let's kill the green !
mood setup with adobe camera raw. testing on killing the green and turn into a few tones.
b&w calm land
Pictures taken from various places. Bohol Philippines, Kedah Malaysia & Langkawi Island Malaysia. Try out mood setup with bit of warm tone in highlights and dark purple-ish blue tone in shadow area.
their love story
help my buddy with this gf take some shots during a trip. climb up and took this shots from top :)
grayscale portraits . bvnz
Just got a 35mm and do a test shoot with buddy Bevin. 1 off camera flash from the side :)
Manila full update.
Been busy with work ever since I am back to KL, here's the update about the 8 days in Philippines. It's been awesome traveling around alone, not tight schedule and everything was on my own which is fun and lots of ???
Well, think this is the first time I travel alone, usually with somebody because I had this thing with scouting around and explore interesting stuff with capturing not just the surface but experience the scenario than just stand aside with some photographs. This time I got around with meeting and having a nice trip.
Day 01 (Fri) reached Clark Airport at 11am then immediately take a 3-4 hours bus to Parsay City. It wasted me like 4-5 hours just to get from airport to the city so next time don't take Air Asia even it is cheap. Next round to Philippines will be Cebu Pacific :) So had a rest after the journey and meet up with Rex and Joyce for the night. Dinner at High Street then to Old Studio of Team Manila to their designer's party and had my 1st Balut (90% grown duck egg) where Julian don't eat and meet lots of great local designers, DJs, film makers, and artists. No shit DJ Caliph8 and other local can rap freestyle on the spot, no shit hardly see local Malaysian can rap like this. The night was great we had many beers and chat tru the night.
Next morning (Sat) will be the long waited Graphika Manila 09 with the big names line up especially Brand New School and ILM where it was my intention to attend GM09. Another group speakers that impressed me will be Every Where We Shoot with their strong styling and art direction for fashion and experimental work. GM 09 ends with Stefan karaoke session and with the usual celebrity autograph session. The night we went to indi band bar (Shit can't remember the name !) with Rex Joyce, Carl, Bel and Ludovic (BNS). I had bit too much alcohol that night but fuck that shit I don't have to work tomorrow man. Sunday just went around Malls and got some cabs bringing me around other city :)
4th Day trip to Bohol another island as Rex suggested to hang around. Fight reach around 10.15 morning then checked in. Meet a driver Ammon which will be riding me on bike for the next 2 days around the island. I would prefer on bike so that I can stop anywhere to snap and only 2 of us so we can control the time. Well the 1st day basically chill at the resort, nap on the beach and massage. Slept till 11pm where I missed dinner so I was fucking hungry trying to find food. Out there was pitch black but some people having like a party apparently it was Philippines basket ball team celebrating. I ask them to sell me some beer of something but invited to join them so i had a night with them and meet Glenda a girl from Switzerland with we had quite lots of conversation :)
5th Day will be 9am to 5pm all day motorbike ride around to tourist spot. Traveled more than 100km without helmet on! Went to historical churches, statues, Tersier (smallest monkey), Loboc river lunch on big boat and meet a Japanese and made friend so next round to japan should be alright to bring me around, Marmade forest, chocolate hills, special species butterfly farm, hanging bridge, big pythons and etc. Tried a lot local food and drinks too. Yeah, i got sunburn on the 1st day and evening just chillax at the beach :)
6th Day same time to other places like huge waterfalls and a gay working there after I swim sitting there waiting my pants to dry with just my under on, he asked me to show him my penis (wtf, but I was not scared anyway fuck that shit if he pull it I will fucking punch him !), underground cave, town, some other historical places, other beaches and cliffs but I was invited to Ammon house to have lunch so I said alright and we went to local fish market get the seafood that I like then his family will cook the local style to let me try. So went to their house, it is very small, wooden, 2 rooms 1 living and 1 kitchen. In that house there are 6 people staying, husband & wife with 2 kids, 1 aunt, mother in law, and grandmother. Cook with charcoal, grill squid and fish, local chicken soup and uncook squid with just vinegar. Walk around the village and meet some other neighbors but all of them speaks English and they are very friendly :) Meet Roni and Barbara (Writer/Editor - been backpacking in Asia for 6 years) during me taking photo along the coral/seaweed in front of me resort. Long chat again and had dinner together then catch up with Glenda and her friends for beers in the town then back earlier because I got early flight back to Manila the next day.
Back to Manila for last few days and visit Rex and Joyce studio INKSURGE in the afternoon then truout all night hang out with them trying local food. Visited Team Manila studio with lots of big boys toys and they have nice work and fun space with silk screen room. Can make T shirt anytime ! Also meet up with new Manila friends (Rex, Joyce, Team Manila, EEWS, and Paul), catch up before I go. Last day went out with Paul to get some photo equipments at Quiapo as he is so helpful because that place is not safe for me to go alone. Oldest city in Manila and lots of poor people, not just Quiapo but around Manila we can actually see homeless woman with a kids, family as in whole like father mother son grandfather living just right at the walk way and nobody is helping them like government don't do anything to get them a place or provide jobs. Quite sad and stressful for tourist because they are begging money and trying to take anything and sell to get money for their meal and it is not very cheap to live in city. So I got my ring flash and other stuff at other Malls thanks to Paul made my last shopping day :)
Anyway, will be uploading pictures later on to this post. Haven't got time to look tru pictures. Got another shoot later tomorrow morning. Gtg now :)
8 days in philipines
Alright, I just got back from Philippines. Still unpacking my stuff, doing laundry, rearranging stuffs. Well, my main lens auto focus doesn't work since the 1st day i reached Manila. So it is kinda fuck up for me to snap faster and get the right and sharp focus :( The last day, I went some lil shopping with Paul around Manila. Just to update lil bit here, these are the stuff I can't get in Malaysia. Lucky I got it from Manila :)
Supra NS Spring 2009 & Black Leather Converse.
