Attitude

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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Strobist

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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Preview

Coming up soon. Stay tuned!

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Off-Camera Flash

Last night I felt like playing with off-camera flash. I’m completely addicted to it now after watching Strobist a few weeks back. I even thought about investing into some proper lighting stuff such as brolly. Softbox sounds better but perhaps not at the present time. Wait until I mastered like a few talented Malaysian photographers such as Ted Adnan, Syahrin Aziz and a few others, then I shall consider buying them. Furthermore, need to have larger space though. So, for the time being its best to get something light, affordable and portable as well. In fact, you can create so much by just using single flash, provided using correct techniques. It is amazing how photographs can be so different with various lighting techniques. I am not a master nor professional in lighting photography but with online tutorials, experiments, shared information, all these are possible for everybody to create something unusual from ordinary photo we always capture.

Cheers.

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