The night before the wedding, I was still debating with myself if I should go ahead to be the OFFICAL photographer for my Cousin’s wedding. Being the official photographer means I cannot afford to make any mistake. Pressure was on me now. At the other hand, if I pulled out, Cous will have no one to take pic for him. I think I’ve made the right choice after seeing all their guests and friends snapping away from the mobile camera.

Just shaddup if you think so and so Louise Pang or Kid Chan or Ah Tat can take better picture than me. I am not a professional photographer. The pictures I took are mainly for my eyes only and for fun. You don’t compare an orange with a watermelon, right? Thru this experience, I’ve learn a few things about myself. The bad ones would be lack of experience and lots of weaknessess. And you don’t think my Sifu is easy to deal with. When you go to him for advice like, “Sifu ah, why the pic like this and like that wan?” In return, he will question me back instead of telling me the answer. Me, “I increased ISO to 1600 and switch on the flash. Aparture f5.6 liao wor.” Sifu final answer will be, “If that is the case, go get a new lens and external flash.” Really char tou!

Please enjoy the full wedding pictures from my gallery. In future, you may also click on the ‘photo album’ link which is situated on my right bar. Good thing I’ve decided to upload them on the gallery so that I can spare the mercy on my readers for the torture and eyesore having to going through tons and tons of photographs in my blog. Here are some random shots that I like.

This shot will looks nice on a fish eye lens. Too bad I don’t have one.

Oh, spot my new watermark? Another Cousins was saying my previous watermark is too distracting. It should be mini like the Mini Cooper.

I totally love this shot on Cous main door.

Love the new watermark.

I was waiting for this moment. I hearts fake lashes!

Sorry about the zits. No time to photoshop it away. Totally love the lashes again.

Learned a new trick so that I don’t appear in the mirror.

Some people may not like darker pic so I have another one taken with flash.

What do you think? I still prefer the first one. Regretted that I didn’t took the full length of the dress. Was just plain lazy to change my lens.

Conversation with 8 y/o: Mummy, why *hands was seen cupping her own breast* it must be so big? Mummy, why *hands cupping her own breast again* they like it to be different there? (Lots of glitters)

With the help from natural sunlight. Totally love the effect.

Was standing on a chair. I think I need a ladder! *you lazy ass. where is your wide angle lens again?*

Effect from natural sunlight again.

Reminded myself to take a shot of their rings. I just keep on forgetting. Urgh!

Black watermark doesn’t looks nice. Bluek.

Thanks Cous for giving me the opportunity to cover your wedding. Come collect from me your CD consisting of 370 pictures!

Muahahaahaaa…… I just came back from my 4 days holiday in Pangkor Island. I can’t help myself but to spam my blog with pictures again. But I promised you. This is something very different. I have never shot anything so magnificent before. The sunset in Pangkor Island Beach Resort (Formerly known as Pan Pacific Pangkor) is really awesome! I have never seen anything so beautiful before.

Pictures taken at 7pm.

At the beginning I thought it is not a good idea to have the coconut in the picture, but the more I look at it now, the more I like it.

This is not taken at Pan Pacific. This is in Pasir Bogak beach. The one in town. It would make a even better silhouette with a couple smooching on the beach.

That’s me in one of the yoga pose called Dancer pose.

This is my favourite shot of all. I was so thrilled to see the Hornbills and the longer I stay, more Hornbills flew down for their dinner.

I shall post more pictures on the outing in my coming post. aitelyu, the hotel is truly out of this world. We love going back there again one day.

Ever since I bought a 50mm F1.8 lens, I have been neglecting my 18-55mm kit lens that came with the dSLR unless I need to take a panaromic shot. Till lately, my youngest Sister, Janet share with me a new trick using the 18-55mm lens to get a crisp and super clear close up shot.

The above pic is shot using 18-55mm lens at a distance of 3 inches away. Some distance similar to my Sony T-10. Now, this is how you do it:

Follow the red arrow indicator. Switch your lens to MF (manual focus). Aim camera at your object and focus the sharpness by moving the front portion of the lens and not the center as that is your focal zoom. Very simple isn’t it? Try the trick. I’m sure you will love it. With this, I don’t have to spent few thousand ringgit on macro lens. Now don’t say I never share with you guys any good tips hor.

(Note: Manglish post ahead. Anyway, today is Friday ma so let’s chill a bit, ya? )

Many, many moons back, I attended my school’s Alumni makan-makan gathering. This pic was taken by one of my friend, Justin, who is using the what-what-tau-hin-hin filter.

You get three images in a shot. So you know la, such a super cool filter I thought I must go get one also. But then hor, let’s just keep the long story short. I get this filter instead.

Si beh chun hor. This filter can make your image likes a bit mabuk (drunk) lidat.This filter is called….

…. wait ah, I go google for the model.

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… ah, this one is called ….

… Canon KPT - 666 lens

In full, this is also known as Kaputed - 666 lens o_O’

… No la. Just pulling your leg only. The photo hor actually is a rosak wan. But then hor, rosak pic sometimes also looks nice ma like got apply what-what-keng-cau-skills lidat. So this one I’m keeping it instead of ended up in the recycle bin. Itu je. Thanks for reading my crap. I lub you all kau-kau. *hugz*

Everybody, say Hi to my younger Sister, Julie.

OK, all heads can be straighten now.  Thank you!

