I'm back!!!

Took a few days off to entertain my family who came to visit KK. Here's a shot from Pulau Sapi

Breakthrough in studio lighting...

Recently I've been experimenting a lot with lighting and how it will affect the subject in a photograph. After quite a discussion with some of my friends we realised how expensive good quality studio ligthing equipment can actually be. It doesn't have to be that way though....
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Introducing the all new Ted Earl LiteSphere LJ System!

At RM1888.88 only, this baby can be attached to ANY flashgun and will be a useful tool for all your photography needs.
The Ted Earl LiteSphere LJ being attached to the 580EX II Speedlite using a I66Ew adaptor(the yellow thing).
The Super Anti Static LiteSphere cap that uses high tech materials to keep dust out.
The fantastic space age material will ensure perfect diffusion of light rays from the flash gun to your subjects.

The...er...Omnibounce.

To show you an example of how useful this thing will be, I've prepared a set of test shots to further convince potential sucke....er...heheh....sorry, i meant customers.

Without flash.

With bulit in flash. As usual the 'deer in the headlights' look.

With the flashgun only. It produces a natural lighting effect. Not too bad.

Wahhh... Look at the difference! This is what the system can do for you today.

And if you order quickly, we will even throw in a special bounce card. While stocks last!

Playing with fire (Silhouettes)

Another edition from Ted Studio. This time no power cut...but nothing to do at home. Heheheh. All shot using light from the candle only and ISO 400.

And have you all tried farting in the fire? I highly recommend it! Want to see the results? Heheh

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Fuaahh!!

Power cut

Its quite surprising that in such a 'developed' country like Malaysia we still have very frequent power cuts. Experienced it twice already since I've been here in Sabah. Oh well...good time to test high ISO shoots...

580 EX II Speedlite

Just got the 580 EX II external speedlite. It is supposed to be the improved version of its predecessor the 580EX.

View from the front


Side

The back

The bounce card and the wide angle card

It does look magnificent. So i had to put it to test in my studio.

This shot was taken without any flash.

This shot was taken with the built in flash. As you can see the lighting is very harsh on the subject (the bottles) and quite dark behind. This is often the results of Point and Shoot cameras where the user does not really have control of the flash and you have your subject very harshly lit and the background very dark.

This shot was taken with the flash bounced off the ceiling. As you can see it has a more natural feel to it. Actually the results may not be so obvious here but if you have human subjects then the difference will be significant.

Here's a pic with the whole family.

More sunset

More sunset pics from Tanjung Aru Beach at Kota Kinabalu. I think these are better than the last ones that I took.

All in all, it took a grand total of 3 mins for the sun to go from the first pic to the last... I spent 3 days chasing the sun again as I always showed up too late. On the third day i finally got what i wanted.

Congratulations!

My friends Lee Min Shen and Kee Swee Luan just got married over the weekend. Here's wishing you both the best of your life together as husband and wife.