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| Friday, 6-Jul-2007 22:06 |
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Suboohi
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| Thursday, 5-Jul-2007 21:04 |
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The Althorp Team
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| Thursday, 5-Jul-2007 20:08 |
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Dawn
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| Sunday, 24-Jun-2007 06:27 |
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Where's My Shoe?
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| Wednesday, 13-Jun-2007 21:14 |
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What's the diagnosis?
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Answer: Chicken pox
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| Monday, 4-Jun-2007 22:07 |
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Coombe Abbey Final Part
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This is the final part of my long Coombe Abbey series (on my Fotopage that is, the series will continue on my blog:p)
This poor little child got sucked into Taka-Arashi's event horizon and thus got her picture taken.
Please don't call me "Kak" because I put pictures of flowers & babies - but I thought these, urm, ?lotuses were just beautiful. This picture was taken at 24mm with the camera just over the water surface and me anxiously holding the camera strap.
The lotuses could be seen as those yellow dots in the background. Puan Mama Sarah took this picture. The genius behind it is that the statue in the far background is mimicking Sarah's posture, see? At that time Sarah was in a bad mood for not getting something she wanted.
This wasn't that "something" she wanted (at that time) but as you guys could see - they start early nowadays, don't they? Sarah was pouring her heart out at Abang.
Always love taking pictures of Kak Lang/Kakak Princess - her eyes are just so deep and meaningful.
PS
pictures above edited just using Picasa 2, except the first picture.
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| Sunday, 3-Jun-2007 06:23 |
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Coombe Abbey Part 2
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Picture of the griffith statues overlooking the Abbey. For this picture I used 18mm on the kit lens, the "landscape" setting on Taka-Arashi and a circular polariser. I like the curved line created by the path, and including the pair of passers-by to give a sense of scale. The passers-by also adds that "human element" to the picture.
Editing wise: shadow/highlight tool for tonality and hyper-sharpening to bring out textures.
To show the various flowers at the nature reserve. Picture edited using Picasa2 (just sharpening and cropping). Not that happy with this picture, I think the wind was blowing causing the flower to blur.
Finally a picture of the little ones in our gang. There was no doubt - it was the little ones who enjoyed the trip the most. They were busy running around, falling down on the grass, jumping up and down the ledges, getting messy eating food and feeding ducks. Note: this picture now replaced with the sharper version.
Dina and Puan Mama Sarah, this time I set Taka-Arashi to the "portrait" setting. To be honest, I'm not happy with the colours. The portrait setting emphasises reds but for some reason it made the picture to have a bronze tinge.
Did you guys know that we came to know our neighbours D, Dina and Arep through our blogs and fotopages? Yup, true story. Since then we all have been going to many outings together - great ones too.
To be continued...
PS
What I meant using the "landscape" or "portrait" setting does not mean using the automatic settings. I still use aperture or shutter priority but change the colour processing to emphasise green and blue in "landscape" and reds in "portrait".
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| Saturday, 2-Jun-2007 20:55 |
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Coombe Abbey Part 1
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For Ikelah, Anden and Za - I'll answer your questions here.
Located in Warwickshire, between Coventry and Rugby, Coombe Abbey, as the name suggests, is a Cistercian monastery built in the 12th century (these monks really lived in luxury, huh?). It is now a hotel with restaurants, conference rooms, and avenues for wedding receptions. The 500 acres or so grounds around the abbey is now a nature reserve park.
We've lived in Coventry for so many years now and it's a pity we've only discovered this place yesterday! Coombe Abbey is only around 15-20 minutes from where we live. There are barbeque sites around the abbey so next time we go Insya Allah, a barbeque will be in our agenda.
The picture above is the abbey itself, shot using Taka-Arashi and the kit lens for the 18mm wide-ish angle view. I wanted to include the pathway as a leading line towards the Abbey and show the maze-garden to the right and left lower frame. I used a circular polarizer and the "landscape" setting on Taka-Arashi.
Editing wise, oh I didn't do much:
1. Nowadays, instead of manipulating curves or levels, I am more inclined to using the shadow/ highlight tool in PS to get the tonality I want.
2. Duplicate layer & change layer to overlay
3. Gaussian blur of the overlay layer
4. Super amounts of Unsharp Mask to bring out the different textures on the masonry and foliage.
5. Resize to 800 pixels and that's it.
Note: Even though the picture looks garish, I didn't increase the saturation at all. I blame the "landscape" setting on Taka-Arashi.
In this picture I used Taka-Arashi with the 24-105mm F4L IS lens. How I pre-visualised this scene was to show the human activity around Coombe Abbey by including the building with people at various speeds. I used 24mm with Image Stabilisation turned on. I used F22 in the hopes that the picture will be sharp from fore- to background and -get this- I used a shutter speed of 1/4 and shot hand-held. I purposely waited until there were visitors at various length of the path - especially towards the lower right frame. I also waited until all the people "separated" i.e not merging with each other, before I released the shutter.
Editing wise it was much the same as the above picture - except I took care not to sharpen the people in motion.
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| Saturday, 2-Jun-2007 08:44 |
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Some of the Lovely People I Work With
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| Thursday, 31-May-2007 19:51 |
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Suboohi and Hanna
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I attended a diabetic conference yesterday at the Kettering Hotel with my friends from work. Full story on my blog
PS
I asked Sarah, my 3 year old daughter what she thinks of the picture above. She answered, "The picture is *okay* but there is a fork and spoon on the table". Grr, smart@@@!
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eh nak comment gamba ke utk entry nih?aiyok...hehe...it tells a sober story....
generally great collection.
