At The Skate Park

A few photos from a trip to the skate park in Likas with Azhar, Nerry, and Mahira. I didn't bring my DSLR on the day because I was carrying a lot of other things. In the end, these are the few shots I took with my iPod Touch.

Venus

Exams are over and I finally found some time to get photos uploaded :) The tiny specks in these photos are the planet Venus (Which I figured using Google Sky Map Application) during twilight.

Stars and Lightning

Hey everyone! sorry for the lack of updates. I have been busy again catching up with assignments and errands that I haven't found much time to get to editing to update my blog.

These are some photos from an stormy evening spent at the Sunset Bar, Shangri-La Tanjung Aru Resort. We were having some drinks while we listened to music from Papi Johntoy and Dj Kumar.

Another Evening

Boats In The Sea

I have been busy again so there are no portrait sessions to post yet. Now that the uni annual dinner is out of the way, Its gonna be a busy December since the semester exam will start early January. Most of the assignments that piled up over the last month have been completed but there are still a couple more to go. 

At the very least, the Christmas decorations are up :)

Cotton Sky

Some interesting cloud formation about two weeks ago. It doesn't occur too often in such a large scale around here and after a little research I found them to be called Altocumulus clouds. These were taken at around noon and they slowly faded away a few hours later.

I haven't done any photo shoots recently and I'm dying to try out some new ideas :) In the meantime, I will just be posting photos of other subjects.

Selamat Hari Raya!

Cityscape Disaster : Transformers

Okay so I went a little crazy and decided to add another photo to the Cityscape Disaster series. The older series was about natural disasters and this one is just... highly unlikely. It was heaps of work but hey, I would be lying if I said it wasn't fun to make. I learned a lot since I did the previous series but this took me a whopping 3 hours to finish. Most of the editing time was taken up by the little details added for realism.

Admittedly, it does not look consistent to the style of the previous series because I decided to retain more natural colors on this one. And sticking to the movie, I decided not to break tradition and added the excessive trademark lens flares. The background photo was taken at the Lintas highway.

Note: I haven't mentioned it but this semester's exams are over! It has been since Friday :D Interestingly, the Tsunami photo which is the first from the series, was also made right after my exam last year.

Here are the links to the previous posts from the Cityscape Disaster series.
Cityscape Disaster : Tsunami
Cityscape Disaster : Tornado
Cityscape Disaster : Meteor Strike

Secrets

 

 I went to Tanjung Aru with Bernard and my sister for a picnic. After we ate, we went to shoot some photos.We had to leave quickly after I got these shots though because it started to rain heavily. 

Somewhere Between the Mind and Universe

 Happy Easter everyone! :D

Shot these at the same location as the previous post. I wanted to post these sooner but I completely forgot. I have been studying for my exam this coming Monday and Tuesday.

Which reminds me, I have to go study now.

When Skies Are Blue

Mahira brought me on a photo shoot last Monday with Nadine as the model. I went nuts when we got to the location :D It looked amazing and was a great change from the usual but it was too bad that we couldn't stay as long as we liked to. We went quite a way away from the theme but this has to be one of the best photo shoots to date, the only problem was that the sun was scorching hot. 

Mahira and I took turns to hold up the reflector during the shoot. I was really psyched up about getting the blue sky in the background so we went higher up the rocky hill.

It was really bright on the day so it made it difficult to get consistent lighting on the photos. Big thanks to Nadine for going out in the sun for us and Mahira for bringing us to this place. I cant wait go back again.

It was a great day overall, totally worth the sunburn :)

Lightning Storm

If you live around Kota Kinabalu, then you might have noticed yesterday that there was a lot of lightning in the clouds which lasted almost the whole night.

I was in the car when I snapped this photo. It was pretty difficult to do because the car was constantly moving but I kept shooting every time I saw a flash in the clouds and luckily enough I caught this one with some lightning. I did catch more photos with lightning but they were too little or just blurred.

The lightning came around at random intervals of around 3-7 seconds apart. With very little or no thunder most of the time from where I was viewing it.

Shutter settings used were 1/25 at f/2.2 @ ISO 1600

Endless Blue

This shot is of a ventilation contraption that was on a roof. I actually wanted a wider shot to include more sky but from where I was standing, it was impossible to get a proper frame for a shot like that.