Here we gooo. removing some of the intro pics. damn yellow one. pain la my eyes tengok now. haha!!
also ive removed my soft porn pic. i think ive tortured u people with it enuff. lol



ze guest hall again.



The main entrance



Some of the garden decorations



Some more of it.



and the last one. Is again the dining hall


That concludes todays' compilation. more later.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: May 23 2008, 11:54 AM

i like the "mood" of 2nd pic.

last pic however ---> wad... da... fuk... lol

This post has been edited by tadasu: Feb 6 2008, 01:38 AM

Second is nice, just like those in games

I like the dining hall picture. Has a lot of depth in it.

Do you play the piano? I like the 2nd picture very much. You have quite a beautiful house.

Wooowwww ... you've a very beautiful house! It looks so cozy, comfortable and exotic.

I like your dining hall interior setting .. but the ambiance is spoiled by the towel ..., the living room looks so cozy & romantic and the house entrance looks so exotic .. but I wish I can see the entire front view of your house in actual day light white balance ...

Indeed, thumbs up for the house design ...

This post has been edited by katheryna: Feb 6 2008, 04:31 AM

OMGWTFLOLHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
#2 is super nice...
is that ur lighting setup...or the lights are already there?
#i dunno..the dining room oso nice...
why gantung towel there! haiyyaaaaa!
n for the last pic...aka...ur self promotion pic...
if u crop it tight...i'd say the light is good...
the reflection of the light is very distracting...

lol yeah. we need some soft porn in here XD

For the 2nd pic, i just had the night lamp on. everything else was turned off.

and the towel. umm. well the table was a mess, and i was too lazy to clean it up.

and here's some more. this time, its gonna shots of my cats!!! weee



that's chicken ball.



and now she's pretending to be asleep.



and this is my other cat. her name's Dog. yep. its dog.



this one is Tikus. I know, my cats have weird names. haha

actually i oversharpened all of these cat shots. scaled down tho. not obvious anymore.



and another shot of tikus.

and that's all for today's cat pix.

oh and i am starting to take daytime pix of the house. but im getting a lot of highlight clipping.
my house lots of windows and mirrors.

and as a last note. yeppers. well kind of anyway. im learning to play the piano. am studying music at the moment.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Feb 6 2008, 03:30 PM

Waa .. the kitty is soo cute. i like these 2 pictures. Nice!

the first collection the colour a bit like yellowish......except no2.....heheh just comment

yeah, there's a street lamp in the back. kinda swallowed everything.

anyway,
More pics of the house... from the outside!!! grrrr!!!!
be prepared for some excercise for ur eyes. Taken in the afternoon.



Yep, that's how it looks like on the outside. not very glamorous XD



The front porch



one of my mums' plants.



more of the porch



thats one of the powerlines connected to my house. kinda dangerous i think.



The backyard where we hang our clothes to dry



The view from the back entrance.



more of the backyard



That's one of my brothers' friend doing a cartwheel or sumthing in the garden.



same spot as the one above.

that's all i have as of now. more to come later. thanks for the comments btw. i really appreciate it.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Feb 18 2008, 12:11 AM

bro...
may i know wat camera u r using?
tthe sky looks cool!
is it set to vivid?

No exif? PP-ed kaw kaw huh?

wow
these are nice
love them especially the shirtless one
hehe
kidding

You have a jungle out there..
Good images, HDR?

im using a d40 kit. settings on custom = normal tone compensation, and hi sharpening.
for the last two shots i metered off the sky. didin't wanna clip any highlights.
and here is where i pp-ed both the sky and foreground separately. since the foreground was damn dark one.

VEEERRRRYYYY, lol XD

The night shots are in hdr. they daytime ones are well.. a lot of pp

and just a bit more before i go.
random ones.



this is where all the work is done.



a small walkway in the garden



some sort of palm tree.



