Culture
- Art, Culture, East, Emotion, Expression, Face, Family, Life, Light, Love, Malaysia, Moment, Portrait, Portraiture, Sayang
All About Bokeh Photography
Bokeh come from Japanese word “boke”, which means “blur” or “haze” or “boke-aji”, “the blur quality”. To put it simple to understand “Bokeh” is the blur or out of focus area of an image, like the picture of my son and my wife above, the “Blurry” part or the “out of focus” area in the picture above is what people called “Bokeh”. I don’t want to talk about good Bokeh or bad Bokeh here, I just want to talk about how to get a Bokeh, different lenses with difference focal length and different aperture will render Bokeh differently, for the picture above I use 50mm lens shooting at f1.8. The…
- Art, Culture, Light, Malaysia, Moment, Photojournalism, Photoshop, Portrait, Portraiture, Tourism, Travel
The Photographer
“There is only you and your camera, the limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are”. ( Ernst Hass ) Someday soon someone will ask: “Why did you become a photographer?” And you will answer : “I became a photographer because it involve me in the entire world around me. “I became a photographer because it provided me with food for my soul and bread for my table. “I became a photographer because it enable me to observe the human condition and to record the parade of human events…” ( New York Institute of Photography ) Get The Secret HERE Tweet news and…
- Art, Care, Culture, Emotion, Expression, Face, Life, Love, Malaysia, Photoshop, Portrait, Portraiture, Travel
Mabul | Hope
Mabul…, where do I begin, where do I start, as usual I really have a hard times putting thought into words, I admit it that I’ve a lot to tell, a lot to share, this trip to Mabul Island, a small island off the south-east coast of Sabah in 2008 is personal trip, I mean it’s not related with my job, not an assignment, not really an outing but more like traveling with a small group of friends just wanted to have some fun out from concrete jungle. Not everybody in my group is a photographers, some of them just wanted to come here to Mabul for diving or snorkeling.…
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Istanbul | Istiklal Caddesi
This is among my favorite picture of Istiklal Caddesi in Istanbul, there are a lot of peoples here, you really can get lost in time here, watching people doing their business along the street or simply watching people just enjoy walking here. Definitely this is a must visit place for any traveler or tourist who come and visit Istanbul apart from most common tourist attraction like Blue Mosque and Aya Sofya at Sultanahmet. People here really doesn’t bother so much of you taking picture of them, maybe most people here are so accustomed with photographers taking their picture, after all, this is among the most popular tourist attraction in Taksim…
- Adventure, Art, Assignment, Culture, East, Expression, Face, Malaysia, People, Reportage Photography, Street, Tourism, Travel
Istanbul | Turkey
When mention about Istanbul, image of Aya Soyfa, Blue Mosque will come into mind and also all those fairy tales and love stories about Constantinople will come alive. Istanbul is a great place to be and among world favorite travel destination. You can see Europe and Asia in one place, living in harmony here. Actually it is not so easy for me to reach here. There were so many procedure to follow and in fact I get the approval the very last minute before the day I depart for istanbul from Kuala Lumpur. To cut the story short, it was a long flight from Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul on 7th…