First shots. (Updated)
Alright, I’m now updating this article properly as I was in a rush yesterday to get this first pic up. Here are the first batch of pics from the super GT event.
I have return from Super GT 2008
After spending the whole of Monday recovering from Super GT I will now begin editing as well as uploading the pics. But first something I got to take away from my time at Super GT 2008!
A signed photograph of the Race queens Ayami and Kotomi! Which I’ve scanned here and will keep the original locked away safely!! (I also gave them each a set of photos I took of them in Sunway).
How I spent THIS last weekend
I had a photo expedition on Sunday morning and a roadshow to shoot on Saturday. Did I have fun that weekend? You be the judge, a shot taken by fuminari
Need I say more?
How I spent my weekend……
Okay, last weekend a friend of mine Andy asked if I could come up to Penang for a photo event shoot (Super GT roadshow at Autocity with appearance by the GT race queens from Japan) as he could get me OP (Official Photographer) pass which means it would give me unrestricted access to anywhere and I could shoot anything without being hassle AND I would have direct access to the GT race queens!
Esther Model shoot.
Here we have some new photos of the lovely Esther! Whom was a joy to work with! Toshio had setup this model shoot a few weeks back but was being held in Penang, so ever being the diligent nutcase that I am, I drove all the way back to Penang (actually it was also a chance to check up on my place and tie up any lose ends).
Super GT 2007 Japanese Race queens
This is where I show you the reason that 80% of the photographers go to this event. The remaining 20% consist of 50% car buff fans and the other 50% are photojournalist sent by magazines or newspapers.
Super GT 2007 race local queens
Yes ladies and gentlemen, this event is so big for photographers not just because it present a grand opportunity to test their skills in catching that elusive car magazine photo but also because we will be pitted against other photographers (most of them full time PROS) who will be trying to get photos of those Super GT race queens (local ones shown here, Japanese ones later!!).
First up are the local GT race queens. I think this time I might try something wider but it’s really hard to get a good shots when you’re using a 70-200mm lens and the fact that while you’re trying to compose for a good shots, everyone other little maggots are getting in your way so you need to be quick!
The real skills is not just in getting shots of the local girls but the Japanese ones (wink, wink). So until then pleasant dreams!
Felina
This shoot was done about a month ago but I’ve only gotten around to work on it 50% recently. The original purpose of the shoot was to do a sketch board story by a friend of mine but sadly I think out of the whole group only 3 managed to get that story right (Nope, I didn’t get ti right as I didn’t have the needed artistic skills).
In any event, the shoot was broken up into 2 parts, an early morning shoot for the sketch board story while another part late morning for a regular shoot.
I must say that Felina is a very sporting and cheery model to work with even after we kept asking her to redo some scenes for us for the sketch board story she happily complied.
So here are the photos taken during the second part of the model shoot. Perhaps one day once I have attained enough skills I’ll go back and work on that first part.
The booth babes of PC fair April 2008 at KLCC
I went to the PC fair last weekend with Andy on Saturday and then with Nick and with my brother on Sunday (yes, I went there for 2 days straight).
My original purpose was to get a nice LCD monitor from Samsung but all the models they had there couldn’t change the viewing level of their monitors. I check every brand I encountered and it was the same, non-adjustable except for titlt . After learning that the view angle of a monitor is important and must be adjustable for comfortable viewing (I learned this lesson first hand after working at Intel for a month and getting a neck sprain), I decided I must buy a monitor with level and title controls but since I found non, I decided to hold off the purchase for another day.
Aside from that there was another reason why I went to the PC fair that unlike the PC fair in Penang, the PC fair in KL always have booth babes! So here are the shots.
Epson advance photography and printing seminar
We found out about this event from a posting in Rojak Studio by TY informing that a seminar by Epson showcasing their printer, scanner, PMP as well as color management software was going to be held at the Holiday inn at Batu Ferringi.
The event was to start at 7:45am, so ChewingGum, Cham, mybest and I headed out at about 6:40am and headed to McD at Sunrise gurney for breakfast while we waited for the rest of the gang to arrived.
So after a good breakfast we headed off at about 7:20am and reached there roughly on time. The event started off with registration and a brief introduction of what the plan would, at about 8 or so was the model shooting where we would have to pick the best pic from our shots to be printed by Epson’s line of printers. There would also be a lucky draw where the prizes would be Epson’s latest line of consumer base printers.
Top model of the world 2008 at Penang
This model shooting was held last Sunday at Gurney Hotel, Penang by the Velvet studio productions.
Our liaison with Velvet studio was Andytan and NikonK who managed to gathered a small group of people from both fotokrazy and rojakstudio here in Penang.
The event started at 9am and finished at 11am. We all went to the Subway place at Gurney hotel to have our breakfast and as a gathering point, it was also located next to starbucks so I managed to get my fix for the morning as well as the coffee at Subway was subpar.
There were 7 models and all supplied by velvet production, the entry fee for this contest was RM30 per photographer.
At 9am we made our way to the swimming pool at the hotel where we then registered and briefed on the rules and regulation governing the event (honestly, I don’t think anyone was paying ANY attention). So without further adieu we were set “loose” to take our photographs of the models.
Honda roadshow at QBM
Yesterday went out to the QBM with a few of my friends (ChewingGum and Khang Wey) as there was a Honda car roadshow taking place there and reports indicated that there would be some nice looking ladies there. It was a slow Saturday and I was bored.
We reach there at 11:30am but the ladies only appeared at about noon-nish. I only paid much attention to the Honda stream as it was really cool looking although I wish they had a civicover there. Still what really interested me was the civic hybrid that was stated in the brochure.
From what I gather, there is only one hybrid in the whole of Penang? Hmm, still they had an excellent offer on their Honda Citys, RM1850 discount (It was only RM1000 for me when I first got the City).
Here is a shot of Franklin which I turn to B&W as it looked better that way.
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