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Portraits: Who’s next? Lynnette? Sophia?

While my computer’s crawling along getting my Bali photos resized, I’ll just post this ‘teaser’ up for you readers to have a choice. These was shot before my Bali trip so most of it is edited before the trip. Now, take your pick, who you want to see next?

Lynnette is the one on the right and Sophia’s the one on the left. So vote now, who’s sets of photos would you like to see next? (more…)


Portraits: Ai Li The Forest Angel

The 1st Portrait for 2010. This set has taken me some time before it sees the light of day. Here’s 5 of my favorite from the shoot.

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We Built This City

The following series of photos, I decide to turn into a little short unprofessionally edited video. Instead of just a normal set, I decide to turn the photos into tilt-shift but due to the fact that I’m poor and don’t own such lens, I have to fake it all through photoshop. Here’s the end result.

What do you think? The photos was shot, edited and made into a movie over a period of 3 months. But if you were to calculate the hours spend, I only spend an hour each week I work on the photos. Hopefully I’ll be able to capture some using a proper tilt-shift lens and compare the result between one that is photoshopped and one that is straight off the camera.


Portraits: Fashionably Sultry Yvonne

The following are a series of photos of Baby Yvonne in a more fashion based theme. The shoot was done during mid morning when the sun was heading towards it’s high point resulting in a very flat and challenging shoot.

With the clothes and make-up style, I tried to gear the whole project towards the retro feel. (more…)


A Kid and The Fountain

Some time back, while walking through a shopping mall. Saw this kid playing by the fountain and he was so carefree. His parents was just sitting by the side allowing him to enjoy himself.

I had my camera with me so naturally, I took these 2 shots. (more…)


Construction Silhouette

Submitted this photo for ShutterAsia’s monthly contest and decide to share it here as well. What do you think?

Here’s another photo I like. (more…)


Teaser Shot: Want to See More?

Just a teaser photo.

Want to see more? Let me know by commenting ya.


Up-Close and racing with Sébastien Buemi

Previously, I posted photos of Jaime Alguersuari of Scuderia Toro Rosso, this post is about his team mate, Sébastien Buemi. Also taken at the same location, Sébastien carries himself in a more confident manner throughout the day, even at the Red Bull party (that’ll be another story for another post). So without much needed introduction, here’s some photos taken from that day.


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Up-Close and Racing with Jaime Alguersuari

He might not be in the fight for the top spots in Formula 1, but nevertheless, he is one of the 20 that’s lucky enough to race competitively in the Formula 1 race.

Jaime Alguersuari took some time off his busy schedule to meet with Scuderia Toro Rosso fans prior to the Singapore GP and race around a few laps at the Go-Kart circuit to give a teaser to the fans what to expect at the Singapore Night Race 2009. (more…)


Fazuly Sudarmaji

Just one final shot from the Skate park set of photos I’ve been posting up, this is a single shot of a Singaporean talent name Fazuly Sudarmaji.

Hope you guys like this shot.


Real or Fake?

Have a look at these photos, in your opinion before you scroll down past the images, tell me, do you think these images are of model sets or real construction vehicles?

So after the first photo, what do you think? (more…)


Charlie Wilkins, Skateboard Maestro at Play

One of the maestro of skateboarding, Charlie Wilkins showed me what he can do even while he’s just having fun. I decided against the headshot of him cause I’ve got the following to share instead.

When he came out to play with Trevor Wards, everyone practically stops and watch. Trevor didn’t do much except trying out some simple moves around the skate park. (more…)


HeadShot: BMX Pro, Adam Banton

Just sharing a headshot of Adam Banton, an awesome BMX Pro.

Don’t know who he is? Check out the following video. (more…)


Portraits: Ai Li @ Barren Field

The following photos was done quite near to home back in Kota Damansara, a hidden gem of a place you can say. To me, there’s a lot of potential for shoots done here and I definitely want to keep it to myself.

Not trying to be stingy with locations and all but sometimes, when you share a place, so many people venture to it that the place tend to be destroyed. In the end, the one on the losing end is the venue itself as it’s beauty that first captivated our attention have become spoilt. (more…)


Portraits: Li Peng

Li Peng was a wonderful subject to work with on a nice cool sunday evening and as she has done this many times over, to get her to pose is quite an easy thing to do.

