360 Panoramic and photos showtime

I volunteered myself to be the official photographer of my company’s annual knowledge sharing event and luckily I managed to get some good shots.

But, there are some bad apples as well. I’m just feeling my (camera) body is aging a lot and it starts screaming right from ISO 400 onwards. Having a f/2.8 lens is simply NOT enough under dim light condition without boosting the ISO speed! Arghhh!

But but but…. I’ll show you what’s good here.

See it in FULLSCREEN! Trust me, it is so much better! (2.17MB)

See the rest of the photos here

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Wordpress theme goes wider and bigger

I’m excited to announce another wave of updates for my dedicated photography blog! This time, there’s actually 2 updates to the theme.

Photo caption fix

First of all, it’s about a bug fix which is actually quite unnoticeable to the masses. There are 4 columns at the bottom of the homepage whereby 2 latest photos shown. The description of the photo has been made to be the same as what is displayed in the photo slide show / stream above. Primarily, we do not want to see “Click on the photo to see larger size” appears in the caption at the homepage which is ridiculously irrelevant, isn’t it? It’s only valid when user goes into the blog entry.

Expand blog entry

Secondly, it’s about serving better and wider range of photos.

Everything has gone wide these days seriously. You want wide wide highway to drive on to getting real big and wide screen display to play your HD videos. Heck, you can’t even buy a proper normal ratio (4:3 ratio with resolution like 1024×768, 800×600, 1280×1024) LCD panel on market as easily as 2 years ago now! Everything is wide, so do the photos and blogs. Okay, back to where we were.

For our case here, in particular, panorama. It’s a pain to the eyes when we are viewing something very wide like panorama like the scale of 5:1 (width:height). Just like the little long panoramic image that you are seeing above!

With just a click of button! Walah~

The blog entry content pane is widened to as much as the template permits. This has made photo viewing much much much more flexible and satisfying. Hope you all like this little update.

Technically, of course, for those who are interested to get wide too on their blog too, read on.

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Why Am I Not Dared to Take A Wedding Assignment.. Yet?

To date, this must be the most popular piece of news in the blog-sphere and photography arena.

A court in UK ordered photographer Gareth Bowers from Fresh Images to pay a total of 1500 sterling pounds as compensation to it’s rather bad, lower than expected quality photos taken during the big day of the newly wed.

From blurry images to chopped off heads to awkward angles to dark images, they have done almost everything a newbie would expectantly to do with their first camera.

Ironically, the couple had actually gone through 11 wedding fairs to use Bowers’s service.

Something is definitely wrong somewhere. Sometimes, you really can’t just rely on someone’s portfolio to tell how good the photographer is.

Portfolio is one thing, shooting on actual occasion is another. I’m not ready to spoil one’s wedding yet!

Read the actual piece of news here for the photos taken.

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Audrey Lau and Boon Kiat’s wedding

Congratulations! It was a pleasent evening yesterday attending Audrey’s wedding which took place in a restaurant opposite St Anne’s church, Bukit Mertajam. Go to full album.

On my Canon 400D, surely this 2 years old body still serves me quite well. The keeper rate is largely controlled by what lens it’s fitted on. The body itself is subjected to ocasional focus confusion and such producing soft images but it’s not too critical. I’ll just have to double check the shots taken and re-take if needed.

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Majestic white lens gathering too much attention

Just something to share about what I found online. Food for thought.

Once you take it out, you will get lots of attention from the crowd. Particularly when your lens is long and white in color. Canon white lenses are all from the L grade/series where L here simply means Luxurious. As the name suggests, it’s expensive and those lenses in white gathers a lot of mostly unwanted attention and brings annoyance. He had enough!

And that’s what exactly happened to this Peter Dumont in DPReview.

Because I got fed up with all the people yelling about how great and expensive my camera must be whenever I mounted my new 70-200 f/4 L IS on my 5D ( the amount of reactions was ridiculous and very annoying ),I resorted to some DIY with a felt-tip pen, filled with the same type of ink that you use for writing on a cd.

The lens in black won’t trigger my curiosity as much as the original white one now. It really works but…. I don’t know if this really works. It’s one hell of an expensive glass we painted black here.

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