Earth Hour

We joined the Earth Hour (60mins) thingy on 28 March 2009 to express ourselves to world leaders that we, earth citizens can play a part in the reduction of global warming.

We enjoyed ourselves in the dark for 1hr from 8.30pm to 9.30pm (+8hrs GMT). Nothing much we could do but choreographed some 'light' photographing as the scene above. Obviously we sweated (and toiled) towards the end of one hour, and did a favor to TNB in reducing several kilowatt hours of our electricity consumption. See ya again, next year, same time!

To edit or not to edit

There are some purist snobbery views that to project oneself as capable photographer, the printable images should come direct out-of-the-box (camera) and not to post-process using the many available softwares.

I say.... its bulls!!

To these opinionated individuals as no matter how advanced camera systems are, they aren't as sophisticated as the human eyes as they are more capable to do more than linear algorithm as their digital counterpart.

For instance;

• our eyes adjust for backlighting that even the ADL system of Nikon can't handle
• the eyes are very versatile and by the mere squint they can change the aperture, f

as an analogy, it just like having a separate hi-fidelity system to try and reproduce the concert audio quality. No way!

Pulau Betong in Colours

Photoshoot with CanonTeh in Balik Pulau

C O L O U R S

New postings in this blog shall now be in troy16-colour, while you still can access the B&W in troy16x blog site. Happy New Year, my friends

A New Blog - Troy16x

H E A R . . M E . . . H E A R . . M E . . . . . . Y E A H H H !


I have created a new blog exclusive for my black and white images. Please feel free to visit my new site at http://troy16x.wordpress.com

I have 24 framed orders for some of the images (depending on sizes, they are valued between RM80 to RM180 per frame). I will update that troy16x more when time permits pretty soon :)

Have a nice day

Black & White (Part II)

An image comprise of pixels described by RGB. I like B that stands for Blue, as this colour will turn blue to white when transformed into a "black & white" monochrome. While the red and green, will turn the image black and sheds of grey. Hence when i see a scene, immediately my mind will visualise a black & white version... and blue appears aplenty near the coastline with abundance of blue sky and sometimes a blue sea especially in the morning low temperature. Hope you enjoy my black & white images.


The above and below images are the same structure, a ruined dilapidated jetty in Pantai Merdeka. It has plenty of barnacles that provided a lot of contrast to the beige coloured shore, coupled with a storm-coming backdrop. Just a nice combination, god made

The next two images are captured in Teluk Tempoyak with a clean horizon (well almost, as I duly removed some sailing ships far away on the horizontal line). I tend to create more shadows with the slow shutter speed effect, whilst smooth creamy water is another side effect




Its under the Penang Bridge. I come here very often and every time there's a different kind of lighting especially the intensity and angle of the source. Fascinating, as I can revisit countless of times with many permutation of shots (need to buy a good pair trekking shoe as I keep slipping with the present one, heh)

Hopefully, part III is around the corner with a B+W ND#110...yay yay

Ms Pesta at QBM

Last Sunday, I had the chance doing a photoshoot in Queensbay Mall for the Ms Pesta 2008. There were many fellow photographers and we had the front row space to capture the pageantry. While there are 18 contestants in total, I have preselected the probable champion and runners up... heh :)

TAN LAY LEE, she has good eye contact and not too-over catwalked, i judged her at #2


CHLOE, elegant. Her smile says it all and she gonna be the champion...heh