aiks. you and g88 are teachers from a school or something?

anyway back to the contrast, some of them look like it went a bit too far till it doesn't look natural.

overall good attempt. keep it up.

Thanks ac98 and goldfries. Yeah I only began to realise some are a bit unnatural but will take note Still I like the colours.

There're more to come.. Stay tuned for fishing village, bukit melawati and it's monkeys, and sunset at selangor river

you still haven't answer my Q on you and g88.

anyway yeah quite often it's preference, for me I try my best to snap pics so that I don't have to do adjustment.

like those in my gallery latest updates, out of the 46 shots only about 1/4 had some contrast correction (no color correction on my pics wan la) and that also very very very minimal. .......... hrmm i should state that.

Sorry got dc'ed when I was just about to reply to your Q

no g88 and I are not some teachers lol. It's an outing by LensaMalaysia members. So happened while shooting there's another bus load of secondary school kids came for their photography outing.

I don't know, my camera is very simple, only can control ISO and exposure compensation in manual mode, sometimes using auto is better than manual. Is it easy to do settings so that only minimal PP needed?

This post has been edited by Aurora Boreali: May 28 2007, 11:52 AM

don't underestimate AUTO - using them isn't bad at all, after snap just have a look. if the surroundings still fool your digicam then go manual.

nice sets.. u're going places now, which is a good thing if u really into improving.. i like ur composition of ur landscape shots, the other members definitely a bunch of helpful ppl..

Thanks diwant, hopefully there're more places I can go to for this kind of shooting.

Monkey Business 1

Monkey 1: OMG that monkey stole my food!


Monkey 2: Tee hee~ Come get it if you can


Mom: Those 2 psychopath... Wait, both of you wait till I get there and spank your butt.


Mom: Meh.... I better finish my food first.


Mom: Waddya lookin' at, punk? Never seen a monkey eat before?


Stay tuned for more monkey business

Monkey Business 2

Bradder... what do you have there?


Hmmph... peanuts again...?


Fine fine give me peanuts, if that's what you have.




Family time

love the last picture. cannonball monkeh!!

Yeah.. monkey, cannon, straits of malacca, pirates. (oops, one word links to another )

The last pic of the monkey in the cannon is what i define superb photography! Great work

Thanks travis

More pictures from the historical Melawati Hill. I'll try to explain some history alongside the photo, but I don't guarantee the accuracy of my history knowledge.

Staircase leading up the hill.


This muzium was closed on that day.


The backdoor of Muzium Permainan Rakyat.


Carvings on the side of the stairs.


Historical remains behind Muzium Permainan Rakyat.


The lighthouse and a small cannon set on the slope.


The lighthouse.


The hill overlooking the straits of Malacca.


One of the cannons pointing towards the mouth of Selangor river.


I'm not done yet, there're still a lot more pictures to come.

This post has been edited by Aurora Boreali: Jun 21 2007, 09:03 PM

Walking down from the peak of Bukit Melawati, I arrived at the Batu Hampar site. Batu Hampar is believed to have been used as an execution site. I was too engrossed by the cannons near the Batu Hampar so I didn't have a single shot of the Batu... Sorry guys.


Cannons at the Batu Hampar site.


Stone steps at the Batu Hampar site. The whole site is built like a fort but I'm not sure if it's part of the Fort Altingburg. As far as I know (based on Standard 5 knowledge), Fort Altingburg is furthur in the hill.


The tree after which Bukit Melawati was named.


Walking down the hill, I encountered this. If I'm not mistaken, this is the Tangga Seratus, leading down to KS town.


The narrow winding road leading towards Fort Altingburg that I know. However, it's very quiet and I didn't dare venture into the Fort because there there was only another girl, accompanying me. No photos from the old Fort Altingburg...


This post has been edited by Aurora Boreali: Jun 21 2007, 09:05 PM

Walking past the road leading towards Altingburg Fort, I arrived at Makam Di-Raja Selangor. State emblem carved into the wall enclosing the cemetry.


The Makam was closed so I took these pictures by extending my arm through the gap in the fence.






Road leading down the hill.


Photo taken duing tram ride. The driver was driving the tram in circles.

u went to kuala selangor last weekend? i was there also, but i went to the kg nelayan which is below the bkt melawati. u can actually see the kg. from the hill, near the canons... did u witness the sunset?? it was awesome that day.. saturday..

anyway, what digicam u're using btw?? the quality looks good too...

I'm still in Kuala Selangor coz this is my hometown. But these photos were taken during the same day as the paddy field outing.

Using Fuji FinePix A610, with Super CCD sensor. Most of the pictures were done with a little PP, like auto levels, brightness and contrast adjustment, colours. NO sharpening though. By quality you're referring to colours or the noise?

Here's an original without any adjustment done.



This post has been edited by Aurora Boreali: May 30 2007, 10:16 AM

These shots were taken in the Historical Museum on top of the hill. The museum building was previously the house of KS District Officer.

The museum was dimly lit with yellow lighting. Most of the artefacts were enclosed within glass panels. NO adjustment done (except usual resizing, adding borders and watermarking) unless otherwise stated.



Duit Tampang Selangor.


Sorry, forgot what were these.


Porcelain pieces.


Giant Nail found at Bukit Belanda (located near Bukit Melawati)


Tombak Bugis, one of the spears on display


Corrected using Auto Levels


Corrected using Auto Levels

Miniature models (except the last one) depicting events that took place in KS in the past.

Francis Light: Welcome to Kuala Selangor..!
Sultan: Err... shouldn't that be my line?



Kuala Selangor - An important trading centre in the 18th century, although not as famous as Malacca.




Japanese and his bicycle


This post has been edited by Aurora Boreali: May 30 2007, 05:18 PM

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1027/dscf0669su6.jpg

looks very interesting esp afta watching Pirates of Caribbean 3... ahahaha..

btw, u can bring cam into a museum ar?

Nobody stopped me. I think can la, coz it's a small museum only.