• Art,  Expression,  Malaysia,  Portrait,  Portraiture,  Portraiture Workshops,  Workshops Photoshop

    UNIKL MIAT | Portraiture Workshops

    16/08/2009 /

    This is my second Portraiture and Photoshop Workshops held inside University campus, my first Workshops in the University is at International Islamic University Malaysia Gombak, thanks to Mastermind the person who responsible for inviting me to conduct the workshops. This time the workshops taking place in the University Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Institute of Aviation Technology at Dengkil Selangor. A million Thanks to Mr Faizal Sharif, Lecturer and advisor for Click and Snap Club of UNIKL for inviting me to do a workshops there for his student. It is an honor for me to share my experience with a group of talented young people there. There were more than thirty student…

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  • 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,  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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