Gotta love food!

I love photographing food, simply because food comes in many shapes and sizes and can be very colourful (although sometimes food can look awful if they're not presented nicely on a plate).

That aside, I went to Pullman Kuching late evening today to shoot some food photos to accompany an editorial on the particular food.

This time around I felt joy, joy, nothing but joy... reason being that we're surrounded with white walls!!! Even if the lighting was warm, it didn't matter because the dishes were placed on a table right at the corner of the private dining room at the hotel's all day dining restaurant, Puzzle.

Zenith PhotoCourse

Part 2: Hold your DSLR the right way

Zenith photographer Frank tells you how to hold your camera correctly in Part 2 of our Zenith PhotoCourse.

I bet you can't wait to start shooting with your brand spanking new DSLR. But before you do that, what'ya say we learn a thing or two about how to properly hold your camera, eh?
You see, how you hold your camera affects your shooting because if you're comfortable holding it, shooting becomes a breeze, and vice versa. Holding your camera the right way also helps you avoid blurriness in your pictures (camera shake) as a result of unsteady hands, and makes shooting quicker and more accurate as well.
I'm sure many of you start to get into photography after buying yourself a handy dandy digital compact camera and using it for a couple of years, before deciding to go for a DSLR. So naturally, some of you would hold your brand new DSLR the way you held your digital compact.
Because the shape, size and weight of a DSLR differ greatly from a compact camera, you will need to hold it in certain ways to make sure you're comfortable with the DSLR and that your hands are stable enough to hold your much heavier new toy.
Allow me to show you how...

YOUR RIGHT HAND

The correct way to hold your camera

When handling your DSLR, make sure that your thumb is on the back of your camera. This provides better support and a firmer hold. Besides a better grip, you can also use your right thumb to navigate through the buttons and dials located conveniently within reach of the thumb, on the back of the camera (e.g. shutter dial or the D-Pad).

Wine tasting with Roderick Wong

It was a rather interesting session the other evening as I joined a group of wine connoisseurs as well as members of the media at a wine tasting at Hilton Kuching’s Senso bar/lounge.
Teaching some of us “freshies” how to do wine tasting was Hilton Kuala Lumpur’s Master Sommelier and president of the Sommelier Association of Malaysia, Roderick Wong.
I was there to take some photos for an editorial featuring Roderick.
At the end of the talk, I had him standing in front of a large glass window in Senso, with a nice view in the background.

I used a single flash to light him up, because otherwise you won’t be able to see his face, because the outside light was too bright.

Zenith PhotoCourse Week 1

Part 1: Getting up-close and personal with your DSLR

Zenith photographer Frank helps you get “intimate” with your DSLR in this rather short Part 1 of our PhotoCourse. So take out your DSLRs and let Frank show you which button to push or which dial to turn. :)

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