I managed to get myself a Ricoh GR at a relatively good price. I saw a lot of excellent reviews from many pro street photographers. They all gave a very high recommendation on this camera. I was skeptical at first. A fixed lens of 28mm f2.8? This is journalist style photography. Not my kind at …
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Ming Thein's photos always gave me inspiration to progress in my photography world. I have been following his blog and methods closely since 8 years back. There are a lot of photographers in the world but his art suits me a lot because it is natural while you feel something different and special about his …
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I have an impression, when street photography is mentioned, we often see images that focus on strong shadow and light. Often, there is a human subject and there is a wall with strong texture or a mural. We also often relate to the camera like Leica, Ricoh GR, etc. I also notice they are mostly …
In Malaysia, we are going through RMCO (Covid 19 - Recovery stage). Nevertheless, the Covid-19 had effect us in many ways. News has speculated that the worst will be this coming Oct/Nov time. For now, I think it had already effecting some of the people especially those who does not have good financial backup and …
One of the challenging part of getting the sky right are not getting highlight blown, loss of details and getting the mood right. Let's start with getting the sky without blown highlight. It has to start with metering the sky correctly. Using spot metering or exposure compensation to get the sky right is in my …
Continuing from the previous blog...... I found that using a flash and a top reflector doesn't seems to be the best solution as I get hard shadow on subjects when you got a lower lit condition. I have tried bending the flash head with reflector to the side way to get a more appealing side …
Macro photography referred to close up photography with life size 1:1 (I feel 1:2 already get quite a decent near macro on big flower or insects) to almost 5:1 capability. There are many ways of achieving close up shots. They are using a dedicated macro lens , inversing a normal lens, using an extension tubes …
Since I am carrying Olympus E-M1, I have equipped it with a variable ND adapter with four third Olympus 12 - 60mm f2.8 - f4 (Adapted to M43 converter). Although my EM1 can use 43 lenses, connected to the ND filter adapter which does not have electronic linkage actually disable the AF and focusing has …
I was at Kijal many years back to hold a Road Show for my company. After the road show, before heading back to KL, I stop by the famous beach to enjoy the beautiful beach line. I brought with me the Nikon D800 and Olympus EM1 (I have attached with variable ND1000 filter - Useless …
This Hari Raya, there are many restriction going back to hometown to celebrate. Although I am not celebrating as a Malay but I can feel my Malay friends are not celebrating as normal. They often wear very nice cloths to office before Raya. This point of time, this is no the case. I tend to …
