Archive for October, 2008

Michelle :: Sunburn

October 30, 2008

End of October and this was my first photo shoot of the month. haha. The day started ominously as the black clouds rolled in… It wasn’t very promising indeed, but we had the go-ahead should it shower. Brave the rain if we must. As the morning progresses, the sun began to made it’s way out from the thinning cloud cover, and later on, shone like it is hign noon – HOT as !!!. Michelle was quite a quiet girl, but any poses or doing things like jumping, she does it so well. And does she grab air when jumping. woah! She also did a LOT of runs and jumps on the beach… no ez lo. Jumping on sand as base is not ez. Bravo to this girl… and stamina is not a problem for her… it is for me. haha.

Wan to c more? Link to my buddies series :
i) 1025 Jump! at Achiet.com
ii) Run Free at hayashiartz.com

Enjoy the pics, guys…..

This is the first part shot around suburban housing area of Pulau Tikus. The morning shower is evident in this shot.

Sin City…

October 28, 2008

Well, since we were shooting Siew Tien in the darkness of an alley next to Stan Chart Penang… manage to process this photo for a one-off-non-series picture, just for kicks……. since the background looki looki like abit of “Gotham-esque”…

This picture no strobe ar… using our TNB-provided street lighting only. hehee.

Alwez a fan of Frank Miller’s art… hopefully we don’t get to c Penang version of “300″ ya? whahahaha.

Strobing… something that I’ve never really tried after years and years of almost no-flash photography. It has suddenly hit me outta the blue! It started when I went to buy this china-made flash-radio-trigger and reciever – to test just for fun… then it suddenly open a whole new pandora box. One thing lead to another, and the past two photo-shoots – one at the beach earlier – we dedicated the ending phase to off-shoe flash photography… the results were … I think ok laaa…haha… but what it did was fanning the urge to find out more about this area of photography that I sorely lack in.

“You use flash meh? Tiok check kiaaa” – Michelle was so surprised she jumped in surprisation.

TECH : 3-offshoe flash… Left power light, one centre and one fill on the right. No edit at all sans cropping.

Then later on the weekend, we dedicated a night photography on strobing only…
Rather run-and-gun, but this is hopefully a beginning to something new in me and my buddies’ arsenal.
Here is the … haha.. rather cliche placement of lights….. but it sure is a good learning process…ban ban lai (slowly slowly learn).

Penang’s Zebra crossing never had it so bright…..Siew Tien doing a Beyonce-strut down the lines.

TECH : 2-flash, one following SiewTien on her right and one behind her. No edit at all.

Our offshoe-flash-virgin gang trying out…

and another Heroes-inspired group shoot…… hwhahahahaha….. I am the lang-chia-pek.

TECH : 4-lights.. one main, behind cam and left, casting chainlink shadows on us. one SB800 bottom, just under cam. two via SU-4 mode (flash on detect another flash strobe) on each end of the doors.

Till the next time, hopefully you guys will c more stuffs coming out from this eye-opening discovery. haha.. about time, I think. Strobe like Crazy!!!!!!