Puchong Hungry Ghost Festival

Aug 22 2010 Published by under Photoshoot

So last Saturday (14 August 2010) I pass by nearby shop lots seeing some kind of a festival. It turns out to be the Hungry Ghost Festival. It’s an annual festival held by Chinese – all around the world, I guess – to celebrate ghosts coming to human world.

Why celebrate, you say? Instead of run away scared to hell? Well, it’s more of a respect rather than celebrate. Chinese held this festival to respect those ghosts who might be someone they knew. Dead uncle, long gone grandma, and so on. So there is no need to be scared because there is no ghost it’s just a festival.

According to the legend, they were “released” from hell into our world exactly mid of 7th month of lunar calendar so that they can “enjoy” our offerings, which is a luxury in the underworld. You can imagine the joy, literally. After one full month, they will “return” to the underworld.

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My Convocation

Aug 07 2010 Published by under Photoshoot

Behold !! This is Robin Ferianto, Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons) Software Engineering. LOL.

1st of August, the day I’m officially not a student anymore. Yay !! Waking up early morning on one fine Sunday I, along with my parents and brother, head down to Cyberjaya. It’s freaking 6+ AM. The invitation says students need to be there at least 30 minutes for registration and stuff. Which turns out to be not even 30 minutes in reality. FML.

My brother takes all the pics, of course, since I’m the subject this time. He bring 2 cams: my Sony A200 with 18-70mm and my sister’s Canon 1000D with 50mm. He used mostly 18-70mm as 50mm wasn’t so convenient to use in such crowded place. Good shots, anyway. Thumbs up for my bro.

Okay now let’s get to the shots.

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Raub Photowalk

Jul 25 2010 Published by under Photoshoot

Okay let’s face it my last post was in March. That was quite a long time if you’re a blogger. Now let’s get things warmed up here. I got several photoshoot events next month, so I’ll start with this month’s event.

It was a trip to Raub (Pahang, Malaysia) organized by a friend of mine, Mandy Leong. First stop is peanut factory, and then to tauhu (tofu) factory, and lastly to the infamous Chamang Waterfall. The trip itself was on 3 July 2010.

I have been to several photoshoot trips before, but this time only I realized my pics were not telling the story of the trip. I was so focused on pics that I forgot about people. You will know after you saw my pics, that there are (almost) no people from my shots. Note to self: gotta do better next time.

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Basic photography: metering modes

Jan 09 2010 Published by under Tutorial

It’s been a long time since the last time I write about basic photography. I just stumbled upon a great article on explaining metering modes. I’ll just copy paste it from DPS because I think there’s just no need to rewrite the whole thing. It’s already basic enough.

Credits to the original author. Here goes.

On today’s digital cameras, users have the ability to choose and adjust the metering mode, or how the camera measures the brightness of the subject. Metering settings work by assessing the amount of light available for a photograph, and then adjusting the exposure accordingly. Sometimes, however, the camera isn’t intuitive enough to get the exposure right when using Program, Shutter Priority, or Aperture Priority modes. Fortunately, the photographer has the ability to make manual adjustments to the metering mode used by the camera. (Refer to your individual owner’s manual to learn how to change the settings on your camera.)

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10 reasons to turn off your autofocus

Dec 20 2009 Published by under Tutorial

When I started using a camera autofocus was something out of science fiction. I mean … it would never work in real life, would it? Apart from anything else, how could it know what you wanted to focus on?

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Now fiction has become fact, and pretty well every camera has AF as standard. It works, and works well. But it doesn’t always work perfectly. It can pick up the wrong thing or fail to find anything to focus on, causing the lens to ‘hunt’ back and forth. Sometimes it won’t even let you fire the shutter.

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