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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

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. 🙂

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

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

Twilight Saga

November 25, 2012 In Seascapes Singh-Ray Filters Sunrise and Sunsets 1 Comment

Assalamualaikum and good evening everyone. It’s been almost a month since I last went out for shooting because busy with work and living life. Hehe. Alhamdulillah, yesterday the weather is great and decided to go out for some photos in the evening. Right after finished some work at the office, I headed to Port Dickson with Shazral. Had checked the tide condition earlier and it’s just perfect to shoot at our favorite spot in PD, the beach near hutan lipur Pasir Panjang. It took about 1 hour+ of driving from Shah Alam to get there.

This shot was taken with a new Canon EOS 600D, a younger brother to my Canon EOS 500D. This camera is great, almost the same durability with my 500D but it came with a bunch of new features which is fantastic. This is not my camera, it belong to my brother in-law, I just borrowed it since my camera has been hospitalized. :p

It was a great evening. After the sun has fully set, suddenly a red colors appear just above the horizon. It was like someone just pull the switch and everything turns on. The red colors starting to form a rays of light and then it started to paint the sky with the beautiful colors. I was blown away at that time. To be honest with you, I was too excited and almost screw up at that time. But luckily I managed to get couple of shots and this is one of them.

Hope you guys like it and feel free to hit share button!

Canon EOS 600D + Canon EF-S 10-22mm + Reverse GND8 + ND8 Pro Glass

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

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. 🙂

View it on FLICKR!

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