Dug up a coupla photos from me hard drive.

It's been a while since I posted any free-run related photos. SO here are a couple of 'em. Ammaruddin and Abudin. woohh!! I'm just filling the time till my game downloads finish. Hohohoho!!

Wisp where were u la dey?

It started as a topic from a Finnish dude on the board. After several postponed sessions it was agreed upon to make it a go for yesterday at Pudu. Unfortunately we failed to find Wisp. I guess the planning could've been better, since he didn't really give us much info and we didn't really ask either. So it was a mess from the start. Haha!!

But despite not meeting Wisp, we had a pretty fun session. Attendees were myself, Abudi, Azam, Cat, and Irsyad. We just jammed near the station so that it'd be easier for the dude to spot us.

Arrived home at around 11 something PM. Wooh! Sampai malam tu jam session! haha!! Not much footage due to the lack of a dedicated cameraman. We were too busy jamming to record anything. So that's that. Now is the time to rest. And below is a cool pic of a super cool dude who's awesomely back in shape! Yeahhooo!! But I still can't do my planche yet tho. Gotta work on that a bit more. But other than that, I think my form (free-running) is much much better than before my accident! :D COOLIOS!!

Now all I have to do is to keep this up and train, train, TRAIN!! Woooohhhh!!!!

Almost finished with the movie!!!!

Today should be the last day of shoot. The final scene. The lesser fight sequence is done. So for tonight, it's gonna be the dude that stands in for the girl and gets hit by a car and the final fight scene between the two main characters. Hopefully it finishes today. Penat arh! haha!! The director likes to shoot till way in the morning. I got home from work at 8.30am this morning. And my body tends to shut down at around 4am onwards. So if u ask me to do stuff, it'll turn out really crappy. Its just my biological clock man. I can't do anything about it.

Alright, so below are a coupla photos from last night. I'll try to get some shots of Ady Putra as well (EDIT: Got one from the past shoot lol). He's a pretty cool guy. A bit arrogant, but i guess that's what makes him cool. lol. Enjoy the piccies!!

More piccies!! CHICKS!! woohh!!

And here, I give to you. CHICKS!!! Some hot and some not. lol!! more photos and a video later. :D

Piccies!!

I have lots of time on my hands so that's why I've been so productive lately. So here are some photos from my room window view. and one more duck shot! This is my current and newest style at processing my photos. Hope u guys/gals like it.

My other home in JB

As some of you already know. My dad works in JB now. So umm.. he kinda got a new place. It's empty tho since he just got it. I haven't seen it so I decided to tag along and checkout the place. If this place wasn't so far, I'd live here weyh! haha!! There's a pool, I've got free streamyx, my own room, air conditioning everywhere and its pretty secure too. Can't even call on the elevator without a key card. neato!

So here are some shots of the place.

So this is the living hall and dining area

And this is my very empty room at the moment. :P

And this is me doing a wallrun!! WOooh!!!

I still have a bit of the flu. and my badan is still sakit2 lol. So yea, that's about it for today. Gotta start designing the banner for the board now. :D

Lack of sleep..

Duckie says hi. Cuz amir is sleepwalking.



ps: this vid render i just finished will be the final product for the contest. For the youtube version, i'll re-do it from scratch. without the the narration. But it'll include every frickin' move that each of us can do, and most importantly, the shots will be directed by meeeee!! i want it to be awesome!!! argghhh!!! huargghhh!!! hopefully it fits under 5 minutes tho. :P and its gonna be as usual a combination of slow and normal speed. but locations will be in putrajaya. no grass. this one has no deadline, so there's no rush for it.

Tomorrow's shoot..

Okay, so tomorrow's the day we do the shoot. But whatever it is, we have to finish it tomorrow regardless. If it rains or anything, we'll have to find some way to use it for our vid. In fact if it rains, it would be kinda cool, but only if rains after we finished our main acts. I've never done this kind of thing before, i don't think any of us have. So, I'm hoping it'd be a success and be a benchmark for future vids and shit for the rest of the Malaysian PKFR/Tricking community. :)

So umm.. yea, I guess that's about it. Oh and I also kinda got a flu since yesterday. So I hope its gone by tomorrow. In fact Imma go out and get some panadols for the night. Couldn't sleep a wink last night cuz it was hard to breathe. I ended up doing a movie marathon till sunrise. Need to rest tonight, argghh!!

