Okay guys n gurls..  April is coming, not much wedding job and a lot of free time. It’s time to wrap up and enroll for any course available to upgrade our skills.

So, Persatuan Jurufoto Kuantan will organising a course with Ted Adnan this coming April and its open for all the East Coast region photographer to participate. I have personally make the arrangements with Ted and ask him for a special discount for the East Coast region and he did give a really tempting price. Normally Ted’s courses price is around 1.5k. For his 1st course in east coast, he is willing to open the price at RM550/ day only! Thanks Dude!

So Hurry up, make your booking .. the seat is hot and there are only 15 seats on each day!

East Coast Studio & Outdoor Lighting Course with Ted Adnan.

Indahku Studio, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia.
A185, 1st Floor, Lorong IM16/1 Taman Sri Perdana,
Jalan Kuantan-Bypass, bandar Indera Mahkota,
Kuantan, Pahang.

GPS:  3.817680, 103.275587

17th April 2010 : Studio Lighting Technique
18th April 2010 : Outdoor Lighting Technique
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm (meals are provided)

For booking & reservations please contact:

Mr Rejim – 017 978 9909

Gambar dari siri "Infidelity"

Untuk orang veteran dalam fotografi, ini mungkin soalan mudah dan apa yang saya ingin kongsikan ini mungkin perkara lapuk, namun suka saya untuk berkongsi dengan mereka yang masih baru agar menjadi panduan dan dapat membantu mereka menghasilkan karya.

“Jangan sekadar ambil gambar, tapi cipta gambar!” ini ayat tok guru landscape fotografi saya iaitu Dr.Ali (2121studio.com). Kalau dalam bahasa inggeris ayatnya berbunyi “Dont just take picture but make picture”. Ayat ini sekiranya anda renungkan dalam dalam, ia akan menyebabkan anda susah untuk mengambil gambar.. Saya pernah lihat pada t-shirt sorang kawan tertulis “Shoot first, think later..” ini adalah falsafah sonsang bagi saya yang pernah menuntut dengan Dr.Ali.

Kenapa saya katakan sonsang? kerana untuk menghasilkan sebuah karya seni tidak kira dalam format lukisan, arca atau gambar, seseorang artis itu perlu berfikir tentang bagaimana karya itu akan terhasil, adakah ia akan cliche dengan karya yang sedia ada? bagaimana karya itu ingin dipersembahkan kepada umum? dari angle mana? dan berbagai lagi. Oleh itu, macamana ia boleh dipanggil hasil seni sekiranya ia dibina tanpa berfikir.

Lagi seorang guru saya ialah Dr.Jamal (tembeling.com). Dengan beliau saya belajar mengenai ketekunan dalam menghasilkan gambar. Sekiranya saya keluar outing bersama dengan beliau, beliau tidak akan berganjak dari shoot satu subjek sehingga beliau mendapat gambar yang beliau inginkan. Yang menariknya bila subjek beliau adalah serangga yang bergerak pantas dan sering melarikan diri dari pancaran flash. Dalam menghasilkan gambar yang baik, anda perlu tekun dan membuat banyak variasi gambar agar kemudian mudah untuk anda memilih yang mana yang terbaik.

fantasi Tenun Pahang Diraja

Kemudian satu perkara yang paling penting ialah cara berkomunikasi. Anda mesti menguasai cara berkomunikasi yang baik untuk menghasilkan gambar yang baik. Saya pernah mengikuti satu outing bersama rakan rakan dimana kami telah singgah diperkampungan orang asli. Jika hendak candid gambar orang asli memang mudah sekiranya mereka sudah biasa dengan kamera. Ada antara rakan yang cuba berkomunikasi dengan cara bergurau, berbual, meminta dengan baik dan mereka menghasilkan gambar yang baik. Namun ada juga rakan yang sangat teruk cara berkomunikasi apabila orang asli dipanggil dengan “heh.. heh” saja dan arahan yang diberikan kepada orang asli untuk memandang kamera beliau kedengaran kasar bunyinya.

Jika anda bercadang untuk mendapatkan gambar yang baik, belajarlah berkomunikasi dengan baik. Fahami hati budi dan kesesuaian subjek anda.

Kembali kepada soalan rakan saya kepada saya, bagaimana saya menghasilkan karya saya?

Satu aspek yang paling penting dalam penghasilan gambar saya ialah pengurusan. Sebelum satu sessi fotoshoot saya jalankan, bukan sahaja saya perlu memikirkan konsep gambar yang hendak dihasilkan malah saya perlu memikirkan pakaian, prop, lokasi, model dan effect bagaimana akan saya gunakan sewaktu post processing. Pertama sekali ialah Idea atau konsep atau tema yang hendak digunakan. Sebagai contoh, saya mahu membina gambar Lanun laut. Gambar bagaimanakah yang saya ingin hasilkan? lanun diatas darat? Lanun dengan peti besi? Lanun sedang berperang? Baik, kita pilih Lanun yang menjumpai peti besi berisi harta karun. Kedua ialah pakaian dan prop. Dimana saya mahu cari pakaian seperti lanun? senjata? Aksesori? kemudian propnya ialah peti besi. Peti besi mana akan saya gunakan? sesuaikah peti besi yang ada dengan konsep cerita? Ketiga, model yang saya gunakan. Siapa dia? sesuaikah wajah mereka? kulit putih? hitam? atau kuning? Kemudian make-up mereka? siapa yang nak menyolek mereka?