The location we used is the ever popular FRIM. So popular that many a times when you look at wedding albums, you’re bound to recognize some of the location that the photographer used just looking at the photos. (more…)


Portraits: Ying Ying

A Couple of weekends back, had the opportunity to provide some portraitures for Ms. Ying Ying and as the theme is look to be outdoor, the shoot was done at FRIM. These are the result of that shoot.


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Kids @ Playground

Almost every evening when the weather is good, I’ll bring the kids to the playground to play. Kids from the area come out to play ever so often and boy, these kids do have abundance of energy making them run around a lot without feeling the least tired.

One of the day we were there, decide to take out my camera to snap some photos of the kids and their friends. It’s nice that at the end of the day, we can look back at the photos and remember how it was. This is very much so when they get older and start to do their own things without wanting you to be around them. (more…)


Who’s photos would you like to see first?

A week back, I went to FRIM to do some shoot with these 2 ladies. Finally found a connection that’s fast enough for me to upload photos so here’s my question.

The lady on the left is Ying Ying and the lady on the right is Li Peng. Who would you like to see first? Just comment with their names and I’ll be posting them photos up.


My Fav. Fast Food Outlet In The Klang Valley

I was bored one afternoon, so grab my neighbor’s kapchai and rode out to this place. You can say that it’s my favorite fast food outlet in the Klang Valley for a three simple reasons.

  1. It’s near to my home
  2. It’s 24hours
  3. It serves my favorite fast food meals.

So here it is, without much needed introduction.

This is a Single Photo HDR. Just doing it out of fun, it’s not the best HDR that everyone can see but still, love it cause done by me.


Weird Colored Moon

Was sitting out in the garden one night unable to sleep and spotted this moon with a weird color. Guess it could be due to reflection from lights nearer me or clouds or something.

Well, yeah, just a boring post about a moon that everyone can see by walking out of their house and staring up in the sky.


I got mooned again!

I was on the way to Kepong to check out some stalls on the night of the 7th of August when I drove up to Bukit Menjalara and lo and behold, I got Mooned!

It was a magnificent sight but since I only have my camera back home, I need to go back and get it. By the time I got home, the haze/cloud start to move in to envelope the moon and I only manage to get these shots. (more…)


Portraits: Hitomi

Hitomi asked me recently to help her take some portraits of hers and at a recent session, these was what I took. What do you think?

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Portraits: c-0-c-o

From the other day, apart from the Darlie photo you see on Coco’s blog, here’s some of the other shots taken from a day out taking photos. Feel free to comment on the photos, there’s no specific theme to the shots but was more on playing around with the camera, settings and the surroundings.

The photo above was shot using a flat colored background for the studio look while the one at the bottom was shot outside the shopping complex. It’s a bit hard to shoot the 2nd photo as there’s constantly people walking past and stopping to see what’s going on. (more…)


Going to the shops with Eva Lim

I know I posted up this post earlier but somehow it’s no longer in my list. I guess I’ll have to start all over again. :( A whole list of footnotes and stuff all gone down the drain. A bug? Someone got into my account with my super long password that I can barely remember and remove my posts?

Anyway, back to the post. What you get when you have a rainy day, a girl and 2 sets of clothes plus some free time on hand? No, don’t expect any wet t-shirt photos in here. Just a few photos of what I would say is an experimental photoshoot. I will list each photo with a short description of the set-up I used.

1. Escalating effect

Shot with the D300 with the AF Nikkor 50mm glass assist by 1 SB600 working as Slave. Slave positioned at the top right position with it’s strength at 1/1. Setting for Camera is ISO200, F/10 at shutter speed of 1/100sec.

2. Wall of Art(?)

Shot with the D300 with the Tamron 17-50mm F/2.8 glass assist by 1 SB600 working as Slave. Slave positioned at the top right position with it’s strength at 1/16. Setting for Camera is ISO200, F/10 at shutter speed of 1/100sec.

One coming thing from these two photos is the way she stand and her head positioning, just realized the similarity only after I got home but oh well. What’s done’s done.