My brother, he forgot to turn the monitor on. XD



another hdr entry in the kitchen this one.



my cat outside the kitchen window.



hdr again..



tried to be a little funky with the lighting. this ones in my living room.



this one's a little intense. even for me

annnnd finalllyy!!!!



yep, a preview of future things to come.
this is what i do in my free time. free running.
but more of this another day.

thanks again guys for taking the time.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Feb 18 2008, 12:09 AM

I see, but hey, it's awesome man

d40 u say?
no wonder the colours seem familiar...=P
i used a d40 too before...

really? but your gear now. walauwey!
im saving up for the 18-200mm vr.
but as of now, im learning all i can with photoshop.

gears doesnt make a photog..=)
the most important component is ur eyes! =P
18-200?
be informed that it is soft at above 180mm zoom...
other than that...it's versatile...shoot-anything zoom...
get nikkor if u can...
if cant...sigma is an ok alternative...

cantik!

The post you entered in was too short. You must have at least 10 character(s) in your post before it will get posted.

here's some pix with grunge effects. my first attempts from stock color photos.

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Added on February 15, 2008, 2:09 pmalright. now is the time for serious photoshop touch ups. i just learned this technique. i hope i can get better results soon. anyway here they are.



my friends during the party. one of the few shots i managed to salvage from the night



that's my foot. found some cool looking patch of dirt there. and snapped this one real quick. the clouds were moving fast.



this is one of my friend salvaged from the recent parkour training album.

that's for now. more later.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Feb 15 2008, 02:09 PM

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

this is already considered art and design. what plugin did u use to get that dave hill effect? lucis art?

yeppers. can't do much without it. but still, its a lotta work tho. those were my first attempts. happy they turned out well. i find that it works really well when there's some funky lighting involved. same goes for them hdr images.

i like the effect...
lucis art?
u got it free?
i cant seem to find the free ones...help me..

eh...wait there's a parkour community here in Malaysia????where are you guys at?really interested in photographing parkour.do tell me ya!

This post has been edited by zadan: Feb 16 2008, 09:18 AM

very nice pic la.. great skill in PS! admire u!

should u just get the plugin, i'm sure u'll be amazed.

btol tak amir?

well the lucisart plugin can only do so much. the ones i did were layers upon layers of adjustments, ranging from simple curves and level adjustments, dodging and burning, replacing color, light blending adjustments and a lotta other stuff really. haha!! trust me, its not easy. lol

however, it seems to work really really well when u use it on photos with nice lighting. imma post one below as an example.

my average ps file size trying to get this effect is around 170 megs. im not sure if there's a faster and easier way to do it. xandman, check ur pm.

anyways, :D:D here are a couple of night shots i managed to take last night.





and a coupla more lucis stuff



my cat i got this from lucis pretty straightforward. i think its the lighting.



this one was hard. not a good photo to start with. the 3 subjects on the left didn't have much light on them. and a very bland background. but i wanted to see what i could with this photo. below is the before photo



mostly dodge and burn, and when i tried to push further with lucis, the image started breaking up XD sooo yeah. don't just rely on the plugin when u try to do this. and thats it for tonight. thanks for the comments.

oh!! and yesh, there is a parkour community here. its pretty active around my area. some 30 odd dudes i think. mostly in bangi and putrajaya.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Feb 17 2008, 11:49 PM

bro. your friends looks familiar to me? are they from subang?



This post has been edited by dgrebel: Feb 18 2008, 01:49 PM

nice cat and light photo very nice indeed.so you guys have a website or sumthing on the parkour group?what skill those guys at?advance?

