.Ready?.

Are you ready for SPM?

me?

Maybe yes maybe not.

See the clock, its ticking!

Im about to away from photography for awhile.

my SPM start on 18th nov 09 at 0800 hours and end on 8th dec 09 at 1530hours

but only 8 days have exam.

Here a little update on my photography! enjoy-

-This blog will never die! ;D

My 1st home photograph printing! ;D

(ignore the green color, its the webcam light reflection)

It feels really great to hold your on photograph. i think this is the only photograph that i really finish up. xD ya its black and white. using canon mp145 printer. the medium is glossy photo paper 4x6inch.inkjet catridge PG-40 and PG-41. Print directly from Adobe Photoshop. This is the best portrait i have so i choosed this photo.

Tomorrow, my trial starting alrdy! So for now i maybe gonna away from photography untill SPM is done. After SPM im going to work to get some money to buy lens or/and external flash!. hehe.

-good luck to all my friends in trial and SPM!

.silhouette.

woahh!! long time me not update my blog. So today im gonna update my blog about silhouette. :D

What is a Silhouette?

In photography, a silhouette is defined as an outline that appears dark against a light background. More specifically, it is where your subject is seen as a black shape without detail against a brighter background. This is an artistic outcome that many photographers like to perfect.

The technique

is to put your subject against strong ighting etc. the sun, window, spotlight. you will need to meter the BG instead of your subject. If you are using compact digicam. just point and shoot, it will give a nice silhouette also. Tips when making silhouette photo :-

-do not look directly to the sun!

-use a very easy to recognize subject silhouette

-do not merge your subject silhouette with other silhouette.

-be creative

u may try your own way of silhouette,u did not need to follow my tips all the time.have fun trying it! :D

-will try to update bout my trip if i got time

.Panning.

Panning is one of the technique in photography. The technique is used to separate a moving subject from the BG. Many motor sport photographer would use this technique, its easy to understand but it hard to master.

lets make u understand hows the BG can be motion blur w/o blurring the subject. visualize you are taking photograph of moving car at highway with slow-shutter speed.(eg. 1/10sec 1/8 sec). The car must be blur right? but see the BG, its not very blur. you still can see the road and all the trees in it shape. We dun want that. We want the opposite thing, sharp subject, blur BG.

this is how u set the camera for the technique, make your camera shutter speed slow, if the subject is moving at very high speed, then 1/15sec is enough, but if the subject move slow, then u would maybe need 1/8sec or even lower and set the Auto Focus mode to Auto focus-continuous(AF-C) this will make the camera keep focussing on the subject even the subject is moving. another thing is to set the camera drive mode also to continuous shot. the last thing is to off the camera/lens anti shake system.(the camera/lens will think that the camera is shaky when do panning, the camera will try to correct it but end up messing the photo)but if u anti shake system have a special anti-shake like nikkor lens that have "VR active",turn it on then.


This is how u take the photo, first of all u will need to wait the subject to come into your view. let say the subject is a car and the scene is highway. Now u would need to keep tracking the car in ur camera. when the camera move from right to left, your camera also need to move from right to left with the same speed of your subject. when the car is almost in front of u, press the shutter button w/o release it, and KEEP TRACKING, do not stop tracking the car when u press the shutter button.
preview the image, there will be few photos of the subject, see how sharp is ur photos and how blur is ur BG, if the motion blur is too much until it make the subject blur also, u maybe want to increase the shutter speed(1/20 sec 1/25sec). if its freeze the BG or not much blur then u will need to decrease the shutter speed,make it slower(1/4th of a sec or even 1/2 sec).
This type of photo u can use image editing photo to get it, but it will look a bit unreal.
have fun trying it! :D

.Black.White.Portrait.

Hey its been a long time for me x update. Portrait is a photograph of person or group. Its very hard for me to get a very good portrait. A good portrait should have a story or expression in it. Me, still trying very hard to achieve that kind of portrait, my portrait always look bored. A portrait that ppl will not look at it twice.
Sometimes convert a photograph to black white could achieve a better result than a color photograph. It can show much more expression.

.Mini.Cooper.

This is the 1st time me trying make automobile photograph. In general its a product photography or still life photography. Its pretty hard actually. I really cannot do anything with this car. 1st because its not mine. so i cannot move it to a place i like. The place and lighting(the shadow and the sun) is pretty bad. no space for me to move around and trying to get a good angle. I also did not know what to do in the post process of automobile photograph.

"Mini Cooper"

.Lakeview.2nd.Time.

sorry dah lama x update. Here another old story for me to write. Photoshoot at lakeview ss12. suppose me and Nadia K be the photographer. Tapi Nad x dpt dtg. so its only me with 5 "model". my friends actually. Imammul, Nazrin, Zhafir, Biela and Nadiah S. Last year on july dah pernah buat photoshoot kat situ. Tapi that time i was using Nadia K pnya Nikon D60. So this year will use my Sony Alpha 200! :D. Its a bit boring kalo nak banding dgn last year, sbb x de Nadia K and dh pernah buat photoshoot kat sana. Anyway, here the photos. "Lakeview"