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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

Life in Motion

October 13, 2012 In Seascapes Slow Shutter Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone. Here’s another slow shutter shot from Teluk Lipat, Dungun. As I mention in my previous post I had a great time playing with the waves here! This place is fantastic! It was a simple outing with Doc Yusri and Fahmi, they are my friends from Facebook. I have met a lot of friend with same passion and hobby in the social networking site.

About this shot, as always it was created from single Raw shot on my camera. I use a 3 stops graduated neutral density filter along with 3 stop full neutral density filter for this shot. The GND is to balance the brightness in the sky part with the foreground and the full ND is to allow me to use the right shutter speed to get the motion of the waves.

On the processing part, I cleaned the Raw shot in Digital Photo Professional, and then the shot was transferred into Photoshop. In Ps, I did minor of basics adjustment like adjusting the brightness/contrast, increasing the saturation in certain part and I use dodging tools to increased the whiteness of the waves. Of course I did some high-pass sharpening.

I think that’s about it for now. Hope you guys like my sharing. I wish everyone have a great weekend! 🙂

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

A Dreamy Evening

October 7, 2012 In Long Exposures Seascapes Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good morning everyone! I just got back from Melaka, attending a friend’s wedding ceremony there. After that we head to Born Amin house to take a rest for a while because it’s still early to go for sunset shooting. At 4.30pm we headed to Tanjung Bidara beach, a great spot for seascapes and sunset photography. But to get to the rocky areas need to walk about 10 minutes to get there. Then we were joined by Kamrul Arifin Mansor aka KAM the Chip and another friend, Azri Laden.

Okay about the image, I shot it with Singh Ray 3 Stops Reverse GND and Lee Big Stopper. This is my first time using the Reverse Grad, thanks to Born Amin for letting me try it on that evening. It was awesome! I gotta get one for myself!

It was a smile at first because of the great location and the sunset was started showing the colors. But at the end, it turns into a tragedy. I have lost my Lee 3 Stops GND there. It slips out of the holder and fall between the rocks into the sea. I try to find it back but the water level is quite deep. I never found it back. RM380 ringgit burns that evening.

Nevertheless, it was a great evening. We had so much fun shooting there. One advice from me, watch out your gears and equipment guys while shooting to prevent unwanted things like this to happen. 🙂

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Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + Singh Ray 3 stop Reverse GND + 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

Waterfalls

September 29, 2012 In Seascapes Slow Shutter Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone! Another shot from my Terengganu short visit. It was taken earlier then ‘Earth Meets Ocean‘ shot. It takes me few attempt to get the perfect movement of the waves falling down from the rock. I got hit the waves few times but luckily my entry level camera was covered by the 4×6 neutral density graduated filter! Sometimes you just got to get wet to get the perfect shot!

Have a lovely weekend my friends 🙂

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

The University

September 28, 2012 In Long Exposures Seascapes No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good day everyone! Finally, my dream to shoot at one of the most famous spot for seascape photographers in Malaysia has come true! I was there shooting for the sunrise, but it was not a glorious one. I was so excited to be here! Many thanks to Syam Yatini, a friend of mine from Facebook for bringing me along to Pantai Pandak! Much appreciate bro! 🙂

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

. . O u t c a s t . .

September 24, 2012 In Black & White Long Exposures No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone! It’s not very often I posted a black and white photos, so here’s one for today. A simple tip, minimalist perspective works great in black & white shots and a combination with long exposures will make the shot a real winner!

Enough with talking, here’s the photo. Hope you guys like it, feel free to share! See it on FLICKR!

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

Fiery Sunset of Tg. Aru

August 24, 2012 In Seascapes Sunrise and Sunsets 3 Comments

Assalamualaikum and Salam Jumaat guys! My Sabah series of photos is coming to the last part, which is at Tg. Aru, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. This fiery sunset was captured on our last day and just about 2 hours before our flight back to Kuala Lumpur. It was truly amazing! I can say this is the most beautiful sunset I ever seen and captured so far! This shot almost straight out of camera. I just changed the white balance from auto to daylight. Wicked colors kan! 😀

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

Sunset, Storm & Rain III

August 12, 2012 In Seascapes Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Bismillah..Good evening to everyone! Next part of Sunset, Storm and Rain. The first part Sunset, Storm & Rain and the second part Sunset, Storm & Rain II. This place definitely got the best foreground I ever seen! It’s not very often you can see this great moment of nature comes out all together at the same time right. We are so lucky and got bless by Allah at this time! #Alhamdulillah 🙂

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 2 stop GND + 3 stop GND

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