Photowalk in Petaling Street

Wow ... time flies ... especially when you are having fun ... Lols..

15 days of Chinese New Year had passed away with a blink of eyes. Everything is getting back to normal, namely, back to work, traffic jam is return in Kuala Lumpur, people faces look much more tension. 

Many people are busy catching up with their unending works. 

Me, with no exception, started busy again.

Last Saturday, I managed to break from my normal routine and follow my friends for a photowalk in KL. We picked Petaling Street, a nice place for street shooting (actually we all don't know where to go, literally, we have visited most parts of KL).

The street was empty in an early morning. Majority people went for early breakfast. 

Many restaurants, food outlets and hawkers are at the surrounding areas of Petaling Street ... variety of choices for breakfast are available, be it porridge  chu chong fan, laksa, wantan mee, nasi lemak, halal or non-halal... all kind of street food are waiting for you .... 

There is a flea market every Sunday, you may find all sort of second hand goods or old stuffs. I saw many electric gadgets are selling there, look like a place to dispose stolen items, hence, we have to be careful not to capture photo of these people, they might not like it. The flea market is situated at the back lane of Petaling Street.

Photowalk are fun and adventurous. Fun in the way when you managed to capture a nice photo ... 

But, sometime, unfortunately, we may meet up with unfriendly people, then will get scolded loh. Never mind lah, photographers have thick skin. LOLs.

However, the most entertaining part of photowalk is our own "syok sendiri" (self entertaining) act such as this :

hahahaha ...  

The End.

KL Shooting Again

It has been a long time not having street shooting in Kuala Lumpur. Because I'm working on Saturday, I can only be jealous of my friends who can go out almost every Saturday. Finally, Yeah .... And now I started working 5 days week ... that mean I can go out on Saturday to do my favorite Photo Shooting .....

Yeh ... Time to celebrate ....

...yeah .....yeah !!!!

But ......

Ah ...... yah .....

My home minister said " A-Em .. Mr Yap, don't think you can go every Saturday woh ... you suppose to take care your son woh... Now You off on Saturday, you better responsible to take care of them .... now I can rest ....."

........

........ sob sob ;-(

Anyway, last Saturday, I got my visa to go after becoming good husband and good father .... hahahah

The morning weather was very hazy due to the heavy burning at the neighboring country Indonesia and the smoke were carried over to Malaysia and polluted our air. Light smoking smell were in the air. Nevertheless, the unpleasant smell couldn't deterrence me from the limited opportunity I had. 

I were using my dad's old film camera, Nikon FM with 50MM F1.4. Now, I'm getting like the color and effect of film photography.

 

Shutter therapy at Scott Kelby International Photowalk

Have you heard about Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk? Recently, a friend sent me a FB event invitation to join a photowalk activity at central Kuala Lumpur. After going through their website link, I realized the photowalk is famous not only locally but internationally too. The Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk is well known. It attracted many photo enthusiasts from all over the world to join their website. It encourages member to be leader leading photowalk group. The event will then be published online. Team members are welcome to participate photowalk nearby their cities.

Thank to Raja Indra Putra who had started a Photowalk activity in Kuala Lumpur on October 2, 2011. Out of curiousness and also "some push" from my "K-poh" Pen Lovers buddies, I decided to join them.

It was a perfect sunny Sunday morning. Approximately 50 participants gathered at Central Market. It was a big group, majority were using Big Big DSLR especially the N and the C .... but as a Pen User, our camera size are much tiny ... Luckily, we knew the true power of what our PEN Camera can do, at least non of us are having inferiority complex while standing side by side with those "giant camera" man. Hahahaha ..... (Honestly, I sympathized them for carrying such a heavy camera gears walking around Kuala Lumpur).

Look at all these people, they are so eager to rush for Shooooooooooting.... Wakakaka! By the way, few of my Pen Buddies were standing at the right hand side, some with the V peace sign, they are the PEN BUDDIES that in love in Olympus Pen cameras, we called ourselves as PEN LOVERS. 

Raja Indra Putra was given a briefing before we start. He is dedicated and responsible person. He photostated many road maps. I think he worry us will get lost in the concrete jungle  ... hahahaha ... Nevertheless, this is not an easy job for him especially we are so mischief . We appreciate his efforts ... to stand our "monkey business". LOL!

The best time for street shooting is at the morning, you are not only getting some warmed sunlight and lesser people on the street but you can also captured many hardworking people busy setting up their store ... You will feel the heart beat of a city life ..... It's wonderful feeling.

A friend told me that he doesn't feel comfortable shooting people at the street. He worries people would be ticked off with his action and scolded him. So far, my experience told me this type of incident is very rare especially when you take photo in Kuala Lumpur. People at the street are generally polite and friendly. They are used to tourists taking photo in the city. As long as you are carry with smiling face while you're shooting, they would response positively. Just be polite to them, when they notice you, give them a generous smile. Sometime, if you want to capture their responds, you can ask permission first or do some small talk with them. Let enjoy each other company ..... it is one of the fun thing we do while we are in street photography.

