C2AGE @Tropicana City

C2AGE is a cosplay event held in Tropicana City shopping complex in Petaling Jaya, where you’ll find Japanese and anime related cosplaying, merchandises and on stage singing. But it’s mostly about conspaying.

That being said, I didn’t find much interests that day to hunt down every cosplayer for their photos. So it’s just this Chii as shown.










Byakuya and Zero settling their duel by chess…




Some of the figurines on display. 

[Portrait] Coffee at IOI Boulevard

I met up with some high school classmates last Friday in Puchong for dinner, after which we parted ways and I was left with Mei Shan and Wan Lyn. Since there’s still some time we went to the IOI Boulevard for some coffee. To be more precise, I wanted to go there to shoot some portraits of them – the architecture and lighting of the place caught my eyes.






 




Wowed by the book’s content? We were walking around the area before settling down in a coffee shop, inside which we found a shelve stacked by all kinds of books. So we took some to use as props. I simply put the flash in between the book and her. The rounded shadow in front is caused by residue light from on-camera trigger flash. 


This time we used Mei Shan’s laptop…

[Portrait] Pii Ven

It the time when many friends studying overseas are coming back for summer holidays, and Pii Ven just so happens to be visiting KL at this time – which also presents me an opportunity to shoot against the backdrop of the city.

The flash is placed above camera at right, with dome diffuser and gobo’ed to prevent reflection due to spilling on the glass. While the underexposure of the cityscape is intentional, the lighting on her feels a bit harsh.


 

Krabi, the second time

A week ago I went to Krabi again with a group of friends. While the Krabi town and Ao Nang beach front is largely the same as last time I was there, the islands we went were different this time. It is also currently low season over there, so there’s not as many tourists around.

My approach to photographing the group of friends was also different – most of the portraits were shot with off camera flash. The results are satisfying, now they look more natural.



A quick shot before boarding the plane.




Two towel elephants welcoming guests to the hotel room.














They call this Paradise Island.






Hong Island.












A tussle of dog and owner – the dog was just playful.




A sky of startrails. This is a composite of some 96 frames taken over a period of 50 minutes to prevent destructively excessive light pollution.




Relaxing in hot spring waterfall.




Light yourself, Joe McNally style.










Three monks climbing the 1237 step stairway up a mountain.