August 5th, 2008 Faris
I had tummy ache yesterday & today! I don’t know about tomorrow but I’m hoping the pain will go away because it really hurts my tummy! I didn’t have lunch today because I wasn’t hungry even though I didn’t have breakfast. It sounded a bit strange but that’s what happened this afternoon. One of my colleague brought some chocolate orange cheesecake and owh it was beautiful. It happened after I had the cheesecake and a cup of coffee and all of a sudden my tummy started to go crazy. Hey, don’t get me wrong. I’m not blaming the cheesecake (tolong jangan marah aku Yusrina hehe). Probably it’s just my tummy. *Sigh*.
Anyway, today I would like to share with you unedited and edited photos. Well, obviously you can see it straight away can’t you? But before I move on, there’s a story behind it. That is actually a photo of a friend taken in year 2005 if not mistaken. So, basically I was digging up some old photos from my CDs and couldn’t believe I still keep this photo. Thought I had lost it long time ago because I remember that was the last time I took the photo using this camera Fujifilm FinePix S7000 before sold it. We were about to go to the camera shop when I took a photo of him.
What surprises me, although it’s just a prosumer camera but the quality of the photo is excellent and I really love how it renders the colour to look natural yet vibrant, and its sharpness isn’t bad at all. Note that none of the colour correction has been done except the healing brush tool in Photoshop 3 which I used to remove the pimples and scars on the face that’s all.
Hope you enjoy your stay and thanks very much for tuning in! Cheers.
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June 3rd, 2008 Faris
I am so mad about lightings nowadays. Everyday when I get home from work, I shall think of something to shoot. I begin to understand a little bit how to light my subject by making mistakes and of course trial and error.
As I said I was quite confused in the beginning but surprisingly, the ”confusion” in my head is slowly fading away. I’m not saying I have completely mastered now. It makes more sense now as you try and try by experimenting how the lights work.
And of course I am very lucky to have such amazing nephews to be volunteers for my project. Well, as a matter of fact, they just love to come into my room so I grab them quickly and ask them to pose for me. They are brilliant.
I shall try to persuade my friends if they would like to volunteer themselves to be my model otherwise, most likely you’re going to see these kids again and again in my future entries 
Thanks very much for dropping by. Cheers.
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June 2nd, 2008 Faris
I know most photographers and DSLR die-hard fans are common to the word “Strobist”. It becomes very popular nowadays when many of us share the information about the art or technical of lighting. Since I was introduced to photography many years ago, I always wanted to learn more and more about it whether it is about composition, exposure, lighting and many more. The only thing is, we’ve got certain limitation when we haven’t got enough equipments as well as exposure.
When I first started playing with strobes, I thought it was not that hard. Apparently, I began to confuse myself with a few things in my head. Then I thought I should read more to get myself cleared and understand how it works in the correct way. To be honest, it was not as easy as I thought. By the way, the photo above was taken in my room with single Nikon SB-800 shoot-through umbrella. I positioned the umbrella at his eye level on camera right. It is just out of the frame. Pretty straight forward setup. Not complicated at all. The shutter was set to 1/250th at f/3.5 and ISO 200.
After shooting indoor, I thought I wanted more challenge. I did some reading how people work on outdoor lighting. Again, it looked easy until I tried it and you couldn’t imagine how many wasted photos I had when I downloaded it to my PC. Nevermind, I considered that as part of learning process. Luckily, I have got a few acceptable photos to be shared and if there’s something wrong with the photos, please and please leave comments and critiques. I would love to hear from you as well. At least, I know what I have done wrong. Anyway, the shot above was taken at 1/250th at f/8 and ISO 200. SB-800 shoot-through umbrella on camera left.
Hope you enjoyed your stay and thank you very much for reading. Cheers.
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May 2nd, 2008 Faris
Was digging up my hard drive and found these photos taken while I was at Marriott Tudor Park, Kent. If you did see the snow photos from my previous entry, those were taken one day after. It was amazing how the weather changed drastically. The sun was shining and we had a clear blue sky and all of a sudden, the next day it was all covered by snow. I had so much fun taking photos that day. Wish I could spend more time taking pictures but unfortunately, Arisha was sick the day after. But the most important thing is I have a few shots of me in the snow, haha.
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May 1st, 2008 Faris
Personally, I think kids are one of the hardest subject to be photographed unless they remain still. Thanks for viewing. Cheers.
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