My Take on the Art of Photography

Digital versus film photography

21st century photography is dominated by digital operation, but the older photochemical methods continue to serve many users and applications.

Film and digital imaging systems have different cost emphases. Digital cameras are significantly more expensive than film equivalents, but taking photographs with them is effectively cost-free. The price of digital cameras continues to fall. Other costs associated with digital photography are specialist batteries, memory cards, paper, printer ink cartridges and long-term storage.

High quality film cameras are less complicated and therefore less expensive, ongoing film and processing costs being the major expense. Film prices have risen in recent years as supply diminishes.

With many photographers switching to digital, film cameras and lenses are now available on the second-hand market at often much-reduced prices, allowing for semi-professional and even professional film cameras to be owned by people who would once never have been able to afford them.

How to use a DSLR Camera

With the right gear doesn't not mean the you produce a great photo. How to use and operate a DSLR camera takes months and years to master.

You can take bad photos with a really good camera.

For example when taking night shots. it is really important to master ISO and Resolution settings before taking a shot. Below is a photograph of a bridge in Putrajaya.

For example the first photo indicates that it is overexposed and the second picture gets the ISO and resolution settings correct.

So when setting out to take photographs using professional pictures make sure you master the setting correctly by trial and error until you take a pic like a pro

Learn how to use Photoshop?!!

Practice makes perfect!!..so here is a tutorial on how to do a simple photo manipulation technique. It is called Wraps and Blends technique. Is semi-advanced so if you are new to Photoshop then you will have difficulty understanding this. Any Questions please feel free to ask me.

Anyways you will need a photo and a texture.
Below are my choices, you can work with anything you want, either with your own photos or web images. You can search for textures on the web too. so lets get going. The images below are the final manipulated image, the texture(rusty) and the unedited image of Cameron Diaz(one of my favourite actresses.

Here is how:
Open a texture you want to use

*Then instead of going to 'open' go to 'place' & open the face photo you want to use (X-Y...means the dimensions/across & down) Hold the shift key down while dragging the corner of you pic - to make the photo bigger or smaller to fit to the texture (Holding the shift key down makes the photo stay in proportion-if you don't it can end up wider / longer on one side & it will look out of proportion)

*When it is the right size-hit enter-then right click on the photo layer & select rasterize layer
*You should have 2 layers
*Duplicate both layers
*You now have 4 layers......starting from the very top-we'll call that layer 1.....
Layer 1 - Face
Layer 2 - Texture
Layer 3 - Face
Layer 4 - Texture
*Set the top layer to "Multipy"......set the other 3 to "Normal"
*But play around with these, it varies from photo to photo-sometimes
*Erase parts of the eye/mouth from Layer 1 & 2 to leave Layer 3 showing through......the rest is just trial & error....
*Adjust brightness/contrast/levels/curves
*Use dodge/burn tools to lighter & darker areas on different layers
****Save your work & fiddle around (that's where most of my skill comes from, just from fiddling & trying everything! :)

It's hard to put actions into words, but hoping this has helped!!

Malaysia..Truly a photographer's dream spot.

Malaysia diverse and beautiful country with beautiful sceneries which makes a wonderful place to a take photographs. Below are a few pictures of various places of malaysia i took photos. it varies form the city to islands enjoy.!

How to be a Photoshop Guru

Before(right) & After(left) Edited

The above picture was taken in Genting highlands . The technique used here is selective colouring. this is done to emphasize the colours of the photo more.

I Love Photoshop, below is a link to teach to how to do some Photoshop tricks.

Photoshop is a software to enhance/modify/manipulate your images.

I use photoshop CS4 and CS2.

http://creativenerds.co.uk/articles/40-online-design-blogs-to-turn-you-into-a-photoshop-guru/

KL Skyline

Photos of KL skyline i took during day and night time

Gear Head

Camera have nothing to do with taking great pictures, to take a great picture you have to know how to take a great picture.

I use the sony cybershot 10 megapixels and Canon 500D.

As most beginners like my self we instantly discover that simply having the best tools and technically sharp images doesn't get the glorious, passion-inspiring results we intended.