Sharing some of my works in 2022. All photos were taken with Sony A7R Mark IV + Sony 14mm f/1.8 GM. I would like to thank everyone for their likes and support throughout the year!
My next year goal photographically:- To go places again, do more workshops & photo tours, and photograph something new, and break my norms.
Happy new year 2023 everyone! 
Hello everyone, it has been quite a while since I last updated my blog. On 1st July 2022, I hosted a milky way photography workshop organized by Sony Malaysia and YL Camera Shop in Kuala Kubu Bharu.
I arrived at the location around 8.45 pm and met with Sony Malaysia’s rep, Shaiful Baker, and See Chin Boon from YL Camera.
The workshop commenced at around 9.30 pm with a briefing from myself on the basics of shooting the milky way like what settings to use, how to focus at night time, and what equipment to use to get the best Milky Way photos.
During this time of the year, the core of the Milky Way can be seen above the horizon just a few hours after sunset. Unfortunately, when the workshop begins, it was a bit cloudy.
While waiting for the clouds to clear up, everyone sets up their camera in position and ensures that their settings are in order to get a sharp Milky Way photo. The photo above is a behind the scene shot taken with my GoPro Hero 8 Black.
Fortunately for us, after about an hour and twenty minutes at around 10.50 pm, the sky starts to clear up and the Milky Way can be seen unobstructedly. Below is my shot from the night.
Taken with Sony a7RIII + Sony FE 14mm f/1.8 GM.
And below is the location where this shot was taken:
Thanks for viewing.
A few days ago, I saw some of my Facebook & Instagram friends keep posting photos of this stranded ship near a beach in Kuantan, Pahang and I wanted to go there. So on late Saturday afternoon, I ask a few friends if they want to go and only Faiz Zaki and Hendrik Sulaiman responded.
We depart at midnight from Faiz’s place in Putrajaya and it took us around 3 hours to reach Pantai Kampung Cempaka in Kuantan. From the parking, we had to walk for about 700-800 meters to reach the stranded ship.
There is already a group of photographers already shooting the Milky May and we were blessed with a clear sky when we reach there.
I had two camera setups – 1) Sony a7RIII with Sony FE 14mm f/1.8 GM lens for time-lapse and 2) Sony a7RIV with Sony FE 16-35mm f/2.8 GM for still photos. Here is my shot from the night. Enjoy.
I did not use the Sony a7RIV for time-lapse due to its higher megapixels which will consume more space and bigger memory card capacity. Even with Sony a7RIII, its 42mp is already too huge for timelapse photography! Luckily I had a 128GB memory card.
Went out to shoot sunrise at Masjid Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah or better known as Masjid Biru Shah Alam. It was another typical morning, cloudy as usual. But good to be out early in the morning.
Have not been out shooting for sometime due to Covid lockdown, on 7th June 2020 I manage to go out to shoot after the lockdown ended. Location is Putra Mosque in Putrajaya.
So after I shift to Windows from Apple-based computers. I upgraded to a 16 core CPU to make my editing much smoother and faster. FYI, I used 42mp and 60mp cameras to shoot hundreds if not thousands of photos for time-lapses which require powerful hardware to edit.
I’ve been dealing with burnout lately. I don’t feel like doing anything when it comes to photography. The month of November was really hectic with work and it adds up to the burnout that I’m dealing with. I tried to edit some photos but it’s not working and it is depressing. I’m not in control of how things are carried out. So I turned to the internet on how to overcome the problem.
I’m beginning to rethink the purpose of why I do photography. The answer to this is I love being out with the nature but now, I’m not going out anywhere. I spend most of my week at work and then on weekend just resting and do absolutely nothing at home. I started to feel the pressure of not creating and post anything. It felt like my followers are anticipating something great from me and I’m letting them down.
I’m taking a step at a time now, I don’t want to push myself too hard. I have to set a clear mind that I’m doing this not to impress people, but to inspire them. Photography supposes to be fun. I made tons of friends with photography and surprisingly, I also losses some of them along the way without any reason. Well, people do come and go.
I hope to start inspires people again with my photography and I’m hoping for a better year ahead of me. I have a bunch of unfinished tasks related to photography and I hope I can complete them before the end of this year. Until my next post, wassalam.
