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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. 🙂

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

. . O u t c a s t . .

September 24, 2012 In Black & White Long Exposures No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone! It’s not very often I posted a black and white photos, so here’s one for today. A simple tip, minimalist perspective works great in black & white shots and a combination with long exposures will make the shot a real winner!

Enough with talking, here’s the photo. Hope you guys like it, feel free to share! See it on FLICKR!

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

Kelanang’s Story – The Beauty in Sorrow

March 3, 2012 In Seascapes 2 Comments

Assalamualakum and good evening everyone. Hope you guys having a great Saturday yeah. Here’s my new upload and again, it was from Pantai Kelanang, Banting. This shot was taken earlier on January this year, on a sunset outing with few friends. If I’m not mistaken it was my first sunset hunting on 2012. But not much of a luck on that day as it was cloudy and dark clouds were all over the place. So I were only able to play with long exposures like this shot.

I love the roots position here which make it perfect for dreamy feel. A shutter speed of 90 seconds proves it. It looks very dreamy and mystical. 🙂

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 stop GND + 10 stop ND + CPL

Kelanang’s Story – Rays of Hope

February 22, 2012 In Seascapes No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone. This is my latest shot from my fourth visit to Kelanang beach, Banting. It was a nice outing with few friends from facebook and alhamdulillah, praises to Allah. We were blessed with a beautiful sunset! As I remember everyone was like rushing to get the shot as the sun setting in front of us. It was fun. 🙂

This is single shot taken with 3 stops Graduated Neutral filter to balance the bright sky with my foreground, a 10 stops Neutral Density filter to give me more longer exposures and a Circular Polarizer to saturate the colors. I did minor post-processing like increasing/reducing brightness, sharpening and some noise removal.

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 stop GND + 10 stop ND + CPL

Kelanang’s Story – Cast Away

February 8, 2012 In Seascapes 4 Comments

Assalamualaikum and hello everyone. This shot was taken somewhere around November last year and it was my second visit to Kelanang. I was there with Shazral and Fakhrul T. for sunset hunting as usual. But again, the sun playing hide and seek behind those thick clouds. Nevertheless, the tide is just nice for me to play with slow shutter speed.

This is a single shot taken with 3 stops Gnd and a Circular Polarizer. As you can see, all those mangrove trees make it harder to composed a nice clean shot. This is what I’ve been telling in my previous post of the Kelanang beach. 🙂

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 3 stop GND + CPL

Kelanang’s Story – The Old Roots

January 29, 2012 In Black & White Seascapes 2 Comments

Assalamualaikum and hello everyone. This is my latest shot which was taken at Pantai Kelanang, Banting. As I was saying in my old post, this place is the real deal for landscape photographers to challenge themselves in composition. This is because the natural surface here is full with mangrove trees which make its difficult to compose a clean shot. The trees will always be in front of the camera. So what are you waiting for? Go there and challenge yourself! 😀

About the shot, it was a long exposure of 90 seconds and I used Lee 10 stops ND filter a.k.a the big stopper to cut out the bright light along with 3 stops ND Grad to balance the sky. Editing are done with Photoshop and Nik Silver Efex Pro 2.

Hope everyone likes it. Enjoy your weekend yeah!

Canon EOS 500D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + 10 stops ND + 3 stops GND

Isolated II

October 19, 2011 In Black & White Seascapes 1 Comment

Another photo from last visit to Kelanang with Azralfikri Saip, Mohd Fakhrul Tahfiz& Syafiqjay Sj.

I really love the challenges here in Kelanang. The natural surface here is full with mangrove trees which make its difficult to compose a shot. This is because the trees will always be in the shot.

So, if you think you are a good landscape photographer, go to this place and check it out! 🙂

Isolated

September 21, 2011 In Black & White Seascapes No Comment

As’salam & good day everyone.. Pantai Kelanang is one of the many beaches in Selangor.. But this beach is the real deal for landscapers.. This is my very first time here, thanks to bro Shazral for the trip there.. This beach have many mangroves tree that makes harder to compose a shot because the trees is crossing each other and it is all over the place even hundred meters away from shorelines there’s still a trees.. If you think you are a good landscape photographer, I suggest you go to this beach and check it out .. 😀

The sunset on that evening not really come out, it was playing hide and seek behind the clouds.. The scary thing is the tide was rising pretty fast! But we still enjoy the outing.. So here’s my first picture from Kelanang..