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Another good high school friend of mine got married recently. On top of being his "brothers" to overcome the obstacles set by the "sisters" when picking up the bride, I double duty as a secondary photographer as well.Not wanting to shoot with film, my only option now is my Panasonic LX3. So I took this opportunity to see how LX3 fare against the big guns in wedding ceremony photography. With a

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A friend of mine just sent me a link to this blog article from Brooks Jensen at LensWork.I find that his thought of working backward base on the result you want to achieve in your photo, to determine the appropriate photographic tool for the job is the more feasible and sustainable way to do photography. So if you suffer from gear head mentality (like I once did, maybe I still do...), go read it

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It's been 4 months since I sold my DSLR, Nikon D300. Although without it, I'm finding myself shooting even more photos now than before with my Panasonic LX3. Finally, I'm doing what I suppose to be doing, enjoying photography and capturing more photos on my friends and family. Overall, this transition has been going well for me.On top of that, I've been bringing this camera around Kuala Lumpur on

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Friday evening, 18 Sep 2009Ahhh… Nice long weekend. Four consecutive day of bliss, and a wedding to look forward to on Sunday morning and evening. Usually I would get my DSLR gears ready for action. But since I've sold mine, I left with the Panasonic LX3 P&S. As I remove the camera from the dry box, I notice the dormant Nikon F3 sitting at the corner, shy from light within the red leather casing

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After posting my Nikon D300 and battery grip for sale for two weeks on a local online photography forum, I finally found a suitor which propose the right market price. With that, we arrange a place to meet, and I bid "farewell" to the best digital camera I ever had for 18 months.Good condition Nikon D300 camera. Unfortuantely, digital products loose it's value too soon.Battery grip MB-D10, seldom

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I have left Kuala Belait and are now back in Malaysia. Only thing I miss from there is the walk at the beach during the evening. Being a city person, I did not have the experience of living close to a beach. Therefore, each day being there provides me a unique oportunity to capture a different sunset. Below are some good ones taken with my LX3, over the course of one month.My work in Brunei is

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I'm currently on assignment in Brunei and have been here for a month now. It's my first visit to Brunei, and I'm staying at Kuala Belait, the small oil town. For a guy who are used to the city life, I felt trapped in a small town: no shopping malls, no cinema, no pub and alcohol (not that I drink very often, but would be nice to get myself drunk once a while). Therefore, my first weekend here

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I haven't done a wedding shoot for 3 months now. Been busy with work and haven't been selling myself that much too. So when asked to fill in as the wedding banquet photographer in less than a week notice, I was a bit reluctant, but accepted the job anyway.As usual, I decided to eat before I start work, so drove through McD for a fillet set to go. I arrived at the venue earlier (around 5:30pm) to

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Unfortunately, I did not have many worthy shots of the Eiffel Tower during my short time in Paris. Other than those taken from outside of my hotel (posted here), below are the remaining shots that I like to share.To commemorate France presidency of EU, the Eiffel Tower was lit up with in blue, and special twinkling light starts-off from 8pm onwards every hour into the night. Pictured here is my

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Continuing from my last post on Paris, here some shots of the Arc de Triomphe, located at the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris.It was drizzling that evening and it was difficult to get the shot shown above (setting up tripod, having people looking at you, wiping rain droplets off the lens etc). Still, those element gave a bit more drama to the shot, especially where cars had their

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I can't recall when was the last time I visited Pulau Ketam (Crab Island). I guess it could be about 15 years ago. So it was my curiosity of how much would Pulau Ketam had changed that I agreed to Jeff's invitation to go for this 1/2 day trip (these 1/2 day trips is turning into a de-facto standard trip length for our impromptu photo trips).With reference to www.pulauketam.com, Pulau Ketam used

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"Easy to climb and nice scenery". That's what I was told by my colleague. This time, Jeff took the initiative to organize this trip. To catch the sunrise, we have to leave home from Petaling Jaya at 4:30am (yawn...)After driving and getting lost with Nokia GPS (map not so updated), we finally reached Broga just before 6am. But we don't know where's the exact location to hike the hill. Following

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Day 1 and day 2 of our trip had been very interesting. On this 3rd and last day, we chose to visit the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, Pinang Peranankan Mansion and Fort Cornwallis in the morning, as we had to drive back to KL in the afternoon.Again, we were not able to visit Cheong Gatt Tze Mansion, as we were not aware that tourists are not allowed to enter without the tour guide, which is scheduled

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As the morning breaks (that's 8:30am by our standard), we get ourselves ready for this 2nd day of our Georgetown heritage photography trip. Yesterday we didn't manage to visit many places as we started off late, at around 3pm. So today we are not about to be slackers and come home without any good shots.Some sunlight coming through into the room.A view of Komtar from our hotel.Passing by old

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With the car stopped and secured on deck, we went straight to the front of the ferry for the best view towards Georgetown, the historic capital of Penang island. For quite sometime, I have been planning to visit Penang for a photography trip. Taking opportunity of the long weekend, I've invited my friends in the "photographic department" to join me in this journey.Jeff whipped out his Ricoh GRD2

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Eric, my friend and two-time ex-colleague got married last month, and I was honoured to be the main photographer to cover his wedding. Out of the typical Chinese wedding, here's some shots that I like.This was taken when Eric help Ai Wa remove her hair pins. This shot feels more natural than those taken during the makeup session, as the bride is in a more relaxed state.This shot was taken when

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We went to Bukit Melawati after our lunch break. Nothing interesting there: a small museum, lots of monkeys, and a light house (yes, that's why we were there). The sun was harsh, but luckily there's enough clouds as background to spice up the photos.High lighthouse, originally uploaded by Ho Swee Ching.Cold lighthouse, originally uploaded by Ho Swee Ching.

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Finally made a trip to Sekinchang at Selangor to take some photographs of the paddy fields. Following are some of the best shots of the day, taken around 10am.Kuala Selangor, originally uploaded by Ho Swee Ching.Jeff @ Work, originally uploaded by Ho Swee Ching.Paddy Road, originally uploaded by Ho Swee Ching.Would've taken more photos if wasn't for the extremely hot weather. Have to remind

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I've kept some of my best wedding photography works on my Flickr site. Enjoy the photographs using the Flickr slideshow below. For best quality, please head straight to the slideshow page on Flickr site directly. You will need to have Adobe Flash player installed. Best Wedding Shots,originally uploaded by Ho Swee Ching.

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I was in Paris in October 2008 for a few days stopping over from Germany and will head over to Scotland from here. The following photograph of the iconic Eiffel Tower was taken on a Sunday morning around 10am at Rue Saint-Dominique street, just outside of my hotel entrance. Eiffel Tower from Rue Saint-Dominique, autumn 2008,originally uploaded by Ho Swee Ching.More of my thoughts of Paris and

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The MyPhotoBooks program supplied by www.photobook.com.my is a great application for designing beautiful photo album for printing. However, I was frustrated over the limited (or nil) configuration and technical capability of the program. For example, when you add a photo located in your hard drive, MyPhotoBooks program does not copy the file, but only make a reference to it. Therefore, if you're

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If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note via the feedback form below. I will get back to you as soon as I can. id = 14391;

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I remember my first experience of using a SLR was about 10+ years ago. My father own a Nikon F3 with a Nikkor 24mm f2.8 prime, and a push-pull zoom-Nikkor 35-105mm. With his permission, I took the small dry box containing the gears from him and started playing with it photography. Still a student then, I learned about photography through the F3 manual, and seek advice from some of my friends who

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