Happy Chinese New Year 2012 year of the dragon to my blog readers. May this year brings more success, prosperous and peace to our beloved Malaysia. Gong Xi Fa Caii.
Azizil Sedek
Creative Director
Splendiferous Pictures
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Assalammualaikum. Hey people!
Whatever brought you here, I appreciate it. Thanks so much to the technology.
It’s 2012 and the blog is not updated since last month, December 2011. Oh, it’s last year. Dust become thick day by day. Clearing it slowly now.
So, being sharing some of my thoughts on twitter with #tipsFOTOGRAFI in Malay easy language. So, please don’t judge my ‘photography’ clause. I just want people easy to understand me lah. We’re Malaysia, right.
Being few years (seriously) in the industry, I gained experiences which I agree they’re not all sweet lah. BUT without all the experiences, I’ll never be this strong. Still standing with photography as my profession. Growing slowly. Alhamdulillah. Thank you Allah for giving me strength to do this as a challenge to myself that I’m a product of my parents, can do it. Thus, this is the time for me to giving back what I’ve got along the way.
2012 I keep it to myself, I want to be a ‘teacher’. Yes, working out for it. A photography classes (with my own module) will be arrange somewhere in March this year. InsyaAllah. I won’t do my products as a massive production. So, it’s limited. I believe: whoever really wants to learn, will learn no matter what. Learning, empty your cup. Easy. So, from now keep updated. March is just few counts of clock ticking.
Looking at the teenagers with cameras, I’m glad we have the same common interest. 
Photography is enjoy! However, deep in my heart says: it’s not quantity that matters. So, learn, learn and learn. I wish to look at beautiful photographs when I grow old from my next generation.
This entry, i leave you with a single photo. Old photo. I’m practicing with my film camera now. So, I’m digital-less this month. Talents, let’s do photographs
Photography enthusiast, remember this: “our first 10,000 photographs are the worst” Henri Cartier Bresson
Cheers!
Azizil Sedek
17.01.2012 – Bangi
*Que Raisya by Azizil Sedek
Hello December
It’s December! 2011 gonna say goodbye with all the joy & tears…
Time flies sooooo fast! we’re reaching the end of the year…
Alhamdulillah, after almost a year running Splendiferous Pictures aka SP bunches of experiences gained… Learning through the hard ways, I appreciate life more… Thank you Allah…
Here’s few photos (in muted slideshow form) for you to enjoy. More photos coming up soon!
p/s: how I wish sometimes I had more than 24 hours a day…
Enjoy!!!
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Eid Mubarak
Salam Aidil Adha kepada seluruh umat Islam di merata dunia yang sudi membaca blog saya. Pohon kemaafan, doakan perjalanan saya dan keluarga ke Singapura bertemu keluarga di sana lancar. Semoga perjalanan, percutian, masa anda yang terluang bersama keluarga dirahmati Allah Taala. Kepada sahabat bukan Islam, selamat bercuti. Gunakanlah peluang ini untuk bersama keluarga atau melawat sanak saudara atau sahabat lain.
Selamat menjalani ibadah korban
Azizil Sedek
Splendiferous Pictures
We’re Looking for New SP Stars!
We (Splendiferous Pictures) are looking for new SP Stars (team members) for next operation year, 2012.
Vacancies open now: Photo Editor & Video Editor
REQUIREMENTS
- Familiar with Adobe Photoshop or Final Cut Pro, After Effects and/or Adobe Premiere
- Preferable candidates with any qualification in Multimedia or Graphic Design or 2 years working experience
- Good working attitude
- Willing to work long hours
- Able to cope well under pressure
- Creative flows through your veins
Interested candidates are invited to apply online. Send your detailed resume to: sp.hrcs@gmail.com
Shortlisted candidates will be called for an interview.
Closing date for the submission of application: 31.12.2011
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All the best!
Azizil Sedek
Splendiferous Pictures
Ramadhan Datang Lagi
Assalammualaikum. Salam Sejahtera.
Bulan yang dinanti-nanti. Bulan penuh rahmat. Bulan penuh peluang ibadah. Bulan pahala digandakan. Bulan kebaikan. Ramadhan Al-Mubarak.
Bagi saya, ibadah puasa di bulan Ramadhan tahun ini lebih mencabar dari tahun2 lepas. Banyak tugasan yang perlu dilaksanakan. Doakan saya & rakan2 dikurniakan kudrat & tenaga untuk menjalankan amanah yang telah diberi. Semoga ianya juga menjadi sebahagian dari ibadah.
InsyaAllah seperti apa yang pernah saya katakan sebelum ini (di status facebook) sy akan kongsi sedikit sebanyak pengetahuan fotografi sy dgn semua yg mengikuti blog sy. Semoga kita semua mendapat rahmat dari Allah Taala.
Akhir kata, selamat menjalani ibadah puasa.
Salam Ramadhan Al-Mubarak
Azizil Sedek
JULY PROMO
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PORTRAITURE SESSION
July 2011 Limited offer!!!
1 outdoor portraiture session photographed by Azizil Sedek
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1. This promo only available on July 2011 (until further notice).
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3. Splendiferous Pictures will advice the date (preferable on weekdays: Monday-Thursday), location and time for the photo-shoot session.
4. 1 session refer to 1 hour photo-shoot session.
