Pete's Photography

Blog Migration: http://petephotog.blogspot.com

2010-04-20T05:39:00.002+08:00

Hi guys, sorry for being inactive for quite some time. However, I'm currently moving my blog to http://petephotog.blogspot.com due to incompatibility of current layout formatting with this post. Do check out the gallery photos. I'll be posting more photos from time to time.

Thanks & Regards,
Peter Ng

Photo Retouch-Up

2009-11-09T20:55:00.002+08:00

I'm learning a new way to do skin retouch up. So I begin to redo the photos that I shot before...

Sayang Kinabalu...

2009-11-02T09:08:00.002+08:00

Its been a while since I last update my blog. I'm currently offshore at Northern Sabah... with this trip, I was blessed with a beautiful sight - Mount Kinabalu. The first few days I did not notice this mountain as it was hiding behind mist and clouds... When I realised there's a mountain at sight, I would spend some time watching how the sun rises and illuminates its backgroud, giving a sillhouette figure of the mountain..

I remember a song about this mountain:
"Tinggi tinggi Gunung Kinabalu,
Tinggi lagi sayang sama kamu,
Biru biru hujung kinabalu,
Tengok dari jauh hati saya rindu..." - Sayang Kinabalu by Kimin Mudin

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i shot a sunrise but never realised there's a mountain

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my 1st mountain shot as soon as i realised it

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Golden sunshines lights up the mountain.

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my latest mountain shot, just right after the heavy thunder storm

A Farewell Once More

2009-08-28T09:47:00.000+08:00

It's been 3 weeks plus since I've come back to Miri. I've now, it's time to leave Miri going to Labuan for another job again. Its sad thinking about leaving friends and family for another 2 months, leaving the excitement I gain while I'm in Miri, for both photoshooting and life. We all have to make a living, so I guess I can only get my mind prepared for a peaceful, yet boring sea and working 12 hours a day straight 2 months. Looking at the bright side, at least as of now, I dont have to travel 27 hours to reach West Africa. I wont be updating my blog during my offshore days for now. I'm taking these opportunity to thank everybody the 3 weeks of joy! All the best!

Below are my few shots I like throught the shoots. I've gone through a lot preparation for the three photoshoot, tiring but satisfied. A thousand thanks for those involved in modeling for me. I'm looking forward for future collaboration again.

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photo05 - A real APPLE, no photoshop alteration except for brightness and contrast. Hand modeling by Daphne

Photoshoot Grudge

2009-08-09T15:45:00.000+08:00

It was my 1st Sunday in Miri, we had a photoshoot with 3 lovely ladies, Daphne, Jade and Jenny. I approached Daphne in facebook after seeing her modeling for my shutter bug gangs in Miri. I got jealous and I took the initiative to cheat her into modeling for me too!

As what people said: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. So, I decided to make a group photoshoot aiming to pretend being friends with my enemies!

1st I get Daphne to invite two of her friends to become our model, then I invited the rest of the photographers. Not knowing my evil intention they've FALL into my trap! A total of 13 photographers showed up during that day with their gears and I knew my plans is going to be a big success! I shall betray them one by one, backstabing them, slowly and indirectly sliced their heart into bits and pieces.... they SHALL FALL!

Anyway, enough bullshitting from me... I was just bored. Instead of having myself rot in boredom I've decided to update my blog a little. Thanks to Daphne, Jade, and Jenny, (for modeling under hot sun without complaining and etc) I manage to met a lot of photographers and sincerely(not pretending) making friends with them. Each and every shoot, and every person I met has been helping me to improve my photography skills a lot.

Again, thanks for everybody's participation. Without them, the shoot will not be successful!

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Autumn's Heart

2009-06-02T12:05:00.000+08:00

Autumn's Heart, an album taken with Marlene Lim, Christine Lim, Karlos Teo, Heidi Fong and myself. Thanks to Carmen Yeo for being our Make Up Artist. Although she's not there during the photoshoot, but without her, the photoshoot will not be successful.

We had a photoshoot for about 3.5 hours from 4.00pm to 7.30pm. It was a tiring and fun day... refer to Christine Lim's blog for behind the scene photos taken by Heidi.

Hope you enjoy the photo compilation.

