Not ashamed to say, this is my first time doing a photo shooting season with my friends. Below are the people involve! Justin, Julius and Jann.

Juli here is using fully manual, meaning he is using manual focus as well!! Really a Si Fu

Malu..

Then we made our way to Pavilion KL. Subway lunch and Lion Dance all in one day!

Oh ya John C got his new flash!!

It was fun taking picture! really! I was also the model for them apart from me taking picture! Not bad! The sad thing is that I don’t have my picture. Anyway we had fun there! Thanks to Juli, Justin and of cause Jann for taking me along with you guys in your trip!

Read more in Justin's blog click here.

Last Saturday, Lye Kong, Jason Tay, Siew Siew , Tze Teng and me went down to Penang Island to do two things. The first is to support Lye Kong and Jason Tay in representing Jaya in SUKAT. While the other is to go purcase the Canon Speedlite 580 EX 2 for Tze Teng’s system!

We head out around 7am and we were at the USM main campus’ swimming pool around 8am.. We took some picture here and there!! We had some photography fun then..

The teeth belong to Siew Siew!!

After that we hed out to Komtar area to hunt for the 580ex2. After a long scout, we manage to find the flash system at Foto EasyCam beside Click N’ Snap. We had a good chat with the uncle and aunty there and I’ve learn a few trick or so!

After we got the flash, there was no hesitation is using it! Tze Teng was playing with it even as we took our late lunch. After that we went to Gurny to try out some ETTL system stuff!! The result was, it rocks!!

First try out with the High Flash Sync function

First try with the ETTL function and High speed sync to pull out the back ground but yet allow enough light for the subject using a slave flash. Master flash did not fire..

Nicer tone and shadow!

Still Learning..

Tze Teng, Jason Tay, Me, Siew Siew, Lye Kong

On the following day, me and Tze Teng took the afternoon to try out this new dimension of flash photography! The picture that we got was not as good as those of the lighting expert such as Louis Pang and others… Most of the picture was taken by Tze Teng and I was the slave man!! Hahah… But it is a good start I guess! A Master and a frind, Tze Teng in action!!

After much trial and error.. Thank God for those hardships.. Now we Bring you this.. Hear are some basic step to set up this flash photography..

Get the metering of the back ground. My exposure compensation setting is -1 here (using M mode). to get more dramatic effects of the back ground just tone down to -2. Varies to the lighting.

Put in the subject into the picture (without the slave flash firing). subject will be dark.

Now, with the Slave flash fired! note that the master did not fire. see the different??

Too close to the flash.. Cause over expose on the subject.

Pull back the subject to get a balance lighting..

Playing with shadows..

So hope this helps you guys who is learning out there. Thank God for all his wisdom and also Little Potato for letting me spend time on this.. Thank you dear! Hug hug..

*Do share out your knowledge. If one is stingy to share the knowledge one has... One is very selfish.

May all glory to God alone!! Amen!!