowery animation … zilch!

I uploaded this video quite a while ago to youtube. Only now I just happen to remember to share it via this blog. I know it’s not fair to say this .. but enjoy :-)

Mar 24

I believe many of you readers/viewers are waiting for this entry. However, it is not as complete as it supposed to be. Some of the players may have not participated in the photography session due to certain reason; national duty for example.

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Nonetheless I’ll try my best to keep things posted.

The First Team

Note: I’ve updated the super league profile pictures :-)

The Reserve Team

Oh yes .. I haven’t filled in the captions in accordance to their names. If you think you could help me. Please do so :-)

Jan 21

Just for an update, my recent session with Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Kedah (Kedah State Development Corporation). I had 2 sessions with them, one is for the Board Of Excos, a very fast one at that. It was done at Wisma PKNK, after the board had their meeting. I used a simple shoot and go method, whereby the only contribution light would be from my hotshoe flash bounced into the ceiling *ngee*.

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However, the 2nd session was done in Regency Hotel on top of Mount Jerai for the Board of Directors (BOD). I brought together 2 assistants, eman and amin. We arrive a day before to do some equipment preparations. Accidentally, the 2nd session was split into 2 parts on an adhoc request. The first one was done before the BOD stepped into the conference room outside the hotel’s main facade. There’s a single light source for this one (well, apart from the bright sunlight behind that very buildling) to lit the subjects using a loaned unit of Profoto 7b 1200Ws attached with a strip softbox (yes, I used a strip) sizing at 180x40cm from directphoto.

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The second part was the actual planned shot. I used 1 SB900 and 1 SB800 attached with an umbrella, placed on both sides of the subjects’ position left and right. I used the same Profoto 7b 1200Ws attached with a strip softbox as the keylight.

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I’ve got to admit it was a tiring process handling the whole session. But I guess it’s fun receiving challenges from time to time. You should try it too at times!

I think that’s about it to tell. Don’t forget to leave comments :-)

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