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[Photowalk] Thaipusam 2016 @ Batu Caves Malaysia

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[Photowalk] Thaipusam Festival at Batu Caves Malaysia 2016 Last year was my first time to pay a visit to Batu Caves for Thaipusam Festival thanks to Robin Wong and friends. This year, I went to Batu Caves again with Raymond and girlfriend since this will be her first time seeing the festival in real time. This time we drove and parked our car near one of the petrol station in Batu Caves area. Reached around 6.31 am  and started shooting around the river since the preparation for Thaipusam started there. Noted they have renovated the shower area with proper marble stone but kinda block views for photographers. When compared to last year Thaipusam Festival, I find that less crowded this time. Maybe because I came at a different timing and it was easier to climb uphill to reach the top too. Instead of having multiple post about Thaipusam, I am going to finalize the photos and frame them in Instagram square size. Hope you like the Thaipusam photos that I captured at Batu Ca

[Photowalk] Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves [Part 4]: That Precious Moments

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Blessing @ Thaipusam Batu Caves Harloo guys, today is the final part of my Thaipusam photo series and I got a few favourite shots being displayed here. Can you guess which one is my favourite?? Or you can tell me which is your favourite =) All photos were captured using Nikon D800 and paired with Nikkor 85mm F1.8 or my #TCFisheye lens for the wide view~

Photowalk to Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves [Part 3]: Shave & Shower

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Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves - Shave & Shower Happy CNY to you guys who still celebrating it especially "Bai Ti Gong" this Thursday. I still remember I can see a lot of huge fireworks that day. Okie this is the continuation of my Thaipusam 2015 @ Batu Caves photo post and this time I would like to feature moments captured at the riverside. Where you see people taking shower after shaved their head and get blessing from the god before carry a barrel of milk and going up hill to Batu Caves. Photos are captured using Nikon D800 and paired with Nikkor 85mm F1.8 or my #TCFisheye lens for the wide view~

Photowalk to Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves [Part 2]: 272 steps to the top

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Photowalk to Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves [Part 2]: Kid's gorgeous big eyes If you haven't read my first post about Thaipusam @ Batu Caves 2015 , go read it now as these photo stories are connected. To get to the top of Batu Caves, everyone need to queue up in the jam-packed crowd and trying not to fall down or being suffocated (especially kids who join the queue). I believe we've spent at least an hour in the crowd just to reach the starting of the stairs. Apparently there are three rows of queue but only two passage available to go up. Therefore some of them shouted and complain as there were a few devotees who can't stand it and pass out. That was the time people around get even angrier and shout out even louder. That was the time the queue started to move a little bit faster. Since we were stuck among packed crowd, there was nothing much to shoot as your eye view will be about people's head and it was hard to switch lenses. This time I use mainly the 8 m

Photowalk to Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves [Part 1]: Sit Female Coach for the first time

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Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves Malaysia celebrate Thaipusam every year and it is always a grand festival in Batu Caves. Honestly, we ourselves as a Malaysian should go there at least once in a lifetime because tourist from oversea came all the way for this!! Since I am staying not that far from Batu Caves, so why shouldn't I go? That's what I was thinking when Robin and friend asked if I wanna join the photowalk. Although it wasn't comfortable when you were stuck between the mountain of people, it was a great experience for me to understand more about Thaipusam and the culture in a very close distance. We meet at KTM Tasik Selatan as early as 3am to avoid crowd and KTM service was available specially for Thaipusam season. The counter was closed and the gate was open, so we just went in the station without paying tickets for the first time. That was our first time sitting in the KTM female coach without worry of being starred or chased away by the ladies haha.

Posed vs Candid Photography - Which is better?? Here's some tips for you

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Posed and Candid Photography - Which is better?? ft Carmen Hong, Anna Bella Wong and Eunice Yuen The other day I saw a friend of mine asked this on Facebook - "A posed moment versus a candid moment, which is better??" It had me thinking for a while and both posed and candid photos has their own good (and bad) side. I myself prefer those candid moments as those are the shots that happened in merely second and you won't able to get that in pose shot. The emotion and face expression shown in posed shot are just different than candid photos. However, there are always ways to help you achieve and get more candid shots from the posed shot. Below are mixture of group photos taken during our photography hangout at Tokyo Pastry the other day. You may wanna check my previous post for individual photos first. I will share with you some tips on getting posed and candid photos.

10 Modeling Posing Ideas for Female Photoshoot featuring Eunice Yuen

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Remote flash photography with Eunice Yuen ft @eunice_mann After sharing some photos of Anna taken at Tokyo Pastry , now is the time for me to share photos of Eunice Yuen a.k.a  @eunice_mann on Instagram. Thanks for spending time with us so I can practice remote-flash photography and posing model at the same time. Every time after a photoshoot, sometimes I do facing tough time in choosing one photo out of similar pose to show here. Why? Cos it is important to balance between quality vs quantity (some people said). I do think that I must strip down the amount of similar photos so that my photos can stand out more. With that people also will feel that your photos won't be repeating/draggy at the same time.  Now shall we scroll down for more photos?? Do leave a comment below about which photo is your favourite/it-can-be-removed!! Or else, just let me know what's your thought about this series of photos ya. Arigato Gozaimasu~

[Photo] It's All About Anna Bella Wong Tonight

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Anna Bella Wong - www.annna.net This morning I posted a photo of Anna and stated that more photos of my blog. Didn't know that friends will say "kena con" because not much photos of their dearest Anna Bella Wong hahaha. So to 'compensate' your disappointment I present you all photos of just Anna Bella Wong in this particular post. Thanks to Eric and Sidney, I got idea on how to separate the photos to several post la Hope you guys will like the photos kay?! Visit her blog because she blog about food and most importantly she is a coffee lover. Not sure if she have OCD - Obsessive Coffee Disorder hahaha!!

Photography Hangout @ Tokyo Pastry, Kota Damansara

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Tokyo Pastry @ Kota Damansara After knowing both Robin Wong and Jackie Loi for long time, we have finally come out together for another photography outing (since Sekinchan travel photoshoot). Other friends who came along including Anna, Carmen, Calvin and Eunice. This time we choose to practice indoor photography with remote flash hence we decided to visit the Tokyo Pastry which located in Kota Damansara . The place is kinda small but they have nice ambience and the kitchen always make sure they serve their food in very presentable look. Below are some photos taken while we waiting for our food and mostly are candid shot unless stated otherwise. Dont you think candid photos look more natural and pleasing at the same time? Check out the photos below~