Faces & Places Exhibition 2008

The exhibition launched on 28th June 08 at 3pm and there were quite a number of guests that day. It was great! People came up and complimented me which was very encouraging especially since this is the first time I'm exhibiting. My bf helped take some pictures of the event and here are some that tells a story. [He's very good with the camera too :)]

Ying Peng, my only guest :)

My bf and me with one of my portraitures.

This is how big the gallery is.

Visitors at the launch.

Group photo with all the exhibiting photographers-from left, Alan Ng, me, Lam Seng Fatt & Michelle Chan.

Michelle organised the whole event single handedly. Bravo!

The passionate gallery owner, Mr Liew.

Judson & Getsy Lydia

My partner and I had a wonderful shoot at Judson & Getsy's wedding last 7 June 08. Judson is the drummer for the popular local band, Unabashed (you can check them out at http://www.weareunabashed.com/) while Getsy is also a budding drummer herself. Though the wedding was simple (without all the usual chinese chi-mui tricks and tea ceremony), there was lots of love in the air. The couple continued to smile throughout the long, tiring yet exciting new day. How adorable! My very best wishes to the newly weds!

p/s: Other Unabashed sites you may wanna see:
· www.myspace.com/unabashedband/
· http://amp.channelv.com/unabashed/
· www.ilike.com/artist/Unabashed
· www.garageband.com/artist/unabashed
· http://www.facebook.com/pages/Unabashed/7053022542

My 1st Photo Exhibition

I'm so excited! I'll be having my 1st photo exhibition this 28 June 08 to 6th July 08 (1 wk only). Do come by and check out the photos of the other exhibitors if you have the time. Here are some details of the exhibition.

http://www.artmalaysia.com.my/galeri/event2.html

Gallery Dunia Seni Lukis is pleased to announce our first photographyexhibition, Faces and Places, from June 28th - Jul 6th, 2008. Thisevent is a run-up to the International Contemporary Arts Fair 2008,and will showcase the interpretations of several seasoned and buddingphotographers.

Please join us as our guest at the exhibition launch, and to refreshment thereafter. Details are as follow :
Date : June 28th, 2008
Time : 3pm
Location : Galeri Lukisan Dunia Seni Lukis Sdn. Bhd.
No. 19A, Jalan Pudu Ulu, Off Jalan Cheras, 56100 Kuala Lumpur
(it's at the small lane beside PGRM in Cheras: http://www.artmalaysia.com.my/galeri/map01.jpg)

Exhibition Date : June 28th ~ July 6th, 2008
Exhibition Hours: Tuesday ~ Sunday (11am ~ 8pm)
(Closed on Monday)

We look forward to having you as our guest at Faces and Places 08.

For more information, please contact fotoex@artmalaysia.com.my or logon to http://www.artmalaysia.com.my/

Fascinating Minangkabau Trail

My initial plan was to capture the outskirts of town in hope of getting a good scenery image for my upcoming exhibition. Things don't always work out as planned so it seems. My friends and I took the scenic but winding road to Kuala Pilah, they in search of beautiful architectures, while I hoped to get my award winning landscape shot.

On the way to Kuala Pilah, my friend screeched to a stop when we spotted a large group of monkeys by the roadside. They were just scavaging for food and some seems to be mating. It was fun as I've never come so close to wild monkeys before. They were not afraid of humans so we snapped away.



As it was still early, my hope to get that landscape shot was not dashed yet. Before long, we reached Istana Sri Menanti in Kuala Pilah and while the guys were admiring the hand-crafted struture of the building, I took some shots at an abandon fireplace in the backyard.



When we left the palace, we wondered on down the road and came upon an old looking, deserted wooden house. It looked eerie but we still ventured around it and I got these shots:



Though the adventure ended thereafter, I was still pretty happy as I got to use my 70-200mm lense all the time and that was good practice. :)

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.