A Close-up Photo : Weaver Ant

Solemnization Dhamiri + Yusniza | Kelantan

This Photograph Is Not Free

This photograph is not free.

If you give your photo away for “credit” then the best possible scenario for you is someone will see your photo, contact you, and ask if they could borrow one of your photos… for credit. Try this… next time you’re at dinner, tell your waiter you’ll tell all your friends how good the service was if he gives you dinner for free.

credit : PetaPixel

The Most Important Rules As Photopreneur

My client always keep asking me
 "Why the price is so expensive. You just take a photo."
So for that situation, I believe most of photographer having this issue , I found a great explaination for our client and ourself as a photopreneur photographer. From Malaysian Known Legendary Photographer, Iskandar Ibrahim, I got this note.

website : http://www.iskandaribrahim.com/blog/

Respect you for what you are worth.
Happy reading and happy photography.

credit : iskandar ibrahim

#PhotoTalk : Be Inspired by...

Who is Carl De Keyzer?
He is one of my favourite Documentary Photographer. Winning so much award such as W.Eugene Smith award at 1990 then 2 years later, he won Kodak Award in 1992. Here is some profile about Carl De Keyzer.

*Born in Belgium at 1958.
*Starting his career as freelance photographer in 1982.
*He is Co-founded the XYZ-Photography Gallery .
*Became full Magnum member in 1994.

He always inspired me with his works. So, hope you guys out there get inspired by him also. Enjoy reading!

Happy Photography!

**Picture above from Magnum Photos.

#Photo Talk : Type Of Photograph

A Walking Hollow Snails.

There are two types of photography. 
1. Shoot What You See.
2. Plan What You Shoot

The first type is relatively easy and you pretty much shoot what you are looking at. The 2nd one, you have to plan the equipment for the theme you have in mind of getting.

Happy Photography!

#PhotoTalk #A Macro Photography : What is Focus Stacking & How it' Work On Macro Photograph?

Hye everyone, today I want to talk about Macro Photography, one of my favourite part. So, today title of our talk is, Focus Stacking.


I know everyone out there knows what is macro photography. If still don't get it, ok, here I will giving a simple explanation about macro photography.


Macro photography basically aims to achieve what cannot be seen by the naked eye, without magnification images. So if we take a macro photo to see what can be seen by the naked eye, that is not a macro photography. Example, if we only raise an insects a whole, it is included in the category of documentation of insects, rather than macro photography . So, the key that you guys must set in your mind about macro photography is aims to achieve what cannot be seen by the naked eye, without magnification images.


Ok, lets move to our main subject, Focus Stacking. What is focus stacking? Focus Stacking is a method that combines the focused areas from a sequence of images. Consider a scenario where you take a picture of a lady bug. Depending on where you had your focus, you had to make a choice either the head is in focus, the wings or the tail. What if you could take three shots and combine them into one photograph where everything is in focus?

This is exactly what focus stacking does. In focus stacking you take lots of images each focuses on a different part of the lady bug (or different distance from the camera). Then you take all the images and let a piece of software combine them. Some of software I use for focus staking is CombineZ and Stack Focuser.

But, there is another thing that so and most important in macro photography.What it is? It's Focus itself. 

First and foremost, focus is paramount in a macro photograph. This may seem obvious, but focusing is more problematic in macro than it is in any other field. The reason is that one of the consequences of shooting at a close distance is shallow depth of field (DOF), so shallow in fact that it is often quite hard to get accurate focus. With depth of field of less than a millimeter, getting any part of the animal in focus can often be quite a challenge. Accurate focusing and sufficient depth of field are thus especially significant in macro photography. Depth of field is so fundamental. Picture down there showed example why focus is so important in macro photograph.

So, everyday we learning new things and I hope from this shared, it will help you guys to captured great macro photograph. I am thanking to my Guru in photography, Mr.Reza for teach and explained everything about photography to me. May God bless you always. Happy reading and Happy Photography!!

Black & White Portraitures Series

Lovely black and white portraits will give a pure emotions from the photograph. The sense of love and joy automatically bring you a simple smile. Capture a portraits with your heart and the results will give you what you want in your photograph.

Happy Photography!

A Wedding Photography Tips

Hye guys, as my promise (wedding photography post ) last week, today in very early morning, I woke up and managed to write something about Wedding Photography Tips by Arifuddin Rahmad, really special and only for you guys who really want to start making a wedding photography yourself. I'm not a Pro Wedding Photographer but I think, giving few tips based on my experience in photography will help you guys on this topic of Wedding Photography. Maybe got a friends or family wedding around a corner and need some tips to have a great wedding photograph, so here you are .

As we know, wedding photography is a career that are increasingly gaining acceptance among the fans of art photography. With the cheap DSLR camera prices, the growing digital camera market, is one of the main factors used, photography as a career chosen. In Malaysia, many people think that photography is not a career or maybe a Third Class career to be chosen by someone like me myself, compared to europe, photography field is First Class career to stand up same level to professional career like pilot, engineer, architect and etc. So for better future in photography, move to europe lah. Just joke. Ok?

Alright, enough with the nonsense, we go thru the #tips here.


1. Make a list.
Creating some list before you go shot a wedding, a list that I used to named it "Shot List". Its important, 

really important to give best shots. Make a workflow to shots details, where the bride make up, bride 

and groom family shots, or anything that you already imagine what kind of shot you want to capture on 

Dday. This is really helpful because you already knows where the angle you want, how the photo will be 

crop and much much more.

2. Survey the location.

Go early to bridegroom houses to locate where the best place to see bride with suitable lighting, not too 
crowded with guests and etc.I'm sure, most Pros don't do this but I find it really helpful to know where we're going, get some skecth and idea of a few positions for shots and know how the light might come into play at the places.



3. Capture a moment.
Use your eyes to see anything everything around you like a frame of pictures . Capture how the family 

gathered together , the moment before the bride and the groom go for "akad nikah" or be announce as 

husband and wife and anything to be suit with a "moment" that you want .

4. Don't discard your pictures.

For me, in wedding its wrong to delete a picture that have captured . Why I said its wrong? The answer

is because the problem with this is that you might just be getting rid of some of the more intresting and 

useful images. Maybe some images that doesn't work on you in shots, but when you see it back in your 

computer, maybe its would be so intresting captured and useable images.I always take in my mind, 

maybe the pictures can be manipulate to be more arty or abstract images and can be cropped to image

that I want.

5. Enjoy the day

This is the most important part. Sometimes, to be honest, its getting tired after wholeday walking and 

running around to have a best shots. But, get rid off the tired, enjoy what you doing. Have fun with the 

day. Wedding ceremony is about to celebrate and they should be fun. 

Darren Rowse ( the editor and founder of Digital Photography School ) said, 

"the more fun have as the photographer, the more relaxed those you are photographing will be."

So, that's all the tips I want to shared today. Maybe next time will be more tips I'll write about. Remember 

guys, enjoy and have fun with what you doing. For me, no matter what that we do, if that is our passion, 

go for it and you will gain a succesful life. I'm so passionate in photography and that's what I really doing 

now.

Happy Photography!