Tribal Gear T Shirt from America. I kinda like the print and the finest of the graph.
Well more photos of the trip will be posted soon, not sure I will have time :)
practice 101
just got some lighting kit so did some test shoot. still lots of trying to light and learn how to direct a photo shoot. welcome comments to guide me to improve to be better :)
thank you
Yup, the result was out yesterday and i found my photos are in. Malaysia and Singapore winner. Thanks and I will continue to take more. Anyway there are some photos I really like it where they are so strong in visual and story telling. Here's the snap to make myself happy a bit :)
longest Buddha
this shot was taken sometimes ago...still have Gbs of raw files in my storage. think is time to re look again all the them. this was stitched with quite some photo to get this panoramic sleeping Buddha. Well it is a portrait of the god.
well well well v02
ok..just a quick update to my photography. shits happen in my life, happened last week. well i have to accept it and let the pain fade off. well recently i was featured in a local magazine for my photography, some selected photos and some question about my photography and thoughts towards this field. thank to hooiwah and penny and the editor to give me a chance to gain exposure. i don't have the magazine with me but it is written in chinese. maybe later i'll get it a scan and post up here. the other thing i would like to share will be i had 2 photos selected out of 3 for finalist for the photography competition creative behind the lens. it is impossible to win it but i am glad to have photos being selecte. hope for better future that's coming ahead. thanks to all the friends and family that's always being supportive to me when i am having a bad time. i do appreciate all of this.
well well well v01
Well, I guess i've never updated this blog for sometimes..3 months and gap in between post was like 2 months. I'm so sorry I almost forget I've this photo blog with me. Past few months ever since CNY i was so caught up with stuff and work. So many things happen. Well Julian is in New Zealand and he is doing tattoo. I also didn't see his photo work anymore. Well I still look at photography day to day. I just hope I have more time to go around take photos and initaite photo shoot and I hope I can have new post soon :)
hue team portrait 2009
This is my side project done with hue team members. A situation where storms is happening and we are still tied up. Thanks to ck & wubin to supply all flying element. They are all done in Maya & 3D max. (Please Click To Enlarge)
Members of the creative team.
From the left : Dista, CK, Ando, Fizah, Michekin, Wubin, Kaism, MadNas & Martin
Actual size is around 9k x 3k pixels. So this is just for fun and hope we have a good year in 2009!
ignitions
So this post is about the first time I did a portrait. Lacks of lots of equipment, using the table light and some other light in my room with a SB600.
Photo - kaism. Model - Lock Sin.
Clay Master
Came across this antique and art shop in Jonker Walk Malacca. A few quick snaps of this master that has been working on it for so many year. Wife is a painter.
KL Design Week 2009 Opening
I've never post up anything about my actual job here and this is the 1st time ever. I just wanna share this because this piece is pretty much like my head banner on top *) Hue was requested a opening sequence for KL DESIGN WEEK 2009 press conference yesterday. It was an urgent job and we got very short period of time. I am quite excited about this because I have the freedom to control in creativity and art direction and it was done in 2days. Thanks to Fizah and Nas helping out some work. KLDW press conference motion piece here and there will be another version with their finalized logo around the time. Hope you guys will like this.
east west . china
This is a set of photos I got from my China trip Oct 2008. Selected 20 images. Please feel free to comments and click to enlarge for better view.
panoramic in china
here are some panoramic shots taken in china. October 2008. mainly stitch in PS. Some are combined by 3 and some by 5.
Shang Hai Night
Beijing Tian Tan
Beijing Tian Tan
Beijing Zhi Jin Cheng
Wuzhenmy dear lock sin
this is the first time i post up photos of my dear. she is now with me and she doesn't know which photo i pick to post so might be a surprise and i hope she will like it. these were shot during our time at coffee bean, with natural sun light :p
zac at sunway
Some pictures took during a day with Zac at Sunway Lagoon. Don't drop your DSLR into the water. No kidding, you will cry.
the black room
Jul just asking me about my room in black color. So I was advice not to paint my room black. You will get a lot of mosquito, you room will get really hot from time to time and you will die! But this time I really don't care anymore. Is time to get it really dark with lots of lighting. So the 4 sides and the top are dark warm Grey color. So far so good, I like the results. For those who are into black like me can give a try. Don't believe in those things man. Live today, do it now and nothing is stopping us. Nothing!
painted black DIY shelf and table, mostly cheap stuff. Table build up by 1 wide plain wood got from carpenter.
sitting on ground gives more space as the room is small.
free to arrange
chillax, books, magazine, cards, beer, etc
the other side
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