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Explore The Elements Photo Blogging Contest

March 15, 2015 In Miscellaneous No Comment

Hi everyone, I’m participating in Explore The Elements Photo Blogging Contest! Come and join me for the chance to win £5,000 travel fund and many more exciting prizes!

Explore The Elements Photo Blogging Contest

Welcome to the Thomas Cook Explore the Elements photo blogging competition. It’s all about capturing and expressing the four elements through travel photography.

We’re looking for bloggers to publish photographs they’ve taken which best represent one of the four elements. All the categories are open to your interpretation, so you can be free to take a picture of anything you feel showcases your chosen element.

Once the competition has finished our panel of leading travel experts will come together to select the best photos. Each judge will preside over one category picking a winner from each before they collectively choose an overall winner.

The four individual category winners will receive a MacBook Air, a Fujifilm X-T1 camera, or an iPhone 6 with Bose noise cancelling headphones, depending on their personal choice. The overall winner will be awarded an amazing £5,000 travel fund. Keep up with the conversation using the official hashtag #ExploreTheElements – http://www.thomascook.com/blog/holiday-competitions-deals/explore-the-elements/

Earth

Beautiful Sunrise over majestic Mt. Rinjani || Lombok, Indonesia

Water

Self-Portrait at Mangku Sakti Waterfall || Lombok, Indonesia

Fire

Fiery Sunset over Dead Trees || Pantai Kelanang, Malaysia

Air

Crescent Moon and Sunset over Caldera De Taburiente || Canary Islands of La Palma, Spain

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My Travel Blogger/Photographer Nominations are:

Kamrul Mansor – Photographer/Timelapser at kamrularifin.com
Terence Lee – Photographer at terenceleezy.com
Francesco Gola – Photographer at francescogola.net
Beboy Photographies – Photographer/Blogger at beboyphoto.com
Helminadia Ranford – Photographer/Blogger at helminadia.com

Good luck guys! 🙂

How important it is to clean your photograph?

February 26, 2015 In Behind The Scenes 2 Comments

Hi everyone! On this post I’m going to share how important it is to clean up your photo to make it look more neat and professional.

As a landscape photographer, I often visit a place that have a beautiful views. But sometimes, the place is filled with dirty things like thrash, even your friends tripod leg. Lol! 😛

So, there are few ways you can removed these unwanted things. First you can do so during the shoot itself, but then you will get your hands dirty. Obviously you do not wish to get infected with bacteria by touching dirty things out there. Second option is you can removed it in Photoshop like I did, using the ‘Content-Aware’ tool. It’s easy to use but you have to do it gently and with patience otherwise you will get a bad result.

Here is the result for my ‘cleaning stage’. It looks more clean and neat right?! Happy trying guys!

Don’t forget to follow my Instagram for more behind the scenes of my landscape photography adventure!

Starry Night at Lake Tekapo

April 8, 2014 In Milky Way New Zealand Panorama No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone. Its been a while since my last post and I apologise for that. Last week I had an injury with my left knee which require me to do a surgery. Alhamdulillah, everything went well and now I’m in the recovery process with a long MC! 😛

So to fill up my free time resting at the house, I decided to process another vertical panorama shot that I captured at Lake Tekapo during night time. In other words, STARGAZING! 🙂

Lake Tekapo is definitely the location you have to visit if you love to stargazing. Its like millions of star seen clearly with your bare eyes!

A little bit on the technical part, this panorama is generated using 13 vertical shots taken using Canon 5D Mark II and Samyang 14mm 2.8. All of the shots is merged in Photoshop and then of course few enhancements done to it.

So here is the photo, hope you guys like it!

Langkawi Cable Car – Enjoying sunset from 2,339 feet above sea level

January 29, 2014 In Landscapes Panorama Singh-Ray Filters Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Enjoying beautiful sunset from 2,339 ft above sea level at the top station of Langkawi Cable Car. It was cool breezes up here about 5 degrees (+/-) cooler than lowlands. I’m freezing my ass for almost 2 hours just for the sunset and its all worth it! One tip from me, do bring sweater or wear long sleeves if you going up there on the evening until sunset. It can get pretty cold when the wind strucks!