Akhir sekali saya akan fikirkan tentang computer effect yang akan saya gunakan pada gambar nanti.

Jadi anda boleh lihat. Kerja ini bukan kerja seorang diri. Anda perlukan pasukan. siapa dalam pasukan anda? Jurugambar, Penata Cahaya, jurusolek dan model. sekurang kurangnya anda ke satu sessi photoshoot, anda perlu rancang dengan 4 orang ini. Dan 4 orang ini bukan mudah untuk berkumpul dan berbincang, jadi anda perlukan sekurang kurangnya 3 hari sebelum tarikh photoshoot untuk merancang lokasi, prop dan sebagainya.

Jadi, apabila anda bersungguh sungguh begini, maka gambar yang akan terhasil akan menjadi baik. Kerana gambar itu dlam kawalan anda dan dalam seliaan anda luar dan dalam. Oleh itu, bermula dari hari ini, jika anda ingin cipta satu gambar, sediakan pasukan anda dan binalah gambar yang terbaik! dan apabila post gambar di internet, jangan lupa letak credit kepada ahli pasukan anda. peace!

H1N1 Fashion

H1N1 is a serious pandemic now. Everyone is affected either by the disease or by the influence of the disease. Something crossed my mind today when I see many people at my workplace are wearing a mask. But not as many as people who ignoring the pandemic disease.

Why do this people doesnt want to wear mask? I asked one of the cleaner lady, she said that it makes her suffocate. I ask another person, he said that he doesnt like it. This makes me think of Fashion. People sacrifice a lot for fashion these days. Either its a suffocating dress or unconfortable style, people still go for it.

The H1N1 Fashion

This idea come to my head. Why not do a print on the masks? like the handyplast printed with cartoon character or striking stripes. Kids love to wear the handyplast plaster even they dont get any cut. So why not do the same with mask. Print a funny faces on it, or pattern, or design or anything that makes people wear it for the sake of attention. This way the manufacturer can create huge income on the selling since H1N1 is here to promote it and people wears it just for the reason of H1N1.. not really, they wear it because of current fashion.

Mr. Moustache

This will help prevent the disease to spread out.  If I can find the manufacturer of the mask and ask them to print for me this kind of mask. I think I will make fortune. As for now, why not do some drawing on your mask just to have fun with it and give a smile to everyone who sees you.

Funny mask

The Jimbo

I have a cat, his name is Jimbo. He is 2 month old. He has a strong furr, very playfull. Sometimes Jimbo thinks he is a Hamster. He can hang on his claw to the cage ceiling for a few minutes. He also likes to pretend as a camel on the desert. When he become camel, he will play inside his shitbox and pretend all the sand are desert. Every night, my wife will take him inside to play with the children. Favorite spot to sharpen his claw is my leg. While in the house, he likes to play with the TV antenna cable. He will not stop until the TV is out of signal.

Now I’m offering anybody who would like to adopt Jimbo to make a trade with me. I would like to have a Nikon D700 for exchange of Jimbo. Doesnt matter i’ts a new camera or used.

Anyone interested?

The City of Melbourne

Well, everything was confirmed. me and Flex a.k.a Badang will be gone abroad crossing continent straight to Melbourne Australia. I dont know.. I have no money, I just follow Badang. We have some work to be done there. Perhaps it will give us a big return. The work can be settled within one day. So the 9 day trip is more to photo-taking trip.

I will be off to Melbourne on 25th of April. I really hope that I can bring my family too. But this is my first time there, I will not jeopardize anything on my family. So, for my wife.. “sabar la.. nanti next time kita gi pulak eh” and for my children.. “korang cari la duit sendiri nak gi mana mana..” hahaha because you will only appreciate when you have to spent for it.

I have contacted a few friends there. I hope they can be with me. if not, I might need to know where is the Malaysian hall hehehe.. People said that, if you going backpacking, you can always hook a night or two at Malaysian Hall for free.  Is it true? I dont have anyone from Malaysian Hall.. sigh.

T-Shirt for the trip as usual will be printed. 2 for me and 2 for Badang. It will have our trip logo on it. This is our trip logo.

Our Logo for the trip

So what else… hmmm.. Melbourne, here we come!

Family having quality time

Nice eh.. good family.. hehehe I got this shot when I was with my wife on photo hunting expidition with her skutter around our neighbourhood.

New vision after removing the catarac

Today I was involved in one of the most hi-tech surgery I ever witnesses. It’s called LASIK.. i dont know the full name or what its stand for but what I know is this surgery will make you loose your glasess. Yep, no more glasses. The machine was product of ZEISS and it cost about RM3mil.. wow.. 3mil just to make sure not to blind you forever..

I was asked by the specialist to cover the surgery from start to end. Well, everything went ok.. looks good and the patient keep on smiling during the procedure.

Here some of the photo.

It's me..

I want to test my new blog..