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Trying to used my Raynox 250 macro filter. Supposed to be the best filter for macro shoot and adaptable to any lens. Hell, the price itself is quite high but cheaper for an alternative macro lens. It does its work but very hard to focus and my 18-250mm lens cause a lot of vignette and I cannot use my Live View to take the shots. Here’s a few pictures I’ve taken. Not that good quality but still learning to use it and hopefully will get better after some practice.
Will post more pictures once I get the hang of it. The photos was taken on 2/01/2010, whic is the second day of 2010. She’s an eager model with desire to be one. Practice makes perfect. So do I. I am not a fan of model photo shoot because I am more of a “macro” person. But interest do let in for a while and join my fellow buddies for the model shoot. The model is actually one of my colleagues and so does the photographer. Some of the best photos I’ve taken.
It has been a while I’ve taken model as a subject but I do say it was fun. To all the guys and ladies, lets do it again. Now…where is a good spot besides the beach? It has been awhile I’ve not updated Maximillian photos here. It seems that Maximillian loves to be photography just like the sister. Max is age is coming to 4 months now and he seems to be a active baby boy. Trying to progress faster than any other baby. This include trying to get up by himself. Good progress. Got few photos of him recently and hope you enjoy. Please comment if you like the photos. What does the topic means? Well it is a full statement of my revenge against thieves that stolen my A300 6 months ago. Yes, 6 months ago my house where broken into and they took everything that I ever work for and this include my passion. Two days ago I bought myself a new Sony A550 and this time I am not leaving at home again. Bought a few lens and an external flash. My favourite was the new Sony DT30mm/F2.8 Macro SAM lens. It is the latest addition to the Sony family and I can the lens is great and plus, the price is very reasonable. Got my daughter to experiment, as usual the not camera shy Charmen. She posses a few shots and you can be the judge of the result. One thing for sure SitakDebak.com is back in business again. Thank you for viewing and reading. Any comments is much appreciated. Charmen and me went to the Curtin 09 Family Day this morning. Oh boy, I was tried just watching over her. She enjoy herself with all the other kids. Playing and blowing bubbles was some of the activity. The favourite of her is mural painting. It was supposed to be an underwater view with sunken ship and water creature but the kids got creative and it became an abstract mural instead. Charmen on the other hand, just love the painting part and painted everywhere it seems to fit her creative mind. Below are some of the pictures I took and be kept for her to view in the future (in case she wanted to be a painter or artist in the future).
Hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I do. Cheers!!! Now these photos are Charmen reaction and obsession of sweets. Lolipop have come a long way and as I remember it lolipop is always a significant trade of “Kojak”. Those where the time. New designs of lolipop seems to be changing everyday. Charmen just has a sweet tooth but the teeth are well taken care of. Proof is in the pictures, white as ever.  I have two, one orange, one green. Which one to start?  This orange looks delicious.  I have made my choice. Orange it is, green will be later.  I am right, this orange-pop is nicer.  The orange-pop is gone. Some more??? Hope you enjoy the photos as much as I am. “Felis catus” or the domestic cat. The pictures are quite old but I didn’t have the chance to edit and post it. All the cats here are at my parents house and they are actually related to each other. I’ve lost count of the relationship but they are from a clan of big size cats.
Enjoy the pictures. Doing some photoshop tutorial today and found out a tutorial that teaches how to make a comic strip using your photo. Thanks Photoshop Roadmap. So I decided to Charmen recent photo because she looks so happy and stylise there. The strip are as follows:
Hope you like as much as I did. What is so special about sonoview? Well my wife and I went to the gynecologist last week to see what’s the last addition to the family is doing. The sister got it previous, so the little brother should have one also. The view is very fantastic and way better than a actual camera. The gyne took few shots for us so that it can be album. I really love the sonoview, wish could get one at a price of a normal camera. Well, the pictures are below. Ladies and gentlemen met “Baby Maximillian”. The faces… This is a real interesting fact about my site. Talking about site statistics this is great. I was going through some site that offers statistics and was wondering what does sitakdebak.com is worth now since the day it was born. Since I’ve include some Google ads in the blog it should have some value with the traffic it is driving. I found two interesting sites that offers statistics. From the two sites, I’ve found out that my sitakdebak.com is now actually worth $189.80 and ranked 12,662,947 from other sites that is available on the internet. Not sure whether this is true or not as the basis of the ranking is not known. It should be based on traffic but how did they gauge it? Below are some screen shots.
