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I have taken my entire rest day/ week­end to study more about pho­tog­ra­phy. It’s my new hob­bies and I find it very “stim­u­lat­ing”. Male loves huge THINGS! I want a 70 – 200mm canon L lens. The big­ger the bet­ter! Price? It’s an expen­sive mis­take to rec­tify at a later date. ROFL

I meet a pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­pher on the net yes­ter­day and his name is Bert Stephani from Bel­gium. Less than 24 hours this is what I like to say — A great guy, a very lov­ing per­son, Pas­sion­ate about his work, a very gen­er­ous and polite per­son! He even response to my twits while he is prepar­ing his 2 sons for join­ing Spe­cial Forces! Bert, you are the best! Seri­ously, I like your work its bril­liant work and I love them all!

Seri­ously I want this (below pic­ture) any one of you know where can I obtain a sec­ond hand?

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Tele­photo Zoom Lens (Photo taken from Amazon.com)

Check out the Dig­i­tal Cam­era mag­a­zine, I was in it! canon DSLR workshop

Dig­i­tal Cam­era Mag­a­zine Issue 32, August 2008

Talk­ing about pho­tog­ra­phy here’s one per­son I like you to meet! She a pro­fes­sional artist and she is Kim Barker from Aus­tralia. (Oh I miss Gold Coast badly, will plan to visit again some­day.) Any­whooo, Kim works on por­trait and her art are breath tak­ing! Check out her port­fo­lio on Kelly, Char­lotte and Andre Rieu. Extra­or­di­nary work, The Syd­ney Morn­ing Her­ald has the inter­view. Kim is a lovely per­son and a very gen­er­ous one as well! Check out her con­test for a por­trait worth $6,000 for Christmas!

I like to take part in this con­test too. I like to win a por­trait of my mom.

Every time I look into my mom eyes I know there’s one thing she kept scream­ing and scream­ing inside. My lack of present with her, I know I’m dumb! I am near and yet so far. I spend very least time with my mom it’s hard to explain why. I was her gold and I can’t be parted with her when I was young, I would cry so hard that peo­ple around me just hate me because I’m loud! I love my mom so much that I just can’t live with­out her! But that’s has changed, I guess life taught me to be inde­pen­dence and I cry no more and I was so inde­pen­dence that I for­got to go home and when I did, I just don’t know what to do or say. I wish I could still be so close, I like to be her baby again like she uses to cud­dle me when I cry, happy or sad. Buy me stuff when I act cute bring to me to every where she go and in her heart I was the num­ber one.

If I win this por­trait I will try to make it work again… “Mom I have some­thing spe­cial for you and it’s really really spe­cial!” I hope to see her shin­ning eyes with hope and dream again.

Kim, thanks for shar­ing your gen­eros­ity with the world! {{hugz}}

It’s time to hit the hay! Thank you “you” the fan­tas­tic peo­ples who brings peace in this world.

This is my first time attend­ing DSLR enthu­si­ast sem­i­nar. I really hope for some­thing extrav­a­ganza but I guess I’m just feel­ing fine after all. I am sure if the sec­ond sem­i­nar would still be the same topic as this one, I count myself out!

I expect I would find more tips and trick for bet­ter and stun­ning pho­tog­ra­phy. Obvi­ously the sem­i­nar didn’t ful­fill my needs although I must admit am impress with the speaker’s knowl­edge in pho­tog­ra­phy, their con­nec­tion with the well known artists are awesome!

Nev­er­the­less this sem­i­nar is well suited for new­bie and ama­teur. Top­ics includes

• Work­ing with color man­age­ment between cam­era, PC and printer.
  Not a new input for me but a refresher. Mr. Kaz Chua (speaker) talk about few thou­sand ring­git equip­ment to cal­i­brate screen color – maybe alter­na­tive free true color cal­i­bra­tor soft­ware could be use­ful for poor guy like me! (soft­ware cal­i­bra­tion may not be 100% accu­rate but not a bit deal for experimental)Canon is not just pro­duces cam­eras, in Malaysia Canon prob­a­bly the largest print­ing equip­ment dis­trib­u­tor. There’s no sur­prise if you have a Canon cam­era with Canon printer, your pho­tos should look really stun­ning and has­sle free with your PC cal­i­bra­tion. (maybe)

  Any­way, be gen­tle with RGB and CMYK color pro­files If you are too worry with your pic­ture out­put, covert your pic­ture to CMYK pro­file using Pho­to­shop before print­ing. Good luck!

• Print­ing res­o­lu­tion (DPI)
  If you are using 72 DPI that’s for web! Dur­ing my time work­ing with my friend’s com­pany, I design and work­ing with grayscale ads in 200 DPI on a daily basis. My Celeron proces­sor is suck at this point, crawl slower than snail! These day core 2 duo proces­sor make these job an ease!
• White color bal­ance
  I am so lost in this topic. Since the speaker did not really give a proper point on how to have bet­ter con­trol over white color bal­ance while tak­ing photo, if you are a pro, care to share? appre­ci­ate your input.Mr. Kaz explains using AWB nor­mally work fine.
• Noise
  I pick up a bet­ter idea on how to use ISO from the Copal Digital’s staff. I vis­ited them too often. I have become too famil­iar to them. In fact I was invited by them to join this sem­i­nar for free (I heard the sem­i­nar cost RM150). Thanks dude!

There’s few other thing that were men­tion in the sem­i­nar by another speaker, Mr. Teoh. As advice by the Pro, invests in cam­era body and lenses should worth it! In exchange you get qual­ity pic­tures and prints. The speaker notice that not many Kuch­ing peo­ple using Canon EOS 1D mark lll com­pare to Kota Kinabalu’s sem­i­nar! I am not sur­prise though, Kuch­ing peo­ple is always on a con­ser­v­a­tive side and they often use Nikon.

Kaz Chua

Teoh Peng Kee

EOS Expe­ri­ence Sem­i­nar 2008 Kuching

Since the sem­i­nar was held in 5 stars hotel, lunch was fantastic!

Inter­est­ing enough, I met my school mate that I have not been in con­tact for the past 13 years! Adam is still the soft spo­ken guy that I know since pri­mary school. Went to New Zealand to fur­ther study, he is now mar­ried with 2 chil­dren and a job as an accoun­tant. He intro­duces me to Jason who was in fact a school mate too! Jason is work­ing for TM.

I also bum in Canon staff also a friend of mine. I love his story about a rich peo­ple in Philip­pines who spend their time BBQ-ing at the ceme­tery dur­ing weekend!

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I learn a lot from this sem­i­nar although it wasn’t really what I expected. I hope next year Canon will give us more mod­els to shoot!

Pho­tog­ra­phy is Expen­sive hobby!