Short Trip To Kuala Lumpur

A snap of KL Tower & KLCC from inside the KLIA Express Transit.


























A perpective view of a temple near Petaling Street.

























A man looking up ahead through the window of the LRT.

























A foreigner in deep thoughts inside the KLIA Express Transit.

Md. Hairul & Dg. Rosnah Wedding

Vanguard BIIN 59 Camera Backpack :D

so , after 2 weeks of hunting on the net , i finally decided to buy a new camera backpack. I personally don't like those camera sling bags because the weight is just too much to be supported by just one shoulder, so , with a backpack , mainly being two-strapped , it just sort of equalises the amount of force acting on your shoulders making it feel lightweight :) so , went to KK plaza with dad and bought the Vanguard BIIN 59 Camera Backpack.

This backpack can basically fit a body with lens already attached to it , and 4 - 5 lens (depending on type of lenses) and additional accesories like speedlites or diffusers and such. it has two compartments , the one below has paddings for your gear and the compartment above is for storage of other misc. accesories like battery chargers , iPod charger and wires :)

This is a link to the specifications of the bag :

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/748225-REG/Vanguard_BIIN_59_ORANGE_BIIN_59_Backpack.html

Here are some pictures i just took ;

QUICKIE.

hey guys :) ive not been updating lately, busy with exams. urghhhh . Hari Raya Aidilfitri is just around the corner :) as you all can see , ive designed a new watermark because i got bored with the "rainbow" one :D its my 4th watermark to date hehe. well , here are just a few pictures just to freshen up this blog :)

Minor Update :)

hey , i haven't been updating much.. i have been busy with Exams , Bakat Interact and such.. gahhh ! so many things to do , so little time :( so , i got bored just now and decided to stick like 3 pieces of "mahjong" paper to make a white background.. then set up reflectors , speedlite with my homemade beauty dish and tripod.. and voila.. another "syok sendiri" photoshoot complete :D haha here are the results with only minor photoshop-ing :)

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DIY SOFTBOX :)

i got home today at 5-ish pm and took a cat nap until 6.30pm. haha then , i figured , since i have a new speedlite , why dont i make a softbox for it. hahaha so , i measured the softbox out on medium-sized pieces of cardboard and started to make it :) it took me around 1hour 28 minutes to complete the whole thing plus touching-up on the sides of the box :D haha basically , what a softbox is used for is , to soften harsh light from direct flash from a speedlite and will also reduce/soften shadows :) in photography; THE BIGGER THE LIGHT SOURCE , THE SOFTER THE SHADOWS *quote from Lumiquest; world reknown flash modifier company*

heres the softbox and a sample picture i took using it :)

The Softbox ~




SAMPLE PIC :

PAPARAZZI *NISSIN Di622 mark II Speedlite*

hey guys , haha . so , after weeks of researching , a lot of thought put into ; i finally decided to buy the Nissin Di622 Mark II Speedlite for my Nikon D3100 :) hehe all this while , i have been using my Canon 580 EXII Speedlite on my Nikon but , the hard part was , it functioned as non-TTL .. which basically means , i had to set everything to manual ; from manual mode on my camera *although i often use M mode* to M mode on the speedlite itself.. so , it wasnt efficient to do it, PLUS , it is actually NOT safe to put a CANON speedlite on a NIKON hotshoe mount as it will mess up the hotshoe circuit (one of the main reasons i decided to buy the nissin .) .. so , after playing around with my newly bought Nissin Di622 mkII ; i am actually very pleased with it considering it is a 3rd-party speedlite.

Believe me , this wasnt an easy decision . the other speedlites really fiddled with my mind because you have Cybertik , Sunpak , YongNuo , Octopus , etc. which are all good 3rd-party speedlites. but what really made me want the Nissin Di 622 mkII was its' i-TTL function , which means , it can fire the flash wirelessly WITHOUT the need of a transmitter/receiver triggering system AND it doesnt need to be fired through COMMANDER mode *for Nikon*. all you need to do to fire the Nissin is , your ON-BOARD Flash. BUT , what i have found out through my test runs just now was that , the flash from the on-board flash will affect your photos which will produce harsh lighting and over-exposed pictures ; which is just UGLAYYYY~

by now , i know you guys might be wondering , "why not just buy a Nikon speedlite ?" .. the answer to that is , i dont have the money to buy it. hahah i cant afford the SB-700s , SB-800s or SB-900s [ AT LEAST NOT YET ;) ].. i was trying to find a speedlite which would suit my budget , all i had was RM200 .. so , 3rd-parties are the only choices i had. :D and the SB-600s were out of stock , otherwise , i guess i wouldve bought that instead. hahah so , my nissin shouldve been RM600 but i got a discount ,in the end i only got for RM480 :)

so , now , to conclude this post ; i'll post up a few pictures of the Nissin Di622 Mark II Speedlite plus a link that will bring you to the full specifications of the speedlite ;

LINK TO FULL SPECS;

http://www.nissindigital.com/en/di622mii.html


THE BOX



THE INSIDE (Warranty Cards , Instruction Manual & CD , Speedlite stand, Soft Pouch AND the speedlite itself)



FRONT VIEW



REAR VIEW



NISSIN Di622 Mark II vs. Canon's 430EX and 580EX Mark II