I like it because sitakdebak.com has a value and thinking of more ideas to increase the value. Anyway if you guys feel that your site has a value, check out the two sites listed. Happy valuing guys. Well just as I am starting to be excited with the recently launched Sony A230, 330 and 380, there is a purported rumours that a new Alpha is coming. Behold, the new A500. Well it was purportedly leaked at Sony Style Canada website. The leak is similar to the other three models where it was leaked at Sony Style UK site.
It looks like the old A300 and A350 model but with different specs, duhhh!!!. It just like technology is never be prefect, there is always new addition. No that I don’t like the Alpha, but it seems that it is package differently and giving decision for a price.
Rumours camera model or package:
Rumours camera specs:
Any takers? Well for me it remains to be decided, next year to be exact. Guess what? I got an offer from Sony to purchase the latest alpha model a330. It looks tempting since my a300 was stolen from me about a month ago. However I have few doubts on it as in the site it does not specify whether it includes lens kit or not. With a price of RM 2199 it seems that a330 is affordable. It looks like the price of a300 without the lens kit. Well it should explain all. The loan price seems to be tempting also. I am sharing this just in case you guys wanted to try it. But be fast because free items are offered to the first 33 people who bought the camera and the offer ends this June, 10th. I am not going for since I am waiting to review the a380 model and the release. Rumours has it that another new model is coming, doubted as a500. So many choices and a long time frame for me to return back to photography. Besides, the previous photos taken using my stolen a300 is still in the bin and waiting for editing. While waiting I am going to post items from my previous photos. Take it as a dedication to my stolen a300.
If you all like to take the offer, the link is here Sony Style Malaysia. Be fast is you want to get the free gifts that come with the purchase. A new project in the pipe line.
This is a small project that has been initiated by few friends in the search for talented and creative people that wanted to share and present their skills. Our main idea is focused on people who likes art and no avenue yet to present their talent. The site is not restricted to photography or digital art or others. We would like to invite all talents from any genre. It can be music, video and heck, it can be paper art. Anything there is art it serve the category. As the site is in beta and testing, invitation for improvement and web contents is welcome. If you like you can review the site here ideakafe.com. As I were relaxing during last long holiday, it occurs to me that my project of cloning myself is still hanging. After being inspire by my friend DigitalFly who did the same last week also. So I decided to do it at the comfort of my living room. It requires a few shots and good lighting and of course position so that it would be easy to photoshop later. Below is the series of pictures taken before it was merge and edited (hopefully it shows well). Four frames was taken and merge to make four Tuansaga. First picture is laying on the couch. Second is suppose to be watching TV (I mean TV, not the picture in the TV). Third is trying to wake myself up. And the last picture is me again trying to watch the TV on the other couch.
Below is the merge picture of myself. But this time, it is four of me. Interesting photoshop technique and should explore more about this.
Thank you for reading. Comments and recommendations are most welcome.
I had to play around with the camera shutter and aperature setting in order to get the right pictures. Some are under exposed and others are over exposed. It was learning for me especially using kit lens, managing settings should be the key. Of course if I could get my hands on those f1.4 and f2.8 lens it would be better. But that would have to wait. Below are some of the pictures that is up to satisfaction. Hope you like it.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Snap some pictures and manage to talk to some of the sellers on some of the product sold. From my observation the place look deserted where little local produce was sold and very little native selling their jungle product. Back in the years, it was the busiest place in Miri. Oh well, enough of me talking about Tamu Muhibbah. Below are some of the pictures I took. The first picture really caught my attention and I had to put in. See for yourself.
Comments and Suggestions are welcome.
I can tell you that if you are not built to do hard labour it is very back-breaking. On top of that, 3 days of it put salt on the injury. But the satisfaction comes when all planning goes well (never mind the hiccups, that is what post-mortem for) and the events runs smooth. While in the middle, I still have time to take some photos and there is a lot of it. I have to compile in one album to save space. In the end, I enjoy and learn in the process. It was challenging but I manage to overcome the challenge. Next task please!!! Hope you all enjoy the photos.
Hope you like the pictures. Insect series
Green and rain drops series
Comments and tips are mostly welcome.
Anyway, the post is not about the flash unit but about a little caterpillar. It was hunted by me in my back garden. I knew I would find something at the back. I got tired of my wall. The little creature basically moving around on a leaf, probably trying to find young leaf. Seeing some tips on forums saying that “to get a good macro or bokeh, use a flash unit”. So it is my excuse to test the flash unit (start thinking of Madonna song “Like a virgin” now). Surprisingly it did its job but more training for me using the flash photography. Here are the photos of the lovely caterpillar.
