MENTORGRAPHY

HAPPY 2019 Everyone !! My first photography adventure was of course photographing the New Year Countdown fireworks performance at Singapore's iconic Marina Bay vicinity. This year's countdown was especially special as the more then 1 hour fireworks display also known as the STAR ISLAND Singapore Countdown Edition was produced by the Japanese which are renowned for spectacular "Hanabi" performances. This special countdown also marks the international debut of this Japanese pro

My second Conceptual Photography session in Jakarta this year with my host and good friend master photographer Sebastian Kisworo. All concepts were by Sebastian Kisworo with some small inputs from yours truly. During these sessions , all photography done were based on the following: - ambient lighting - occasional fill light with continuous LED lights or silver reflectors - No flash or strobe lighting As I share my collection of images from this latest session , I will also s

I have been pretty busy lately but I finally found some time to share my experience with the extreme high ISO capability of the Nikon D850. I am NOT going to do any scientific comparisons but instead I am just going to share my ultra high ISO images from ISO6400 right up to ISO51,200 and let your screen do the work of convincing you how usable the image can be. Each image shared will have a link to a FLICKR Lightbox version which should show a larger image when viewed on your

I started photographing sports from 2008 and have been hooked to this genre since the very first session. As sports action can be extremely fast paced and peak action moments are fleeting, all sports photographers tend to use a camera that has a very fast frame capture rate. When I started , my DSLR of choice was the Nikon D3 which gave me 9FPS (Frames Per Second). This Nikon D3 however was only a 12MP (Megapixel) camera but it was a benchmark (for other DSLRs positioned for

We are into the second week of the New Year and I hope this blog finds you in the very best of health and raring to learn and capture new gems in your photography journey. In this very first blog of the year , I am going to share with you the benefits of using the Focus Stacking technique and tips on using the D850's Focus Shift feature. So why use the Focus Stacking Technique ? 1. To obtain the BEST possible image quality by using the optimum F-Stop values (f5.6 , f8.0) 2. M

It has been a tremendous 3 months of photography after I started using the Nikon D850. All my other Nikon Full Frame DSLRs have all taken a back seat when I am out and about busy photographing for my clients or for my own personal enjoyment. This will be the last blog on the D850 for the year and in this blog I just wanted to share with you my personal experience with the huge & fine amount of details that the D850 captures irrespective of the Nikkor lenses that are in my ars

The goal was to capture interesting Xmas lights scenes from uncommon viewpoints in the fastest possible manner during my photowalks along Orchard Road. 1. No tripod used - doing this allows me so much more flexibility in capturing moments and using different POVs - the excellent dynamic range and high ISO performance of the D850 gives me this flexibility 2. Shooting JPEG FINE * with the my customised PICTURE CONTROL settings produces the color impact in camera saving me post

I had been spending my October and November shooting tons of images for my clients. There were lots of lifestyle and architectural type shots in locations that have pretty dim lighting. Locations that do not allow the use of tripods as it could disturb their guests & of course locations with high dynamic range extremes. The other requirement from the clients was speed in delivering the files. They wanted the final ultra high resolution images processed and delivered in 7 days

I have had quite a bit of experience using the Nikon D850's Focus Shift capability on flower photography. To me having the Focus Shift capability in the D850 simplifies and shortens the overall photography workflow so much when I want to employ the Focus Stacking technique. However I have not tried it on animals yet. I had to find live subjects that can remain motionless for a reasonable period of time for the Focus Shift to execute and complete. I decided then that the repti