Went to putrajaya after midnight last night with my friend and took a lotta photos. will post em later since i gotta sort em out first.
anyway, here are a few shots from the night before. and nope, not hdr. damn bright that putrajaya. XD



















lol, facebook penyekkan my panorama XD



i think so yeah. they're actually friends of my friend. well actually one of em is her boyfriend.



there is a forum board. tho not very active. pkmy.tk.
i can say that we're pretty ok.

not HDR? then wut? lucisart?

the pics came out pretty much like that from cam, the colors and the lighting. had full moon some more. and it just so happens that my d40 is a bit soft when shooting at low shutter speeds. so it adds to that kind of painting like look. and ive gotta say, the metering on this cam is wicked. all of this on aperture priority and using the AE lock method. i went with a friend who owns a 400D. the metering on my nikon is much much better.
so anyway, i adjusted the highlight, shadow and midtone contrasts and upped the saturations a bit since i always shoot in adobe RGB.

alrity!~ more night shots of putrajaya.





partner in crime. lol

















and thats me and my friend. ive gots more but i dunno how to add more posts lol

i'll post these on flickr soon. for the a bigger picture. i've exceeded my quota already

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Feb 21 2008, 02:20 PM

your photos are nice.. but some unimportant details can be cropped out..

I really really like this one. Maybe because of the contrasty colors between the road and the buildings. The perspective as well is very nice.

thanks and yea, my composition is not very good. that's why i don't shoot portraits. tak pandai XD tgh practice on my cats lol

thanks

kau dah add aku kat flickr ke blom?

oh!! bulum lagi. sat naa aku add.

done

Ada join LYN punya flickr group ke? Leh add gak keke...

will do!!! adding

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Added on February 21, 2008, 9:42 pma few more























thanx for viewing im really beat at the moment. almost pengsan aidy. haven't had enuff sleep for the past 3 days. now i can lepak for a while.. right after i play a round or two of DOTA!!! woohooo!!

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Mar 9 2008, 06:00 PM

recentest cat photo lol



holy crap. it was big lol. i have made a thumbnail link. XD

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Mar 2 2008, 06:09 PM

Kuala Lumpur Trip last night. trying out the ever so popular HDR technique

here are 2 that i've finished editing





more to come later.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Mar 2 2008, 06:16 PM

superb gila bai! what method u use? sharing is caring.

This is beyond photography, it's CGI. But I love the color and the symmetrical composition! Well done!

terima kasih. i use a lot of masking and blending. and every picture slightly different method umm but basically just using the blending function. mostly soft light. try making a b&w copy of the HDR image, adjust the highlight and shadow areas for areas you want more contrast and then blend it over the HDR image with soft light. try experimenting with different layer adjustments.

thanx

here a coupla more. more later

if too many PP.. can consider HDR ke?

haha!! im not sure as well. artistic HDR? i dunno XD

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Mar 6 2008, 01:49 PM

alrity the last batch. the rest will be uploaded to my flickr later. gotta go to class 10 minutes ago lol









okay thats it for the klcc tour. hope you guys enjoyed this batch. and thanks for comments. much appreciated

uisy lawa siot.. compo bagus.. variety of colours..

tapi kan bro.. kalo PP tu... dah pakai blending mode semua.. dah tak original sgt la..

i second dat

exactly!! that's the point of HDR. in my opinion anyway. i mean. once your images go thru photomatix. that itself dah tak original. its already an artistic representation of what you captured. blending is just another neat way to get more out of your original image. You're not adding things that are not in the original image. but instead bringing out more of it. and at the end of the day, we mostly do HDR to create surreal,stunning images otherwise impossible with conventional methods.

but blending? thats wayyyy different dude..

bukan nak marah, tapi kalo simple toning, curving, shadowing, saturating the pics is ok la.. blending is extensive PP..

