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

You may have heard of this challenge before, but have you tried it out before? In 2014, I had committed myself to this 52 Weeks Photo Challenge, and my photography skill set has greatly improved since then. Because of that, I want to share this with you. What is 52 Weeks Photo Challenge? The challenge is basically required you to POST a photo once in a week and continue doing it for a total of 52 WEEKS, which also means ONE YEAR too. How is it compare to the 365 Photo Challen

When I just started my photography journey, I realized it could be very challenging for finding a good location for photo shooting. To ease my fellow photographers in shooting, I have compiled some of the easy access locations into this article. Hopefully, this will help you all with better planning. On top of that, I also encourage the beginner to connect with other photographers via social media. It is more enjoyable to take photos with those who share the same passion, and

Typically, for Landscape photographers, we tend to favour in taking photos in the morning or evening, which is the transition time from night to day or vice versa. During the transition, the colour of the sky will change from yellowish to multi colours, then blue colours before it turns into entirely dark or the other way around in the morning. At the same time, the lighting of the scene will also change accordingly. The transition time can split into the following light pha

Have you had an experience that someone using your photo without your consent? Using it on their own blog post or website for personal or commercial usage, and in the worst case, causing damage to your photography business. It happened to me before, and I would not want the same thing to fall on any one of you. The purpose of this article is to share with you all what I learned from a recent Copy Right Law workshop that I attended. The workshop was conducted by a practising l

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

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

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