Long Exposures

Lifeless Evening

July 15, 2013 In Lee Filters Long Exposures Seascapes No Comment

In landscape photography, weather is one of the most frustrating aspects it doesn’t even have to come down to rain or shine, but just a small amount of clouds in the right place at the right time of day can make for an amazing sunset and then those same clouds in the wrong place at that very same moment can make for a complete non-sunset.

In this case, the clouds was at the wrong place! Well, that’s one of the risk in landscape photography. Sometimes it turns out good, sometimes not. You just have to take the risk!

Dreamy Dusk at Marina Island, Lumut, Perak

May 12, 2013 In Long Exposures Seascapes Singh-Ray Filters Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Assalamualaikum, peace be upon all of you. It’s been a while since my last blog post now, been quite busy living life and travelling here and there. Earlier this year I’ve went to Sabah two times for photography trip, but still finding times to writes-up and share with you guys. But I thought I just do a short one on my recent trip to Lumut, Perak.

The main purpose of our trip to Lumut is to attend our friend’s wedding ceremony. It was a beautiful wedding reception, the food was nice so do the people.

Later in the evening, we went to Marina Island for sunset shooting. That place is so crowded in the evening! We even clash with lots of wedding and portrait photographers there. Enough with bumbling, here’s my sunset shot from Marina Island!

Hope you guys like it and thanks for reading! 🙂

Arise of Tanjung Jara

February 13, 2013 In Lee Filters Long Exposures Seascapes Singh-Ray Filters No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good day everyone! It’s been a while since my last blog post. Been very busy with work and living life to the fullest! Anyway, I just got back from Terengganu last weekend. Before going, I have checked the weather forecast and it says on both day is raining with thunderstorm. I decided why not I try my luck and headed to Terengganu with a friend of mine, Syafiqjay. Our first pit stop for sunrise hunting is at the beach near Kemaman. The session was joined by another three photographers, Mr Kamrul, Mr Syam & Mr Fahmi. But luck was not on our side as it was raining all the time and the sky is totally washed out. So we decided to call it a day and go for breakfast. After that, it was raining all the way from morning until the night.

On the next morning, I woke up around 5.30 and texted Fahmi to try my luck again. Alhamdulillah, the weather was great that morning but it was really windy. We decided to go to Tanjung Jara beach at Dungun for sunrise hunting. We had to walked about 10 minutes along the beach to get to the rocky spot at the shoreline. I was like running to get there when I saw the beautiful sunrise starting to appear from the horizon! All praises to the Almighty Allah SWT, it turns out the sunrise that morning was truly amazing. I managed to get the shot that I want and here’s the first one. I present to you, the Arise of Tanjung Jara!

Hope you guys like it and feel free to share! If you have time, do like my photography page Fakrul Jamil Photography. Thanks in advance for your warm support on my work. 🙂

Tanjung Jara Dreamscape

February 3, 2013 In Long Exposures Seascapes No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone. Another old shot from my archive tonight. This shot was taken at Tanjung Jara, Dungun, back in September last year on a short trip there. Thanks to Doc Yusri and Ahmad Fahmi, local photographers that showed me this great place. You guys are awesome!

Feel free to like my new page ● Fakrul Jamil Photography ● Have a great week ahead 🙂

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 Stop GND + Lee Big Stopper

Everything’s Dead

January 20, 2013 In Long Exposures Seascapes Singh-Ray Filters Sunrise and Sunsets 2 Comments

Assalamualaikum and happy Sunday everyone. Here come another shot from Kelanang amazing sunset on few weeks back. This one taken a few minutes after the previous shot. The color becoming more reddish and the dead trees just make it look surreal. It was beautiful and yet so mysterious. One of the best sunset I ever captured here. Syukran jazilan ya Allah. Hope you guys like it, thanks for dropping by and have a great Sunday. 🙂

Senok Lighthouse

January 17, 2013 In Long Exposures Seascapes Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone! Last weekend I went to Kelantan for attend a friend’s wedding ceremony. This is my first time visiting the state, it was pretty exciting. It took us about 8 hours to arrived there from Kuala Lumpur. On the same day arriving, we manage to shoot sunset at Pantai Senok lighthouse. So here’s my shot from Senok lighthouse, hope you guys like it! 🙂

Special thanks to Abe Mat Yeo sebab bagi tumpang tidoq dekat rumah juga buat mak dgn ayah abe atas layanan yang sungguh mesra tempoh hari. 🙂

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 Stop Gnd + Big Stopper

The Guardians

January 10, 2013 In Lee Filters Long Exposures Seascapes Singh-Ray Filters Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Peace be upon all of you, good evening and salam jumuah mubarokah. Here is my next photo from last weekend amazing sunset at Pantai Kelanang, Banting and its in landscape mode which mean wider view! Oh yes, another big fallen dead trees as the foreground interest, because I try to make it different. Before this, I always wanted a clean and neat compo for my shot, but that day I just decided to try something new and here’s the result!