HDR is not artistic photography, it's to bring out details and dinamika sesebuah gambar..

wah.. pandai ek u explain.. hehe i second dat also..

try doing HDR without tonemapping and then you'll understand what im talking about. the image you get after photomatix combines the differently exposed images. thats the actual HDR image. doing it without photomatix you'll get pretty crap images. if you don't believe me, try merging a hdr image in photoshop without any major adjustments afterwards. to get something tonemapped as found in photomatix you're gonna be processing layers upon layers of masking and blending to get similar results.

therefor if you use photomatix you are already processing the HDR image beyond its actual scope. trust me, i've done my homework lol.

i beg to differ. read this

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials...namic-range.htm

when ur tonemapping you're actually compressing the dynamic range. you'll be flattening out the histogram to get that "HDR look".
but technicalities aside. photoshop is a great tool especially for those working with digital photos. you're missing out if you worry too much about these things.

anyway, here are a few more. me, my brother and my guitar. and a big thanks to my friend ND


this is me.


this is ammar


Will be reuploaded once i fix it a bit

alrity. more later.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Mar 9 2008, 06:29 PM

ok2.. this is a must try for photoshop lover like me.. later i'll do something similar.. hehehe

did u use lucis art for this?

for the 2nd one obviously yes.
the first one is just some tonemapping, burning and blurred the sky.
the last one is HDR. with levels adjustment.

followed my tutorial eh?

gaussian blur > blend

hehe! thats a great method by the way

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Mar 10 2008, 04:02 PM

Alrite my guitar again. forgot to convert it to srgb before. here it is as it was actually intended to look like.


this one is a standard three exposure HDR to get the view from the outside.


This is the chess set. done from 2 exposures only. just to even out the strong light from the outside and to keep the nighttime mood.

More later

Hello people, its just confirmed. on the 18th at the pavillion bb me and my brother will be performing parkour demos. we're gonna be promoting reeboks' new sports range. 18th is the official launch date. 12pm onwards. if anyone's in the neighborhood and interested do drop by. and support your local Parkour scene!!!! :D

18th at pavillion? noted. beware of sniper.

i pun nak jadi sniper la..hahaha

haha!! well our run is only about 15 minutes. then the rest of the crew will follow up. Bertegur2 lah nanti

and another entry. also another hdr entry.



A garden decoration. the rubber duckie!! :

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Mar 14 2008, 02:03 PM

Flamingoes!!! my pet flamingoes!! lol haven't had time to travel and snap. so i've been going round the house to see what i can get pretty hard as is. and the mosquitoes aren't making it a very fun time for me either XD

Alrity a coupla pics on my 2nd day of work on the roadshow. didn't manage to get any photos of us during work since the clients came down to watch. lol. these came straight from camera. with curve adjustments in ps.


on the top floor of Ampang Point. waiting for the car to pick us up.


on the way to 1utama. i actually parkoured a bit on the dream girls stage lol.


This is vivian one of the flier girls im working with, shot in the car while heading to another location. i think i focused on her ear now that i looked at this pic again. haha!!! but anyway this girl's a ball of energy. always hopping about. really fun to work with XD

alrity, when i find time to slack off a bit i'll take some more pictures.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Mar 17 2008, 03:25 PM

one more with my usual photoshop post processing. my house entrance grill. f/22 used photomatix to get more light, and lucis to bring out the texture of the metal grill. darkened a bit with levels and cropped out the messy parts due to hdr merging.

wah kemain lagi tour ko.. tomorrow at pavillion right? let's see if i can come over. parking wont be cheap there right? what time u performing tomorrow?

haha! penat woo. dah la location tak best. smalam location kat depan maybank bb, nak pk kemendenye kat situ pon aku tak tau. last2 buat flips and XMA sket XD gile la organisers ni. and esok starts at 1pm. parking tetap mahal can't guarantee my performance will be great. but there are awesome bboys too. at least that'll compensate haha!!

i like the chess set shot man.simply awesome!

Nice to meet you.... Your edited photos are awesome... Can you teach me how to do it ...?

