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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! 🙂

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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. 🙂

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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

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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

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Exquisite Sunset at The Restaurant
November 1, 2012 In Landscapes Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone! Hope you guys had a great day today and I’m wishing to all muslims early Salam Jumaat. Just came back from holiday in my hometown Kedah, I had great time there shooting with friends.

Ok enough about that, so this is the photo I was so excited to upload. It was taken a few days before Aidiladha, I asked my fellow ‘partner in crime’, Shazral to go for a sunset shooting somewhere near Shah Alam because both of us worked around there.  A day before that we also went for sunset shooting in Pantai Remis, but no luck because the sunset is hiding behind thick clouds and that’s why I asked Shazral for repeat. This spot crossed on my mind because I’ve seen Vedd Edd photo from this place and it was amazing.

About the shot, it was taken with Daryl Benson Reverse Neutral Density Graduated Filter 3 stops along with Lee 105mm Circular Polarizer. I took 3 different exposures, one for the sky, one for the restaurant and the last one is for the reflection. All 3 exposures were manually blended in photoshop. No HDR involved and this is the result! 🙂

Hope you guys like it and feel free to share! 🙂 View it on FLICKR | Prints are available here.

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + Reverse GND8 + CPL

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Dream and Passion
October 29, 2012 In Long Exposures Seascapes Sunrise and Sunsets 2 Comments

Assalamualaikum and good day to all readers! First of all, Happy Aidiladha to all Muslims in the world! I’m still on holiday in my hometown, Kedah. Yesterday I went to Pulau Sayak with few friends for sunset shooting and I was shown a new spot there. It was amazing! I never know my hometown also have a great place for seascape activities. I have been to Pulau Sayak before, but this new spot shown by Paksu, is totally awesome!

Few things happened while I was there shooting the sunset. First, my Big Stopper almost fell onto the rocky surface. But alhamdulillah somehow I managed to catch it before it dropped. If not sure it will be broken in pieces and my tears will follow. Lol :p. Ok the next thing is my feet got cut by the sharp reefs and rocks and I was bleeding. But luckily it just a small cut. Finally I got bites by thousands of mosquitoes! This is because both of my feet were covered with mud, that’s what attract the mosquitoes I think.

Nevertheless, I had really good time shooting there and managed to get few good shots. So here’s one of them! This is my dream and my passion. I love the captivating colors of nature. I love being out there. This is my way to express gratitude to Allah. I photographed the beauty of HIS creation and shared it to people around the world and hope they will appreciate it as much as I do. Insya’Allah 🙂

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + Reverse GND8 + Big Stopper

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