Happy New Year!!

Wishing everyone a Happy and Awesome Year 2009

2008 was a great year, might've been some ups and downs for others... but I believe as great as 2008 was, 2009 is gonna be one really awesome year for each and everyone of us~~

So let us start off this near year with a renewed heart, a new attitude, along with lots of new resolutions (in which I believe after a month we would discard most of it)

So may you have a great new year~!!! God Bless =)

Look Out Point!!

Friends went up to Look Out Point few weeks ago...which I've heard it to be the perfect dating place, and they've got a beautiful view to take pictures of... how could I miss it??? True enough... I was able to capture a shot like this up there...

The Whole City of KL!!!

My Camera Settings??

ISO 200, 30seconds, f/13, and using a kit lens zooming all the way out to 18mm..

Then I tried to take pictures of my friends, but that wouldn't be all that possible because the subject would certainly look darn, only way to make them clear was to pop the flash~

Naturally with a flash it would create enough light to make the front subject clear, but the background dark because it makes the shutter speed faster, thus not giving it enough time to absorb light, so the background becomes dark~

So I tried experimenting, turning the Dial to Manual mode, and turning the Aperature to f.8, and the shutter to 10seconds, and asking the subject to stay still for 10 seconds, I managed to create a shot like this~

Not bad I'd say....
Then everyone else wanted a try at it too~

I tried to use my handphone to create a swirl around Andrew, but it failed~~ need to practice more in drawing with light XD

Then something interesting happened while we were trying to take a group picture~~

After 3 seconds when the flash fired, Jenn Ming walked off, then some of the others walked off... and after the 10sec shutter, checked the picture and it looked like a ghost image, I guess it was because they weren't standing still for the whole 10seconds that's why the full detail couldn't be captured??? But I tried to experiment more with it~~

Asked the main subject to stand still, and the other pose, and after the flash fired, the others moved away, making the main subject to stay still througout the 10 seconds... not bad...!!!

So I increased the Shadows in the picture... giving it a more scary, mysterious feel~~ try it out yourself!!! Be creative and Turn your friends into ghosts!! XD

A summary of how I did it...

1. Set your camera to Manual mode
2. Try out different Aperature & Shutter Speeds to get the perfect background picture
3. Add your friends inside and set them to how you want them to look, picking the main subject and others to be the ghost
4. Upon firing the flash, ask those ghost characters to move away instantly after the flash
5. Ask the main subject to stay still throughout the shutter time
6. Keep trying till you perfect it!!
7. Have Fun!! XD Actually how I found out this technique is rather of an accident, but... it's a good thing~ go on, try it yourself!! It's really fun!! XD

The Internet

I just couldn't control myself~~~ XD

Christmas Decorations!!

This is a post of me going to different shopping complex to take pictures of their Christmas Trees and the decorations

These are the decorations in The Gardens

Huge bird cage

Spot me!! XD

Decorations in MidValley

The clown scares me...

Lots of balls & bokeh~ =)

Pavillion's big albino tree~

1 Utama

Supposily the theme is Alice in wonderland... but... hmmm...

Sunway's Decoration... I love the red tree~~ =P

The one in the new wing, not that nice....

Actually I haven't covered all the shopping complex yet though... but feeling kinda lazy, and now I think people are getting into the Chinese New Year mood... heh heh~ XD

26th December

Crazy wei... internet was so slow the past 2 days that I couldn't even upload a single picture, but oh well... good that it's all alright now =)

Had a Christmas Party kinda thing in church member's house~ nice house~ been there a few times, but now back with a camera =3

Water Bokeh XD

Little Clown Fish collection

Finally found a christmas tree with different colored lights!! The one in my house has only one color.... weirdly these lights gave me a Pentagon Shaped Bokeh kinda feeling... weird but, cool~~ haven't done the shape add on thing yet though~ X3

Flower

After that Melissa borrowed my camera, here's the pictures taken by her~

I like her angles, but the focus parts are off ~~ rising power XD

Ahhh yes, the sushi with Wasabi inside... I accidentally tried one and it was .... powerful... Andrew spit this one out though....

Peace Treaty

Me XD

Ying & Charlie

JM

Found a few "model" pictures inside also~ not bad~~ so decided to crop some of them and add captions to it~

Yeah those are the pictures taken by Melissa, not bad wei she, got skills XD

*Hint Hint*

After that we prayed for Andrew Liew because he is going off to NS, ahhh... well we know that God would surely use him as a powerful testimony there, keep him in prayers ya~ =)

The Picture of the Night~~ The Last Supper~~ XD