The Beauty and The Beast

2009-06-01T00:44:00.000+08:00

RX8 - This is the 1st time I actually get up closed and see and touched and PHOTOGRAPHED it! Thanks to Carol for organising the shoot, and most of all THANK YOU to Mr. J for willing to spend his time and lending us his precious RX8 for a photoshoot. He is a very very friendly and humble guy. Today is also the day that I met Beingelvish, and Shane. It is a pleasure meeting all of them.

We did the photoshoot by the road side, a good spot recommended by Karl. Thanks to him, I REALLY LOVE THAT SPOT!

During our photoshoot, there's a lot of people pass by, a lot of eyes starring
at us, a lot screeching and a lot of hornings. Well, those are something to be expected when shooting in public places. Our buddy, My4to even called me after he saw us when he drove passed. Afterall, Miri is a small town.

I hope you guys enjoy the photo I took. I'll be posting more photos tomorrow.

Thank You.

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Jennifer @ Putrajaya

2009-05-24T14:59:00.000+08:00

Jennifer, my uni mate, we used to play volleyball together. This is our 1st event after a long long time. However, this time we play photography, and she plays the role of model and driver, while I play the role of photographer. Lol. She picked me up at 4pm, and we went to Putrajaya. Putrajaya is a BIG MAZE for both of us. Luckily there's a lot of sign board.

We started off in Presint 2, a very nice areas with lots of unique buildings and lamp posts. It was quite hot at that moment, we took a few shots, hide then continue then hide and etc. We took a few snaps until sun set, then we went to Alamanda to eat our dinner. After that we went to one of the bridge, we manage to take a few snaps until the police came and chase us away for parking in yellow line. =)

It was getting late and we went home. Thanks to Jennifer for letting me photographing her and driving me all the way to Putrajaya. I hope she's not disappointed with the photos. haha.

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Manfrotto Lightstand

2009-05-22T12:21:00.000+08:00

Today I got my very 1st light stand. Manfrotto 026 Lite Tite Swivel and Umbrella Adapter with 052B stand.

The adapter is for light weight purposes and I've yet to get any information about its capacity but it will not have any problems holding an SB900 with umbrella.

As for Manfrotto 052B, maximum height of 2.5 meters, can support max weight of 5kg. It can support as much weight as my tripod, however it is so light! Putting up a flash with umbrella at 2.5meters height during windy day without sandbags is not recommended.

Finally our next contender, weighting 215g, 512kcal, 50.5g carbohidrates, 26.3g protein, 23.9g fats and 2.7g salts.. the O' Mighty Big MAC! :D

I made a home delivery by calling a very easy to memorized number 1-300-13-1300! And I decided to shoot it while testing out my light stand.

The Curve, Fashion Week

2009-05-18T11:27:00.000+08:00

Fashion week, organized by The Curve, Mutiara Damansara on 14th to 17th May 2009.

I saw this notice from local photography forum, www.photokaki.com on Friday 15th May. What caught my attention was Malaysian Dream Girl, Grand Finale at 7pm on 15th May. I immediately look at my desktop's clock and amazingly it was 7pm too! It looks like I'll missed a great event because by the time I reached The Curve it will 9pm. So, I decided to go on Saturday just for the fashion show, but I got lazy and ended up in Starbucks next to my apartment drinking Mocha while online.

Then, I planned again to go on Sunday, invited my friend to join me along. I was suppose to go there at 2pm to shoot fashion show, while my friend will meet me there about 3++pm, but I ended up reacing The Curve at 3.30pm, after I woke up at 1pm. When I reached there, I saw a lot of photographers taking photos, some standing on their own ladders, some sitting infront of the runway, and some even standing just at the edge of the runway, like transparant (hokkien says "jiak po leh tua") shooting up with their various mobile camera like trying to captured "something". Then, an Indian photographer standing next to me shouted "Oi, Lu orang tengok perempuan ka???" (I'm guessing he meant "Oi, you people trying to PEEP ka???) Finally he got the security guard to back them off - for a while.

I've got a few shots that I like a lot, but then I decided to delete it after seeing few heads blocking the view. Which is a dissapointment. I managed to shoot 1.5 sessions, 3.30-4pm, then 5-6pm. Most of the shots was taken at ISO800 without flash, spot metering, aperture priority and continuous auto focusing.

