Welcome. This is a random photo box of mengsuan.

1. Aurora in KL (this post)
2. Amber Chia - KLPF 2008
3. Midvalley Christmas Fashion show
4. Full moon with optical illusion
5. PIKOM PC Fair 2008 (III)
PIKOM PC Fair 2008 (III) Part II
PIKOM PC Fair 2008 (III) Part III
6. Pioneer Car Audio Road Show Part I
Pioneer Car Audio Road Show Part II
Pioneer Car Audio Road Show Part III
7. Bukit Jalil-Felicia Chew
8. Bukit Tinggi Resort-Felicia Chew and Rae
9. Random shots (iPod, Zune, haloween PS3 launch sneakpeak)
10. PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (III) Friday
11. PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (III) Sunday Part 1
12. PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (III) Sunday Part 2
13. PIKOM PC Fair 2009 (III) Sunday Part 3
14. PIKOM PC Fair 2010 (I)
15. PIKOM PC Fair 2010 (I) Saturday
16. Samsung Galaxy S teaser
17. Jyee at Putrajaya
18. Wei Ling - 웨이링



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This post has been edited by mengsuan: Aug 21 2011, 08:01 PM

Thanks. The background is the dark night sky. Should be black.

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L. For non-aura photos, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L is used.

Photos taken during KLPF2008 a month ago. All photos are quite soft due to shake. Not hand shake but people shaking me. Pity my IS lens. Bring on the comments and critiques.



High pass filter applied:


Soft focus technique:


Sexy back


Random post-processing. Divides the perspective to the cameraman, peeper, amber and... air?

I did post-processing on laptop and it looks fine on my laptop. My screen is not calibrated, so pardon me. I shall note that I should make it brighter next time. The shots are done in 0eV and JPEG (big mistake).

I guess we need to get monitor calibration for our computer.

Every monitor have different display characteristics; colour, brightness, contrast and gamma. Calibration is a process to adjust your monitor to conform with the widely acceptable standards.

Check here to see if your monitor is up to standard. Mine isn't.

Get a RM300+ spyder pro and you can use on all laptop and desktop that you have. Otherwise look for a friend who has it and pay him some money to do it for you. Think again, you could buy a device and do it for your friends for a small amount of money.

I learned it from a website, so I don't take credits for it. However, I lost the bookmark after I got a virus attack. I can brief you the steps, it's actually simpler than the other photo's processing.
1. Let photoshop draw vertical guides at 25%, 50% and 75% position.
2. Use rectangular marquee tool to select the first 25% portion.
3. Create a new adjustment layer and select Hue/Saturation.
4. A dialog box will appear. Check colorize option and slide the hue option. That gives the colour.
5. Repeat for 50% and 75% position.
6. Blend mode for all layers should be "Color"
7. Clear the vertical guides.
8. Select the 75% position layer. Select Stroke from Layer Styles.
9. Stroke size 1px, black colour, Inside position; to draw the black line.
10. You can either repeat for all layers or copy the layer style to one another. Done!

Edit: The name of this PP is called Colorize.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Dec 4 2008, 01:04 PM

Midvalley christmas themed fashion show on Saturday. Starting to process photos today. Photos now are click-able for larger resolution.
I like the cool look of this model.


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This post has been edited by mengsuan: Dec 12 2008, 01:18 PM

Lol. Wait, I am slow and my laptop is also slow in processing.

Lol. I didn't do anything about the lighting. It's Midvalley's management.

Next picture. Like before, it's click-able for larger size.




Getting tired to process portraits, time for a casual shot. This photo is shot using Tokina AT-X Pro 10-17mm f3.5-4.5 lens, courtesy of Vincent Pang. This UWA fisheye lens provide almost 180 degree view on the camera. You can see all 3 CENTRE COURT sign except for the one behind me. A good lens for its value.

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Added on December 12, 2008, 1:20 pmEarly morning processing. Midvalley was snowing while I shot this.



This post has been edited by mengsuan: Dec 13 2008, 09:37 PM

Random full moon shoot yesterday night.



Optical illusion mentioned by dec08: Focus onto the moon and you will see the clouds move.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Dec 14 2008, 03:33 AM

PIKOM PC Fair 2008 (III), Saturday. Instant hot upload. No fancy edits.







Continued here

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Dec 14 2008, 02:47 PM

How small is small? If not big enough then click on it.

Holy! The clouds really move.

A single Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS paired with my loyal Canon EOS 40D and Canon 580EX II speedlite.

More photos!









Felicious in the house!



Continued here! (Part 3)

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Dec 14 2008, 11:58 PM

I'm so sorry. What's wrong with it?

Perhaps this page is all loaded with top quality JPEG.

If I have time to photoshop, the photos should be slightly better but since it's a hot PC fair event, I have to upload it straight from my camera.
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Today's (Sunday) PIKOM PC Fair 2008 (III) photos!






This girl looked very familiar. I even asked her if I've seen her before.


Felicious in the house again!


Mochi in the house!


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This post has been edited by mengsuan: Dec 15 2008, 02:39 AM