Here is something special. Wei is a young shy penangnite looking forward to capture a few outdoor portraiture. Well, it was a beautiful sunday morning and we head out for an urban city scenery shoot. Well, Wei didn’t enjoy much posing, instead, we try something different this time. With a little lomo feel to my editing, it makes the series perfect. 
Thanks to Wei for being specially sporting to pose in front of the camera.
Here is outcome.
Ok, past two posts has been something out of the box. Here is something more familiar, some portraiture work.
Well, its time for me to polish my off-shoe flash technique I learnt in the past week. As you all may know me, I always shoot under natural lighting. This time around, i’ll be using my faithful SB900 for a little flashy stuff. It was 6:30pm, and I’ve got a model, without much hesitation, my natural instinct was of course to shoot her potraiture having the sun setting as background under the beautiful sky.
Then we head for an empty abandoned ground behind my house in my hometown Kuantan.
As it was 6:30pm, I didn’t have much time to shoot, all I wanted was a simple shot, with a nice sun setting as background, with a properly exposed model, with a little flaring from the setting sun for the mood in the shot, in an abandoned urban area.
Here is what I got.
A little extra, I got these shots while setting up the lighting, love the tone of the sky
Here is something I’ve never posted before, my macro work. Recently, I had an opportunity to grab hold of a nikkor 105mm macro lens from a friend, and without wasting any time, I started looking for little insects around the bushes around my house back in my hometown Kuantan.
Here are what I found among the bushes. 
Enjoy!
Some squishy spider
This cute fella was curious to see me photographing it
These fire ants looked like they could eat you alive at this close up
Yea, i was disturbing their nest, these red ants came out of their nest on the tree and got ready to attack me.
Run!!!!!
I came back to Kuantan for a week to celebrate chinese new year. Me being me, I always bring along my camera everywhere I go. This long holiday for Chinese New Year, I spent my holidays shooting some interesting places, interesting macros and a little portraiture.
In this latest blog entry, I’d like to show you my little trip to a small town called Sungai Lembing. Its about a 40 minutes drive away from kuantan. Sungai Lembing was once a very famous place from 1880 to 1970s for its underground tin mining with a total tunnel length of 322km. I used to live in this little town when I was a kid, my grandpa and a few uncles were miners too.
Well, me and family started our journey around 5:30am from Kuantan to hike up sungai lembing hill for its famous panoramic scenery, upon reaching Sungai Lembing found out that its raining and we had to delay our hike up hill. So, I took my time to capture some morning scenery of sungai lembing town before sunrise. Around 7:15am, the weather was clearing up, so we started our hike despite missing the sunrise.
Nevertheless, the view up the hill was spectacular.
Here are some shots from the hill and the hiking, yea, it was darn cloudy alright,
Scenic walk down the hill, as you can see there is a river flowing across the town is the reason why this town is called sungai lembing. For readers who do not know malay, “sungai” stands for river, while “lembing” stands for spear. Well, I dont know why its called spear river, but its just a name.
Some pre sunrise shots before the hike, while waiting for the drizzle to stop
Sungai Lembing famous hanging bridge, the river below is sungai lembing,
A Pit stop by sungai lembing for some fun,
Some caving activities in Gua Charas after the hike,
A little add-on to my trip back to kuantan is our beautiful Teluk Cempedak Beach. I went there wanting to capture the beautiful east coast sunrise, but again, unfortunately, it was yet another cloudy day. So, i picked up a different subject of the day.
Thats all for this posting. Thanks for dropping by.
Stay tune for more sharings of my portraiture work and macros!
My Dear readers, I wish you and your family a joyous year of the Tiger, filled with Happiness, prosperity, Good Health, laughter, good luck and love!
Let us all have a great year ahead!
Gong Xi Fa Cai
My Family Lou Sang
This is an annual Tzu Chi event. The last time they had it this big was two years back in 2007. They had a small one for 2008 and this year….this year they had it big…. a real big one. Other state tzu chi branch like johor, kedah, selangor terengganu and even myanmar came together to volunteer in this spectacular year end blessing, all at their very own pocket money.
I for one, love to attend this event to see , Tzu chi’s charity work and performance done by all their in house volunteers who spent loooooonng hours practising despite their busy schedule for 3 months. Of course, also their well planned lighting and stages. I wish I’m one of the main photographers down the stage. i bet it’ll definitely be awesome!
Here are some photos of the day shot from the audience point of view.
My favorite take 2 years back. Not bad at all.
Here is what I do when I don’t have assignments on weekends. Learn something. This time around, I’m lucky enough to have an open weekend and a scheduled flash photography class by Nikonian academy KL. Thanks to Andrew for the short, simple and awesome class for the day. I get the chance to play around with a few flashes and of course classmates whom we take turns to be each other’s lighting assistant. We had lotsa fun throughout the day learning flashy stuff from our nikonian academy instructor Andrew in his easy going laughter filled class.
I’ll definitely be back for more if there is an advance flash photography class. Here is two assignments for the day, nothing major, we were fooling around with 2 or 3 flashes and controlling them properly.
Seems like its time for me to grab more SB900…
Class in progress
Andrew stealing props for us from the neighbourhood.
Interested to sign up for the class? do drop by Nikonian Academy website for further details.
Today, i’d like to introduce you to a pair of fun awesome down to earth newly wed from Alor Setar, Ang and Fenny. Ang is a quite cool guy who is soft spoken and polite while Fenny is a funny talkative down to earth bride who just made the whole day so much fun and laughter. Both of them just make a perfect couple together and its just so much fun and laughter being at their wedding.
Here are a series of shots for the day.
and here is my favourite shot of the day, flaregasm!!!
a little bit of portraits
yea, i was one of the “ji mui” of the day too 
besides me, my faithful assistant, Wanching from O-peekaboo was having fun too
Lastly, check out the wedding reception hall, record breaking of 140 tables!
Lastly, congratz to Kwang tyng and his lovely wife Fenny for tying the knot and wishing you the best today and forever; Happy Married life!
pheww… it has really been busy for the past few weekends covering weddings all around Malaysia. Finally I have a breather to update this blog with my latest wedding work.
Here comes a pair of lovely couple, Mr and Mrs Wong!!!! and of course some highlights of the day.
Some portraits
hmmp….more photos to come if I can squeeze more blogging time out over my busy schedule.
Thanks for viewing.
I couldn’t wait a day longer to post this up to share with everyone. Honestly, this is my first time I get a chance to shoot couple portraiture for a Malay couple in their very traditional wedding gowns. Well, I also had the honour to cover their jamuan(luncheon) in Alor Setar whereby they have a simple bersanding, and a luncheon with all relatives and well-wishers.
At the end of the day, we manage to squeeze a little time out from the day to grab a few couple portraits, I went to this nice heritage garden call Kota Kuala Kedah, which use to be home to some big shots, bla bla bla….oh wells, i didn’t get the history part of it so i’d better not start yapping about what I don’t know. But i do know, we managed to grab a few awesome shots of the day. Here comes the couple portraits first, and stay tune for updates of the day.
Here is the man of the day, Rusydi
and here is Fadillah
Last but not least, my favorite shot of the day
more shots of the day itself coming soon. Stay tuned.
by Victor
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