Thanks i'll post a tutorial soon on my hdr lucis orton technique. since i don't see that many people with this approach yet.

well anyway about yersterdays event, apparently there was a massive delay lol. so it started out quite late. at 4pm actually. and our main event was at 7pm. there were a few photographers there and one dude who recognized me but i was too busy thinking of my performance to ask him who he was. so sorry. was kinda nervous getting ready.

and will post photos soon. connection's pretty bad at the moment. for those who came, lotsa thanks and for those who came early im so sorry for the delay XD not my fault haha!!

nasib aku jumpa customer kat pj smalam.. hahahha.. kalo tak dok menanguk tunggu show ko start.. cant wait to see the pics.. had never shoot parkour before.

the mystery dude should be razurya..

This post has been edited by dgrebel: Mar 19 2008, 03:57 PM

XD so sorry. the management mmg kelam kabut sket. and the mystery dude was chinese. haha! and ade a couple of photographers outside when the fly flm trooper arrived. probably came to shoot pavillion. i think he was using a d40. woohoo!! friend lol. and one chinese guy with a massive canon + lightgun. dunno what model tho.

what mystery dude? tak paham dehh

abaikan...

you guys are good

Here are a couple i took last night when i got back. 3 am. im starting to hate this job
its a full moon tho, now's the time to go for night photogoraphy people!!


f3.5, 18mm, 30 sec exposure, spot metering. levels in photoshop


same as above with texture overlaying and color balance in photoshop:P and yes, the window is dirty to begin with.

and lastly another hdr lucis orton image



and here's one shot of us, the bboys and the promoter girls. taken on tuesday the other day.



okay more later!! gotta go to work

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Mar 23 2008, 09:41 PM

an old car. method = 1 RAW + photomatix + orton + lucis + Levels + Desaturate.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Mar 27 2008, 11:20 PM

More Tour photos.


Where we performed.


The girls and the coordinator chillin'


Caryn on the left and Zin Yi on the right.


Fujia and his girlfriend Sara


Getting warmed up.


Getting ready for a massive freeze


an airtrek coming up

no pics of me cuz im holding the cam. and my brother's cue is with me. so nothing of us yet

Nice pp concept for the subjects. Suits the theme well

thanx. i found out that i get better results by going with jpeg and in camera processing for people shots. and raw for landscape and architecture.

im gonna get a speedlite once this job's over. its gonna be fun

Alrighty as promised my HDR tutorial.
sorry took so long. i just got back from penang last night. and i managed to process a few pix and one hdr. so below is a step by step of the process that i went thru.

so we start off with the finished result. here it is

before

after


the process

so the first thing to look out for is high contrast locations be it buildings or landscapes. those that you won't be able to capture fully with conventional methods. i shot this one from my hotel window. tripod and camera outside the window since there's a pretty big ledge out there and shot three exposures manually and of course in RAW. the proper exposure means that im losing detail in the foreground with a lot of black clipping as seen below.



not a pretty bad shot actually but i wanted a HDR photo.

so i took another two over and under exposed photos of -+ 2 stops.

now you could either do the hdr process manually or use the automated process in photoshop or photomatix. im a bit lazy and since its quite hard to do it manually i usually go with photomatix.

merged all three in photomatix before tone mapping and it'll turn out like so.


and this is my typical photomatix settings. u can get pretty good results with these.


so here's what i got from that


now this actually looks pretty good. u would usually run it thru photoshop with curves and levles adjustments and you're done. but i prefer to take it a step further. since you shot in RAW you should exploit every damn thing out of it lol.

photoshop process

i started with curve adjustments, since the picture looks a bit flat. gave it a bit more contrast and i masked out the trees so i retain the detail and color


after that i removed the noise with noiseware and for the magic touch used lucisart blend for mega detail and contrast. usually i do it over several layers but this one turned out ok with just one. notice how i masked out the sky with a very low opacity brush. 7% - 15% should do fine. don't go over.


then i dodge the trees with settings set on midtones 7% - 15% and applied some unsharp mask


and finally i desaturated the mid section a bit since the street lights were a bit too saturated for my liking. cropped and straightened the image and voila its done!

hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial. later, lucis art tutorial. can't promise when tho. but will come soon lol.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Apr 8 2008, 03:29 PM