I was lucky to get the right timing of the tide. It was rising but not that fast and thanks to Lee filter Pro Glass ND 3 stop, I was able to get the smoothness in the water part. The beautiful sunset colors was starting to appear at this time and it was really magical! I was like keep on saying alhamdulillah, thank you Allah for giving me this magnificent sunset on that evening, syukur! 🙂

Some info about the photo, a single RAW shot taken with Singh-Ray 3 stop reverse grad and lee 3 stop pro glass nd. Shot was processed in Canon Digital Professional for the raw file, then the file transferred into photoshop. In photoshop I increase the brightness on the tree part, because it was a bit dark on the original file. Other than that, basic enhancement as always to make the picture look more alive. 🙂

I hope you guys like this shot as much as I do! Feel free to hit the share button 🙂

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 Stop Reverse Grad + 3 Stop Pro Glass ND

Boom!

January 7, 2013 In Long Exposures Seascapes Singh-Ray Filters Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone. Last Sunday went to Pantai Kelanang again for sunset hunting with my usual partner in crime, Shazral. The weather has been great since morning and that tells me it going to be a great sunset. Guess what, my instinct is right! It’s was totally a ‘boom’ sunset! The amazing colors come out right after the sun has fully set. Alhamdulillah, finally I managed to get a beautiful sunset shot at Pantai Kelanang. Thank you Allah for blessing us with this magnificent sunset!

This is a single shot taken with Singh-Ray 3 stop reverse graduated neutral density filter along with Lee 3 stop pro glass neutral density filter.

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 Stop Reverse Grad + 3 Stop Pro Glass ND

Dead Tree Lake Reflection

December 29, 2012 In Landscapes Long Exposures No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone! Today went out for an outing with superfriends at Kuala Kubu Bharu, Rawang, Selangor. It started out with sunrise shooting at famous Darul Quran mosque and Huffaz Lake, thanks to Ustaz AnNamir for welcoming us there again. We meet again in future, insya’Allah!

After sunrise session at DQ mosque, we go for slow shutter photography at Sungai Chilling for about 2 hours. On the way back to KL, we stopped by at this awesome lake with green trees and mountains on the back of it. Too bad the lake water is rippling, therefore I cannot get a perfect reflection in it. Still, looking good for me! Hope you guys like it!

Wishing everyone happy new year and all the best!

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + GND8 (Hard Edge) + Big Stopper

Dreamy Monsoon at Mordor

December 17, 2012 In Long Exposures Seascapes 2 Comments

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone! Just got back from Terengganu yesterday. Went there for monsoon seascape hunting just for one day. Four of us, me, Kamrul, Khasif and Born we leave KL on Saturday night around 10 pm. It took about 3 hours or more o reach Terengganu. We arrived about 1.30 am, a bit early from we expected. So we decided to do some recce on the shooting location. The swell was huge on the that night. I remember we stood on star cruise jetty near Kijal, the stone jetty was stone made and the huge swell crushing the jetty and makes it shaky. It was pretty scary but alhamdulillah everything is ok.

After done with recce the spot, we head to the near mosque to get some rest while waiting for Subuh prayer. It was raining on and off until we arrived back at the shooting location at 6am. It was raining quite heavy we all wait in the car hoping that the rain will stopped. Alhamdulillah, there is a yellow light from the sun rising up just above the horizon and few minutes after the rain stopped. But after about 10 minutes later, the rain falling down again and again few minutes after it stopped. It’s been like that until we finished shooting at about 9.30am. The monsoon season really makes the tide became huge and the waves is huge.

Thanks to Dr Yusri, a friend from Dungun for sharing this awesome location! This place definitely a beauty! Surely gonna revisit again soon. 🙂

I took this shot with Canon EOS 450D which I borrowed from my brother in law, because my camera is still in the hospital. Although its and old model of entry level camera from Canon, it still doing its job pretty well. Camera is just a tool, with the right technique and skills you can produce a great image. Thanks Abe Zul bagi pinjam body camera ni. 🙂

So here’s my first shot from yesterday’s day trip to Terengganu. Hope you guys like it and feel free to hit the share and like button!

Canon EOS 450D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + Reverse GND8