Urbanization

 Credits

Model : Nadine

Assistant : Mahira

I went through my archive and decided that I wanted to dig up some photos from a shoot done about three years ago. It gave me a chance to go through photos that I may have missed out and give them the look that I actually wanted to at the time but did not know how. I shot these with my old faithful Canon EOS 1000D with the EF-S 18-55mm kit lens. Lighting was done with a lot of help from Mahira holding up a reflector. The shots remind me of how extremely hot the location was. Credits to Nadine for not even complaining about it as much as we were. Lol.

Try to get the best out of your equipment; be it a cheap or expensive camera by learning its functions in depth. Once you know what you're doing, you can concentrate all your efforts on making great pictures. I have always considered technique and execution to play an important role in photography. It ties the other important factors like lighting, subject, and background of a photograph together.

No amount of editing in Photoshop can turn a badly taken photo into something even worthy of a professional standard. It is important to put more effort into getting everything right straight out of the camera first, and then use Photoshop to complete the look of the image if you must. I tend to envision my edits even before the shoot. Editing is part of the creative process, it depends on what the photographer wants to achieve.

Year Of The Dragon

Ikhwan, Mahira, Brenda, my sister and myself decided to go out for our first photo session in months. We've been very busy with exams and now we finally have the time to go out. We returned to the same rocky hill that Mahira, Nadine and myself went to in a previous post this time with a chinese theme for the coming Chinese New Year. We arrived late and we only had very little time before we started to feel the scorch of the midday sun. 

We spent a total of 40 minutes there and there really wasn't enough time to work on every pose in detail. Everything was rushed because we just wanted to get out of the sun as soon as we could. I felt so rusty because of the lack of portrait sessions. Still, I'm glad that we had the opportunity to go out together and credits to my sister for being the model and everyone else for all of the help provided throughout the shoot.

Note: I forgot to mention that the fans were actually red. I just changed them to match the color of the dress :)

Climb to Tivung Hill

The prayer group that I joined in CMI Church had organized their yearly climb up Tivung hill where we stopped by 13 crosses on the way up saying the prayers for each of them before reaching the peak of the hill where the largest cross was placed. There, the priest held a Eucharistic mass.

It was a really fun experience climbing the hill. Although I wasn't even close to being fit. I hadn't exercised much since my ankle got sprained.