The 501st Legion in HOPE Worldwide Charity Bazaar

I am really excited when I heard about the 501st legion is coming to HOPE Charity bazaar.  I am not die hard fans of star wars but I do really enjoy watching it and I love seeing Jedi fighting and also light saber sword clashing each other. Seeing the hard core fans dressing in 501st legion really cool, and their main objective is to raise fund for HOPE Worldwide.

stromtrooper 260x360 The 501st Legion in  HOPE Worldwide Charity BazaarIntroduce you Storm trooper, the most common costume and also must have in the 501st legion troop. Seeing them remind me few scene of star wars with flying laser and also light saber. I have a chances to ask how they get the costume, and they said all the costume they import from US to Malaysia and they pay quite big sum of money for the courier under fragile category.

DSC 0156 239x360 The 501st Legion in  HOPE Worldwide Charity BazaarThe most outstanding among the outfit, from my personal opinion would be this imperial troop, from top to bottom covered with red color, with long robe touching ground as well long sword. The mask and sword are imported from US as well but the robe and gloves are actually hand made to save cost as well as to make a perfect fit. Smart move I can say.

tie pilot 480x318 The 501st Legion in  HOPE Worldwide Charity BazaarThe picture above makes me think of diving. I even believe the mask can be used for diving purpose with proper seal rubber and the pipe can be connect with air tube. I believe this character is Tie Pilot (pardon me if I am wrong as I am not die hard fans of star wars). This costume even comes with voice manipulator, to change their voice to be sounds like real when we heard in the movie.

dark vader 480x318 The 501st Legion in  HOPE Worldwide Charity BazaarLast but not least, the main character of the star wars episodes, Dark Vader. I like the third episode of the star wars, where it tells how the good become bad, and the first appearance of Dark Vader, and start galaxy wars. This is the most real costume that I have ever seen and even you can hear the ‘breath voice’.

With few others characters from 501st legion, they really help HOPE Worldwide to raise fun by taking picture with them in exchange of coupon. It is indeed memorable to work with HOPE Worldwide as well as them, and they are official members you can find in ‘http://www.501st.com/members/garrisonroster.php?garrisonId=59‘. Just click the link and you can find their profile.

Chilling Fraser Hill

I just come back from Fraser Hill, which need to drive roughly two hours from Kuala Lumpur to the north. I seldom heard about Fraser hill compare with Cameroon Highland, or  Genting Highland, or even Bukit tinggi. These are places that really wellknown in Malaysia for their chill environment as well as many attraction.

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I manage to take this great photo that required me to wake up around 7 am and then go outside from my hotel room, and I have prayer group with few brothers before I took this picture. I love the environment and also the temperature over there. The weather is really wet and it rains often so it is pretty dangerous when bring DSLR camera without water proof bag.

Taking picture of landscape in this condition is pretty easy, I always put my focus on nearest land, which is the trees area, and I increase my f-number to gain sharpness of my background, and I wants to get ‘blue’ feeling in my skies, so I increase my shuttle speed which force me to increase my ISO to make the exposure correct.

High ISO makes my photo looks grainy, which the effect that I do really looking for, and set my white balance around 5k area to make it ‘cold’ effect. Thus with this technique I manage to obtain the picture above, and with little correction in saturation in the lightroom (decreasing it around -2) and wallahhhh… My photo is achieve the effect in my mind.

The Sea is Calling

It has been months since my last post in this blog, been really miss a lot writing thoughts as well as the memories that I collect for these past months. I can tell that so many things happen, good things as well as bad things. There are periods where I do feel really sad about life and I tried my best to make myself busy with work, events, and also tasks so that I really wish by doing these things it can take away my time for being sad. Few factors that make me sad but there are more things that makes me excited about life.

I am still keeping my memory about my last trip to Tioman, to get my diving license and also to enjoy the nature underwater. I have so much fun with the gang that I went with, the instructor is really kind and funny, as well the amusement when I see the beauty of underwater, which makes me addicted to go dive again and again.

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Few precious things that I learn during this trip are:

1. No need to worry much.

it is pretty common where we are overwhelming with so many things, especially if you stay in Kuala Lumpur or major metropolitan anywhere in the world. Our life is so full of schedule, tasks, events, appointment, and responsibility that really often took a lot of your time and energy. Worry begin creeping in and stress level increase a lot which makes people feel easily tired or always tired mentally. I have many experience mentally tired and it really took almost two weeks to really clear it, and before I manage to clear it, a new things are constantly happen.

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It is why in this holiday, I do not make any busy schedule, and we just easy-go-lucky style. No need to rushing, pushing something to get things that you want. admire the life style of cat. They just  freely go to anywhere and relax, the things that I do really need so much to recharge.

2. Enjoying Friendship.

Going trips with friends is something that I do really looking forward, no matter it is big group or small group, even two person going to trip is indeed something makes me excited. Traveling is my second highest enjoyment in my life, right after drinking coffee in the rainy weather.

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This diving trip, I have planned it from the start of 2011, which initial members are around 14 people. Many are interested to join and enjoy the fun, and slowly when it is closer to the month itself, one by one pulling out and left only two person above who said confirm during early 2011. Turn out, the trip really super duper fun and we really enjoy.

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It is really our luck to have friendly diving instructor, he is really good in make things simple and really patience teaching us. There is a time where he ask to wear our equipment on top of water, we keep failed to do, especially me where I keep asking him to repeat the move again and again, carefully watch him to do the demo until we all manage to do and pass the exam.

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Even after so many months that I have left the island, I really miss diving, how the sea waves sound, as well as the beauty of underwater. It is really true when you dive the first time, you will get addicted and you will looking forward to dive more and more. Good thing that this month I will go to Bali to dive over there and really looking forward for the trip as well as the good holiday.

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So cheers, I will upload more about the photo in Bali.

 

PS: the last photo that I upload is natural ones, without any edit at all. Just put your camera and lens inside air-con room with 16 degree, and next morning your lens will be foggy.

Early Snapz of Hanan and Bond Wedding

I have really exciting wedding shoot yesterday. I meet the couple few weeks before wedding and they are really fun couple, friendly as well as warm. Feel privilege when they choose me to become their official wedding photographer and it is my first  time experiencing wedding shoot with Iranian.

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Hanan

There will be more coming pictures which is still under process of editing. This is captured straight from RAW file, and then export into jpeg with watermark.