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ORB OF LIFE

Hard Break Kid — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:23:42 +0000

The word "Orb", from the Latin orbis ‘circle’, is another name for a round object, especially a disk or a sphere. Did some orb photo a few years back. I just love the circular outcome from editing a rectangluar picture. Click here and here for my previous posting on Orb Of Life.

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Twenty Eleven

Hard Break Kid — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:55:14 +0000

Another year has gone, 2011 is the new year to all of us. For sure 2010 did bring memories to all of us either good, sad or bad. What ever memories we had during the past years let the memories make us more strong and better person to our family and the community around [...]

Black & White and others

Hard Break Kid — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:03:03 +0000

Actually I’m just trying out the preset given by my buddy. Since got time before this coming weekend covering wedding event, so I explore the presets given. Who knows it will be useable in future…

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Morning at Sungai Kedayan

Hard Break Kid — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:09:47 +0000

This morning went to Jing Chew Coffee Shop in Gadong for a quick breakfast before going to Tasek Lama Recreational Park to meet my buddy for our first macro outing in 2010. Since I arrived at the coffee shop nearly 6:00am, I saw the sky and clouds are beautiful. Grab my camera and tripod [...]

High Dynamic Range (HDR)

Hard Break Kid — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:25:26 +0000

It have been a while since doing HDR pictures. I only manage to make a few shots of HDR’s during my sunrise tryout at Serasa Beach yesterday. All shots are taken at 9 auto bracketing. Merge with Photomatix, tweak on CS3+Adobe Lightroom and picture shark for watermarking.

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Strobe Pictures

Hard Break Kid — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:17:20 +0000

Playing with two speedlite. One of the flash is on body and the other is on a tripod. Trying out the so called strobe using two flashes. Wish could get better outcome, but well not a pro in this kind of photography. Here are the useable pictures for me.

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Macro Tryout

Hard Break Kid — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:59:45 +0000

Didn’t realize that taking macro pictures is such a hard work. For one subject it took me at least an hour to get it right (as if). Pictures taken with 50mm 1.4 and Raynox Macroscopic Lens adapter. Would love to try the 100mm macro lens … hmmmm, anyway here’s the output of my first [...]

KNK Sunset at Tanjong Pelompong Pt2

Hard Break Kid — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:41:54 +0000

My newbie set of HDR during the sunset outing at Tanjong Pelompong.

Setup of these HDR’s are:-

Canon EOS 40D + 10-22mm UWA Lens ISO 100 Aperture F22 Timer 2 sec Format JPEG 6 AEB Tripod

Post Processing :-

Photomatix Pro 3.1 Adobe Light Room 2.4 Adobe Photoshop CS3 Corel Paint Shop Pro X2

Manual HDR

Hard Break Kid — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:53:03 +0000

Actually didn’t plan to go out taking pictures today. But since the camera was in the car Me & Co went to Tasek Lama recreational park. The park is located at Jalan Tasek Lama, Bandar Seri Begawan. Since I didn’t bring my tripod along so all the HDR’s were manually done. All pictures were [...]

Kg Tamoi Outing & Competition

Hard Break Kid — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:11:00 +0000

Both of these pictures were submitted for the Kg Tamoi Outing & Competition organized by the admin of Brunei Forever Forum. Well I did not win the competition but the experience is so challenging for a newbie like me. Although the terms and condition of the competition allows the participants to do manipulation on [...]