Remember When

More photos from the previous shoot.

Waiting for Sunset

Went out to shoot some photos with Ki Choy, Ikhwan, Joanna and my sister last friday. It rained again so we had to improvise and change the initial theme. I was way too desperate to go out and take pictures that I was not going to consider postponing :p

It was still raining when we got there but thankfully it stopped after a while :) Actually, we were lucky it rained because the overcast sky produced much softer light. I still have more to post but I will leave it at this for now :D

Heroes

It has been pretty boring recently with the lack of futsal and stuff so I decided to have this shoot with Bernard, revisiting a project I did the last time around click here. The idea of course is based on the television series, Heroes.

Credits to Bernard for coming up with the idea for my pose with the red and blue fire.

oh and Selamat Hari Raya to all muslims :)

Somewhere In August

Recently went out to take some pictures with Bernard. This is one of them. The others were much too funny to post here :p

Flaring Intensity

A week ago, Bernard, Ki Choy and I went to a basketball court around my neighborhood. We didn't have any real reason to go there. Since I had my camera with me, I took pictures around the place.

My left ankle seems to be sprained, sort of, because there is no swelling which might indicate that the ligament isn't torn. But it's definitely stretched. It happened mid December January when I was playing soccer on an uneven field. It didn't really hurt that much until a couple of days later, then I realized that there was something wrong with it.

I didn't think it was anything too serious.

I played Futsal [Indoor Soccer] after that and I realized the pain was there but it soon went away, the injury seemed to come back after another game so I stopped playing.

According to a website that I checked out, it's like an eversion injury where the ligaments inside the ankle is damaged. It's not that badly damaged I guess but maybe lightly to moderately.

It sucks not being able to play at the moment. I can't even kick a football outside the house, I can only do stretching exercises and muscle strengthening exercises for my ankle to help the rehabilitation.

Anamorphic Lens Flare

It's been ages since I wanted to take a photo with this type of flare. People usually try to avoid flares, but in some cases, it adds something extra to the photo.

Since I have absolutely no clue on how to produce this flare naturally, I just created it in post processing.

The plug-in used to create this is called Knoll Light Factory by Digital Anarchy. It's an awesome plug-in. It has loads of other flares to choose from too :D

This is Bernard in the photo which was taken in Starbucks of all places :)

Garama River Cruise

Went to a river cruise that was arranged by Only in Borneo Tours. I've never been on a river cruise before so it was really exciting, but mainly because I had a chance to snap some photos :D

The cruise is an opportunity for people to see the long tail macaques, proboscis monkeys and the silver leaf monkey, the guides dubbed it the "David Beckham monkey" because of its natural Mohawk hair. xD

Other animals that could be seen included monitor lizards, crocodiles [very unlikely because only the really young ones linger around this river, the adults move on to another place], and eagles. Sadly it was difficult to get any kind of a closer image to the monkeys unless they were close by because I don't have a longer zoom lens and add to that the fact that silver leaf monkeys are very shy so they tend to hide further in the trees. The guides were fantastic with spotting these creatures even from far, and incredibly informative about them.

Anyways, I tried to make the most out of the disadvantage from the short focal length of the kit lens. I tried to be as creative as possible when framing the shots, and playing around with the flares. It's always during times like these that I get to learn new things in photography.

This cruise session had two boats because there were about 18 people altogether. There was another photographer in the cruise, he has a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and a 1000D with a 24-105mm and a 70-200mm lens and by the looks of it, had no problems zooming into the monkeys.

There was a small village along the river belonging to a tribe which I completely forgot what it was called.

As the cruise neared nightfall, we had a chance to see some fireflies. We really didn't think we would because it looked like it was threatening to rain, but I guess we got lucky. They were like Christmas lights flickering inside the bushes :) the guide caught one and it looked like a really tiny beetle, almost like a tiny cockroach. It's very much like the 'photinus pyralis' firefly from the photurinae sub family.

It was impossible to get a sharp image with slow shutter speeds because it was close to dark and the boat was moving.

We got back to base camp after that to enjoy a delicous buffet dinner :D

Lights and Flares

Ahh, the Waterfront. There's always something to photograph there. :D

I finally got to take that rainbow flare that I always wanted in that last photo. I only discovered it by accident :p

Exams are coming soon :s so I might not have too much time to edit because I will be studying.