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Midnight Sky in Borneo How it was shot

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:55:00 +0000

Recently I went my mom's place which located North of Kota Kinabalu city in a valley country side Tuaran area. I spend few days there just to getaway from the city life. Light in that area is not poluted as in the city event though there are some street light has been install on the road side.

How it was made

Anyway, this photo was shot in the midnight time. It was a clear night. Set the camera on tripod, take out any filters attached on lens, put cable release and starting to take few test shots to determine the correct setting (it was fullmoon on that time).

Set my camera ISO to the lowest possible, put my camera aperture @ F6.3 so that I still get the focus but not too small aperture opening so the camera sensor can still catch the light from the star. Shoot in manual mode and set to 'bulb'. Compose the shot correctly and pre focus using manual focus then press the cable release and locked it, leave it for half and hour. I cover the camera with a cloth because a dew will be accumulated on top of it.

Unfortunately the shot was got over yellow on the back of the store. It was the light from the street light. I like to include the cables in the picture just to fill the sky. Would love to do this again on different place probably remote places.

Borneo Bird Festival Launching Day

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:59:00 +0000

The very first Borneo Bird Festival just over last month. As the official photographer for that event I document quite a lots of moment in photographs. Here is some of the photos during the launching day of the event.

Powerful speech by Datuk Masidi Manjun, Minister of Tourism Sabah

Bird Life International Mr Richard Grimmeth

Official launching by Datuk Peter Pang Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah

Official launching of two books of Birds Of Borneo by Quentin Philip and By Susan Myers.

Datuk Masidi showing the photograph of the Bornean Bristlehead

Visiting Nikon booth withness by Mr Stephen GM of Nikon Malaysia

Getting ready for the kick start of the first bird race in Borneo

Sabah Tourism staff gone through check list

Twitchers

Children Camp

Bird photographer waiting for the Bornean Bristlehead

White Balance for shooting a forest

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:14:00 +0000

I've been ask several times, what is the right white balance for shooting in the forest. Here is a sample below.. Whenever I take photograph of forest, I always set my camera's white balance into either direct sunlight, cloudy or shade... depending on the light available that time. The reason why I used mostly warm white balance is because of the green colors of the forest pop out when set to warm white balance. It is also a photographer's preference on which white balance they want to use to portray the photograph mood. Some times using cold white balance can create a very cold feel of the environment and also indicate night scene. It is totally your own personal preference which you experiment first.

Auto White Balance

Direct Sunlight

Maliau fall in Silkwinds

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:07:00 +0000

One of my Maliau Fall photo was publish in Silkwind, Silkair inflight magazines. It is for September issue 2009. The photo publish was along with Frans Lanting photos of Tarsier which also publish in Lonely Planet Book.

Bird Photography Competition 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:53:00 +0000

Cede sent me an e-mail today and I'm so please to let everyone know about the e-mail he sent. In conjunction with the Borneo Bird Festival which going to be held in Sandakan starting 10 - 15 October, a Bird Photography Competition was organise by RDC. For those who are interested to participate, you may visit this site link to download the contest form. They only accept photograph taken within from 3rd - 13th october 2009. Great prizes await! Good luck!

Logo design: Borneo Fullforce

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:03:00 +0000

I recently contacted by Borneo Fullforce a tour operator in Kota Kinabalu to design their logo, they want to have a Lepa lepa boat in it and they want it to be very simple for easy printing. I made several design and finally they chose this design. A very simple design i made with using photoshop cs4 to design it.

Kenneth & Cheerine : Engagement

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:48:00 +0000

I know it has been a while since the last post in my blog. I had been very busy lately, several photo project. Anyway recently I photographed an engagement ceremony for Kenneth & Cheerine. And after that drag them out for photo session outside. Here is two photos for preview. I will be posting again with others post soon.

Sunset of Kiau Valley

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:57:00 +0000

Recently me and John was up at Kiau to do a photography workshop. I can't just help my self doing some landscapes shooting. The stunning view of the place just captured me. Sunset was awesome! Here is the proof. Sorry for not updating my blog often. This month was a busy month for me. Will try to update again soon.

Wedding: Maurice & Sue Angela (Church wedding)

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:36:00 +0000

Together they are on the same train heading towards Tenom. One heading to Tenom and the other one going for the river rafting before Tenom Town. Maurice saw her all alone on her own seat...he approach her and captured her heart straight away.

Later after got back from the trip, they set out on a date. Table for two... Well I would say they actually fell for each other... which later a proposal then decided to tied the knot on the 08.08.09.
Congratulation to Maurice & Sue Angela.

Me & John off to Kiau

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:06:00 +0000

Me and John will be traveling to Kiau and Bundu Tuhan which located at the foot hill of Mount Kinabalu for sharing our knowledge of photography to the people there. We will be there from 12th to 16th of August. I might not be able to entertain any email during that time and so to facebook. I will try to reply any email as soon as I'm online to internet. You may try to reach me by my mobile or sms, mobile coverage very bad there. Cheers!

Wedding Preview: Maurice & Sue Anne

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:18:00 +0000

Yesterday I did a photography work for a friend. It was happen at St Stella Maris church in Tanjung Aru. Then later the wedding reception in Likas Maksak. Still working on the photos so once I'm done editing, I will do post it in my blog.

(The photo above was taken using D5000 unedited)

Running at 100km per hour

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:50:00 +0000

The recent trip to Philippines, during the drive to Clark Airport. We were traveling in a van at 100km per hour and I still manage to get this shot from the van's window without getting blurry image. This can be achieve by using fast shutter speed. Setting was ISO:400 @ 1/1000 no vr. The noise reduction was turn off as you can see some noise on the sky area. In order to freeze movement in picture, the shutter speed must 1/1000 or above.