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Azizil Sedek
Director & Principal Photographer
Splendiferous Pictures
Photography Tips | Manual Mode: A Primer
It’s funny. You’d think that with all the technology we’ve invented, there would no longer be a need for manual mode in photography. We’ve got cameras that can detect faces, cameras that can get rid of red eye, and cameras with a gazillion different shooting settings. How hard could it be to make a single automatic mode that always works no matter what situation you’re in?
To be blunt, it’s a lot harder than you think. That’s why I’ve prepared this primer on manual photography. If you’ve ever wanted to know why you should learn it, how much you’ll need to learn, or where to get started, this article is for you. I strongly urge you not to listen to the tech heads who will try to tell you manual mode is no longer relevant. It’s still very relevant and used by most professionals to this day. Let’s go in-depth, and you’ll find out why.
What’s wrong with automatic mode? Why isn’t it good enough?
Photography is in an interesting place in our day and age. Cameras have automatic modes that make it easier for us to take good looking pictures, but even the best cameras still make mistakes. No matter how powerful we build them, no matter the number of megapixels, cameras still don’t know what we’re trying to achieve when use them. They’re smart about some things, like autofocusing, but they’re dumb about a lot of others.
You know what happens when you assume…
In order for any automatic mode to work, your camera needs to assume a few things about the picture you’re trying to take. It might assume that you want to get a nice a balance between brights and darks on the patch of light directly in front of you. It may assume that the sun is behind you and not in front of you. Without these assumptions, your camera doesn’t know how to take the picture because it can’t judge the light coming into the lens.
And that’s the problem with automatic modes. Sometimes the assumptions are flat out wrong. Maybe you’re shooting into the sun, and you don’t want your subject to look like it does to your eye. Maybe you want it to be completely black, a silhouette. If you try to use an automatic mode, your camera assumes that you want something else entirely, and it messes up the shot.
The same principle applies when you’re trying to bring out a certain color in a shot. Maybe you want the leaves on the trees in front of you to have a very intense sort of green. Your camera doesn’t know this. It assumes you don’t want to give precedence to any particular color, and it gives you back a so-so image that isn’t very colorful.
Automatic modes are still light years behind mankind’s innate artistic sense. They are made up of programs that detect the light in front of the camera and attempt to make a balanced exposure based on the data, and that’s all they do. Someday, perhaps far in the future, we might invent an all encompassing automatic mode that truly does everything right. But such a mode would need to include all of mankind’s artistic sensibilities in its programming. You just can’t make something like that in a few decades time.
How to get started with manual mode
Chances are that the HAL of digital cameras won’t exist in your lifetime. At the very least, it won’t exist in the next five years, so you had better start learning manual mode. Thankfully, it’s not that difficult. There isn’t much more to learning manual mode than what you’re already used to as a photographer. You’re only adding two more variables to the ones you control, and they are the aperture and shutter speed.
When you use automatic modes, your camera picks these for you. In fact, that’s most of the job of an automatic mode. Your camera takes a reading of the light in front of you and then picks a combination of aperture and shutter speed to take the photo. When you start shooting in manual mode, you step in and do that job yourself. You judge the light, figure out what you’re trying to do artistically, and then pick the aperture and shutter speeds that are right for the job. That’s it.
The best way to prepare yourself for manual mode is to learn how aperture and shutter speed affect the photo you’re taking. The aperture is the hole in your lens that light travels through to get to the image sensor on the back, and the shutter is a quick moving curtain that determines how long the image sensor is exposed to outside light when a photo is taken. A change to each of them affects the resulting photo in its own unique way.
Use your other automatic modes to learn more about aperture and shutter speed
To get a better perspective on either one, why not try out your camera’s shutter priority and aperture priority modes first? Each mode effectively isolates one of the two variables, allowing you to play with them and see the results. Just for practice, switch to shutter priority mode and take a bunch of pictures at different shutter speeds. Now have a look at them on your computer and see if you can figure out the difference. Do the same with aperture priority mode, trying out different apertures to see how they affect your photos.
Here’s what you’ll probably notice. Super fast shutter speeds give you crisp photos with no blur, especially when your subject is moving. Super slow shutter speeds, on the other hand, make everything blurry because the camera is shaking every so slightly as you keep the shutter open longer.
Aperture is a different story. As you increase the f-number on your lens, the resulting image becomes more sharp all around. Meanwhile, a decrease in the f-number gives you what many photographers call a decreased depth of field. In other words, whatever is in front of or behind your subject gets more and more out of focus and blurry.
Solve one variable and you’ll always get the other
Somewhere in the mix of all these aperture and shutter speed settings is the ideal combination for the photo you want to take. It all depends on what you’re going for artistically. Do you want to freeze the action of a soccer game? Pick a fast shutter speed and an aperture that’s wide enough to allow in some more light. Want to get every possible detail in a landscape? First, pick a high f-numbered aperture and then make the shutter speed whatever it has to be to get an even exposure.
Knowing manual photography is all about knowing what you want to achieve first. Almost every picture you take includes something that will tip you off on either the aperture or the shutter speed. It’s really a lot like a math equation. Once you have one variable, you can solve for the other. When you think about it this way, manual photography suddenly becomes a lot less complicated.
Happy photographing!
Azizil Sedek
Principal Photographer
Splendiferous Pictures
Source: Digital Photo Secrets by David Peterson www.digital-photo-secrets.com
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