How to write your photo essay?

I saw Leanna Chong's status today as she mention that Photo Essay is not that easy. Indeed yes. Capturing a photo is not easy as you creating a story. When you want to be a photographer, it is important for you to know the subject of your photo. For example, you take a bird photo, there must be something special about the bird right? What it's name? Where did it come from? How is the population going on and so on. Remember my quote? Photography is art and art is infinity? A photo not only tells what we see but what's inside it. How it reflect to our life or the environment. I might not a photography graduated but I did my own research on photography because it is my passion to learn more than what I know. Furthermore, this is what Photojournalism do. Here are some tips for you or you may take this as your assignment. :)

1) Examine your subject before take shooting - just like drafting your essay before start compiling

2) Take a shot or a few - pointing out for aim or purpose

3) Start writing your essay - Remember that a collection of photos can make a photo essay, but a collection of photos is not consider as photo essay

4) Photo essay can be a caption, a simple essay, an article or up to a printing publication.

5) For more tips and example, visit them:

a) The Photo Essay - They tells what we see and what they see, done by several Asian Photographer

b) UNICEF photo essay - Helps United for Children all over the world

c) Jan Sochor Photography

d) Pixel Press

And below is my example.. Hope you understand a bit about it. :)

Sipadan island has been nominated in one of the wonders of the world. It was once attacked by the Abu Sayyaf group. Since then, most of the people scared to go to this island especially local. For me, anywhere can be dangerous and there are no reason not to go to this beautiful place. Sabah Park is protecting this island from pollution and it is why there are no chalet or a place to stay here, only the army and the rest of Sabah park crew who stay here and take a good care of this place. I highly recommend local and other country to visit here. And please bring your underwater camera. There are magical creatures down there!

A Day with Pixelayer and Friends Event

This will be the first official Pixelayer outing with friends to promote friendship and to help each other. Please share this excited day out with Pixelayer and Friends.

We would like to invite all of you no matter DSLR user or compact user, videographers or painters, and good news to modelling enthusiast who want to improve their poses. Feel the excitement and register with us before 12th of April 2010 (extended to 15th April 2010) for us to arrange with the meals & beverages. Since there is a limitation on the participation, we need your co-operation to bank in your RM20 to us before or on the dateline to book yourself in this event. There will be a group competition and mysterious gift to be won! Kindly refer below details for your reference.

When: 18 April, 2010. (Sunday)
Where: Tuaran, Sabah, East Malaysia.
Time: 0830 - 1830 hrs.
Fees: RM20 only

Agenda: Open photography, from macro to portrait, street to urban, vivid to black and white.
Transportation: Not provided

Tentative Program:
08:25 am: Participants Arrival (Meeting point: Dewan Masyarakat, Tuaran)
08:30 am: Registration & Light refreshment provided
08:40 am: Safety briefing & welcoming speech from Pixelayer Team
08:45 am: Grouping & ice breaking session
09:00 am: Photo hunting begin after photo group taken (each group will be given different location, map will be provided in case you are not familiar with Tuaran area)
11:00 am: Lunch (Meeting point: Medan Selera, Tuaran)
12:30 am: Back to Dewan Masyarakat, Tuaran
01:00 pm: Heading to Padang Lumba Kuda, Kg. Tambalang, Tuaran (Convoy)
01:30 pm: Photo hunting begin after group photo
03:00 pm: Meeting at Car Park
03:30 pm: Heading to Transit D’Dalit for Tea Break.
04:30 pm: Heading to Rasa Ria Resort, Tuaran.
05:30 pm: Sunset Hunting & Group Photo
06:30 pm: Prizes for best group & until we meet again J

Thank you for all the support upon us and Pixelayer couldn't have made it without you. If you are interested, please send your details as below to pixelayer@yahoo.com or you may drop us a message if you are not clear about the event. Don’t worry all your details will be safe with us. We hate spammers too!

