Great learning curve @ Charge Up Conference 2008

I was a participant at Louis Pang's photography session in the recent Charge Up Conference organised by LiveWire. It was great meeting up with people from last year's conference and the best was learning from Louis Pang.

Though I'm already a manual setting user and also a story line slideshow maker, I still learnt some new things there esp about the accuracy of my Nikon D80 camera metering. I had tested the metering in my D70s before and it wasn't accurate so I assumed that D80 had the same problem and thus many of my pictures were a tat bit over-exposed when Louis banned us from chimping on one of the assignment shoots. I've always chimp to check on exposure but now that I know my camera better, it won't be so neccessary. Nonethless, I still had some really nice pictures out of the batch I took. Here's some of my favourites:

For our second shoot, he wanted us to shoot pictures that tell a story line. Though my team encountered some problems i.e. being stopped from photographing in Starbucks, and Giant hypermarket and not being able to find someone fishing, we managed to shoot a story each. I was rather dissappointed that he accepted the other team's shots though they didn't tell any story at all. They were all themed based only like a series of macro shots of things, pictures of rusty items, picture of people randomly doing what they're doing, pictures of the same shoe on different grounds etc. Probably he didnt wanna dissappoint them and also because their pictures look better. I think I'd have done better if I had a theme instead of a story line. My title was "An Afternoon At Starbucks". Here are the better shots from the series:

This Starbucks logo shot is a macro shot made by reversing the 50mm lense. It can only be done if the object is well lighted.

David & Anne

Last 2nd April 08, I had the privilege to be a part of David & Anne's wedding which was held on a Wednesday in a classy banquet hall in KL, Banker's Club. An absolute jewel, Anne looked fabulous and David was all smiles the whole day. Though it poured cats & dogs, it didn't stop the guests from coming to the wedding. Here are a few of my favourite shots for the day.

Ming & Su Lee

My partner and I had the pleasure of taking the wedding day event photo for a lovely couple, Ming & Su Lee last Feb 2, 08. Su Lee is a sister of my classmate from school and I barely remember her when she called me but am pleasantly surprised at how successful she and her husband is now working in Holland. It's wonderful indeed! Here are some photos to share with you: