Available light






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25 October 2008
Bukit Bintang dan sekitarnya

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I love available light.. the lights that are both natural and a part of the natural scene of where I shoot. Most of the time I used this as an excuse, to justify the fact that I don't actually have the money to buy myself flashes and whatnots.

Most of the time my shots are taken using my Nikon D40, through the 18-55mm kit lens. Some call it kid's lens.. I know. Still, there's always many things one can learn from a kid as much as one can learn from any adult.

I don't usually take pictures of humans though I love photojournalism. That is the main thing people comment about my photos.. too empty, no human, no story. I feel strange pointing the camera onto the face of a stranger, destroying whatever bits of privacy they have left out in this very public world. Maybe one day this thing will change. Maybe then more and more strands of light will bounce off the faces of people, diving straight into the bowels of my lens, creating beautiful images that will make you smile or perhaps cry..

Regardless, I love to take pictures more than I want to be in a persatuan. Yeah sure, I would love to have a few regulars to go around and shoot with but I don't like to be involved in a society, persatuan, project, group or whatever you want to call it. Don't call me an antisocial or anything as such. Call me Hadi, that's who I am.

So yeah.. maybe this few hundred words are just another vain attempt to make people symphatize me and forget for a while that the photos above are not that good.. I don't know. I don't really care actually. I just feel like talking to someone and I think that maybe you would want to spend a few minutes listening.

Sorry if this post cost you several irreplaceable minutes of your life. Regardless, thank you for being here. Even if you don't really say anything, that is already good enough for me.

Have a nice day and do take a look at how the lights illuminate you differently in every minute of everyday. You are really more beautiful than you think you are.

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Published:
Sunday, October 26, 2008
by amerhadiazmi