Copy & send us your details as per below at pixelayer@yahoo.com and we will advise you the account number in order for you to bank in RM20 and book your name in.
Name:
Address/From:
Contact no:
I am a: Photographer/videographer/model/artists/lomographer/etc
Camera brand:
Other concern: In case you want to leave early from the event or other opinion on the event

*Thank you for those who already booked their participation and looking forward for this Sunday event. Extra information that you should know, there will be one special guest who fly all the way from Kuala Lumpur particularly for this event with loads of years experience to share in Film & Photography that you should not missed and the most excited part is after this day out activity, all the participants will be given a chance to win 'A Day with Pixelayer & Friends' T-shirt! How to win this competition? Easy as ABC.

a) Participate in "A Day with Pixelayer & Friends"
b) Only participants can pick their best photos on "A Day with Pixelayer & Friends" and publish it according to category given at "Pixelayer Photography & Media Group" for voting.
c) At the end of 15 days, the highest 'Likes' and comment will get a T-shirt of "A Day with Pixelayer & Friends" courtesy of Pixelayer Photography & Media team.

What is your ambition or career option?

I believe all of us ever been ask such question like, what you want to be when you grow up? What kind of career are you looking for? What is your ambition? Or other question which answer the job name known as career. Actually, I want to be a teacher before I ended working under Logistics department in private sector. Maybe it's not my faith to be ended as a teacher or it is my destiny to work here. Nevertheless, I enjoy working here even the expectation from the management was higher than what I can do in some part.

I read the news today, and it is common when I open up a newspaper I normally look at the ads and also the vacancy available. It's not that I'm looking for a job, but I'm quite surprise that with so many vacancy, we still looking our friends or new generation headache jobless. Life never promise you anything, never complete until you end your last breathe. When I was a kid, I just cannot wait to enter school, but when I'm in school, I wait for recess time, after recess, looking forward to leave the room after the last class. Just like SPM, after SPM, cannot wait to step into college for a new and mature thinking. It goes well, but after the last exam I just cannot wait to start my career. Now that I'm working, I realized that Career only for the business people, they work for their own profit. I thought I want a career but it turns out I wanted paychecks. It is true though. ;) Wait.. tomorrow is thursday right? Meaning, we have one more day to go. ;)

Model: Jelvy Jae

I went to Sarawak again

For the 4th time.. I did visit Kuching again.. ;) And come back with full of hope, brighter future and will share the good news I gain from it some other time. Well, I know I sound weird a bit after reaching KK yesterday. With a little of Kuching accent, I thank to the hentai hero for his kindness to fetch us from the airport. I talked a lot and I'm very glad that the hentai hero didn't feel bad after all. I'm kinda missing the other hentai subordinates too. But I'm very sorry, I didn't have much time to do some small shopping from Kuching as a gift for the rest like always but I did took some pictures for us to miss Kuching. Hope you like the night photo taken at Waterfront, Kuching.

Oh, I'm a good friend with Zheng Ho too! Look, we did high 5! LOL.

The boat and the mountain

I went to Shangri La Tanjung Aru yesterday and I never thought that I could catch the Kinabalu Mountain from there. This view remind me of the song The birds and the trees.. Let me tell you 'bout the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees, the moon up above, and the thing called love~ try to sing like this.. "Let me tell u bout the boat and the hills.. and the mountain and the seas.. the cloud up above.. and the thing called love~" Sounds good too right?

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Let's get cranky!

Cranky means, irritable or full of spirit, which means, I irritate with my pictures and look what I have done to these photos? Well, I just polishing my editing part as one of the hentai subordinates says that my editing is sucks and I guess I need to rebuild what I have missed lately. So, I might randomly doing this kind of cranky project for the next post of my blog, any comment, you are most welcome to drop by.

[Original Photo]

[Sue - Watercolor]

[Original photo]

[Infrared version]

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Congrats to Nerusy & Efpliter

The pixelayerions did a pre wedding for Nerusy and her fiancee Efpliter at Likas on 20th December 2009, and I would like to take this opportunity to congrats both of them on their wedding on 28th December 2009 at Kota Belud, Sabah. The pre wedding package includes banner, 8R x 10 printed pictures, 10R picture with frame and softcopy of their photos, where we manage to get all done in 4 days before they heading back to Kota Belud. I would like to say thanks to my brother Roy for helping me out to send the pictures for printing as well. Best wishes to all!