I wish I had the time to put these pictures into LO (layout). I would transformed them into a very lovely autumn theme with lots and lots of maple leaves all around us. Well, let’s see how it goes. I have to juggle my time between work, blogging (hi, Boss) and kids. Sometimes i just wish I have never sign up for paid post but I needed the funding. Well, at least I got my first US$100 just in time to buy a gift for my Mom on Mother’s Day. My next US$300 would be targeting on a Tamron lens. Hopefully the exchange rate will go up slightly by then.

Well, looks like no one is interested to join me for a picnic. YOU ALL MAKE ME SO DISSAPOINTED! DON WAN FLEND YOU ALL LIAO!!! *bluek!!!!*

The rain has just stop but did not completely stop. Gazing out my front door, I saw a humming bird bathing under the gushing water from the gutter. I quickly ran and get my camera. That was a quick under 10 seconds sprint but the bird is no where to be seen. Too bad, the bird didn’t want to be seen bathing nakid and probably ended up in the blogsphere. Boohoo!

Since I have my camera in my hand, I just shot the water droplet from the fence.

Timing has to be right even thought the cam was set at multiple shots. Out of 20, this is the closest to what I’ve wanted.

And out of 50, I could only managed to capture 2 shots with the water splashing. Obviously the water drops from the roof/gutter.

Aitelyu, I spent a good 20 minutes squatting in the water puddle snapping this. By the time I’m done, you can see me walking like a duck. My bad back la!

When my Sister was expecting her 1st child, I’ve told myself that I would try to captured as many baby moment as possible.  Things are easier said that done, other than her newborn pictures and some silly rambling here nor there, in a blink, he is now about 6 months old.  I think the next round of photography of him would be the time when he learn how to walk!

At 6 months, Jonathan loves to crawl on all four like a military man and occasionally toggling his butt back and forth in the air. Cute!

Being a lousy  photographer- wannabe, I get lots of over exposed picture.  If there is anyone of them that I really like, I’ll change it into the black&white mode. Like this:

That way, you can’t really tell if they are over exposed . Still, there are more room for me to improve.

Tips:  To shoot a baby’s photographs, it is best to aim the camera at their eye level even if you really need to go down all the way to the floor!

The tiny little hand that grip.

The tiny little pair of foot that curl.

From Big to Small some say from wearing pampers to g-string

Aunty hijacking 3 months old Nephew as model. hehe.

The adult hand is mine but the adult foot is his Mummy’s.

After I bought my dSLR, I have not abandon my faithful Sony T-10 (which we called it PNS - ‘Point n Shoot’ camera). One thing about dSLR, the distance for macro shot is about 6 inches away (or more!). With my PNS, I can go as near as 3cm away from the object.

See the result:

Do you think I will invest in Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM macro lens? Nehhhhhhhhhh. I can always go back to my faithful PNS.

Give you a better view:

And the 3y/o is really innocent not knowing what the brown slimy thing is doing on the plants (or she didn’t know there is a brown slimy thing on the plants!).

Well, I couldn’t stop her in time but hey, shutter speed is fast ya . And you must see the shock on her face when I ask her to take a closer look at the brown caterpillar.

Without failed on every CNY, I will dress up my ‘Models’ in chinese traditional costume to take a few shots of them for rememberance around the house. But this year, the lazy bugs is overpowering me. I’ve decided to skip the docorating at home. At least, I painted one side of the wall, ok! Now that I have a newly painted wall, I lagi sayang want to stick anything on it.

So, instead of shooting the kids inside the boring house, I dragged the kids to The Curve.

*Proceed at your own risk. High bandwidth ahead!*

The fat chubby huge boy won’t go away.

It was a breeze shooting Model # 1 *phew*

Well, upon seeing the beautiful pictures from the LCD screen, the Photographer-wannabe herself did not want to miss the opportunity to have her pictures taken too. Good thing there are a few other dSLR camera owner. I get one of them to help us take a shot. Once I passed him my Canon 400D, he was fiddling my camera. I peep at his dSLR and saw him using a Nikon one. In a speed of lightning, he went and turn (as in zoom) my 50mm F1.8 lens. I just go, “Nooooooooooooooooo!” Fyi, 50mm lens is NOT a zoom lens. I nearly went and lecture him about 50mm lens. *pfft….*

The first shot from him:

Over exposed! Well, not really over exposed. There are some spot lights shining on the stage. But I still like it. How does it looks in black & white mode?

I still like them nevertheless.

I quickly thank him after that, grabbing my cam and walk away cursing under my breath.

Model # 2 turn:

Model #2 can’t wait to see how much bonus she received.

Watch this. When she found out there is no cash in the angpow packet, she went berserk!

She was throwing tantrum and refuse to cooperate. Aiseh, so we belanja her eat kum (mandarin oranges).

There you go. Now she is happy again. But still with gloomy face

Model #1 happily finish up the rest of the kum. I was salivating behind the cam.

You must be wondering where is Model #3. Earlier at home in the studio, he told us beforehand that, “Transformers don’t wear Ah Pek clothes (Chinese traditional costume)! Transformers don’t like to take picture. Transformers fight!”

What’s wrong with kids nowadays?

All I get was this:

Whenever I aimed the cam at him, he would disapear from the thin air. Maybe can invest in a Bazooka lens, hor!

Finally, he agreed to have his picture taken. All because of a bribe piece of bread.

errrr…. I gotta go now. Model #2 is running awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!