Before I want to talk about the real thing.. Lemme share you something funny for me. (for me lar)

Connex is Melbourne’s Public Transport Train. Same level as KTM to be honest.

Don’t you love when you found some of the Local Gallery and mir’s website update. I always told my friend here in Melbourne in Malaysia.. I believe that We have our own Photographer back in the days documented the life of people and places no matter in Malaya or Borneo.

Guess what I found?

Yes, we do have.. (maybe Im outdated, but thanks to me. I research myself and I found 1 instantly.. There’s no place as Mir)

Sultan of Terengganu 1945-1979. Sultan Ismail is a Photographer itself.

Anyway that’s his darkroom. picture taken from mir’s website.

Basically, he do everything by himself. I can call him a truly of Masters Photographer. I can’t wait to go back to Malaysia and visit his work at eqFineArt Gallery in KL.

Y’all can check out the late Sultan Ismail’s Priceless Legacy at http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/portfolio/sultan/seaside.htm and also here http://www.artmajeur.com/?go=artworks/display_mini_gallery&login=arttransact&mini_gallery_id=1253164&artist_id=0.

Ok.. Enough about him.

I’m trying to find who’s the first local Photographer in Sabah or Sarawak. I can’t find any particular one but so far KF Wong is the only Photographer I can find he documented the life and places of Borneo in the 1940’s and 1950’s. How I wish I was born in those days.. haishhhhh~~~~

KF Wong

The Dayak

I only manage to find that kind of image on the net. Don’t worry there’s more picture you can view at eqFineart web gallery by clicking this link http://www.artmajeur.com/?go=artworks/display_mini_gallery&login=arttransact&mini_gallery_id=1005966&artist_id=19968ℑ_id=161458&disp_m=normal&serie=1.

Now I know what gallery I can visit already in KL.

Can’t wait to start my Land Below the Wind project….

Did you learn something new today?

-peace bebeh and one love-

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This one I call Awesome…

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For those who interested with Fine Art and want to collect it as their wall collection or for your workplace.
I’ve decide I will sell this 3 piece work of mine with a very low price (Ya, you hear me low price!!) on a very good archive Fine Art 250G A3+ Paper. The price is included with postage.

For those who’s in Overseas I have to charge you in Australian Dollar because I’m in Australian (that’s where i’ll send the image in the parcel) and For the readers who’s in Malaysia. I’ll sell for RM360 including bloody Shipping OKAY!! (Just because I’m from Malaysia. Saya kasih murah sama kamu) Don’t ask for more discount because this artwork in the print is kick-@ss.

I’m officially an Hunger Artist. haha

E-mail me at sendto[at]flaneganb.net or flaneganb[at]gmail.com how to order.

Here are the prints below :

Monochrome Tree

Pekan Nabalu or Nabalu Town

Panaroma of Nature in Nabalu Town.

If you can’t see the beautiful detail of the image.. That’s mean you haven’t calibrate your monitor yet..
For those who look the image in CRT Monitor.. I bet some of the dark detail spot will become dark and some of the color might change.

Alright… Continue doing my Cultures of Photography Essay.

*wonder does anyone really wants to buy my awesome prints. haha*

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I’m bored.. So I did this with my holga, Not so very interesting thou. Just a lil tips what you should do with your flash just beside point at the object or you use it just because not enough light on the object.

Anyway here’s the shot :

Holga shots.

In the image, you can see the objects is not flat. Because i’m using 2 flashes to create a surface for this object.
You can see a rim light on top of the product and also on the right side of the lens and the darkest part of the camera is not underexpose, you still can see the texture very clear.

Well, that’s the basic of how to lights up the product you shooting for your client.

This time let me go backward a lil bit, this is how you see from your eyes.

Why is it glowing?

Since I’m doing this shoot alone, I have to hold the soft paper above the camera to create a very soft light. Beside that, from that soft paper the light will spread wider to the white paper front below the camera so that the light from top will bounce and shows the texture of the lens cap and etc.

Ok.. Let’s now see the whole diagram on a wide angle lens :

Flash Diagram

Top Flash is the main global light cover with soft paper (a.k.a D.I.Y softbox) and on the right side, there’s another flash 1 stop lower than the main global light to create a surface on the camera side. The white paper below front is a reflector for both flash to create a lil bit of light in front.