Samsung PL50 – My new family

On 30/10/2009, last month, I went to SenQ and bought a new digital compact camera. Yes, I might sound nuts because I already have my Samsung L73 (7mp), the ultimate Nikon D90, can’t get enough of Lomography – Ultra Wide Slim, and the new member of the family, Samsung PL50 (10.2 mp). It cost me about RM640 including a 4GB SD memory card and the box itself. I had to look for the case later. I had took several pictures before, but I’m fully utilised it during our journey to Kota Belud on 20-21 November 2009. The pixelayerion should go together but due to other commitment, only Merl and I manage to go to Kuai’s house. It’s a beautiful and a great escape for people like us. :) I have another photoshoot and event this late afternoon so I can’t say much about this but, I would like to share some of the pictures and hope you can wait until all uploaded. All pictures during the KB trip were taken by Samsung PL50. It has the good features like Beauty Shot, Landscape where it makes my life easier especially blogging part. Enjoy the pictures~ ;)

Samsung PL50

This is the last set of it.. So I have no choice of taking PiNK..

The journey start on 20/11/09 – About 7pm from my office – Merl’s Car

Reach Kuai’s house – and she just bought new digital camera too~ ;)

Awal pagi yang indah~ Ei.. kenapa ni ah? haha..

Ada Bokeh juga bah..

Breakfast sebelum p mandi sungai..

Sempat lagi bergambar dalam hutan..

Nice kan??!!!

Can see the kinabalu mountain clearly~ Kota Belud~ I love u!

Owh.. dia ni bukan dari kedai aah.. :D

p/s: All the pictures above only been resize without edited or putting away all the blemish on our face.. Samsung PL50 do it all~! Isn't it great? I have tonnes of pictures lagi oo… I guess i will upload to my Flick for your view later ;) For the time being.. ini saja laa..

Sayang Kamu

Just for today, hold hands with your soulmate as though you were holding hands for the first time.


At Kalangadan

Golf Court at Mesilau


Mesilau Nature Centre

Lin San Temple, Tuaran

The Power of Editing

Original Picture..

After Retouch using Adobe Photoshop..

Which one better?

Please Save The Drama..

This picture remind me of someone who near to my head.. And I think the shirt is cool~ :D

A lonely tree behind Kuai's house.. ;)


I want this shirt..

Awh.. And the real picture is here.. :)



Moral of the story: The blue sky is there.. :)

Kisah Si Dieny..

Hello bloggers dan juga rakan-rakan yang dihormati sekalian. Gara-gara tidak dapat tengok wayang semalam, ini lah kerja yang telah kulakukan.. ekeke.. Kepada Dieny saudaraku, diharap anda sporting dan ku susun sepuluh jari atas kelakuan ke atas gambar yang telah ku ambil sewaktu photoshoot kita tempoh hari. Yay~ To all professionalism, I might ruin the pictures but this might be my style.. Somehow somewhere, your feedback may help me to colour your day.. ;)

Location: Sutera Harbour, Kota Kinabalu Sabah.
Date: 25/07/2009 (last month)
Model: Dieny Justin
Wardrobe: Dieny Justin
Make up: No make up - lap peluh guna sapu tangan saja..by Dieny Justin juga..

Yeah, they come in peace, but this time is Dieny..


Owh.. there he is..


I said: Dieny tengok sana..


Behind the scene.. ekeke..


I give some dramatic effect..


Save the drama


Jump..


Do you feel anything here?


:D That's all for now..

Sharing is the best part

I met Nora Carol (one of my fav photographer) yesterday and I really overjoyed with what I have learned from her. She is a very humble and super-shy type of girl, but her pictures talks a millions of words and thoughts that I cant even imagine. Beside all the knowledge that I have, I learn that every picture must have one focus point, even u on landscape. Then, foreground is important to complete a picture. Filter is a must and that's why they invented it. ;) And look what is the result of our sharing??

The Bridge


The girls


The way..

To Nora, thank you so much for your time and I really looking forward for our next photo shot.. Sorry could not spend more time yesterday..

Catching Sunset with DaOne

Last week on 16th July, DaOne suddenly sms me ask me out to catch sunset. So I suggest him the easiest way to take sunset. I mean, no busy car, less distraction. And so, we hit Sapangar Bay.. :) The location is near to Petronas depot. Below are some of the pictures to share with you. :)

DaOne aka Peter ;)

Photographer

Vertical Sunset

Horizontal Sunset

Stone painting?

Goodbye Sunset

Hehehe.. kak Tini restaurant.. fill ur stomach before got home.. :D Thanks daone for the treat ;)