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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! 🙂

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. 🙂

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

Stormy Waves of Mordor

December 20, 2012 In Seascapes Singh-Ray Filters Slow Shutter No Comment

Assalamualaikum wr wbt and good evening everyone! Here’s my next photo from my recent short trip to Terengganu. We still at ‘Mordor’ or Kemasik beach. It’s a great morning although it was raining. We were shooting on the rain. Lucky I have some cloth to cover up the camera. It’s monsoon season now in the east cost. The waves is really killing it. Just a perfect time to play with slow shutter shot like this one.

This is a single RAW shot taken with Singh-Ray 3 stop reverse graduated neutral density filter. Processed using Canon Digital Photo Professional and then transferred to Photoshop. Basic editing like adjusting the brightness/contrast, levels, curves in order to recover some of the highlight in this image and to bring out more details.

Hope you guys like it and feel free to share this image! Thanks for the visit, have a great day 🙂

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

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

A Dreamy Evening

October 7, 2012 In Long Exposures Seascapes Sunrise and Sunsets No Comment

Assalamualaikum and good morning everyone! I just got back from Melaka, attending a friend’s wedding ceremony there. After that we head to Born Amin house to take a rest for a while because it’s still early to go for sunset shooting. At 4.30pm we headed to Tanjung Bidara beach, a great spot for seascapes and sunset photography. But to get to the rocky areas need to walk about 10 minutes to get there. Then we were joined by Kamrul Arifin Mansor aka KAM the Chip and another friend, Azri Laden.

Okay about the image, I shot it with Singh Ray 3 Stops Reverse GND and Lee Big Stopper. This is my first time using the Reverse Grad, thanks to Born Amin for letting me try it on that evening. It was awesome! I gotta get one for myself!

It was a smile at first because of the great location and the sunset was started showing the colors. But at the end, it turns into a tragedy. I have lost my Lee 3 Stops GND there. It slips out of the holder and fall between the rocks into the sea. I try to find it back but the water level is quite deep. I never found it back. RM380 ringgit burns that evening.

Nevertheless, it was a great evening. We had so much fun shooting there. One advice from me, watch out your gears and equipment guys while shooting to prevent unwanted things like this to happen. 🙂

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

Dreamy Dusk at Marina Island, Lumut, Perak

Arise of Tanjung Jara

Stormy Waves of Mordor

Dreamy Monsoon at Mordor

A Dreamy Evening

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