[Portrait] Futsal

My course mates have always been playing futsal (indoor mini football) about once a week. Nearing graduation I took an opportunity to go along with them to take some portraits. We were at the courts at midnight – due to availability of the courts – and I set up for the shoot before they played. I used a shoot through umbrella for the main lighting, placed on the subject’s left; and a bare flash for rear lighting on subject’s right. 










 


I also shot the games as they played. Owning to the very low ambient light of the courts, I could only shot at my highest useable ISO 12800. With the lens hunting for focus half the time it wasn’t a smooth ride. The images are useable however.

34th Bon Odori

This year’s Bon Odori, held in Shah Alam, have some improvements over the past…
1. Traffic control has been improved.
2. The food stall field has been replanted with grass, so no more dust to eat.
3. I take better photos than last years. Haha.

Enjoy.

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…