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Industrial Photography: Nodding Donkey Ad Campaign
A couple of months ago, a client came across my nodding donkey picture and asked me for ideas to present the image on a 2m x 1.8m billboard for their corporate ad campaign. Cropping a vertical image to...
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Freelancing: Be Your Own Boss
It’s 11.30pm and in less than six hours I will be getting up to catch a flight to Singapore for the weekend. Is there a relevance to what this post is about? Absolutely not other than I had just...
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8% Battery Life Left on Samsung Galaxy S3 After 48 Hours
The Samsung Galaxy S3 has incredible battery life — it’s ability to charge fast and lasts an entire day (well, at least for me) is unprecedented especially when everyone around you who uses an iPhone...
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Use Eucalyptus Oil to Remove Adhesive Residue From Camera LCD
On the day I picked up my Canon EOS 5D Mark II body some years back, I had a Canon brand screen protector applied for the very same reason when I got my second 5D Mark II body — to protect the screen...
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Through The Sungai Liang Forest
There are two favourite nature spots I’m likely to run in, one a lot more likely than the other. The Natural landscape of Sungai Liang forest and its uncertain terain are primarily the reason I prefer...
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Prevent USB Port Damage With LockPort USB
Commercial food photography is pretty much my bread and butter. I tether my EOS 5D Mark II to a Dell Studio laptop with a 17-inch HD display using a 5m long USB cable. The length gives me a great deal...
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Canon EOS 5D Mark III Wireless Tethering to iPad with Eye-Fi Pro X2
This is not a review but a testimony that the Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB wireless card just works! In my last post I wrote about LockPort USB the perfect gear and port saver for photographers who tether a lot,...
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Photographing My Daughter in Athletics
Ever since my daughter Jewel started running in school events slightly over a year ago, I have always made sure to be there for her not just for support but more importantly, I’m the guy who always had...
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In Front of the Camera
As a professional photographer I’m completely at ease behind the camera, as do most of my peers as far as I know. On occasions when the roles reverse I can get pretty uncomfortable posing to have...
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The Lemon Juice Droplets in This Photo Are Not Photoshopped
While photographing Excapade Sushi’s new Japanese cuisine menu, I saw an opportunity to get creative with something as mundane as squeezing lemon juice onto a serving of salmon sashimi. I have done a...
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The Distance and Altitude of the Bukit Shahbandar Hiking Trails
It wasn’t until I signed up to climb Mount Kinabalu end of the year (December 17 to be exact) that I began going to one of Brunei’s most popular hiking hotspot — the Bukit Shahbandar trails — to...
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Golden Coffee’s Delectable Dishes Before My Bukit Shahbandar Hike
I had made plans with Eric and Thanis to have a quick lunch at Thien Thien before my Funshabu-Shi menu shoot in the afternoon. Last minute change of plans had us eating at Thanis’ regular haunt, Golden...
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Food Photography Using Samsung Galaxy Smartphones
I think I’m genetically predisposed to high cholesterol. No matter how much much effort I put into working out and eating right (friends and family know my dedication to eating right) and I have a very...
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Photographing Bottled Beverages: Guru Fresh Break
Photographing bottled beverages is not in the same league and complexity as photographing food. Bottled beverages in all their shapes, sizes and curves attract highly undesirable bright spots and...
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Hiking the Bukit Shahbandar “14 Hills” Trail
We’ve lost count the number of times we had hiked up to this Pondok 4 guide pole, started at it for a moment and succumbed to defeat by mere threat of the distance, time and effort it would take for us...
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Aerial View of My Favourite Hiking Trails at Bukit Shahbandar
Drone photography is all the rage these days and I can see the addition of a quadcopter to my inventory, when owning one becomes more affordable. Until then I’ll reminisce the aerial photographs I took...
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Beautiful Morning Light at Starbucks Coffee Resorts World Sentosa
This wooden facade of a Starbucks outlet located at Resorts World Sentosa Singapore is both striking, alluring and inviting. So much so that I patronized the outlet five times during my short stay at...
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Bukit Shahbandar 9 Hills Personal Best Time
Four months before my Mount Kinabalu climb on December 17, 2013 I trained almost exclusively at the hills of Bukit Shahbandar in the Brunei-Muara district, located a little over an hour’s drive from my...
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Published: Mahligai Apartments Photography Featured in BHC Magazine
Property photography assignment from November 2013 for Armada Properties featured in February 2014 edition of Butra Home Concept magazine. It was a pleasure to have worked with MixMediaWorx to produce...
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