Jimin Lai A few words here and there..+6012-656-3535
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Working on an interesting project
I am currently working on a 4-day ongoing event. It’s a futsal tournament and they are playing non-stop for 80 hours! There are thousands of teams, men and women. I am providing a virtual tour coverage of the event with twice daily updates of images. This is the first time this has ever been done. [...]
Landscapes, Escapades & a 360 Panorama
I recently did a three-day assignment for one of my clients and it included a few landscape shots. Thought I’d share just a few of my favourites here. The first one is the Masjid Tengku Tengah Zaharah or aptly called the “Floating Mosque” in Kuala Terengganu because it’s located next to a lake which casts [...]
360vr Panoramic Virtual Tour of the Royale Chulan Hotel
I just completed my latest panorama project – a virtual tour of the Royale Chulan Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Hopefully this will bring more mileage to my 360vrshots.com brand. I would like to see more resorts, restaurants, bars, commercial and exclusive properties make use of this media in their marketing. Check it out here.
Asian Food Shots
Had 2 different food shoots consecutively one day after another. Been doing a lot of food photography lately. It’s been nice and the food tastes great too. Here are just some highlights.
Lamborghini Gallardo
Met a friend who owns a Lamborghini Gallardo recently and we were toying with the idea of doing some shots for his car. So we made a date and met up in town, then decided to drive to Putrajaya and do the shots there. The weather was not good at all with an overcast sky. [...]
Sports Illustrated – Tablet Demo 1.5
I am excited about the future of the Tablet PC. Check out this demo by Sports Illustrated. It’s cool!
Vincent Laforet posts video shot with the EOS-1D Mark IV
Photographer Vincent Laforet has posted a video entitled Nocturne and shot in available darkness with a preproduction EOS-1D Mark IV.
New 360 Panoramas
Yes I’ve been doing a lot of 360º Panoramas lately.. But shooting with a 20mm lens is getting to be a pain because I have to shoot 24 shots all around. It’s ok if there are no moving subjects. But if I want to shoot an event with people or cars moving around it’s almost [...]
New 360 Panorama of Bukit Bintang
So I went to Pudu Plaza to buy some accesories – DigitalMania, to buy a wireless remote camera trigger and also a spirit level for the hot shoe. Then I dropped by YL Camera to poison myself a bit.. Nikon 16mm f2.8, such a sweeeeet lens. It would be awesome for my panoramas. Then I [...]
New Service! – Time Lapse Photography
I shot this time lapse photograph of Komtar from night to dawn late last year when I was doing a project for an ad agency and I signed an agreement that I wouldn’t reveal my work until eight months later. So now that the eight months is up I am proud to show you guys [...]
KLCC at twilight..
I’m doing a new project for a website and one of the shots I need to do is the usual Petronas Twin Towers shot. I’ve noticed lately that the sun has been setting quite late nowadays and it only gets dark close to 8pm. I’ve also noticed that if it doesn’t rain, sun has been [...]
Portrait: Frances
Here’s a series of outdoor photos that were shot with a mixture of available light and two Nikon speedlights. The shoot commenced at 5.45pm and ended around 8pm, so you can see the ambient light getting darker as it got later in the evening. Here the sky was getting darker and made a nice background: [...]
Hotel shoot: various photos
Well here are the rest of some of the shots I did for Sol Melia Hotel. Everything was shot with the Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS). Maximum flashes used was three. See if you can spot where I placed the flashes in these pictures. For this shot I put two flashes on the floor next [...]
Hotel Shoot: Food Photography
So I brought all my big 300Watts strobes and lugged them around the hotel for 4 days.. And I didn’t even use them once. All the work was done with the Nikon CLS system (2 x SB800 & 1 x SB900). Working wirelessly has really speeded up my work because I don’t have to pull [...]
Hotel Rooms in different moods
Props were used to distinguish the different moods of the hotel room. Here’s a business look: A family look: The higher grade E-Room: Stay tuned for more hotel pictures to come…
Hotel assignment – a romantic mood
So here I am staying at the hotel, today is my last day of the shoot, thought I’d post the first picture I shot here. They wanted three different moods for the hotel room – a romantic couples mood, a business mood, and a family mood. Shot this with a 20mm lens at f5, and [...]
Packing for a Hotel shoot
I’m shooting a hotel for the next four days and this is the gear I’m bringing with me. In total I’ve got 6 flashes (3 strobes & 3 speedlights) so I have plenty of flashes to play around with and this time I can try some wacky stuff with the wireless Nikon speedlights. I also [...]
Portrait: Nicky
Sometimes, the simplest set up produces the best images.. and this portrait is one really fine example. I have always used available light in my photos and it has been working out fine for me all these years. Only recently, I started implementing flash photography into my work and now I have 3 speedlights which [...]
Portrait: Nicky K
I shot Nicky early December last year and used only 1 SB-800 external flash which was handheld by an assistant. In some of the shots, I set the exposure in the camera to minus 1/3 EV to get a more saturated image. It was a great experience shooting her because we shot several different backgrounds [...]
Raw portrait of Nicky
I used a SB-900 with umbrella above and in front of her, and a SB-800 with diffuser directly behind her. Also reflector under her face. I ‘d like to know how you feel when you look at this image. For me, I want to keep staring at it for some reason..
Wesak Festival
I was looking through my archives and came across this set of photos that I totally forgotten to blog about. This was shot last year during the Wesak festival in KL. And it was the time I was still using the Canon 5D with my prime lenses so I thought I’d blog about it now. [...]
Nicky & 3 Speedlights
I just bought another SB-800 speedlight, so now I have 3 speedlights in total. That will do for now until I get more cash flow to collect more gear. So here’s a shot of Nicky during my experiment with all 3 speedlights. I will post more photos of Nicky I took last month in my [...]
Sneak preview: Portrait of Cheryl
I’m sure you’ve noticed I have been shooting a lot of portrait and glamour shots recently and that is because I am trying to build a portfolio of glamour photography. In other words, I am working on broadening my scope of photography. I also recently bought a SB-900 and a SB-800, and two white umbrellas. [...]
Engaged: Hanaa & Hafeez (my younger brother!)
So I shot a very nice couple who recently got engaged. And he’s my younger brother Jiwah.. who’s getting married to Hanaa.. and he’s converted to a Muslim and changing his name to Hafiz. I’m proud of him. He’s the first one in our family to get married, so this is really an occasion. So [...]
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