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Stranded Boat at Tip of Borneo

November 18, 2012 In Seascapes No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone. It’s been a while since my last outing. My camera is in the ‘hospital’ due to its severe condition after almost 2 years of hard work. Although I am using an entry-level Dslr, so far I still please and happy with the results it produced.

About the shot, another photo from my Sabah Photo Trip with superfriends on last April. It was a sunrise shot, at Tip of Borneo, Simpang Mengayau, Kudat, Sabah. It took about 3-4 hours of driving to get here. This is on our second day here, I wake up at 4 in the morning for this shot, it was cold and dark. But it was worth every second while we was here. It just amazing. You just got to be here to know the feeling. I miss the trip now, it was a fun trip with fellow photographers who share same passion with me, which is landscape photography. 🙂

Thanks for reading, I wish everyone have a great week ahead 🙂

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Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + GND.6s + CPL

Where is Everyone?

November 4, 2012 In Long Exposures Seascapes 1 Comment

A night shot at Tip of Borneo, Simpang Mengayau, Sabah. It was full moon that night, the place looks like it was on daylight. As I remember, everyone else were also enjoying themselves with night photography. It was very serene night, peaceful and calm. You can almost hear the wind whispering by your ears.

I missed all the moment there. It was such a great photography tr ip. The memories will cherish forever in my mind. Hopefully there will be another trip just like the previous one.

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Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm

Dream and Passion

October 29, 2012 In Long Exposures Seascapes Sunrise and Sunsets 2 Comments

Assalamualaikum and good day to all readers! First of all, Happy Aidiladha to all Muslims in the world! I’m still on holiday in my hometown, Kedah. Yesterday I went to Pulau Sayak with few friends for sunset shooting and I was shown a new spot there. It was amazing! I never know my hometown also have a great place for seascape activities. I have been to Pulau Sayak before, but this new spot shown by Paksu, is totally awesome!

Few things happened while I was there shooting the sunset. First, my Big Stopper almost fell onto the rocky surface. But alhamdulillah somehow I managed to catch it before it dropped. If not sure it will be broken in pieces and my tears will follow. Lol :p. Ok the next thing is my feet got cut by the sharp reefs and rocks and I was bleeding. But luckily it just a small cut. Finally I got bites by thousands of mosquitoes! This is because both of my feet were covered with mud, that’s what attract the mosquitoes I think.

Nevertheless, I had really good time shooting there and managed to get few good shots. So here’s one of them! This is my dream and my passion. I love the captivating colors of nature. I love being out there. This is my way to express gratitude to Allah. I photographed the beauty of HIS creation and shared it to people around the world and hope they will appreciate it as much as I do. Insya’Allah 🙂

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + Reverse GND8 + Big Stopper

The Last Light

October 3, 2012 In Seascapes Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good day everyone! This shot was taken at Pantai Tok Jembal, in Kuala Terengganu. It was cloudy and rainy on that evening, my hopes for sunset is no longer there but I kept saying to myself just go for it because the weather can always change in a matter of minute. I ask my friend Sunny to come along with me, we headed to Seberang Takir to meet a friend of mine from Facebook, Zul Husain. Arriving to the location the rain starts to pour again and decided to change spot for shooting to Pantai Tok Jembal. It took us about 10-15 minutes to arrive, the rain stops but it was still cloudy and gloomy. I started shooting, followed by Zul Husain and few other friends. At first we thought that there gonna be just like that until the night fall, but suddenly the last light showed up. It was only red colors stretching over along the horizon. I was in a pool of water which is quite calm and I managed to captured it with the reflection. Subhana’Allah, it was beautiful. Thank you Allah for showing us the last light on that evening. 🙂

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Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 stop GND + Circular Polarizer

Earth Meets Ocean

September 22, 2012 In Seascapes Slow Shutter Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Hey guys! This is my first sunset shot from the short visit to Terengganu last weekend. Finally I was able to catch stone with moss! It was the right timing, the tide was pretty nice and the waves are swirling around those rocks. There were some colors, I boost it up in photoshop to gives a dramatic look. Hope you guys like it! Have a great weekend everyone 🙂

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Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 stop GND + 3 Stop ND

Stormy Morning II

September 19, 2012 In Long Exposures Seascapes No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone! Another long exposure shot from Tanjung Jara! Such an amazing place with great rocks formation. I was too excited at this time! You can also see this shot in Flickr, here. Hope you guys like it and feel free to share! 🙂

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 stop GND + Big Stopper

Stormy Morning

September 17, 2012 In Long Exposures Seascapes No Comment

Assalamualaikum and very good morning everyone! Happy Malaysian day! I just got back from Terengganu, a 3 days short trip there attending my friend wedding ceremony. So here’s my first photo from the trip. This shot was taken at Tanjung Jara in Dungun. Actually I was out hunting for sunrise at this time, but it never showed up because of the thick cloud and storm’s approaching. Nevertheless, it was an amazing place! I had a great time playing with long exposures here!

Many thanks to Doc Yusri Salleh and Ahmad Fahmi for taking me to this place. I really appreciate it, you guys are awesome!

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 stop GND + Big Stopper

Burning Paradise

September 11, 2012 In Seascapes Sunrise and Sunsets 2 Comments

Hey guys! Another sunset shot from Tanjung Aru, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Still got few remaining pictures from the Sabah Photo Tour on April to be uploaded. Check out this burning sunset! It was really beautiful at this time. Subhan’Allah. It’s like a burning paradise! Anyway, I would call this my kind of paradise! 🙂

This is a vertorama image created from two raw shots. One for the sky part and the other one for the bottom part. Strictly no HDR, both exposures were manually blended in photoshop. Hope you guys like it as much as I do! Feel free to share it! Just click the link at the bottom of the image! Thanks in advance!

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 stop GND + CPL

The Trails

September 7, 2012 In Seascapes Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone! Another recent shot from Port Dickson on a simple outing with my Flickr friends. Like I said in my previous post here, even though the sun setting not right in front of this spot, we still got a bit of the colors! I had a great time playing with the waves on that evening! So here’s another result. 😀 This place have a lot of potential for seascape shooting, maybe will pay another visit on low tide after this.

I did some cloning on the right side of the image to get rid a bunch of trees that fall under the frame. It was a very tight spot with lot of trees hanging around all over the place! 😀

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 stop GND + 3 stop ND

The Dancing Waves

September 4, 2012 In Seascapes Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone! Here’s my recent shot from Port Dickson on a simple outing with Flickr friends. But too bad that on this spot the sun was setting a bit right to it. Nevertheless, we still got the reflected colors. It was a high tide, I had great time playing with slow shutter and jumping waves! Of course me and my camera are all wet! Maybe I have to upgrade to a weather seal camera and lenses. 😛 This is a single RAW shot taken with 3 stop GND and 3 stop full ND.

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 stop GND + 3 stop ND