So here’s the first two of many panorama shots I managed to get from up there. Stay tuned for more photos!

2,339 ft above sea level, Panorama Langkawi Cable Car at Sunset

2,339 ft above sea level, sunset from Top Station of Langkawi Cable Car

The Middle Station, Langkawi Panorama Cable Car

The Middle Station of Langkawi Cable Car

Blissful Sunrise at Darul Quran Mosque – Before and after

November 24, 2013 In Cityscapes & Architectural Miscellaneous Mosque No Comment

Assalamualaikum wr wbt and good day everyone. Just want to share my recent photo from Darul Quran mosque sunrise shooting.

Below is the before and after image of it. As you can see, there are few of my fellow photographer friends in the shot, hence making the shot looks kinda distracting. So what I did is I use the lasso tool and content-aware to removed them from the shot.

Now you can see the final image is much more better right! 🙂

Sorry guys, just had to removed you from the shot lah :p

The Middle Earth

November 10, 2013 In New Zealand Singh-Ray Filters Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

The plan was to have sunrise at Glenorchy, but everyone overslept so we ended up having the sunrise here somewhere around Lake Wakatipu. The scene reminds me of ‘Mordor’ in the Lord of The Rings movie. 🙂 Just for your guys info, shot was taken using zoom telephoto lens, Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8.

Filter Used: Singh-ray Reverse GND 3 stops. Click the image for larger view! 🙂

Behind the scene of ‘Everlasting Beauty of Lake Tekapo’

November 10, 2013 In New Zealand No Comment

Assalamualaikum wr wbt and very good Sunday everyone! Just wanna share with you guys few behind the scene photos of myself in making the ‘Everlasting Beauty of Lake Tekapo‘ image. It was captured with my GoPro Hero3 Black Edition. Not a bad idea at all kan! 🙂

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and of course, a proper self-portrait for memories! It’s not often I get to go to this kind of place. 🙂

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Our RV at Lake Pukaki on one cold morning.

November 9, 2013 In New Zealand No Comment

Our first night freedom camping in New Zealand is by this lakeside, Lake Pukaki. It was the night that all of us were almost frozen to death (not really to death, but it was super freaking cold!). I was wearing 4 layers of cloth including my windbreaker jacket, 3 pairs of socks, a snowcap, pair of glove on the night when I was sleeping but yet I still feel damn cold. I was the earliest one to woke up because I couldn’t stand the cold. But everyone else still sleeping like they never give damn about the cold weather.

It was a great feeling to wake up in the morning and get to see this amazing view. It’s just priceless! 🙂

Milky Way Panorama over Lake Tekapo

September 13, 2013 In Milky Way New Zealand Panorama No Comment

Hello everyone. I just came back from great photography adventure on South Island of New Zealand. A journey of 6 Malaysian photographer to Southland of New Zealand to capture the landscape beauty of the country. We traveled more than 2200km with an old RV to photograph everything we can from landscape, rivers, mountains, and stars.

So here is my first photo from the trip. A milky way panorama work from Lake Tekapo. 36 vertical images stitched together in photoshop and it was shot at f2.8 with Samyang 14mm lens. Hope you guys like it!

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

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Explore The Elements Photo Blogging Contest

Explore The Elements Photo Blogging Contest

Earth

Water

Fire

Air

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My Travel Blogger/Photographer Nominations are:

How important it is to clean your photograph?

Starry Night at Lake Tekapo

Langkawi Cable Car – Enjoying sunset from 2,339 feet above sea level

Blissful Sunrise at Darul Quran Mosque – Before and after

The Middle Earth

Behind the scene of ‘Everlasting Beauty of Lake Tekapo’

Our RV at Lake Pukaki on one cold morning.

Dead Tree Lake Reflection

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