krizalis.net » photography http://krizalis.net love, life, soccer and it’s lameness Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:37:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 My first ever die-cast model airplane landed at my house! http://krizalis.net/2010/01/18/my-first-ever-die-cast-model-airplane-landed-at-my-house/ http://krizalis.net/2010/01/18/my-first-ever-die-cast-model-airplane-landed-at-my-house/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:37:29 +0000 krizalis http://krizalis.net/?p=493 Yeah! I’m so excited about this! This is because I have finally started my latest new found hobby! Collecting wonderful die-cast model airplanes in 1:400 scale. This is super exciting! The minute I got this baby, I was awestruck by it’s fine detail and beauty! I knew I had bought it from a good manufacturer, GeminiJets :D

Anyways, a few days after I got this baby (which I bought it through ebay.com from a seller called “peeweeair” from the United States) I was already getting itchy and wanted to get a second die-cast airplane! So, I went online and research for local dealers of such collectible items and there were almost none except for one. Luckily for me, when I emailed this guy, he responded almost immediately and allayed my fear that I couldn’t get these babies locally. Eventually I went over to his shop over at Jalan Choo Cheng Kay and bought myself a second die-cast airplane! Woohoo! By the way, his name is Raymond and his shop name is Dai-Kong.

Just for your information, the first die-cast airplane model I have is a MyTravel Airways Airbus A330-300 and my second die-cast airplane model is a Qatar Airways Airbus A380.

Have a look at the photos below and be amazed! Note: They were shot with my other “baby”, the Sony Alpha A200 DSLR camera :D

By the way, click on the photos to view a larger and clearer photo.

]]> http://krizalis.net/2010/01/18/my-first-ever-die-cast-model-airplane-landed-at-my-house/feed/ 4 My makeshift mini photo studio http://krizalis.net/2009/07/05/my-makeshift-mini-photo-studio/ http://krizalis.net/2009/07/05/my-makeshift-mini-photo-studio/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:21:04 +0000 krizalis http://krizalis.net/?p=472 Over the past few days, I had been busy experimenting on a cheap way of setting up a mini photo studio and test it out by taking shots of different small items available to me in my bedroom. If I am successful in this, this will be my first step in improving my photography skills as well as being able to offer high quality product shooting services in my portfolio.

Of course, I wouldn’t have been able to do it without the help of the Internet where I found a great deal of photography resources with regards to making my own mini studio and the ways to get them up and running in no time. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m looking to setup a non-expensive mini studio and since I don’t have an extra flash kit with me for the proper lighting setup, I had to resort to using high powered lamps. I bought 2 lamps from IKEA and mounted them with a 20W energy saving fluorescent light bulbs. That went well I suppose considering that a normal flash kit would’ve been in the thousands range where as the lamps and the bulbs together were only hundred plus ringgit.

After that, I got excited and followed a tutorial I saw on the Internet and built my own makeshift light tent. How did I do it you might say? I just scourge for an unused empty box (a Dell Computer box for that matter) and started cutting and taping here and there with tracing paper and duct tape. Eventually the light tent was completed. It was a work of art. To me at least.

So, I started setting up the lamps as well as the cameras on the tripod. Everything went well and I couldn’t wait any longer to try some of the shoots. I used almost anything I could get in my bedroom as my shooting subject. There were small little cosmetic stuff like a toner, moisturizer, aluminum water bottle and etc.

Anyways, here’s the result of those shots. After some post processing done with Photoshop of course. By the way, the last two shots of the moisturizer (the Nivea Aqua Sensation Day Cream) was me experimenting on having just one light source, meaning one from the left and one from the right.

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