Hope you enjoy the photos. Feel free to comment and share tips.
Another interesting subject that I have taken is this fish worm. I am not very sure of the actual name of the worm but this it is refers to as fish food. The worm is basically for my Giant Gourami (Ikan Kalui in Bahasa) breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Gourami is about 5 years old now and basically we have to change its aquarium 5 times because it keeps growing. It seems that by the end of the year it would need another aquarium. My father has decided to built a pond instead. Anyway the photos of the worm is below. Hope you like the photos
Please feel free to comments and I am most happy reply.
Anway, bugs really like my new wall and it seems that they either it used to be their route previously (it was a chain fence before) or they just like climbing the wall just for fun. This time around I’ve found a milipede (ulat gongok in Bahasa Malaysia), basking around the wall admiring the scenery. Without haste I grab the camera and start shooting the small, smelly (oh yes it smells, try touching it) little creature. Since the loussy pop-up cannot bounce the flash light only few pictures were of good quality. Still manage to get a few before the creature crul-up and fell to the ground.
Feel free to comment if you like to. If you have any tips, I am happy to use it.
Comments and suggestions are most welcomed.
Tengku Naufal was great and well verse in the subject. Although he always look at the theory he is embracing for the subject but he manage to translate the theory into a simple and understandable subject (I think my father would understand it). Totally not a dry subject I can say. Now I have a clear mind on what I want to do and strategise on my next course of action. Just to let you all know, I about to embarked on a big change missionand it will involve the family and the people I am working with. I am going to use the strategy I learn from the training and use it. Who says that change strategy is for office use only, I feel it is applicable for our daily life it just requires more thinking in doing it. While at the training I got a few photos shoot and shared here. If you like to comment feel free to do so. Some photos during the training.
Some photos taken in and outside the hotel
I leave some qoutes here which keeps ringing in my head after the training by Tengku Naufal.
The python basically tried to swallow 2 of my father’s chicken, since it has strangled 2 of the chicken. The size of the python is not that big in comparison to the chicken. Probably greed got over the snake that my mother woke up in the wee morning and realised that there is a python in the coup. Arrived in the morning to send my Charmen, and was informed of the incident, I quickly grab my camera and took some of the photo below. I photoshop it a bit to reduce the gruesomest of the situation on the time.
I could not imaging if it’s enters the house and stayed there until night. Well this is the first case I’ve saw a python that size coming to my parents house. Use to have a baby python and a few cobra babies caught at the house. Wonder if the neighbours have the same situation.
The flies really irritates me the most as they keep landing on my refreshment table and of course making themselves at home by sipping coffee and nipping on cakes. Since they are enjoying themselves and don’t mind me taking their pictures so I got a few good shots of them.
Enjoy the photos, feel free to make comments.
Anyway, back to the filter lens. The marco lens work real fine but it only works with my 18-55mm lens. It sucks big time with my 55-200mm lens as it is totally blur out. I have to stand very far away from the object in order to get a shot. The 18-55mm lens work well but the getting a focus on the object is quite difficult. Wish I can establish a link with the lens. (I want to capture this picture, snap now). So as you can see below some of the photos are not up to expectation but I feel that I am getting better in using the filter. Now my checklists for next macro shot would be:
Well hope to take marco photos again. Need to complete checklist.
 Long green leave  Leave with holes  This flower is so small it tooks me 10 minutes and 20 shots to get it.  Inside a leave of a flower  Cannot resist, just had to take it.  More of ashes  I don't know what it is called but I think it is bubble  Bubbles at a closer range  A single bubble shot  Colours of bubble at close-up.  More bubbles at close range  This shot may not be good. You judge it...  This is not a macro shot but it shows you how I prepare the bubbles for the macro shots. All the pictures sizes are maintain and no cropping was made. Hey!!! why do you need cropping when it is a macro shot. Feel free to comment and enjoy the pictures.
The love of cakes and candles really caught on with my daughter. She is the of person who celebrate birthday as she wish. In this just love to eat cake and blow candle birthday style before eating the cake. As she was so excited in this situation I figure out to take some candid photos of her. Well it turn out to be as natural as her can be. The shots are so natural and I feel it should be shown and told. More photos of Charmen Menna:
 The cake and candles  I can wait ...  One candle out, one more to go...  Argghh...The flame is still on.  Hmmm...the cake is nice  Hello cake...I am going to eat you  Hmmm...cake, cake ...  Yes the cake is mine  Ahh... what a relief, I love the taste of cakes. And she is done with cake. Until another cakes and candles session …
Enjoy the photos.