The Scott Kelby International Photowalk has a photo competition after the event, participants are encourage to submit their best photo for selection. Well, I have submitted the above photo  .... this is actually a signboard on a Bus and it happen that my friend was walking by ... I took the opportunity to snap the photo ... just a split second ... luckily I was fast enough to capture this moment. I kind of like this one. Unfortunately, not being selected ...... Wahahahaha ..... cry !!!~ 

If you wish to view what photo has been submistted ... you may check out this link. 

The whole journey took approximately 3 hours .. It covers Petaling Street, nearby, there is a Indian and Chinese Temple .... We also walk to the St John Institution, one of the oldest school in Kuala Lumpur which established since 1904. 

Well, before we end our session, all our Pen Buddies decided to do our "Signature" Jump Shot to signify the End of our PHOTOWALK SESSION.

The Jump Shot is so funny ... and all of them are DAMN CUTE LAH ~!

Wakakakakaka .. hahaha ..... non-stop :)

(That's why I said it is a De-Stress Shutter Therapy) 

If you want to view more photo, please visit my flickr side .... click here

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T.T Session with PEN LOVER group in KL

Time passes very fast. Another 9 days before Chinese New Year. People are busy doing shopping in this festive season. Shopping malls are crowded with people. However, my company hasn't declare Bonus, so I have to wait a bit longer (or patient) and do last minute shopping. I'm still sing the song, "right here waiting ~~".

Recently, I joined a T.T outing on 22 Jan 2011. This group called PEN LOVER, a social group in facebook. The outing trip is not for sightseeing or eating, but is for photography outing. We called it T.T session because the word was originated from teh tarik session but now it has becoming a name referring as photography shooting session.

The PEN LOVER group consists of talented photo enthusiasts who love photography. The prerequisite condition to join this group is to own Olympus Camera, mainly the Olympus PEN series, i.e, model EP1, EP2 and EPL-1, and now the newly launched EPL-2 had also joined in recently.

After I bought my new toy, Olympus EPL-1, I took the Olympus workshop and meet up with the trainer - David Chua, thru his contact, I knew a few other photo enthusiasts in the group and now they had becoming my friends. I was also being “poisoned” by them, from a normal camera user becoming a "so called" photo enthusiast.

T.T session is organized on a regular basis. I missed the last Pulau Ketam T.T in December 2010 due to work commitment. Henceforth, when they organized the T.T outing on 22 January 2011, I told myself "mati-mati" must find time to attend. So, I scheduled my alternate Saturday off day so that I could attend the session.

Finally the day had arrived …. Early in the morning, we meet up at Sadium Medeka car park at 7.30 am, Walau!! that means I have to wake up as earlier as 6.30 am, this is crazy because even my normal day, I don't wake up as such time, it is dam early .… Anyway, if this is not called enthusiasm, I don't know what else should I called ...

For the first time I meet up with other PEN LOVER gangs. Although we used to chat with them on fb, but this was the first time we meet face to face. Needless to say much, with similar interest and common subject matters, we were becoming friends easily, check out the photo taken in Stadium Medeka.



David was giving briefing. He was kind enough to lent out his lenses to every body.





KY, TJ and Yeow were busy discussing their favourite topic - Camera!!



First thing, we need to do is to look for breakfast, so we took a group photo before we went and look for food …

 

Group Photo taken by David Chua.

Since among our group has Malay, so we are looking for halal mama shop nearby Petaling Street. The journey from Stadium Medeka to Petaling Street (Chinese Town) was quite nearby but we have taken a long time to reach there. It is because we all busy shooting photo on the journey. We stop and shoot, then shoot and stop..… anything along the way had become our victim, be it a tree, people, building and even a leaf etc .. .they all becoming our target… LoL.



Just a simple tree along the tree but turned out refreshing in an early morning.





With Depth of Field between blur and sharp - made the photo looked nicer.



Even in the restaurant, we are having fun. David had a friend who joined us, the only different is that he is a Canon user, as if the only human in the alien Planet Mar, he obviously being the victim target by all the aliens…

Look at his poor Canon, being surround by the enemies, Olympus cemeras. I think this is the first history in Malaysia that the Canon was out number by the Olympus. hahahaha..



Photo taken by Robin Wong



Even the owner of Canon, being surrounded by the Pen lovers … He became our shooting target…. LOL. Look how enthusiastic and patriotic about the brand name.. haha. BTW, we do enjoy each other company and just a few "kids" are having fun there ...

After the breakfast, we have broken into smaller group to walk around KL. I joined Yeow’s group that covered the Majlis Jamek routh… Yeow was a nice guy, he lending his beloved panny lens to me, the Panosonic 20mm f1.7 pancake lens. And he change heart his belove (pass it for me to molest... ><"). He was using his new love (see how fast man change heart), the Pentax Lensbaby of 25mm f1.4…





wow.. The Panny is really a good lens with wide aperture. The subject is sharp and clear. Because of the larger aperture which is f1.7, the bokeh (background) of the photo is excellent, it becoming blur blur feel….

They all tease me for being poison by Yeow … because I felt like buy one for myself…

If you own a mirco four third camera, you many consider this lens. Although it is Panosonic, but it work well with Olympus Pen camera. You may check some of the photo in flickr that to see how great is the lens.

The journey is very fruitful, I have too hundred over picture and I have selected to post in the flickr. If you are interested, please just click one of the photo up there and it will link to the site.

Enjoy!!