What’s a SB-800? What is that? Well, some people will know, some will not know! Enough said, here was the previous post that mentioned about it, and finally after like 8 months, I’ve gotten what I wanted.

So what is my first assignment. I’ll be off to have my assigned wedding photography after like few days of borrowing other’s SB600 or SB800.

So prepare for more portraiture in the coming future

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Driving on the road to the the highway in Malaysia sometimes yield different results. It can be smooth sailing and sometimes it’s practically bad traffic due to accidents and road works.

This place is in the middle of road works. The North-South highway and lucky though, we left earlier so the traffic wasn’t that bad.

In the speed of 110km/hr, lucky me wasn’t the driver but the person sitting at the back. So more time to snap photos.. The road to Penang (Pearl of the Orient), here I go… *Well, that was what it was that time*

So how about the rest of you guys out there? Got Road???

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Yes, what you see is real, Daniel is now able to write in Chinese…. NOT. Well, a little bit. Haha.. okay let’s look at what is in store then.

Here’s a peek as to what it looks like in Chinese, well translations are a bit off but at least it is still understood. Not only Chinese, there are Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish and lots more. Have a sneak peek.

Oh… amazing, right? Hee.. okay here’s the secret. Go all the way down, to my webpage footer. You’ll see a bunch of flags there, thus you can now translate my page in different languages. Sounds mighty cool eh.

Yes, you can also add these features to your website. It’s a Google Language translator and if you still have problems adding them.. then you may drop me an email or nudge me.

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Now this is a whole new photo taking class. Not really, just a random thought that I have thought of, and since there are pictures for me to use, I would say why not.

Most of us who got their first DSLR, would go trigger happy, without understanding the 1/3 Rule, the bokeh and also many more. The skill of camwhoring also need to be practiced in order to get a proper nice shot. Well, how do one learn how to take photos with their camera.

Precisely, going out with other photographers is one of the fastest way to learn, while sharing photo taking experiences. Sometimes we shoot with our own kit lens, knowingly what we shoot there are certain configurations that needs to be set. Doing portraiture shots, the lower the F value the more blur the background is. That’s why people get portrait lens like the 50mm f1.8/f1.4/f1.2 for this purpose.

A few months ago, I was the only photographer on the stage area to use a telephoto lens instead of my kit lens during the Roxy Summer Splash 2008 event at Sunway Lagoon and people find it weird as to why I use that lens. Well, considering models will do a catwalk, getting a close up while they are walking brings out the natural feel of it. I see many others using portrait lens instead thus having to wait for the models to stop near the center to get a decent shot.

Yes, it doesn’t mean telephoto lens isn’t a great option, but I would prefer telephoto when shooting models on stage. A portrait lens would work better with stationary models that poses though. Though I think many people will beg to differ as there are many more uses and how one uses it.

A telephoto lens (in case one is not sure, are those zoom lenses. For me I own the Nikkor 55-200mm VR) is great for shooting people, animals even for macro shots if one doesn’t have a macro lens. I will usually change to a kit lens if I am shooting landscape or because I just don’t want the extra weight. =D

Though personally, you can tell when someone isn’t a frequent DSLR user if they positioned their hand like the one below.

There might be nothing wrong with the method of holding but it sure is not the standard practice. If you still don’t get it, try to figure it out or maybe some other readers will obliged to say it out.

ps: Post was created out for fun and to educate. Have fun yeah…

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Here I go again, going to plan my next travel plan. Due to me working in a new environment, leaves are still not available for the taking yet, just because I want to save them for the next trip. Plans are made to go to Bali, Angkor Wat and definitely to Mount Kinabalu once more. But well… all this can’t be achieved if I have no work leave to use at all.

The only thing though now is that I have limited spaces to keep my photos this time around and with all the photos all around, I hate to look around finding where are some photos. So I made this darn convention naming method for each of my photo folders. Seriously, finding a photo manager is pretty darn useful.

So then I went and look into something called SmileBooks, which is more of a photo book software thus enables me to display to my friends and families on my laptop. I must say, the designs are pretty nice, I can even make a big photo book or a regular one. Though the only problem is that to print them, it’s so far available in the US and Europe. Hopefully they will have the printing and binding and everything done in other countries. Well, of course, I will definitely keep you guys informed if there was.

At least this free software doesn’t have those irritating advertisements that you see anywhere on the layout of the software. Well, I tested it out and it sure is handy. Yes, forgotten to tell you, that it’s free. So no charges until you actually wanted to bind. Darn lucky you guys in the States and Europe. *Okay… maybe though it’s also good for me too as I don’t really need to spend yet*

So far so good, I can custom it the way I want it to be. What I create is up to me using my photos, mylayout, my text and my imagination. Well, the above is actually the sample layout they provided. Well, I was lost for ideas, I did try and look at other people’s smile books though in their home site. Since I am still new with this, let me try more of it’s features first.

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