 The circle of clouds and the rays of lights really make it stand out.  More clouds and rays.  Trails of clouds following the lights A beautiful site indeed. Wonder if I should do some editing on it? Well I keep you all posted.
The photos here are dedicated to green plants and the beauty of flowers. The photos are collections I have taken during my visit to Debak and since it was raining at the time, I might at well brush up my macro photography. Enjoy! Feel free to comment. It is the second day last night that the moon is full. It was a beautiful site as it look so close. I missed out the first day due to flu and thankfully it is a full moon again last night. It is a beautiful view but I think I can do better than this.  View of the moon at high shutter speed
 View of the moon with the clouds On Saturday, 7 Feb 09, my friend andI when on an outing at Tanjung Lobang Beach (it is in Miri of course). He is a newalpha user so I’ve showed hima few tips on using the camera. Few shots was taken and we were anticipating for the sunset that day. As it turn out the sun is shy and there is no sunset in the evening. However, the sun is modest enough to show its ray of lights and it is really beautiful.
 Sun ray at sunset mode  sun ray at B&W mode Well that is not all of the photos taken. I’ve prepared a slide for the photos taken and I can say few pictures is worth being a wall paper. View the slides HERE (you would need a flash player installedin your browser). This photo was taken back a month ago at my father’s turtle pond. The pipes filter was intentionly left as it is so that the water circulate faster. I like the idea that water gussing at high speed the your are able to take some shot of it. No studio needed, just plain nature.
Enjoy the view. Way to spent my 2009 Chinese New Year. Early in the morning I’ve a call from my Uncle in helping him moving his stuffs from the old house to his new house. It was a hectic day plus raining intervals. It took the whole day but what spark me is during the bbq we had after that. Meat seems to look nice in close up.
 The cooking process  The preparation  Cut chicken wings  Ahh...sliced well  The chopped meat ready for eating  The chopped chicken wing ready for eating  The hot sauce that goes together with the meat and chicken wings Just looking at it makes me want to do more bbq. Any I believe you may want to do the same. I’ve recently attended the funeral of my late Uncle. No disrespect, what amaze me of the things I found is the caged wild cat he had. I’ve nevered seen one up close so decided to take pictures of the animal. According to one of my relative, the cat can be found preying in the palm oil farm which is aboundance in Miri. It is quite vicous at night and it is quite difficult for me to take the photo because the eyes keeps shining. However at the day it is very quiet. Probably hunt during the night. So enjoy the photos below…
On 10th January 2009, my hosuing area was hit by a small flash flood. It was raining furiously for 3 hours and the drainage system at my housing area was a bad one. The flash flood latest for 4 hours and eventually the water subside. It was a heatic experience and of course the dirt cleaning after that. I’ve taken few photos, feel free to view the photos and comment on it. See more photos …
A photos of a long house I’ve taken during my visit to my wife’s long house after the Christmas holidays. Many things to see and many photos taken. Here are few photos that I’ve taken and I believe it should be to the viewers pleasure. See more photos …
 The lovely Charmen Menna The lovely Charmen Menna just love to take photos. I compile a a few photos of her and she just look natural. See more photos … |
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The beginning of April is a grueling week for me as there is 3 events to coordinate in three days. Starting from the 2nd to the 4th of April, it was the testing ground for most of us in the committee that are organising events for the company.
Some people says that I am crazy when comes to taking pictures. In this case the subjects or things that I captured. It is a little bit weird they say. Honestly, I feel that everything is beautiful and meaningful if you capture the picture and see the texture of the thing up-close especially if in macro mode. If we look it at different perspective we sometimes can see a little or major thing on the subject that we could not or did not see or realise using the naked eye.
Recently I bought my self a marco lens filter. It comes with three other close-up filter lens, +1+2+4 close-up. The lens was purchase from e-bay. Seems not to trust any sales from e-bay but hey… someone bought my Sony PS1 through e-bay also. If he can trust me why not me trust the seller.
As I was on my way back from a friend farewell party yesterday evening I came across this beautiful scene and could not resist in taking the pictures. The sun was so bright before it and when the time is allmost 7pm, its beauty shows. This was taken not far from my workplace and if I have a better lens and improve on my skills I think I can get a better scenery. Nevertheless the shots is worth an experience.
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