So basically…. Top light is the main source, right light is the 2nd sources just to create surface and 1 stop below brightness than the main light sources. and the White paper maybe give half a stop brightness for the front camera.

Now you know how to lights a product..

For those who wants to know what i’m using to shoot this..
Nikon SB-28 Flash
Canon 430EX Flash

That’s all.. No fancy-pancy accesories.

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Konnichiwa, Boku no namae wa Kuro Toro desu. Canon gara utsukuru.
Hello, My name is Black Totoro, made from Canon.

Nihon de umare desu.
Born in Japan.

3nisen wa hikouki de touchiakusuru Kota Kinabalu desu.
I arrived Kota Kinabalu 3 days ago.

Ima-kara, kono Collage of Life to Flaneganb.net no mi desu.
From now on, I’ll be the eyes of Collage of Life’s Flaneganb.net.

Dozo Yoroshiku Onegai-shimasu.
Please treat me well.

Kuro Toro a.k.a Black Totoro.

What Can I say about 5D Mark 2. I can say this camera is one of those camera will change the world of Digital Photography and also maybe world of DSLR. I call it the Ultimate Dynamite Camera (random one). I can’t compare my 350D with 5D Mark2 because 350D will still be my baby. All my requirement goes to 5DMII.

Although is not a complete set for me cos i need to get myself an extra battery, a battery grip and also cable release for KuroToro.

21megapixels DSLR equivalent to :
- 5616 x 3744 resolution
- 18.72 x 12.48inch
- 47.55 x 31.70cm

Size of A2 paper, If you know how to upscale smoothly to A1 pun boleh with borders.

ISO wise. 100 times better than my 350D, I don’t need to think about noise anymore cos i can pump up the iso too 3200. ISO6400 is still acceptable equivalent to 350D’s ISO800.
The Highest ISO for 5DMII is ISO25600 or known as H2 in the camera. Itu memang rusak lar, the noise almost looks like 350D’s ISO1600.

About the sensor….. 5DMII is full frame. The 350D pula Frame Separuh only.

You can see the differents here. (kamu tau suda bah kan but still i want to show.

This is Canon EOS 350D Half Frame Sensor on 17-40mm F4 Lens.

and

This is Canon EOS 5D Mark II Full Frame Sensor on 17-40mm F4 Lens.

What a Huge Different.

Dial Function have 5 extra dial beside the M, Av, Tv, Auto & P.
3 Customize Function (C1, C2 and C3), 1 Creative Auto (or known as CA) and Bulb Function.

The Customize Function really makes my finger easier because you can save the setting for future use, for example :
C1 : I want ISO800 for shooting indoor with less light, Activate Lighting Optimizer.
C2 : ISO100 and Bracketing for shooting HDR.
C3 : ISO200, set the Shutter speed and aperture to 1/60 at F5.6 and also set my flash guns to ETTL +1 brightness.

You get what i mean? So when i want to shoot HDR scene i just dial it to C2. Everything kao-tim in less than 1 secs.

Awesome thing about this DSLR is you can record a HD Video or just a normal video size with all kind of EF lenses.

10secs Test video on HD Mode.

The size of 10 secs HD is around 45mb. So if you have 1gb, 2gb and 4gb CF card. It will only last like 6mins in 2gb CF card.
That’s mean i have to get bigger than that lar. Ngai tiao betul.

The Dynamic Range in 5DMII is quite wide than my 350D, that’s mean i have to change my editting habit a lil bit because of the Dynamic Range. But no worries, everything is gonna be alrite.

And last one, before i stop talking crap again.

5DMII will help you to reduce the vignette of your image in the camera because they have the function called ‘Peripheral Illumination Correction’.
Just switch it on, you’ll see less vignette on the edge of your camera.
Well for me, I’ll switch it off because i love baby vignette.

Alrighty, that’s all about my crappy review for the first time.

Before i want to press the Publish button.
Let me upload a few pics i’ve taken with my 5DMII.

The Title for this Photo Series is Familiar Places :

My Bedroom

Computer Living Room.

Entrance to the love shack.

The Balcony Store.

Alright, That’s all from me.
Have a wonderful day & Happy New Year 2009.

-peace bebeh and one love-

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