Imma stop here and as with tradition, on my blog anyways, a coupla photos for you guys and gals. :) Have a good night, and wish us luck for tomorrow!!

Back to Photography and Photoshop

It's been a while since I really experimented with photoshop. This week's been pretty stale so I took out my camera and stuffed the files into my comp. I installed Photoshop CS4 when I reformatted my computer. I also installed the new Lucisart 3. But unfortunately it fucked up again and the only way that I know of to fix it is to reformat my computer again. WTF? No thank you. Besides, I've been relying on that stupid plugin too much anyway. Time to venture into new things. Time to experiment.

So as you know, the new photoshop has got some issues with some older plugins. So I ended up not using any of my old plugins that I use for my usual workflow. Instead, I think I wanna try out stuff from scratch without any more plugins and really explore more of Photoshop.

So here are the recent ones that I did. I really had no clue how the end result was gonna be like when I started with these. But they turned out pretty cool. So, I'm hoping I'll be getting more and more of these weird artworks in the future. :D Thanks for viewing. Laters!




Oh yea, and look out for future After Effects works later. I've been studying it for almost two weeks now. It's really amazing stuff. Can't wait to experiment with it. :D

Lack of much needed rest.

I'm finally home and can have a good well-deserved rest. But I'm afraid it won't be for long. Tomorrow I'm gonna have to sort out my banking problems. My ATM card and then fetch my other siblings and also head out to music class in between. I haven't even done any of the homework yet. Oh shit!! And I just remembered that I might have to meet Irsyad's dad to discuss about Sunday's Parkour Demo in Putrajaya.

I've got tonnes of photos to go thru. I have to send these guys back to Think Tank to sign another talent release form and burn the shoot day photos to a few dvds to pass it to some of the dudes there. Order the frickin HV30, get a copy of Adobe Photoshop Premiere, buy a new firewire port. And then get ready for saturday. On Saturday I'll be meeting some people that might last the whole day and the next day is the Parkour Demo. WTF?? When do I get a chance to rest!!??? Argghh!!!

I hope Sunday will be the last day I'll be this busy. For today I have a photo from the KFC ad shoot.

Apart from all the penatness I did have a good time this week tho. Had lots of activities and I even managed to train with the JB dudes. Learned a coupla new tricks and got back lots of old ones. Pretty neat. :D Let's see if there's free time for me to train tomorrow.



and this is ayu. We stalked her the whole two days I think. And these are some of the more portrait looking shots of her, the rest of them are stalker shots. :P




oh shit i still can't sleep. now surfing youtube for crazy ass height backflips. And i saw this. lol!!! The title = The World's Highest Backflip!!! LOLLLLL!!!

Too tired to write anything.

Tomorrow is the last day of shoot. And I'm tired as hell. So here's a pic from today. I only larat to edit one. So more of these later when I get the chance to recuperate. Gotta go to Kuantan after I get back from the shoot tomorrow as well. I'm totally beat.


Goodnight all :D Can't reply all of your comments yet. But thanks for checking out my bloggy :D And this is me after getting burned under the super hot afternoon sun for a few hours. Hohohoh!!

HDR Photomatix Tutorial

sAlright so here it is. I dug this up from my hard drive. This is actually one of the shots that didn't make the cut due to camera shake. So it's gonna be a little soft but it should do for now. Here's a little tutorial on how to use photomatix to merge 3 exposures into 1 HDR image.

First of all, you're gonna need to have 3 shots of the same thing but on 3 different exposure times 2 stop apart. What is 1 stop you ask? Turn ur DSLR mode dial to manual and then look into the viewfinder, and you will see a bar. The bar represents the exposure of the scene. To the left is overexposure and to the right is underexposure, the middle is the optimum exposure for the current scene you metered off from. For those that have a camera which supports bracketing. Use that.

One stop is the equivalent of exactly three flicks of the exposure dial. Make sure you have a tripod for this and use a remote or timer if you don't have one. So once you have the three shots it'll look something like this. Oh yeah! I almost forgot. Shoot in RAW!!!!