Wedding: Roger & Femelda

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:26:00 +0000

This wedding was photographed last month but didn't manage to post it on my blog. The wedding was took place in Ranau almost on the foot hill of Mount Kinabalu. It was away from Kota Kinabalu so I had to stay overnite at Ranau town motel. Both of them the bride and the groom originaly from Ranau but both of them working in Kota Kinabalu city. It was a fantastic wedding.

Bestmans and bridesmaids

This pair have their own way of making people laugh, he is the brother of the bride and I shot their wedding a year ago which held in Tambunan and it was a blast!

Paraglider Images in video

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:08:00 +0000

This series of images of the paraglider shot with Nikon D300 then put together to make this short video.

Recent trip: Manila

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:15:00 +0000

I just got back from recent trip to Manila for the second time, this time I manage to go to the place I didn't go last time. The Ocean park was fun, which I enjoyed much. Most of my images this time was shot with the new D5000. I did a lots of video during this trip, the videos still in progress will be out as soon as I finish putting it together. There was a typhoon on he North of Philippines during that time, rain and strong wind on the second day of the trip.

Mabini street

Taking photos at Quiapo

Candles for goodluck

168 mall Divisoria

Ocean Park Manila

Seen a Nikon fan

Mt. Arayat Pampanga

A new way of photography

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:20:00 +0000

Recently I just got my new Nikon D5000 and all I can say is, photography will be in a new way for me now. I start to do both still image and video. I understand video is always been connected to stills images as video is made of hundreds or thousands of still images in sequence. It just that, It came with a sound. I find it video now a day is a very good way to spread stories where you can upload it to youtube or vimeo. From now on you will start to see some video will be posted here in my blog. But of coz, still images is still on the top of my interest.

D5000 video .mov format uploaded

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:43:00 +0000

Linkin Park - New Divide Guitar cover from jollence lee on Vimeo.

Editing the video in Adobe Premiere pro cs4, I need to convert the video into .mov format then its play smoothly during playback. .avi will cause jerky video playback.

Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR discontinued?

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:35:00 +0000

Rumors all over the web says the Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR is already discontinued and dealers also says that they can't buy this lens anymore from Nikon. Most lightly that there will be a new 70-200 going to take place. It will most likely with Nano coating with VR2. All what we can do now is just wait for the announcement from Nikon which we still don't have any idea when.

Trip with Hanna & Flemming

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:27:00 +0000

Recently I did a tour guiding job for Hanna & Flemming touring around Poring Hotspring and Kinabalu Park. We stayed one night at Kinabalu Mount Heritage Hotel (formerly Perkasa Hotel). The hotel had improved a lot after it change management, several chalet has been built and we stayed in the chalet.
I really had great time with them, Flemming is a journalist who write about cars. He travel to various country to test drive a new cars and write about it. Fantastic job!

Here are some fotos to share with you all.

My balcony

My room that I already mess it up haha!

The naked tree "Tristania sp"

Phylaglathis Eliptica

My New Foto Frame For Web

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:23:00 +0000

I just made a new frame for my photos for website and had this made into photoshop action makes easy for me next time. I hope it fits to my blog. Cheers!

Photography Workshop RDC

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:19:00 +0000

Last mid June on the 20th & 21st, Sandakan Photo has organize a photography workshop together with Nikon Malaysia. The venue take place in RDC Rainforest Discovery Center near Sepilok. Few well known photographer from Sabah and KL was invited to do talks during the workshop. Apparently the respond from participant was overwelming in fact we got many people was try to squeez in for the workshop even after its was full. Participant mostly from Sandakan but we do get people from Tawau and KK coming for the workshop.

Day one of the workshop, we got Mr Kelvin Chan doing the talk about "Basic Digital Photography" and at the same time in different room we got Mr Cede Prudente doing for "Wildlife Photography". On the same day at later of the day John Kong doing a talk about "Landscapes Photography". Day two was fun coz the participant had a chance to go out shoot some portrait with models. Using the reflector and also studio flash setting. I did my talk also on the second day about "Wedding Photography".

Here is some photos to share

Driving to Sandakan

Hotel where we stayed Mark's Lodge

Preparing the venue

Kelvin Chan doing his talk

John Kong explaining pano tripod head

Cede Prudente

John Kong preparing

Kavid from Nikon Malaysia explaining Nano coating lens

YB Au Kam Wah, surprise with the price of the new Nikon EDG scope

Laban Rata Rest House view

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:10:00 +0000

My recent mountain climb was a bit harder than my previous climb, heavy rain got us starting from km2. The mountain trail was like a waterfall. My shoe and jacket was wet. The rainy day contributing extra cold to the 9 degree C. Luckily the next day was fine. I didn't take much photo that time so here is two photos, the view from the Laban Rata rest house. Cheers!

Photography Competition

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:10:00 +0000

Here is another interesting thing for you photographers out there. This is an opportunities to see our photography level. It is another way to get your images out. Just to see how far you can go, worth a try. Good Luck!! Go to www.aseanbiodiversity.org

Pre wedding

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:20:00 +0000

Yesterday I did a pre wedding photoshoot for Kenneth and Felicity, make up was done by Jeff and it was a great photoshoot. I will be heading to Ranau for another wedding. So this means my editing work will be on hold again for few days. For the meantime here is three photos of yesterday work.

Wedding: Standley & Arnellia

noreply@blogger.com (Jollence Lee) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:13:00 +0000

Recent wedding shoot got me driving to the North of Sabah in Kota Belud. This was the actual wedding day of Standley and Arnellia. This was the first time I shoot a wedding in SIB church, It is totally different from Catholic. I just don't know what to expect next things to happen. Like most wedding I did, I know what is next. But this one, I just be ready for the next thing. Everything turn out to be good, very simple ceremony. Good experience!

A shy couple