Chasing the sun @ Masjid Uniten

Blue Hour

Golden Hour

The crazy bunch of friends of fathers (geng bapak²) had an ad-hoc meeting to run to UNITEN (University Tenaga Nasional) at Bangi one day. Met up at a petrol kiosk and drove like mad men to chase the sun. Most of us were more into experimenting that day and these were my results.

Seeing the sun rise is a miracle one must always respect!
However, I wasn't really fond of my golden hour. Guess I wasn't having the mood during edit - what say you?

Details:

HDR 5 Exposure
1st photo - 
Manual HDR
ISO 800
f9

2nd photo - 
Bracketed HDR
ISO 100
f22

Panoramic Version with someone entered the frame - LOL

Details:
HDR 5 exposure
2 photos stitched
ISO 100
f22


Signing off
Daddy Rain
26/12/2013 @ 1301

Edited 26/12/2013 @ 1840

Kellie's Castle at Near Dusk

Kellie's Castle

Been holding back on this set for a very long time. They are the last set of my Le Tour of Old Road to Taiping. It was satisfying and tiring.

Guess, when you hold something for so long, their colors tend to rise up - LOL.

Kuala Lumpur International Motorshow 2013 [KLIMS] - Part 2

More shots of KLIMS with Muscle cars on sale!!

The "Fairlady"

Gallardo "Transformers" Lamborghini

 More below

Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show 2013 (KLIMS)

The awaited event came again. The event lasted for about a week or so...
I however was reluctant to go. As you can see, I did not update my blog for a very long time due to many reasons and the most was 2 weeks ago where I spent my days at the hospital ICU unit only to lose my younger brother where he received the call of Allah.
Al-Fatihah...

Tired and sad gloomed my surroundings. I had to keep the situation at ease and having my late brother's kids around, I entertained them to places so we went to KLIMS to let them ease. They enjoyed with even more tiredness.

This time around though it was not really for me. The cars displayed weren't really that impressive even with the rare sights of supercars being displayed. Local made car, Proton; was no where to be found. The event held more auto salon competition cars rather than what it used to. The top level floor which used to display more car brands and accessories turned to be a sale zone for American muscle cars & gamers zone. And the ONLY motorcycle found was just ONE!! And it was NOT even a two wheel!! Haih...

The models on the other hand were friendly, cute, stunning and informative this time around though but that was the last reason why I visited the KLIMS. I remembered all the previous KLIMS, my family enjoyed the trip and wasted a few hundred bucks just to grab group photos of life sized Bumble Bee, Bat mobile and a few more.

Hence this time around I wasn't too fond for my shutter this time around. I was more of a grown up care taker for a sort like children trip. LOL

Here are some lucky shots I gave a try under available light. Did not bring my flashgun around this time or the tripod so ISO was sometimes pushed high and a few (very few) the on camera flash was used. My "creative" shots were mainly on the muscle cars because to even see a flash of muscle car in the ever changing streets condition in KL is even rare than a raging bull from Lamborghini... (but I have yet to edit them - LOL)

The mouth watering LFA... this was my first sight on it and I fell in love with its butt and 1st sight

More photos below...

Stairways

Stairways to the upper floor

The stairways to the upper floor in Kellie's Castle really caught my eyes. Had a hard time setting up the tripod with the tight space and crowds running up & down. With no wide angle & a crop body, planting the tripod was a real fun game. I respect the local tourist that gave way for my shot - they actually stopped for my bracket shots to finish.

The Haunted Hallway

1st Floor Hallway

Ground Floor Hallway

Coming back to le tour to Taiping.
Still at Kellie's Castle, this time I mounted my tripod at the hallway where the lines & bricks just gave me the chills when I was capturing it. But then waiting for people to get out of the way just made me ignored those chills. After I shot the two floors hallway, the wife told me to read about an eerie story behind it...

The Clock Tower

The Pullman Clock Tower

The last of the fireworks competition held at Putrajaya sure made us gangs of fathers rushing through our schedule and the rush hour traffic home. But we still managed through. Being old baggy folks, too much walking wasn't really an option for us - LOL.