Thursday, December 9, 2010

sony alpha malacca challenge ^ ^

this was the very 1st time i joined shooting outing by the sony. on the day, the gather point was at MV whr a nice, clean and comfy travel bus was prepared to pick us up frm KL to Malacca. met with some new friends thr like steven, veron, allan, Mr wesley and lot of other alpha users^^ after a 2 hour journey in the bus accompanied by James bond: quantum of solace, we finally reached at Malacca. we was first gather at the hotel and had a briefing session with mr Wesley regarding the mission today : P, then at around 12pm, we were brought to the jonker street area to search for the photos that fit into the themes, which were PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE, and CLOSED-UP.in the beginning i gave up in the landscape part since it was in the afternoon, whr the sky is too bright and i don have CPL or ND filter to go long exposure.. so, portrait and closed-up were my target for the 4 hours shooting session:Pthe sun was so bright and hot that day, bt we don even bother the weather coz it can't stopped us to get a nice photo:P so we were like some crazy fellows rushing into the jonker streets and just "tembak" on wat ever subjects that we think were beautiful and interesting:Pi was really enjoy the shooting session, coz when given a theme, i can start figure out wat i wan in my photos.. not like if i was traveling with my friends ^ ^ plus i learned lots from the friends around and saw lot of lot of BIG BIG LENS!!!! and had a chance to try on those lens^^after the 4 hour session of shooting.. we back to the hotel to share our photos^^ each of us had to submit a single photo for the 3 themes.. after the submission, the sharing and judging stage were started. the submission of around 30 photos was shortlisted into 10 photos.. from the 10 photos.. 2 of the best photos in each category will be selected as the best photo and runner-up.. the session started with landscape and closed-up categories.. both of the categories my photo was not shortlisted into the 10 photos.. i kinda disappointed at that moment.. when come to the portrait part.. i was lucky enuf to get into de list^^ i was very happy tat time coz for a newbie like me, i'm satisfied with the result.. however, that was not the happiest part:P hehe^ ^ when came to the part of announcing the best photo in the portrait, my photo was chosen by the judge^^ yeepieeee!!!! haha ^ ^ really happy tat time and really din expect that^^here are some of the photos i took that day, hope u guys like it^^








































this was the photo that won me a flash^^

the prize^^


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