Underexposed -2

Optimum Exposure 0

Overexposed +2

Now fire up photomatix. Click on Generate HDR Image button and a small window will pop up. Browse for the 3 shots you just took and load all three of them. And now just follow these screen captures for the rest of the steps.

You can play with the sliders and see which one suits you best.

So here's what I got from photomatix. this is a pretty bland shot actually cuz I prefer adding the extra punch in photoshop. You can sometimes get pretty decent HDR photos straight from photomatix. As for me here's what I did to spice it up a bit. This one's pretty bad. I would suggest taking shots with an aperture of f/8 and above for sharpness. I took these on f/3.5 so I lost a lot of detail.

And there you go. The basic steps to get your first go at HDR photos. :D Happy experimenting!!

Obesity, It's even affecting the cat populace!!

It has come to my attention of how this particularly fast spreading "disease" has reached the feline species of the civilized and pampered kind. Yeps, I'm talking about our household pet cats. With the current advances in science and technology, it's no surprise that people are getting fatter and lazier due to the ease of comfort of things such as cars, motorcycles, trains, and all the other motorized vehicles. Add that up to the number of fast food outlets that's spawning like a virus all over the country, it's a recipe for obesity disaster!!! I guess a future as portrayed in the Wall-E movie is not that far fetched after all. Heck it might even come true. Now that's a scary thought.

I went to visit my granny earlier today. She has 3 stray cats, well not really strays, they have their owners but they seem to prefer chillin' at my nenek's house. So the owners would bring them food and the cats take care of my nenek who live's alone. So baik lah these cats. Oh did and did I mention that all three of them are OBESE?? Like seriously obese. I've never seen cats as fat as these. But they seem to be healthy tho. Haha!! Here's on of 'em. You can't really see the obeseness in this but still I think it's pretty cool. :P

Still Alive

I'm addicted to Mirror's Edge's theme song Still Alive sung by Lisa Miskovsky. It just has that nice flowy sound. I love it. I might use this song for my sampler if I ever make one. I should get them clips from Abudi. haha!! I think I've said this a few times before but I still haven't gotten it from him. :P Procrastination is a very nasty disease. haha!!

I'm taking a break from Fallout. Yeps. I still haven't finished it yet. Wicked! I'm gonna lose a lot more hours before I manage to finish it I foresee. :D Edited some photos. Got more and more and more intense as I finished processing each. In the end I played with a lot of textures again. So to Kuyem, hope you like it. It was on the fly. haha!! I didn't plan anything actually for this edit. But came out okay.

Updates whenever I can escape the grasp of Fallout again. Hehe! which for your information, is quite far between. :P

Oh and as a last note. Mirror's Edge is a game that emphasizes on parkour. So far it looks really great. The Unreal engine, nuff said. The gaming industry is really pushing it lately. FF13 had better be really super good. Cuz it's been around since the PS3 came out and has been delayed eversince. WTF?? hurry up already Square-Enix bitches!! roarr!! :P

Irasyadnudin*corrected hehe* doing a backflip from a measly low platform. XD

This is me doing a triple super duper quadruple backfull to sidehandspring!!!

Sabree the pendatang haram!! haha!!

Kuyem chillin' at my place.

Stroboscopic Flash!!

I learned something new today. Which is stroboscopic flash. I think I spelled it right. So what this is, is actually setting your flash to fire multiple times before the shutter closes. And if you do this on a moving object with your camera stationary of course, you'll get multiple clones of the subject in your photo without any post processing. Pretty cool!! It looks something like this.


The thing is, not all external flashes have this option. Unfortunately for me, my SB-600 doesn't have this feature and neither does my pop-up flash. What a bummer. Luckily I didn't go straight to my flash manual but instead I asked Mr. Google for help and voila. Saved me a lot of trouble. But I'm kind of disappointed that I can't try this out tho. :(

Oh well. I'll get to try that when I get the chance to upgrade. :D For now. More photos for you!!

Some flowers at Warta!!! While waiting for my mum to finish her bakery ingredients shopping.

I tried to make it look like a painting. But ended up extremely red instead. hmmm

Yes a good thing to waste your time with and excercise your brain at the same time.

Oh man. I look extra good in this one. haha!!

A stray cat who now chills at my place.