Done lens collection for the year 2012

My schedule this year for lens collection is left with Tokina 11-16 F2.8 UWA. There is once chance that slip away previously.

So it came by two days ago and got to met up with the seller who apparently stayed quite near to my place. Now my anxiety for Taiwan trip is iron out. Haha.. but need to work extra extra hard now.

Well, can't really comment of this Tokina yet... Maybe a trip to the river to shoot this weekend could be fun!!

Bee that kick the bucket

 Found this bee on the floor this morning. I had hardly shoot much macro on insects actually. So a dead "captive" seems reasonably convenient and minus all the panic to capture the moment.. taking all the own sweet time I want.

 Although this ring flash is TTL. There are still limitation to firepower but consider working pretty decent around f4 - f16 for the range of flashing.. just a little minus or plus flash compensation one you get use to understand this flash.. which is quite easy to use for that kind of budget.

 on a decent sleeping position.. I doubt they do that in their lifetime..

 just a test shot with my 1.8 on the propeller of this Spitfire model.

 Now here a f16 I guess.. I think above f16.. suffering from diffraction and softness is quite visible already.

This is around F8 or F11 I guess.. pretty sharp..

test

test

The Brenizer Method

This is my first Brenizer Method pic that I did. Pretty cool stuff and hope to get some nice shoot soon. 


Been overspending the whole month and literally went broke soon.. :p.. touch wood. Anyway, Got myself some cheapo home studio lighting with brolly and softbox.. and also cheapo Filter for outdoor shooting.


To get really kiasu.. I bought another two manual YongNuo 560 flash. Pretty cool seriously. 


Now with just the tokina UWA to add to list this year and complete my 2012 collection. 


So this weekend hope to shoot some good night portraits and these brenizer method or bokeh panorama.. what's the different with focus stacking anyway.. haha.. find out soon..

Uncertainty Point

I am utterly quite please that I actually achieve much earlier my target of two tvc ad this year.. along came with things somehow fall into places.. and of course the road might and might not be as smooth in the future.

Yet sometime things took us by surprise. Today I am able for the first time to see the full scale of my tvc ad in the studio due to the re-recording. I had mixed feeling towards how it turn out to be. Perhaps due to some sloppy part.. such feeling occur lah. But overall I praise the new direction of tvc that is being open up. Hopefully more of such tvc could be seen in the future.. yea!!

Am reading the book Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields now. I think its about time to look into this seriously and make a further hurdle.

Pulau Langkawi @ Maxis TVC

Everything was rush rush for this project. After 3 days casting already talent confirmation and three days after that we set to Langkawi for this shoot. It was a bit tiring as the journey is almost killing and luckily we had one day to rest and rejuvenate.

Somehow I consider myself fortunate as my cast appear in the last scene. Haha... spent one and a half day on standby before my turn.

These are the bunch of talents from Uzbez, Belarus, Nigeria and Iran and of course us Malaysian lah. We had quite a fun time as well as I am the oldest among them :p... More pictures after the release of the tvc.

At least for the first time I set my feet on Tanjung Rhu. Nice beautiful beaches and of course tormenting sunshine.

The most spectacular moment is when the breeze of wind blowing by the seaside and was resting on the lazy chair with satin cloth tent setting.. that was really awesome.. except without ladies feeding me grapes lah.

At least I get to see the other side of Langkawi.. cool!!

Ticket booked!!

Its been already one month since I last updated my blog. I was down with food poisoning during the last two days of my trip to Cambodia/Vietnam and seriously I didn't know that the side effect linger until the past few days. Now only I felt that I am almost heal. This is indeed horrible. Perhaps I shall write on my trip later.. due to the fact that FB is so much convenient as pictures told a thousand words and caption convenient at it.. perhaps it has slow me down in blogging.

I guess Shanghai trip most likely could not be materialize due to the fact that I can't get the cheap fare.. actually Shanghai does hold it priority more than Taiwan. Due to the fact that I was lucky to be able to swarm in across thousands of ppl that is trying attacking airasia website... I was surprise that I was able to get a ticket at a decent price!! Take it as a sign I should do this.. Not sure whether Khoo would want to do this or not as the ticket price has now escalate to 800 plus all in...

I am now taking very close look at how to ride the island is perhaps 10 - 11 days and give me extra 2 days to actually tour around Taipei. Hope it will turn out well. Its 9 months away and I really need to work hard to finance my most expensive ever holiday and the record breaking longest one I guess.

Its still feel a little weird having a 7 inches phone and taking along the ah long bag wherever I go. But the dual core processor really could handle pretty good tasks and faces minimal hiccups. Checking out stuff and just decently for eyes view ... form factor... haha..

Now the date 25 March is closing in.. Gear up and crank up!!