Been busy..

I haven't forgotten bout this blog.. don't worry.. :D Just having quite a busy schedule this semester considering all the classes, projects, things happening in and around me. Took some photo jobs along the way and some for fun photos but mostly did not have the luxury of editing and posting. Well, its exam week now, stressful and tiring.

It was lightning one after another after me and my family had dinner. Yes I was tired after the hactic and stressful exams today. The lightning was perfect for me to get away from everything for a while. Grab all photography stuff I have, head out, grab a stool, setup the shoot and sit there to wait for the moment. Well this was my first lightning attempt - more of experimenting with focus and settings. Here were some shots.

p/s : Also a shot I took from Taman Sahabat.. :D

Shot with EOS 40D

Pterinochilus Murinus (OBT)

Been waiting for it to come out. It's not that it is always unseen but when ever it comes out, me and my wife could not prep it for a shot nicely before it rush back into its cave. Fortunately today our dearest OBT is calm. Managed to take a few shots of it. Needed to use off board speedlite setting to optimize the lighting.

OBT or Orange Baboon Tarantula or Pterinochilus Murinus is a very aggresive tarantula. Not recommended for beginner. Those who want to buy tarantulas may contact me. :D

Here is our cutie..

Shot with Canon EOS 40D

Preparing Macro

I've never tried macro before. Although i tried water droplets, never the intention was to go macro. Well, my uni will have an exhibition on exotic pets this Wednesday. My wife and I are planning to exhibit our Tarantula, Star Tortoise as well as Golden Apple Snail. It would be fun. Exotic will also trigger me with macro shooting. I assume that it will be a macro heaven.. Many animals to shoot. Weird and odd looking animals. So during my trip to "Pasar Minggu" last weekend, we came across one guy selling bamboo since Chinese New Year is around the corner. I couldn't help noticing a tiny fly on one of his plants. It was oddly sitting still. Not much movement. Not even attempting to fly. I took out my slr and tried a test macro shot on it. Shot a few. and here is the best i got..

Shot with Canon EOS 40D

First Try Setting Up and Shooting Droplets

Well, I think almost any photographer will have attempted or thought of attempting droplets photography. It is fun indeed. After seeing several home studio setup meant for shooting droplets, we tried to make our own. The setup was done by the window assisted with 2 flashes and lights coming in from the window. Green basin and lots of water. Here are the shots. By the way.. how can anyone not love photography.. :D

Shots made with Canon EOS 40D

Its been a while...

Yes I know.. Its been a while since the blog is updated. Many reason to it. Mainly the 40d batt went dead and had to purchase a new phottix Titan.. Loving it. Great batt. Ok to keep the blog going, here are some unseen shots from the collection. Plan is to shoot sun rise at Puncak Borneo and Buntal maybe within this week. So, stay tuned.. :D

Learning HDR

Heres a try of HDR using Photomatix. Before this I also experimented with few other softwares and also using single JPEG image with Photoshop. So far most satisfies with using RAW image creating layers of images with different exposures and processed using photomatix.. Still learning the tone mapping though..

Honestly, not so into this HDR thingy very much. Prefer pure photography instead.. But to learn it and have fun.. why not, right? :D

Heres the Photomatix processed Taman Sahabat Photo HDR edited.

Shot with Canon EOS 40D | Tamron 18-200mm

When it's raining outside....

Yes, indeed, it was raining outside. The plan was to go out and have a shot of beach or sunset or city scape. Unfortunately it rained. Got some left over juice in my 4 pieces of Energizer. So its 6 kittens let in the house + 'lidi' + tape + paper butterfly time. Its a test of tamron's AF and yes, tamron lenses have very very slow AF. Fortunately, not all shots went bad. There are some good ones. Here are the shots.

There are certainly more shots in this edition. Cant display them all here or this blog will be a mile long. More of the set can be viewed from gambertudip flickr album which can also be accessed via the thumbnails on the right of this page. :D

Shot with Canon EOS 40D + Tamron 18-200mm + Nissin Di622