Astrophotography is where you really test out your camera capabilities. Unlike photographing sunrise/sunset, you need to bump up your ISO to 8000, 12800 or even 25600 to get an ideal exposure in a low light environment. There are two challenges that you would probably face if you are into Astrophotography. One, you found out that there are too many noises on your photo due to taking photos using the high ISO setting. Two, no matter how you crank up your ISO setting, you are s

Milky Way is mesmerizing, but to photograph it, the camera settings are going to be slightly different than usual Landscape Photography. If you are new to Astrophotography, rest assured. 🙂 On this video, I will share what’s the camera gears should you use and what’s the right camera settings to photograph the Milky Way. Join our Photography Masterclass Community & improve your photography skill. Subscribe to receive photography tips & tricks and update from Grey Chow Please

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 got my hand on a cool new toy that called Magilight. It is an equipment that specially designed for Light Painting. It has 144 LED lights on it and you can customize the colours of the lights to create any light painting result you want, even drawing out any cartoon character. It is actually kinda cool and interesting. My first thought when I have a hold on the Magilight, it is very light, lighter than I was expected, with length at 100 cm and net weight at only 1

One of the most frequently asked questions that I received is where to photograph the Milky Way? Well, no doubt that finding a good shooting spot for Milky Way can be difficult. The place has to be very dark with at least minor light pollution and most importantly with a good foreground subject. A lot of people that failed on their first try most likely is because they are not at a “dark” enough place. (Other possible causes are going at the wrong timing or pointing the camer

We all know that there are plenty of amazing sceneries in New Zealand that are very well known. However, this time I want to share with you all about this hidden gem, Moke Lake, a beautiful isolated lake off the beaten track. To your surprise, the place is actually quite near to Queenstown, another popularly visited place. It only took you less than 30 minutes to reach here. Note that you will drive along around 8 kilometres of unsealed gravel road before you arrive Moke Lake

In the year 2017, my last outing was going to the Putrajaya Light Festival. It is known as Light and Motion Putrajaya (LAMPU), “LAMPU” is a Malay word that means lamp. It was in its fifth year but my first time ever to attend the Festival. I’m the type of person that tend to avoid places that filled with large crowds, so it took me a few years to urge myself came here for the photos. Even so, I’m still picking the less crowded day by avoiding the weekend and be there on it’s

If you would like to read the previous articles, you can check out following links: Complete Guide To Photograph The Milky Way – Part 1 Complete Guide To Photograph The Milky Way – Part 2 Camera Gears With technology getting more and more advanced in now a day, almost any camera and even a mobile device are able to capture the Milky Way (Of course, the image quality can be huge different especially on the Noise Control). In this article I will be focusing on DSLR camera, ther

Welcome to the Complete Guide To Photograph The Milky Way – Part 2, in Part-1, I have talked about how to Identify and locate the Milky Way, now let’s move to a more detail part, on how to plan your shoot. If you miss out the Part 1, you can find it HERE. 😉 Planning Your Shoot Finding a Milky Way can be very easy (with any APP that listed in my previous post), however, to find a good location for Milky Way especially one with a good foreground can be very challenging. First,

Galaxies are something that beautiful and mystery to people, among the billions glittering stars, Milky Way is one thing you can really see it with your naked eye and photograph with your camera. However with more and more places on earth get developed, the Light Pollutions making us slowly losing our night sky, it is estimated that around 80% of all the people live today never even get a glimpsed of the Milky Way. Milky Way no more something we can always see by just looking

Mount Bromo, one of the most popular active volcanos on the earth. Enthusiast (Visitor) from all around the world comes here just to witness the magnificent view of the iconic Mount Bromo under the magnificent sunrise. But if you come at the peak season, beware of the massive crowd; it is like Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Me and my friends spent 6D5N in Java Island, Indonesia hunting for Milky Way and sunrise. We start with Ijen , a volcano crater famous with sulfur mining and a u

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

If you ask me which photo is best to kickstart the year of 2016, I will say definitely a photo with beautiful Firework. Recently I have taken a Twin Tower with a beautiful reflection and me written in my previous post. Since then, a picture of reflection + firework has come into my mind. However, there is some difficulty if I plan to capture such scenery during the new year eve firework countdown. Firstly, there will be a lot of people here at that day to enjoy the firework 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,