Special Effects Gallery

1978 - 2000

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Flash + Long exposure Zoom 300mm
Left: Flash combined with long exposure 'B' creates this effect. (Melaka 2000)
Right: Zoom lens (300mm) with wide aperture setting blurs out the backgroud and keeps the camera from a distance from the subject (without intimidating her) creates stunning portraits. (Melaka 1999)

Polariser filter Toy camera
Left: Colours are enhanced with the use of a polariser filter. Turning it to a correct angle cuts out the glare and true colours are refected. (Penang 1987)
Right: Good pictures can be taken even with a toy camera (my son's RM25 camera). Good lighting, angle and an interesting topic is more important. (Port Dickson 2000)

Panning Luck & Timing
Left: Panning is moving the camera to follow your subject, taken at lower shutter-speeds, captures your subject in focus but with the background wheezing by; although this is not a good example, it's the best I could find. (Sepang 1999)
Right: Luck and timing is important, as I caught this lizard catching the beam from a jump. (Perak 1988)

Dusk Sunset
Left: Pictures at dusk are stunning, no special settings required on the camera, although a polariser filter helps to darken the skies and foreground. (K. Kinabalu 2000)
Right: The sunset at Tioman, natural light (long exposure). (1987)


Long exposure Macro
Left: Long exposure photography (time depending on available light). Leave the camera on a tripod and use a cable release to operate shutter to prevent shakes. You will be rewarded with the bright streaks of the car lights, well litted background and the shadowy phantoms of the night in the foreground. (KL 1983)
Right: To photograph microscopic subjects, one can spend a lot of money buying expensive macro equipment, or in my case here, build a home-made extension bellows incorporating any lens you have and you'll get good magnification pictures (small aperture /long exposure). (PJ 1983)

Daring To get good pictures, be a little more daring. I got really close to this wild elephant that came to our jungle camp when I was in the Army. I was even chased by a wild elephant once (not this one) when I went too close to photograph the herd. (Perak 1988)

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This photo gallery consist of six pages (links below).
Gallery 1: 1978-1983
Gallery 2: 1983-1986
Gallery 3: 1987
Gallery 4: 1987
Gallery 5: 1987
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These photographs were taken with a Ricoh SLR and the more recent ones using a Canon EOS888 with zoom lens; Canon 38-76mm or Cosina 28-300mm. While I was in the Army I owned a Minolta weather-proof camera with dual 35mm-50mm lens. Flash photography was taken with a Sunpak Auto 26SR flash (13 years old). Ricoh lens used were 50mm and more often 35-210mm zoom. A 2x teleconverter was also used in some.

The macro photographs were taken with a homemade extension bellows incorporating the 50mm lens. Some (landscapes) were taken with a polariser filter. Night shots (long exposure) were taken with the help of a cable release. They were all prints, and Kodak paper prints were the best because the colour remained true till today! My first choice for film is Kodak, although I am not too particular and had used all brands (Fuji, Agfa, Konica). I scanned these prints with a Canon scanner and touched-up with PaintShopPro4.

I also own a Fuji MX-700 digital camera the last two years, but to create special effects, it cannot beat the SLR types with manual settings. Of course with todays' computers, anything your camera cannot achieve, your computer can.
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