45 A Photography Workshop II

Some of subjects that were shot at Cameron Highlands on a day 1

Spider waits for its pray

Sunflowers stand tall

Welder repairs the tea pick machine at BOH factory

An Indonesian worker taking a cigarette break

Worker puts in firewood into a machine fireplace at BOH factory

Dead tree on top of the hill

Chalets morning view

Man walks on a landslide plastic cover

Rows of cabbage

Pink flower buds

Landscape of dead tree hill

One of BOH’s tourist spot

Workers picking tea leaves and flushes with tea pick machine

Worker picking firewoods at BOH factory

Lavender flowers

Worker plucking sawi or pak-choi in her vegetable farm

A tourist spot at Sungei Palas, Brinchang

Spider waits for its pray

Tea leaf

Tea plantation worker walks in the morning

School bus driver stops in front of shops

Worker picking firewoods at BOH factory

Honeybee collecting pollen

Note: I only deal with cropping, sharpening and leveling.

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43 A Photography Workshop I

I’m attending a 3 days  3 nights workshop in Cameron Highland beginning 29^th October to 1^st November 2009. This photography workshop will be handling by Malaysian Photographer Mr. Zainal Abdul Halim. He’s a staff Photojournalist at Reuters.

The workshop will be divided into two, that is beginner and advance. I will best fitted into beginner stage; due to lack of experience in photojournalism that is.

We will be situated at MNS-BOH Nature Study Centre in the BOH tea plantation itself. Subjects to shoot in Cameron are consists of:

1. Landscape – nice landscape, places of interest, architecture.
2. BOH Tea Plantation – the making of BOH tea, workers.
3. Streets of Cameron – people of Cameron.
4. Orang Asli – need to go deep into forest.
5. Hill farming at Cameron – farmers at work.

This is going to be a third visit to Cameron in 10 years. But this time it’s going to be purely academic. I want to focus and learn as much as I can from this trip because it is not a cheap Photojournalism course. Probably the biggest investment for photography lesson, ever and I wish to apply it whenever I’m holding a camera.

InsyaAllah, by completing this workshop I’ll become much better person in many ways. Not only in photography, but in real life where I as a person have only one purpose, that is to submit to Him the Almighty.

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44 A Protection is Essential

AppleCare Protection Plan

Yesterday I bought another Apple product called AppleCare Protection Plan. I bought it from Sapura Digitalifestyle in MMU Cyberjaya. Its purpose is to give an extended 2-year warranty, a given 1-year and makes it 3-year. Simple and understandable right… It covers a technical support as well as hardware replacement in case of faulty hardware.

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42 An Outback

Lowepro Outback series is the replacement model for Lowepro Off Trail. It was launched in early July 2009. Scouting around and I found the price for a new Outback 200 is RM280 at Mitmivec. There’s one shop in Low Yat Plaza yesterday offering RM450, almost double the price from what I being offered earlier. Certainly in comparison price in Singapore is way cheaper than KL…

Lowepro Outback 200

Currently this is my fourth Lowepros and this one solely for in-the-action type of bag. Basically it is a beltpack, can carry up to 70-200mm 2.8 (reverse hood) with body attached. Usually I carried 2 bodies, extra batteries and 2 speedlites along. And this bag fits it all harmonously.

Check out youtube to have a better overall look. There are 100, 200 and 300 AW models along its lineup with the price of RM220, RM290 and RM480 respectively.

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41 A Website I’ve Been Wanting to See

At last, I found a tutorial on how to shoot car in a studio. Hahaha. I know, its boring to you…

Big area with a big lighting setup

Learn how to shoot cars here.

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40 An Editing Day

Haha… Today I promised myself not to have any dinner until the work is done. I’ve been editing photos for the last 4 hours and now clock structs 7P.M… Still plenty of photos to choose and finalize into an album.

It's me getting no rest. My eyes and unshaven looks.

Back to daily routine people! Raya sudah habis…

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39 A Wireless Broadband Testing at MMU Cyberjaya

I can’t believe that Shah Alam has better speed than Cyberjaya. Here’s a result I got this morning.

Celcom Broadband in MMU Cyberjaya

Yesterday, Celcom had a network services interruption due to call congestion. Causing lost of signal. Read the news…

Updated:

And yeah, to distinguish between the real campus speed…

Direct network to the MMU server

OMG, 62Mbps!

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38 A Wireless Broadband Testing at Kampung in Kluang

Reached Kluang last night at 1A.M for raya. Main plan during this raya is to gather as much information as possible for long overdue project of reorganizing family tree. Recently I found a free web service called Geni.com. It helps a lot i wish i found this web earlier.

3G USB modem connected to a laptop

Last night, the maximum speed I got here in Kluang for download/upload is 0.29/0.1Mbps. Making it 0.39Mbps in total and it gets worse during day. Probably less than 0.1Mbps in total. Still considered better than 384Kbps GPRS can provide. Celcom needs to upgrade the speed in village area soon.

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37 An Apple MacBook Pro at Last

Bought a MBP on the 16th Sep 2009 after a long and agonizing 3 months of waiting. Phew! It’s a relief… And worth it too. I bought a 13″ MBP for RM4099 along with 4GB iPod Shuffle for RM99 on Purchase with Purchase (PWP) promotions. Applicable in Sapura Digitalifestyle in MMU Cyberjaya for Malaysian campus users. Just bring a student/staff ID. For more information, Google “Sapura Digitalifestyle”

My first MacBook Pro

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36 A Wireless Broadband Testing at Home in Shah Alam

I just received a unit of Celcom Wireless Broadband today. An installation was OK even though none of the installation manual is provided. It’s simple and easy to setup. As FYI, this is 3.6Mbps aka RM98 package. 3.6Mbps is a best effort a telco can provide and at certain area where the network congestion is low, the speed capable of reaching that specific target. But as for now, only 0.49Mbps.

Celcom Broadband in Shah Alam

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