Between the break, Lepiak and I went to Pho Hoa Noodle Soup, eating its tasty beef stew with Vietnamese Drip Coffee with Milk and Ice. Its a wonderful meal.

By the way I noticed All IT Hypermarket, in Ikano Power Centre (known as Ikea) sells the cheapest Sandisk memory card, even cheaper than Lowyatt Plaza. Sandisk Extreme IV, 4gb CF card, 300x /45mbps (read/write) costing RM199, while cheapest rate in Lowyatt was RM260.

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More fashion photos, visit: The Curve Fashion

MC.Net @ KL

2009-05-10T20:38:00.000+08:00

Mc.net, expanding, growing, spreading till KL! I believe that it is the 1st ever KL photo session and gathering for Mc.net members and it is 100% Mirians gathering! Wow... all Mirians. Those attended were Shutter Hero & the gang, Pei & the gang and Me & gang (This HUGE gathering can legally occupy 75% of A taxi) :)

This is the 1st time I met up with them and we gathered near Pasar Seni LRT station @ 1100hrs, before heading towards Central Market(I thought Central Market was a fish market... but its NOT! It aircond and selling lots of art stuffs) for lunch. We had a lot of chit chats during lunchtime at Old Town Kopitiam, and Shutterhero lives up to his nick. He's a film user, taught me a lot about film that I never know.. which I think I still have lots of things to learn from him. We've been talking about cameras and photography (hope Pei isnt bored with us.. haha.) and he showed me a different perspective of shooting a photograph which all this while I never tried coz I thought it is bored and obviously Shutterhero changed my view on that. Shutterhero likes to shoot symmectrical portraits with symmectrical background. He did a very good jobs in making the photography interesting.

After lunch Shutterhero brought us to checkout KL 2009 Portraiture Photo Awards exhibition. Its a great exhibition, where a lot of photos really amazed me, I've even seen one of photos that got into the exhibition that was shot by polariod and this proves 1 thing - you dont need great cameras to shoot great photos.

After visiting the exhibition, we walked to Station Kuala Lumpur, one of the heritage buildings. It was very hot and humid day, and we decided to have another cup of tea before shooting.

We started shooting at the centre platform between two railways. To me, Pei is very comfortable with us.. and I must add this comment - Pei is TALL! haha... (nearly forgotten to add tat comment). After that we went outside the buildings, took a few snaps and it started raining, and, we headed back for another cup of tea. Before that, I manage to get 2 shots from the subway passage crossing railways and streets doing wireless shooting and I've another I.V.C.H.F.S.

We then continuing with KTM office and mosque areas. We ended up around 6pm. We are all exhausted especially Pei, to walk such a long distance with high heels isn't pleasant. Thanks to her, I'm able to meet up with ShutterHero and practicing photography.

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Photo Marathon Finale

2009-05-04T02:59:00.000+08:00

Sunday- our 3rd and final shooting marathon day. Everyday, from Friday, we set out in the morning.. shoot shoot shoot till late evening. I then do post processing till 2am - 3am, took some sleep and continuing my endurance test the following day. My body was tired, my arms was sore, I even felt the pain in my hand which I believe is what they called repetitive strain injury.

We were exhausted, and I managed to pass some of my former flu virus to a friend. He's in a worst condition than I am. At the edge of giving up our Sunday's shooting, something stroke us and motivates us. A friend sent me his motocross panning shots and posted in his blog. I too wanted that kind of photos in my collection. So, the next morning, I rang my marathon friend and we went for the motocross challenge. We reached there a bit late, at about 11am, and we only manage to shoot a few laps of motocross racing. Then, we met up with mysterious Pantene gal, who as usual, pro for avoiding shots.

Anyway, after the motocross shooting, we went to Imperial Mall for a lunch with another photographer friend, and we waited for our next fashion photoshoot. The fashion show ended at 3pm, and we loiter in Imperial Hotel's Coffee House for a tea time before heading to Luak Bay for a few snaps...

