Glass Diorama

I believe most of you have been to a seminar or a talk where the only way to stay awake during boring talk is playing with your handphone or your digital compact camera. Luckily for me, the organizer usually provides us with paper and pencil, glass and drinking water. I like to draw little stick man and put him inside the glass.

(Note: I did this before but I don’t have my camera with me. All the pictures below are the re-enactment (kunun) of my previous drawing – with added drama).

So, I drew a stick man, and a few objects around him (t.v, toilet, coffin… anything). I usually bring my own mechanical pencil with me.

Then, I put the glass. There he is trapped. LOL!

Simple. So here is the added drama especially for you all, tsm(4)’s readers.

LOL!  Sa kejam!

Oh, wait.. what is this?

Hmm, seems like our prisoner will be safe after all.

That’s all folks. Thank you for watching.

Big claps for today’s casts:

p/s: Ya, I have too much time. Sad. T_T

13th

13th

[Lemonade’s problem]

They said nothing is for free.

I think of a situation:

Zeal: If I buy this magic underwear, will I get something free?

Shopkeeper: Sure. Here I give you this ‘nothing’ for free.

Zeal: But, but… there is nothing there. :(

Shopkeeper: Exactly!

Zeal: T_T

Moral of the story: If you want nothing for free, it is done.

Shutter Speed Science (pt.1)

Whenever I saw moving water, I’ll try to capture it. Rain, river, flood, tap water, ocean waves… even your drinks.

Today in Shutter Speed Science class, I’ll share a few tips on slow shutter speed’s effect on moving water.

Basically, if the lighting is good (not too bright, e.g in the morning/afternoon), just switch the dial to S and experimenting with the speed. The longer the time (1 second or more), the blurry the water will be. The blurry water(or macam kapas - kampung2 bilang) is our main focus today. (But never forget, foreground, background, subject and composition is what makes the pictures worth looking – in my case, my photos failed –_-‘).

Lens: DT 55-200mm F4-5.6, Shutter Speed Priority (S), 4 sec at f/32, 55mm. ISO 200, 19/7/09 1:54pm

Lens: DT 55-200mm F4-5.6, Manual exposure (M), 1.3 sec at f/32, 60mm. ISO 200, 23/8/09 5:44pm

Lens: DT 18-70mm F3.5-5.6, Shutter Speed Priority (S), 1 sec at f/29, 30mm. ISO 200, 24/5/09 6:38am

Here some tip for the photo above. During the 1 second shutter opened to take picture, I fired my external flash to the water in front of me, thus giving the ‘colourful’ look of the rocks underneath rather than just bleak grey water.

Lens: DT 18-70mm F3.5-5.6, Shutter Speed Priority (S), 2 sec at f/10, 35mm. ISO 200, 3/11/09 8:08am

Slow shutter will give the effect of softness, moving and.. just plain fun. But in next class (tahun daaaapan laa…), fast speed will also be fun. We’ll be stop time on it’s track, stillness and frozen. But I haven’t finish with slow speed yet. Until next time. Here some gambar hiasan:

Three photos stitched together. Lens: DT 18-70mm F3.5-5.6, Apature Priority (A), f/22, 18mm. ISO 100, -1.7 EV. 15/9/09 1:++pm (Click for BIG image)

p/s (above): I can’t do slow shutter because the light is too strong. Filter is a must. (also, I walked about 3km barefooted to this waterfall, my sandal betrays me).

[pt.2]

Go to [Aperture Science] class.

Glowing Dragon

I went to Kinabalu Pine Resort this morning. Will be back to KK tomorrow. I came and I saw:

I emailed to all my dearest friends, I said I’m gonna miss them, and said something about ‘glowing dragon’. (Yes, Celcom Broadband is really good at Kundasang. I finished download “My Worst Week – SE01”).

Then at around 6pm, raining. Here comes the dragon.

Car’s tail-lights . Lens: DT 18-70mm F3.5-5.6, Manual exposure, 29 sec at f/11, 35mm. ISO 200, BULB + cable shutter release. 2/11/09 6:17pm

At 7pm, came The Moon:

Lens: DT 55-200mm F4-5.6, Manual exposure, 1250 sec at f/9, 200mm. ISO 100, B&W. 2/11/09 7:04pm

With Mr. Moon’s help, the dragon look more interesting:

Lens: DT 18-70mm F3.5-5.6, Manual exposure, 45 sec at f/9, 26mm. ISO 200, BULB + cable shutter release. 2/11/09 7:18pm

… and this is what I’ve been trying to capture for so long.

Lens: DT 18-70mm F3.5-5.6, Manual exposure, 86 sec at f/9, 55mm. ISO 200, BULB + cable shutter release. 2/11/09 7:42pm

I missed you guys here. There are five of us, now there are five of me.

p/s: post revised and edited. now you can click on the photo to view 1000x666 or 666x1000 resulation photo.

Reaching point

Photo taken during the recent UMS Convocation (10th - 13th Oct, 2009)

Winning Stand.

p/s: I’m using Windows Live Writer. Ok I might be way behind this technology, but since I just upgraded to Windows 7, I think I should learn to use all the features in Windows.

Highlander

I'm doing math.

Weekend + friends = fun.
(Pixelayer Team x crazy) + (Mr. Greg + son) + Vicky = memorable.
Went to Kundasang -> Ranau -> Mesilau -> Kota Belud and still met with familiar shutterbugs face: (Lumis, Bosing, Sarah, The Smiling Eyes, Gidong, Bobby) = priceless.

I failed with math.

Here some photos.

Muka-muka urang yang kesejukan di Mesilau.

Another photo for my "Mushroom Kingdom" album.

My "boring" group photo. Visit their blog (or facebook) for more 'exciting' group photo.