KK Jazz Fest 2012

Colors

UK FunFair

The UK FunFair is back again in Kota Kinabalu and we just had to go and check it out for ourselves. I went a little crazy on the cross processed look of the images, sorry :) Anyways, we had a great time there, some of us won a couple of things at the ring toss, I got the ring on the red bottle (third last photo, credits to Wanda) and I won a big Hello Kitty doll which I proceeded to hand over to Brenda. The rides looked cool, well not all, I went on close to the lamest ride which was called sudden impact. I didn't go on the space gun ride though (yes I know it is the most awesome ride there).

I hadn't been taking pictures in a while and it showed how rusty I was that night.

Rumour Has It

A photo I found from a shoot with my sister a few months back which I completely forgot to post.

Panorama

This is a panoramic composite of almost all of the firework photos I shot this Chinese new year on the roof. It was a little crazy but I took each firework individually from each photo and pasted them into their proper positions in this panorama. It was a lot of work and it took about 2 hours to complete but I thought it was a cool idea to show everything in a single photo.

Fireworks

The sky this Chinese new year was once again marked with hundreds of fireworks from every direction. It was brighter and louder than it was last year with the occasional firework exploding overhead as I sat on my neighbor's roof.

It might be difficult to tell the difference if you compared them but the show this year left me stunned as I watched the fireworks in awe. The added advantage I had this year was the use of a wireless remote trigger coupled with BULB mode on the camera. Some of these shots were exposed for over 3 minutes. 

It's just one of those things that you just had to be there to see for yourself. Nobody wanted to be outdone and it resulted in yet another spectacular display.


Happy Chinese New Year 2012!!

Kuala Lumpur

A few photos from the last two weeks at KL. There's many more to come soon :)

Club Can't Handle Me

Some photos from a fun night out at Club Bed. Haven't gone on any photo shoots recently :(

You'll Never Walk Alone

Here's a couple of photos of Bernard wearing his new grey Liverpool 2011-2012 away jersey from Anfield. The background was of course inspired by the original shoot with Gerrard, Suarez and other Liverpool players. I made it using a close up shot of the jersey texture. 

YNWA

Quiet Confidence

Another photo from the same shoot at Tanjung Aru. All of the lights were from the well positioned building spotlights. Didn't need to use a flash on this one.

Spent the past few days doing nothing but the combination of playing games and writing notes for my last exam paper this coming saturday.

Got addicted to Angry Birds all over again since I have it on my computer now :)

It's Not Over

I went on another photo shoot with Mahira and Nadine last wednesday. We were expecting to shoot during the day but then it rained all the way till evening and in the end we wound up in Tanjung Aru.

I didn't bring my transmitter then so I didn't get as good a result as I wanted with lighting. I had to bounce the flash off a reflector to try and get the effect right but it was pretty difficult and it mostly failed. I still like the pictures though, many thanks to Mahira and Suhaimi for helping out with the reflector :D I really appreciate it.

Exams aren't over by the way. My last paper is on the 7th of May :/

I will post a couple more photos in the next entry.

Change

I made some changes to the blog which wanted to do for a very long time. Don't get freaked out by the large images in posts, your computer isn't broken, the settings were changed to show them larger since I widened the blog width :) 

I really should be studying right now, been living on the edge since last semester always studying in the eleventh hour. 

Shot these photos quite a while back, I almost forgot that I still have them. Didn't use a macro lens but I used the kit lens in reverse position. I have done this before in an older post. It gives the effect of a macro lens by shortening the minimum focus distance.

I've also been getting the hang of using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Guess the initial reaction I had to seeing a very simple interface made me think that it was much more complicated than it really was. In the end it only took a couple of hours to get used to. All of these were edited in Lightroom 3.