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**will upload more fashion show soon

The "Picnigraphy"

2009-05-01T23:30:00.000+08:00

It was Labour Day - the day we initiated a shooting come picnic concept. The concept was simple. We went out early, shoot, break, shoot, break ... and so on. So, we picked somewhere not too far and not too closed to our city. We started driving at 11++am, packed ourselves with foods and drinks, and proceed with our journey.

We planned to go to two places, the beach and the cliff. We started scouting the cliff, took some snaps and we moved on to the beach. However the beach was not as what we have expected. It was very windy, very cloudy, and high tide. I don't know about others, but I was having problems trying to get satisfied shots of Carol at that time.

At about 4++pm we went to the cliff, explore some of the places, and tried to go to the beach below the cliff. Unfortunately, the was high tide and our access was restricted. So, we walked back to the cliff and decided to shoot at the edge of it. To our surprise we bump into Terrick who happens to be our one of a kind intelligent voice command human flash stand that holds 2 flashes at a time. (haha. Thanks Terrick!!!)

The cliff is high, the wind was strong and having Carol to stand at the edge and pose was very dangerous. Although she was engulfed by fear, but she still braced herself for the sake of having good photography.

After that, we happily headed back to the city around 6.45pm, knowing that we've accomplished our top priority mission - to have fun.

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The War Zone

2009-04-26T15:08:00.000+08:00

Today is the day, for me go to war. I met up with Commander Karl at 1000hours. He immediately dragged me into a safe place because there is an ongoing war nearby.

He then passed me a mask to wear, and we immediately jump into the battlefield. In just less than 15 mins time - OMG!!! Commander Karl was shot at his leg. Fortunately, the shot does not cost him his life. He kept fighting, without fear. He's one of the bravest soldier that I ever met. I am very proud to fight by his side.

The war still goes on... people are shooting each other without mercy. I saw a lot of people has sacrificed themselves for their King and Country. Perhaps this is what people called patriotism.

There is once that I almost got shot on my head. Luckily I got my head lowered enough for the enemy to missed. We kept fighting with our weapons and dodging bullets, hoping to see our friends and family once more.

Few hours has passed, exhaustion and hunger overtook our physical and mental coordination but we determined to keep fighting until the end of the war.

Finally, after two hours, the war has ended for us. We were called to retreat from the battlefield to replenished ourselves.

I shot a few brave men on the day itself and they shall not be forgotten.

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***more pics coming soon

Anticipation, Dissapointment & Miracles

2009-04-26T00:23:00.000+08:00

Carol a.k.a. Cheryl, - a gal that I've kept my eyes on since last year. I met her in www.miricommunity.net, when she pmed me on May 26, 2008 1:18 pm asking if I'm a photographer. I told her I'm just started off photograhy. She replied "...means haven't graduate lar... LOL !!"

I found her to be very photogenic from her avatar pictures, however I do not dare to approached her for a photoshoot, because I've yet to have any portfolio to show to her, until I found out she's interested in doing photoshoot for her 21st birthday (If I'm not mistaken). Then, Thu Oct 09, 2008 2:22 pm, the the day I pmed her asking if she would like to do a photoshoot with us, and gladly she agreed. However, the process of having a photoshoot does not come without constraints. Having to work away from Miri makes me hard to find an opening to do a shoot with her. I've even missed out a shoot organised by my buddy, Terrick in December.

Then I've been very idle in photography until March 2009, when I was offshore in Africa. I logged into my MSN and we started talking about photography, and Carol did once again mention about having a photoshoot together. From there onwards, I've been planning and thinking and discussing with Carol and others about the photoshooting session and we've set a date that falls on 25th April 09. It has been one of the greatest anticipation that I had throughout the year. It is a time for me to prove that I'm not rusty after being idle for 4 months!!! Well, as what they always said: The higher you climbed, the harder you'll fall. That's what happened to me when my greatest fear struck me - she can't make it to the shoot! A clear sunny day suddenly became rainny day. I was very disappointed with the news that I received from a SMS.

BUT it happened to me on the day itself that miracles appear in my life. She called me, telling me that she has done with her things, and she is ready to ROCK N' ROLL! We quickly gather, and proceed with our shooting as per planned. Although we started late, but it was a very successful photoshoot, thanks to a collective effort by all people.

To me, she is not only a great gal, but she is also a superb model!

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