Sa DingDing 天地合 Live Band 音乐会

Sa DingDing 天地合 Live Band 音乐会

Date: 23 April 2010

Venue: Dragonfly Dance Club KL

Went for Sa DingDing's concert that day.

I had been waited this one for very long, finally she came.

(above) Dragonfly Dance Club, located at Jalan Kia Peng, somewhere between KL Convention Center and Pavilion.

(above) Sa DingDing performing, Girl In Green Dress, I think.

(above) "This is your lucky day!"

Before end, Sa DingDing had a autograph session.

I got my album signed.

(above) Signed booklet.

The whole performance is really good, super good. Performing live is very different from listening to CD. One word, 'GENG' 劲.

*Lazy to edit pictures... 5 will be enough for a post..ha...

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14 Days Later

14 days later, school starts, holiday ends.

14 days later, new subjects introduced.
14 days later, world is getting better.
14 days later, ...
...how should I know what will happened after 14 days.

...

Preparing artworks for portfolio, editing new and old pictures, sleep more.

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Again, A Long Holiday

Holiday again, a long one.

This holiday won't be easy, got some work to do...

Anyway these are some works done before holiday starts.

Light and mood study, 5cm per second.

Had to study movie still of 5cm and paint. 5cm got a very good color and mood, but I just don't like the story, boring.

(above) 5cm per second, boring.

Final for Ads visual, to recreate a raining scene from a reference.

(above) Rain drops keep falling on my head...

Marker visual 2, Ads for Citibank, late work...

(above) Late work.

Wanted to create a comic character. Just a rough sketch for it.

(above) Name is Long (龙).

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CNY Eve 2010

Year of Tiger.

Now is already New Year Eve, tomorrow will be the big day.

Is Chinese New Year, don't think about assignments, missions, works, exams...... when it is the time for you to play, you play.

AngPows, mandarin oranges, red, cookies... tiger.

Happy Chinese New Year.

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Simplified Visual

Simplified visual, this semester we had to produce visual digitally, interesting.

Every illustration student must know how to draw simplified...

Simplified drawing is quite hard for me, still cannot master the technique... not good...

Marlboro ads created by professionals.

Still remember lecturer said, "anyone of you create something similar to this composition? No? Thats why you are here."

(above) Advertisement for Marlboro, lighter and cigarettes.

Dumb-ling, why dumpling? Dumpling festival is still so long, we should draw mandarin oranges.

Anyway the purpose of doing this dumpling piece is to learn the color scheme of traditional food.

(above) Dumb-ling, really dumb...

Advertising visual.

Visual for Lay's assignment.

(above) Even a ghost cannot resist Lay's potato chips, what about you?

Latest assignment, hero saved the day.

(above) Initial sketch for Rexona ads, theme is hero saved the day. However lecturer rejected my FungWan like hero...

(above) Final for 'Hero saved the day' Rexona ads, I changed Wind to TaiPing(神兵), haha... the background doesn't look like back alley.

Some demo by lecturer, stolen from il-server, just want to share.

(above) Demo by lecturer, stolen from seniors server.

(above) Another demo by lecturer(LCK?)- how to a a very 'yeng' man.

Except the last two, all are my recent assignments.

Comments are welcome.

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Wedding

Went for wedding event on 16 December 2009, it's cousin's wedding.

First time being a photographer in a wedding event.

Unfortunately I am not feeling well on the big day. The result wasn't that good, which need a lot of post processing.

I did some research before I go but everything is different from what I learn and planned.

The problem I encountered is the event started at late night, which the surroundings is so dark.

Also, the crowd is blocking me and I cannot get a picture with a desired angle.

Then my flash seems like having problem on metering, some of my shots were overexposed and underexposed.

Anyway, if you want to shoot wedding, you got to know the flow of the wedding.

Door game.

(above) Left man: "Ooi, open the gate!!!"

Right man: "Ang pau RM888 first!!!" [Just my own imagination, haha.]

(above) The bride seems so happy.

Tea ceremony.

People say this is the most long and boring moment, I am not sure of this, I just know this is a very important moment.

(above) Tea ceremony.

Outdoor shooting.

A nice spot, flashes, and reflectors if you have one.

No one told me I had to shoot outdoor, so I am unprepared... not even a paper or any white stuff as reflector...

Shot using only 50mm and SB800.

(above) The bride.

(above) The sisters. I liked this picture the most.

(above) White girl and black man.

Both bride and bridegroom were so tired, so the outdoor session had to end earlier.

Not much shots taken.

(above) I like the color mood of this picture, a little bit desaturated.

Lunch or dinner or whatever cerebration.

People eat, drink, and talk. Some sings too, it depends.

Usually group pictures, family pictures, pictures with friends took here. get ready for a wide angle lens (if got) and flash sphere or whatever.

It is quite fun to capture the yum seng moment.

(above) Yum seng!!!

There is no reshoot on wedding event. This phrase can be seen on every photographers blog, tips or their sharing. Yes, it is true, no reshoot.

