A picture is worth a thousand words when it comes to selling

I saw Sunday market vendor selling old,vintage historical printed photos in sepia and block & white.You can have a great bargain on black and white prints. We have bought one and when we got home we found a beautiful frame for it. The pictures look exclusive when they are in a quality frame.

Sunday Market in Kuching.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how much it's worth monetarily can vary tremendously.

The Big Breakfast.

Other than having breakfast at home, Malaysian like to take break fast outside. Usually heavy breakfast, from 6.30 to 8.00am.In the morning  at every street stalls and mamaks  restaurant. Teh Tarik, Nasik Lemak, Kopi O kau, roti canai, roti prata, roti telur and half boiled egg with soy sauce is our Malaysian favourite breakfast.This is a heavy breakfast for Malaysian,Malaysian breakfast can really satisfied you hunger with cheap price. RM1.00 to RM1.50 nasik lemak with RM 1.00  can last you towards lunch time. Can get extra protein with additional RM1.50 of chicken deep fried or half fried egg. The green option for your can be sliced cucumber . Taking breakfast is very good for our health compared to those that skip breakfast and waiting for lunch.

Breakfast with Beef Noodle Soup.

Mamak stall fried noodle.

Malaysian favorite Nasi lemak.

Teh Tarik .

Energy boost breakfast ,half boiled egg.

Self Taught Photographer.

I don’t have some fancy story about how I got into photography. I don’t have childhood memories of playing with cameras, didn’t take a photography class. Back to being self taught- no classes, just shooting and photography was so much fun. The only thing I knew about lenses were some could zoom in far and some could shoot wide, they had numbers on them that I could care less about. All I cared about were getting great photographs. Photography was fun.I’m not ashamed to be self taught. I’m not ashamed that if you ask me what the range is on the lens that I’m using that I may look down at it and read it to you. I’m not ashamed that I can’t look at a sunset and tell you what aperture setting and shutter speed would be ideal – but I can shoot it and get the photo I want to get.

wide aperture setting & ideal shutter speed.

 I have a 3 thousand ringgit camera in my bag right next to a RM200 film vintage camera. They’re both real, they both take photographs, it’s up to me to make them great. Now a days people in the crowd have better equipment then the photographer shooting the event. Photographers need to accept that and accept the fact that it is their job to still get the best photographs.

  I could shoot an image with good DOF  with a point and shoot and get great photographs.Depth of field(DOF) is the amount of distance between the nearest and farthest objects that appear in acceptably sharp focus in a photograph.
 Now, I won’t pretend I’m an expert — or that I know everything there is to know about photography — because I am not, and who does?However, being self-taught helped me learn some valuable lessons the hard, painful, torturous way and therefore, guaranteed that I never forget them.

Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia(KR1M).

There were a lot of talk about Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia(KR1M) recently. It has attract many views from the Government, Media, public and opposition parties.
In summary, Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia is a thrift store that operate in a mini market format, that sold various basic necessities at much low prices than the usual brands.
This is a good initiative as the price of every basic necessities(virtually everything due to inflation) has increase compare to minimal increase in salary income.
The inflation rate was not in proportion to the escalating high cost of living, so it would ease the burden of inflation and directly benefit the rakyat.
Our Prime Minister YAB Dato’ Sri Najib Tun Razak introduce this smart initiative of KR1M in order for the public(Rakyat) especially to the low income citizens who stay in the urban areas, to ease the people’s burden and to  get various basic necessities at low prices.
This well in line with the slogan “Rakyat Didahulukan”(People First), which has been mooted by YAB Prime Minister himself. Najib said that as the country marched towards becoming a developed nation, the Government still ensured the people were taken care of.It was reported that the government subsidies are up by RM10 billion in order to create and introduce Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia (KR1M) .

Do take a visit to Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia to do your shopping.
I have visited Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia at mile11th Kuching/Serian Road the first outlet of KR1M in Kuching,Sarawak.

 

Why your Kit Lens is Better than You Think.

5 years ago i bought my first DLSR bundle with kits lens.Zuiko 14-42mm f3.5-5.6.

Most kit lenses are, by their nature, inexpensive (a polite way of saying cheap). That’s understandable – all the manufacturers are in competition with each other and they keep the prices of their camera kits down by creating inexpensive kit lenses. If your only lens is a kit lens, does that mean you should go out and buy a better one straight away? No it doesn’t – no matter what anyone says, or how much you lust after expensive glass, your kit lens is a great lens to get started with. I decided to stick with the kit lens and below is a few sample from my kit lens mounted to my Olympus E620.

 It's raining outside so i prefer to shot indoor.

 After rain...kit lens can create bokeh too.

 After rain..close-up with kit len.

Another close up shot from my kit lens.
It wasn’t the world’s best lens, but it was good enough to get me started.Your kit lens is probably a better lens than you think it is, but it’s still not a great lens and has several shortcomings. At some point you will bump up against the limitations. This is not a bad thing, it simply indicates that you’re at the stage where a different lens will help you take better photos.

Creativity,Not the Camera.

Creativity changes the everyday.Photography as my weekend hobby and I spend a lot of time carefully choosing what lenses & camera to go out with.Recently the arrival of many new camera in the camera market sometime make you think ,was it worth to get new camera if you are not making any monies out if it.I'm a collector of old school camera I mean film camera.Sometime I go out shooting with this film camera for the sake of feeling nostalgic.To-day I spend my time cleaning my camera,my old DSLR Olympus E410 .Last time I use this camera was 2 years ago . I have old junk Zuiko OM lens 50mm f2.8.This is 30 years old OM lens and it has a problem with the blade.The blade was locked to maximum wide open f2.8 and stuck there.The lens itself also could not properly mounted to my camera and i have to use the tape to lock.I have a few images that I shot using this old lens and camera and of course i shot fully manual ..........

My 5 years old Olympus E410 & 30 years old Zuiko OM lens 50mm f2.8

Buying a DSLR and maybe one new lens to go with  is an expensive investment for most of us no matter whether we're buying a RM600 body or a RM6,000 body. One thing is certain though, and that is as the cost of the camera body increases, so too does the cost of lenses and other accessaries to support that body. So if you are seriously thinking of buying a RM4,00 camera body like a mirrorless camera, then you also need to be considering the purchase of a new series lens if you want to get the maximum image quality that the camera is capable of producing for you. As far as specs go, ask yourself, are you planning on using this new camera any differently than you did your old camera? What features does my old camera have that this camera doesn't have? What features are must haves for your intended use? Then consider your options and budget and make your choice. It really simple. Good luck to you.

The Street in Kuching- Protest Anti-Islam Film.

  Hundreds in Kuching City protest anti-Islam film.

Hundreds of Muslims shed their political differences and thronged the streets of Kuching City to condemn the controversial “Innocence of Muslims” video, a short film mocking the Prophet Muhammad that has fuelled international fury and wreaked a storm of violent protests across the Muslim world.

The crudely made 13-minute English-language film that mocks the Prophet Muhammad was produced by American Sam Bacile, filmed in California and circulated on the Internet under several titles including “Innocence of Muslims”.

Clips of the film posted on the Internet since July have been attributed to Bacile, which two people linked to the film have said was likely an alias.

For many Muslims, any depiction of the prophet is blasphemous. Caricatures deemed insulting in the past have provoked protests and drawn condemnations from officials, preachers, ordinary Muslims and many Christians.