Panning Shot - Easy rider

Panning is easy. But to get the right picture with 'oomph', it takes lots and lots of practise. Try by setting your shutter speed to 1/30 second on a relatively fast moving object.

In this photo, I snapped the photo of the motor cyclist from a moving car. The motor cyclist was travelling at about the same speed as the car I was travelling in. Not so interesting an image, but will do as a practise shot.

Don't forget to crop your photograph, if that helps to make it a better picture. As in most photographs of moving objects, ensure that there is more space where the object is travelling towards. It shows movement. Does that make sense to you? Take a look at the photo above and below and make your own judgement.

Shooting up!

Shooting up - I meant the angle in which a photo is taken (very low angle)

Many a times, we find that a building that we want to snap, or a statue that we want as our background object, are just too high that we cannot have both our subjects and the background objects in the picture.

Sometimes, for a different effect, we do that too. Otherwise, all your photographs will not be any different from those taken by any other tourist or photographer.

Just like these two photographers. One lying on his back, and the other squatting and shooting 'blind'. Forgot to check with them how their photographs turn out. Probably pretty good, if they had used their flash (or they want to have silhouttes).

Two photographers taking photo of anchovies being fanned out to dry, in Pangkor Island

Show jumping

Now that my website has some semblance of a functional website, I guess I can afford to spend some time uploading some images.

Received quite a few emails about giving some pointers and tips at this blog. Although I am still a novice in front of some masters, I will try to do that starting next week. As one of my good friend relate to me his experiences, it is not always the technically strong photographer that captures the best picture, for the best picture is akin to the phrase, "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder". The best image is the one that evokes some emotion from the person seeing the picture.

Am I right or am I right.

This guy was almost knocked down by the horse. Heard that he designs the jumps. Must have been sleepwalking.

Revisiting prints on canvas

I am surprised that there are still quite a lot of people who does not know that they can print on canvas the photographs that they had snapped. In fact, have just created the following montage that I rather like. If my client likes it, you can see it being displayed at her restaurant somewhere in Mont Kiara.

By the way, it is not too expensive, at approximately RM0.20sen to RM0.30sen per square inch, depending on the size of the print. Stretching the print would cost around RM6 per foot run.

Website and programming

I tried to tidy up my website, http://www.yongcs.com/ and made a mess of it. Had been working on it for about a week now. Well, some improvements, in my opinion, but the Homepage is still 'work-in-progress'. A huge black box staring at you where it was the slideshow - and I have problems removing it.

Hope to get it back on its feet in a couple of days. Yes, hope...