Friday, December 18, 2015

Mercedes-AMG C250

I am by nature not very inclined to photograph cars. But when push comes to shove, I'll have to make the best out of the very limited equipment that I have if there's a job at hand. For this job, we just had a few hours to borrow the car from Mercedes, test drive and photograph it. Unless you're paultan.org, don't hope to borrow their flagship RM1 million AMG GT S supercar.

All these images are unprocessed, straight out of camera (SOOC) JPEGs from the Nikon D3. 


Need to make the colours from your image 'pop'? Just go to Picture Control on your Nikon camera and set it to Vivid. Do note this effect is not for everyone.

Our entrepreneur of the day, Marcus Teoh together with this lovely car.














Porky Goodness @ Spitalfields, Atria Damansara Jaya

Spitalfields is an up-and-coming English pub concept restaurant and bar which opened about 2 months ago. It's located to the left of the main entrance of the Atria shopping gallery in Damansara Jaya. You won't miss it.

This pub can be packed, so if you want to dine with your friends, reservations are highly encouraged.

OK.. so forgetful me forgot to bring out the tripod, so there was no friggin' way I was gonna get decent, sharp handheld shots unless I boosted the ISO to 5000 or 6400.


These are the 2 successful owners of Spitalfields

The first appetizer was baked potatoes topped with fried pork liver and bacon. I'm personally not a big fan of the liver but the rest of the ingredients go well with each other. According to the manager, all the sauces are made in-house for that extra 'oomph'.

Mashed pork brains (yes you heard that right) served with toasted bread. If you don't think about the fact that you're eating brains, it tastes alright, in my opinion.

 Deep fried pork ears, another unique dish. Best eaten hot, as the cartilage is very chewy and tasty.

Marinated pork tail. Not a lot of meat attached but it's quite flavourful.

I've uploaded this picture just to prove how far camera technologies on our cellphone has come. One is taken with my work camera (the Canon 5D mark III), while the other is by my newly acquired Samsung Galaxy Note 5. Can you tell the difference?



Slow roasted pork. It's basically a huge slab of siew yoke cooked to perfection.



The pork ribs were also very flavourful. Most importantly the meat was juicy, tender, and not dry.

I'd highly recommend a visit to Spitalfields if you're a pork lover and enjoys your meals with beer or wine. I will be back for their siew yoke at least ! =)

BMW 520d

Well not all of the photos that I take get published, so I might as well post some on my blog. After we collected the car from BMW HQ in Cyberjaya we went to an office complex nearby. Hit and run style..





Anyway the nice driver in the car is my former colleague, Gem. You may view her blog post here:

http://embunwrites.com/2015/12/17/roaring-with-bmw-520d-sports/

Monday, November 16, 2015

Getting the shot

At most times, you won't get the perfect or desired shot on the first try.. It is normal. 

After arranging the cars in front of the office, I requested the staff to stand in as models before their boss comes into the shot. I'm using two bare flash guns pointed at 90 decgrees towards the center car. As you can see in this shot, without any flash, the shot looks very flat, lacks contrast and dynamism.

Because I don't have high speed sync triggers and receivers, I'm using the typical shutter speed of 1/160 sec and an aperture of f/10.

Fired the flashes. Ok la, got some 'pop' in the image, but it's still quite flat.

Called the bosses in. Without flash = flat picture

 With flash, better.

Brought them closer to the car....

With some tweaking in lightroom such as contrast, sharpening, we arrive at the finished product above.

BTW i shot all of these in JPEG, not RAW ya ;)

The foundry @ Salak South

In the heart of the Chinese kampungs in Salak South is a foundry, well hidden from view from the decrepit exterior. We interviewed the owner last Saturday and I got some shots.










NST MAI Autoshow 2015 at MINES

Was supposed to cover this autoshow for the paper. Ended up we didn't feature it anyway.. Haiz....






















Most images were shot with the Tamron 15-30mm/2.8 VC lens.

 

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