Just want to share my experience on my first wedding shooting.

Comments and critics are welcome.

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Girl In Blue

Drew something recently, a girl, blue in color.
Just for a little practice on how to draw girl.
I remembered Benjamin once said, 'girl is quite hard to draw, final outcome might become a man with large breast.' something something......



(above) Cold?


Next girl should be green in color. Haha.
I forgot to name this character...


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A Late Post

This post should be posted on 1 Jan, but nevermind.

Just wanted to share this sketch.

(above) Hey!

Anyway, new year, new hope, good luck.

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First post in 2010

ZY's log, date 2010.1.1

This is the first day of 2010.

Everything seems fine. Good sleep, good meal, good day.

Good news, I finally created Facebook, kind of shit...

Still, something is not going according to the plan.

P1, uploading is unavailable, which means I cannot upload pictures to blogspot, or send email with attachment.

I sketch something and it should be uploaded to this post. Due to the conection problem, plan changed.

2009 is not a really good year. Things happen.

2010 is going to be a very good year.

ZY out.

End of log.

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Towards 2010

Today is 31 DEC 2009.

Year 2009 is ending soon.

Means 2010 is coming.

Just hope 2010 will be a good year.

DCM- SY.C.M.LK

9 DEC 2009, Wed.

That day was a perfect day for shooting, blue sky and white cloud.

Too bad I am not taking pictures outdoor.

Instead, inside photography studio.

First of all, let me introduce our model.

ShinYee, Celine, Matin, and LaiKuan.

(above) Character card, from ShinYee to LaiKuan.

(above) Taken at the very beginning, both model and photographers still warming up.

(above) The violinist.

It's Celine's turn.

(above) Colored light source.

(above) I like this kind of effect, a little flare, like a painting.

Matin.

(above) He look like an artist here.

(above) Oh, Matin....

Ah, first time post so many pics, more pictures coming, please wait patiently.

Still got a lot picture to go.

If I misspelled the models name, correct me.

Not really satisfy on this shooting... it is never easy to achieve the title of PHOTOGRAPHER.

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DCM- Malacca Mission

Shots taken during fieldtrip.

Shots proven by lecturer, total 5.

(above) Yellow chair, red wall, blue pants.

(above) Hey, stop acting.

(above) Together we visit temple.

(above) Becareful, there is still a long way to go.

(above) Splash!

Lecturer's comments, "Interesting subject, each picture contain elements of Malacca."

Nothing much to say, a picture worth a thousand words, now here I got at least 5000 words.

Mission accomplished.

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DCM- Digital Camera Mission

DCM, not Digital Camera Malaysia mag, instead, Digital Camera Mission, as I am using a digital camera for my shooting.

Just ignore the bullshit...

Assignments from photography class, required me to go around hunting for good pictures.

I had already posted my first assignment, texture.

Here comes the second and the third which is light and shadow, reflection.

Light and shadow.

I got this shot right after my photography class end.

Taken at Sunway Pyramid.

I was attracted by the casting light and shadow, I tried a few shots and suddenly a boy walked into my frame and just stood there for unknown reason.

(above) Thanks alot, little boy.

Taken at SBS Chinese Camp 2009.

The original shot wasn't like that. My lecturer looked at my picture and cropped it, he says, "This is much better."

(above) What man is this? Balloon-Man?

Next theme, reflection.

Taken at Dewan Philharmonik, KLCC.

I waited until someone suitable walked by.

(above) Luckily no security guard notice me and chase me away.

Taken at KLCC too, beside Convention Centre.

(above) Always go KLCC for photography assignments?

End story for wekly assignments.

Let's talk a little on Malacca field trip.

A day or two before the field trip, I went for sensor cleaning and most importantly I got a circular polarizer.

I wanted a CPL for a long time, but it is just too expansive.

Now, finally I got one, a 52mm HOYA.

(above) Yay! HOYA!!!

The field trip to Malaca is for photo shooting.

Once again, photography class activity.

Let's look at some pictures.

Couples doing wedding photography. I didn't compose this picture, it is non of my business...

Then I found out the outcome good, I regreted...

(above) Hey, can I join the shooting?

This picture is just for testing, wanted to shoot like a proffesional...

(above) Kind of old school shot.

Wind mill, a little bit of PS retouching... just to make it better...

(above) This is not from Holland.

For this picture, I like the color... I never got this kind of color before.

(above) Playing with WB huh?

I like the outcome and the feel of this pic.

It is just different from my prevoius shot...

(above) What were they doing there?

At the end of the day, my friend took my cam and looked at my pictures, they all asked, "why your color is so difference?" or something like that.

I had been thinking why. Maybe preset white balance, or maybe I am using CPL.

CPL cuts off unwanted reflections, revealing true color of a subject. Correct me if I am wrong.

Do note that most of my Malacca shot above are original shots, only one or two being touched for better contrast and composition.

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