"He who dares, wins"

  

"He who dares, wins"

 

Generally he is neither a good singer nor guitar player.

But he has the courage and dare to perform his talent to the public.

The goal is to draw people's attention and try to gain some fortune.

 Well, he got my attention and some tips from others.

 

 

A Visitation to Royal Photography Society Exhibition.

"About The Royal Photography Society,

The Royal Photographic Society is an Educational Charity promoting both the art and science of photography. Membership is open to all, whatever level of experience or knowledge. No qualifications are required to join, just a passion and love for one or more of photography’s myriad of genres, technologies and applications.
Most of our members join to further their own photography and to embrace the challenge of working towards our world recognized Distinctions (LRPS, ARPS and FRPS) and Imaging Science Qualifications (QIS, GIS, AIS and ASIS).
By attending Society National, Regional and Group Events, our members enjoy unparalleled opportunities to share knowledge, meet and learn from other photographers and to develop their photographic interests and skills.
Open International Print and Projected Image Exhibitions are held annually alongside an Audio Visual Festival and members’ exhibitions.
The Royal Photographic Society is well respected for its outstanding achievement in Education. Although the majority of its work focuses on supporting and organising practical workshop and lectures it also organises community projects and work in schools and colleges.
Our internationally renowned Awards are presented annually, recognising the highest achievements in all fields of photography - Albert Watson HonFRPS and Annie Liebovitz HonFRPS being recent Centenary Medal recipients.
The Society has a long and proud History, established as The Photographic Society in 1853 in the pioneering days of photography, it became Royal by decree in 1894 and in 2004 it was presented with a Royal Charter. The Society’s Collection of priceless photographs and historical items is now housed at the National Media Museum, for the Nation."

source directly from The Royal Photography Society."

The status of this organization is equivalent to the professional bodies such as ACCA, CIMA, CFA and etc. In order to get one of the distinctions, candidates are required to join the society as a member and pass thru a series of so called exams as well. So if you have the ambitious to become a recognized professional, you might want to consider this. I'm considering it too :)

One of my favorite.

This exhibition will be held until 28/07/2013 at D7 (to here), Sentul. It will start at 2pm in weekdays and 9am in weekend.

Be frank to say that I'm expecting this exhibition to be in a medium scale. But in fact it is more like in a small scale basis and that's a bit disappointed. Anyhow, most of the photos which exhibited in this exhibition are amazing. Technical and skills wise, they are near perfect and really much to comment about. But what amazed me is that from the photos they really are illustrating what is the meaning of control, master and create impression. These are really very high level pieces and it is a benchmark.

Now, this is my time to exhibit some of the not so as pro shots of mine. Today, instead of shooting at f8~22 all the way. I shoot with f1.4~2 very happy all the way. It has been a long while I didn't shoot at this setting and it is fun :)

Hi 哈雷~

New landmark of Sentul, The Capers

Go Green.

Shadow & light

D7

D7

My Hometown, Kuala Lumpur

Sub-urban of KL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A panoramic view of my hometown. 

 

Full resolution at here

 

UPDATE! (28/07/2013)

 破晓

It has been very long time I didn't wake up in this hour during weekend.

By the way, I didn't purposely wake up this early for photo shooting. 

Just that I can "re"-sleep after I woke up.

Full Resolution here

 

This is my favorite shot today.

I'm still thinking how to adjust the color.

Jonker Street 鸡场街

熙来襄往、比肩接踵、络绎不绝的人群.

趁这个光景还在时先拍下一张照片作为写照的一部分.

 

The entrance of Jonker Street.
鸡场街的入口处.

Masjid Selat, Melaka

Falling!!! - Masjid Selat

"FALLING!!!"

Are you tilting your head when you are looking this picture? Yes, it is intentionally tilted.

My intention is to create some dramatic elements in the shot. However, the result is not as what I thought and I was run out of time during that time to get several shots from other angles. Due to a storm was approaching and got back out.

Anyhow, I would like to share how is this shot being created without gradual ND filters.

This shot is stacked with two shots. One exposure for the sky and one for the foreground, both were shoot with a variable ND filter attached.

Prior I fuse them together, the original shots were adjusted via Lightroom (LR) and they were like this:-

EV 0: Sky

EV +1: Foreground

After stacking with Photoshop (layer clearing and color burn were applied), the shot become is like this:-

Then the picture was import back to LR for some cropping and further color enhancement (personally, I prefer to adjust most of the cropping, light and colors with LR) and the final result is as the picture on top.

I know there are more convenient way to create this shot, for example like exposing 3 different EV shots and fuse them together with PS and create a HDR picture. However, I'm not very fancy with HDR, that's why I apply this method to create the picture that I want it to be. If you have better ways to do this, please do share with me :)

Putrajaya, Magic of The Night 2013

"一场带有政治气息的旅游文化秀.

不想多谈,只想照相."

"Talk less. Shoot more."

A politicized tourism exhibition which only introduce the states that administrated by the current party.
Come on, grow up.

布城的黄昏.

灿烂,却短暂的烟花.