• Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Life,  Love,  People,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Portraiture Workshops,  Workshops Photoshop

    HaiQal | The Untitled

    12/08/2009 /

    Enough rant about my experience while attending “Compulsory Adobe Photoshop Course” organize by my department, that’s what you get when you attend a course for free, you are not given a choice, just live with it, but I’m sad because it is tax payers money, the course suppose to make our job easier, faster and more efficient with the knowledge that we gain but if we can’t use the knowledge on our day to day duty, what’s the point of the course? Back to the picture of my son HaiQal above, in case you were to ask, how do I get the colors. As usual I develop my picture in…

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  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Life,  Malaysia,  People,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Portraiture Workshops

    Expression | The UnTitled

    11/08/2009 /

    I’ve been very busy lately, I’m sorry to keep my Blog idle, just came back from Kota Kinabalu, actually I just have two days in Kuala Lumpur after return from My Photoshop Workshops in Kota Kinabalu on Monday 3rd of August before flying back to Kota Kinabalu again on Thursday  6th for another Photoshop Course organize by my department, it was a compulsory course for the staff in order to expand their knowledge about image editing. About the photo about, it got nothing to do with my new knowledge that I get from “The Government Compulsory Basic Photoshop Course”. I do the editing as usual, with my own style. What…

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  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Family,  Life,  Malay,  Melayu,  Photoshop,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Sayang

    HaiQal | The Next Photographer

    23/07/2009 /

    As usual I was a little bit late to update my blog, this past few week I was quite busy with my Mini Photoshop Workshops for a small group of people. The reason Why I do my Mini Photoshop Workshops is because some people just could not make it into my Official Photoshop Workshop due to time factor and also location. So to those people who have problem about “Time and Location” I suggest to them to email me and let me know when is possible for them to attend my workshops and that is when the idea of Mini Photoshop Workshops start. About my son picture above, I took…

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  • Art,  Emotion,  Expression,  Face,  Light,  Malay,  Malaysia,  Moment,  Portrait,  Portraiture

    HaiQal | Expressive Portraiture

    20/06/2009 /

    Expression is something that make a portrait. Expression shows an individual his or her character or personality, expression can add mood to a picture, tears, smile, moody, bored, joy, all this kind of expression doesn’t need words to explain. Expressive portraiture will have an impact and usually timeless, most great portrait that considered  timeless is a portrait with a very good expression and for sure it is not all about smiling face. Have you remembered Afghan girl that grace National Geographic magazine front cover taken by legendary National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. Have you seen a portrait of famous Prime Minister of United Kingdom Winston Churchill taken by Yousuf Karsh…

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