Sunset at LCCT

I was carrying camera for days to office. Finally today is clear sky and good sunset awaited. It was so peaceful at surrounding area juat a kilometres away from the LCCT complex. I use a long lens to zoom in to interesting subject - petrol silo and power plant. Not to forget the golden sunset. Have you enjoy sunset today?

AirAsia-British High Commisions Friendly Match

After survived from the Germany Leica camp, I get down to British High Commission front line to cover the battle against AirAsia Football Team. AirAsian play well in first half against the English. The multiple substitutes later has weakening the defense line and final score 6-1. As a celebration for this friendly match, we head down to Cobra Club for beers. It's was a good night where new friendship has began.

Tony and British High Commissioner officer.

He is fast and skillful.

Kick-off. AAX CEO's Azlan and Tony.

Header! But it didn't score for this.

Good dinner and new friendship.

A Day with Leica

Today I obey Sony Alpha and join Leica. The outing was organized by Photo Malaysia and Schmidt Marketing. Leica is the Rolls-Royce in camera industry. So the price and quality is all at premium level. There were two groups of user, black and white film and digital. I was in the digital group and given a Leica M8 loan unit. Even though it was 30 minutes of usage, it has proven I am a lousy photographer and M8 is a good camera. The specialty of M8,

1. It's a rangefinder. What you see from viewfinder is what you get, no darker nor brighter. Just it doesn't has DOF preview as SLR.

2. The viewfinder will display the gird/guide line for framing, thus different focal lens will have different square size. I always hard to frame (although just 30minutes of usage).

3. No autofocus. All focus done by my index finger. The middle view finder will display the split image, just match it at ur subject. The difficulty when focus subject is not in the middle. Bye bye multipoint auto focus.

4. The camera is light so hardly notice shaky hand. Also the mechanism is simple, just a nice 'qichak' buzz.

5. No funny stuff like vivid mode and stitch shot. All you have are Aperture or Manual (self define shutter speed and aperture). Thanks Leica there is continuous shutter and timer.

6. Aperture dial from lenses. The Manual mode will have metering info to tell you dial up or down. Cool! (because it make me feel like driving an antic Rolls Royce with Turbo)

7. No zoom lens. Save the zoom effects with SLR.

8. Small body size. Can shoot like lomography (shoot from hip).
9. THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT. VERY CLEAN AND CRISPY IMAGE. POISONEOS!!!

I am happy to be a 30 minutes Leica user. In the afternoon we back to Schmidt HQ to attend seminar. Sifu Teng Wei enlighten us with colour management stuff. It's technical as attend a degree course, but it does clear many doubts and mysteries happen in digital photography workflow. Finally we receive a Leica T-shirt (which wear by the Leica promoter) and two prints of best shot. Not a bad day since we paid registration fee. Ok, Sony AMC I am coming back now.

PC Fair 2008 (II)

The PC Fair is the biggest cash and carry IT expo in Malaysia. Many company like to push their products directly to consumer via this event. Hosted three times a year proven its popularity and acceptability. The name PC fair remain the same but more and more IT products were introduce in the fair. We have broadband package, mobile phone, digital camera and event credit card applications. Would money loaner join this event next year?





To me the fair basically a big sale market. There is lack of education approach on explaining technology wave changes. The salesmen will offer you Centrino 2 with freebies and no one further explain why we migrate to new platform? Just because the speed and I have to pay more? Or because the freebies make it a good deal? Malaysian need more knowledge, not just sales!!! Please invite some experts to give a forum and such. I prefer how MATTA educate the traveller. Since we can draw huge traffic to PC fair, why not a free seminar same time?

Karen and KC Wedding Shots

KC is having studio wedding shots at Eyeshot Studio, PJ. I dropped by to steal some flash and pre-wedding making of. It was fun with wireless flash and family portraits. My amateur skill has earned me a A&W burger combo treat.

AirAsia Badminton Tournament

This is reported from Cobra Club, PJ where AirAsia Thomas club is hosting. The Finance Iron Lady June Yew grab both single and double mix title without hard time. Jason beaten all guys to reign for best male single.

Sony AMC Malacca Outing

Sony AMC and Photo Creator have brought the second outing to Malacca. Merchandise of this outing is 'Very Smart Alpha Black Vest'. Finally Alpha Shooter got their shield and it's black colour, which is rare and can easily spot on by people. This outing is more organized compare the first one. Participants were brief about the shooting technique during the journey. While everybody enjoy the DVD movie on bus, I zzzzzzz.

It was a cloudy day in Malacca. The sunshine has gone so the chicken rice ball sold out too. Without good feast and my photoshoots is degraded to amatuer level (lousy reason). We were served with Nyonya dishes for dinner and enjoying the best shots slide show. Upon reach KL again it was 2330.

The famous Red House.

Heritage building and bicycles.

Broken roof and sunlight. The house was abandoned.

In front of Rudy Hotel.

Shimmering from old window.

Reflexology centre. I like the feet picture and sandals.

View from bottom of St. Paul Church ruins .

This angle is nice but I unable to cover the full church building. Need a wider lens :)

Cloudy day, moody cat.