A few many weeks days back, Nikonian Academy had a 2000th forum member celebration and they held a feast and gathering for forum members. I am glad I joined the forum as I get to learn from lots of sifu and guru out there about shooting, cameras, photoshop and also how to market yourself in the camera and digital world.

Enough said, if you’re part of Nikonian, the answer to everything is shoot more pictures. So this was the day that I had my first taste of Studio Photography.

Presenting Model Angelyn and Nicole.

Feel the wind

Alluring

Try making a 60s shot with an overexposed photo and this is what you will get for the result.

More like an advertisement for Baywatch.

If that wasn’t enough, the rest of the participants also got to take photos of another model. Anyone knows her name?

Now how about that. Half bikini half shirt. The lightings we had in order to take these photos were excellent. Until one of the participants, David Chong decided to play along and be the male model. Boy, did we have lot of shots of him.

Lucky Dude?

I must say, joining Nikonian Academy‘s classes was worth it after my first FREE class of Adobe Photoshop with Sean Liew. Anyway, towards the end of the year, I have yet to make time for other classes and with insufficient budget, I have to postphone it to another day.

Thus with all the studio lighting setup and a cool background, it’s decided that there is no need to feel shame. There is no need to bother what people thinks. There is no need to not use the opportunity. Then I made a WISE DECISION.

I posed.

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It was a pity, it all had to end so fast. Well, finally after what seemed to be more of a trilogy of events in Kota Kinabalu, the part has to end with us leaving the mountain. Yes, on the way down I took a feel of doing panaromic shots of a mountain from the view of Villosa Hut. What view to be seen though?

Of course if you didn’t catch my previous post regarding this trip, here they are.

Part 1 – Flight To Kota Kinabalu Sabah
Part 2 – Pulau Manukan Exploration
Part 3 – Kota Kinabalu Exploration Day
Part 4 – Kundasang War Memorial and Poring Hot Springs
Part 5 – Expected Climb Up Mt Kinabalu

By the way it was stitched together with Adobe Photoshop CS3.

Click on image to view a larger image.

This post will be more of a personal type. More group photos to commemorate the time the group had together.

Alright, I lied. It’s more for me to show how did Daniel trekked down the mountain. Noticed anyone else familiar in this photo? I bet some of you would know. By the way, the weather was bad when we trekked up in the middle of the night. Raining and strong wind. But did we made it?

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You know you’re crazy over photography when you do things or rather take photos at certain angle or rather that you’re always following time and location of things.

What do I mean by that? Take for an instance, when I was in KL Photography Festival 2008. I practically have to fight my way through to get a nice shot out of the models. Here’s how the crowd looks like.

The amount of cameras… All holding their DSLR just to capture this hot model. Well, Basically you can call it, errr.. why not make use of one’s camera. What they all have in mind, they just love photography I guessed or rather what they could take photograph with it.

And if it wasn’t enough, you also have the licence to take photos, imagine taking model photos where they will willingly pose for you all because you have this big cameras. Willazz, these ass shots are for you. XD

But look at the photographers, darn lot of guys eh… until I usually hear that guys take model shots because they are horny toward girls, but then that’s a wrong concept. You see if that concept is right, then how do you explain the next photo.

Nice lens…. Nice contour… woops… So photography ain’t not just guy’s hobbies. It’s anyone who has the interest in it.

People who loves photography also casually look at their own cameras to study photos, seeing whether the photos were exposed, how they can improve on their shots, and whether the settings are all right. Doing it until they feel that…

“Ahhhhh….. this is the shot I love, my shots so nice… I must be super good with my A200/D60/400D. Thank you my wife” – wife refers to the camera.

LOLOL (Yes, they say DSLR users treat their cameras like their wife or rather to those that are married, as their concubine) How true this statement thus far, just try and ask any DSLR user (unless that fella is a freaking rich person who can afford lotsa cars or just too much money to spend)

DSLR users have a unique way of taking photos. Most of them have the ability to squint their eyes. Unlike most other photographers. What do I mean by that? The photo would do the explanation.

I Squint My Eyes To Look Thru The ViewFinder

Now, it doesn’t always have to be that you have a big lens, a big DSLR body to be able to compose a shot. But sadly, people now buy DSLR for the sake of buying them. Sometimes they just use the camera like any ordinary cameras. There are no composition, no proper learning up. But well, as the cameras get cheaper and cheaper, more and more ‘photographers’ are blooming up.

But so that you know, since you have followed me through for all the typing that I have done, you will know that it’s good to be the cameraman, the photographer. You can just snipe away and have some fun shooting.

Remember the girl on the second photo. There you have it. Taken at the KL Photography Festival 2008 at Times Square.

Be creative, while taking your photos madly. Because sometimes you never know that some photos will come out extra unique.

You wonder, “Many people that photos must compose the model’s face, I say, be creative, take the back of the head” – WTF?????????

Fashion Fusion 2008 Model

See what I mean..

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It was 11th October 2008, the day when a few weeks ago, someone planned to have a BBQ gathering at Port Dickson and that person was none other than Joey, founder of Kokorobox.net. But then Daniel and his 2 other friends, David and Carrie had other ideas. Maybe just go there and bump into them and rather just relax at the beach and take photos. Well, to avoid the working atmosphere once in awhile.

Well, surprisingly, it was a very short notice for the 3 people and I really must thank Carrie for her willingness to drive. Did I forgot to mentioned, the 3 of us were previously schoolmates.

Look at the clear blue sea and the blue sky.. ya… it’s just color balance settings I played on my camera. Port Dickson is not that blue and judging from the photos, this is actually how it really looks like.

As this beach is located on the West coast, it’s definitely you can only catch the sun setting at the horizon instead of rising. Yes, the crooked horizon. I am too lazy to modify my photos right now. Well, this is only one of those, I have lots of other Silhouette photos at Port Dickson.

The Port Dickson was rather a relaxation to find space and time for oneself. Okay, enough of the scenery then, who are the 3 of us?

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