When getting started into Landscape photography, the first thing is to learn how to capture all the details of a scene without overexposing or underexposing the photo. In other words, avoiding getting a photo of the sunrise with an overblown sky, or a photo with well-exposed sky but underexposed foreground. Why Exposure Bracketing? Most cameras now a day have excellent Dynamic Range. For example, Nikon D850 able to capture 14.8 Exposure Values (Evs) and 14.7 Evs for Sony A7R

If you just into Milky Way photography, you may have heard of this advice “Using wide angle lens is better”. It is true and it is easier for you to capture your first photo of Milky Way. (I will explain why later) However, there’re time I would prefer to use a narrower focal length, such as 50mm focal length. At such focal lengths, I able to capture a GIGANTIC Milky Way in my photo, and that is because of a phenomenon called Lens Compression. So, what is Lens Compression? Le

Do you know that you can still download Nik Software for Free? Although it is not the latest 2018 version but a 2012 version. Still, you will find out that the older version with similar functionalities and tools, and you can get it by click on below button. Get Nik Software 2012 If you don’t know what is Nik Software. It is a group of plugins package that’s dedicated for Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop. It is very popular among the photographers, but not everyone can afford the

Milky Way season is here! Are you ready for photographing the beautiful galaxy? To ease everyone in identifying the best time for taking the photo, I have compiled all the info into this simple time chart, yeah! As you can see, the chart is showing information for every weekend, which is the time most people are free for photo shooting. Each weekend, there’s information for the Moon and Milky Way. For the Moon, I included the Moon phase, Moonrise and Moonset time. The basic

If you ever tried out taking a photo of the Milky Way or Star trail at night, you will know that having a perfect focus is not easy. Unlike taking a photo in daytime, not only you have to do the focusing in the dark that you can hardly see anything but also forced to use a wider aperture that you can easily miss focus and get a blurry photo. The photo that’s out of focus is not recoverable even with the help of post-processing. Sorry to say, these photos are considered unusab

Recently I have the opportunity from Sleeklens company, offering me their Photoshop plugin Landscape Adventure Collection and doing a review for the product itself. The Landscape Adventure Collection provided 56 photoshop actions, once you downloaded the product pack and unzip it, just double click on the Sleeklens Landscape PS Actions.atn file, it will open the Photoshop application and automatically loaded all the action in your Photoshop’s Action Window. If you don’t have

About a week ago, I got the news from my friend FwuKai Quah that he got another two slots for hiking up to Mount Kinabalu. Visiting there is one of the must-do items I have in my bucket list from years ago, but…this is just too sudden trip even for me. After some consideration, I decide to grab this opportunity and go for it. So here I am, after around 6 hours of the first-day hike and another 2 hours to reach the peak, along with all my heavy camera gears and a bonus experie

Cameron Highland, one of the favorite landscape spot of mine in Malaysia. It have the largest Tea Plantation in South East Asia, covering a total 8,000 acres planted with tea plant. Driving along the road here, you will see the neat tea plants covering up the hills, forming a beautiful and refreshing view. There are several sunrise angle here, this one that I took, is a angle that famous among the local wedding photographer, mainly because it is easy access, and there a place

Last Sunday, me and my friends were hiking up to the Crystal Hill (Bukit Tabur), it was 4 years ago since my last visit, until recently, when my friend Alan reminded me again. Before this, I have seen some sea cloud photos from others but myself never meet once, at the same time, due to the monsoon season, there’s are raining almost every night, which I hoping that this will generate enough humidity for some sea cloud. With a strong hope in mind and Alan as our guide (he is a

This angle was in my list from quite some time ago, it is taken slighter behind from the usual tourist spot, there’s a junction for some good light trail photo with Kuala Lumpur Twin Tower in the background. The weather was kinda hazy during the shoot, but since I am very close to my subject (Twin Tower) and aiming for the night scene, the effect of the haze are minimum. During the shoot I try several different composition moving from one side to another side of the junction,

It is more than a month now, I have no making any landscape photography outing due to the serious haze condition here in Malaysia. In other words, giving me more time to spend with my family, also a good timing to check back my previous unprocessed photos and clearing them, lol. This photo was taken at 2014 year end at Singapore, I make a short trip there, spending some good times with my friends and also took some of the famous views around the cities. This photo took beside

In Landscape photography, before going to a location and capturing the beautiful scenery, normally I will start with some “homework” first. And this homework usually involve searching for the spot using Google Map, check the weather forecast, finding some photos reference so that I can have a better idea on the location and etc. One of the tools I use in the planning process is The Photographer Ephemeris App, it provides you a map-based view with detail information on the cha

Batu Cave, locate in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is a sacred place of Hindu shrine that worship Hindu deity Lord Murugan. During every year Thaipusam Festival, over millions of Hindus from local and all around the world will gather here for the celebration dedicated to the Lord Murugan. A procession begins in the wee hours of the morning from the Sri Mahamariamman Temple leading up to Batu Caves as a religious undertaking to Lord Muruga lasting eight hours. Devotees will carry