B & W View Of The World's Tallest Twin Towers

To get to the halfway mark of the world's tallest twin towers, I had to get up at 530 in the morning. Tickets to the SkyWay bridge is only limited to 800 tickets per day and once on top you are limited to 10 minutes on the bridge.

And you know what worst thing is, I happen to had a bad bout of stomach flu when I reached the SkyWay bridge. Don't believe me? Look at this picture of me, I was practically wincing in pain the entire time and when I wanted to take a shot I had to rest one arm on my stomach and the other holding the camera 

Look how miserable my face was. Oh ya there is apparently NO toilets on the 48th floor. Probably doing your business out of the window would have been an option for the people who were working on this floor.

This is almost exactly how I was standing when I was taking shots. You know the feeling of when you need to go but you can't go, this is how i freaking felt.

The view of the surrounding areas from the 48th floor.

Some black and white architecture features of the towers

Yaya I am sure you will say "Eh Melvin, can see mirror reflection la", well i don't have money to buy CPL filters yet ler. I tried to Photochoped it as much as I could, but its impossible to remove mirror reflections.

Oh ya about the black and white conversion, it is manually done via Photshop no such thing as "Preset this", "Preset that". 

Yeap that's all for this edition. Finals is next week than I am officially on a long term well deserved break. Yay!

I Now Own A Million Dollar home

A gift from Her. :) I know own a million dollar home. No,I did not turn into a Korean celebrity over night and came to own a celebrity mansion, but i received it in a big box last week.

Cautiously i stabbed the box with my trusty orange scissors to reveal it's contents...

Was greeted by a cartoon alien/naked tribesman marking on a paper bag.

Turning the paper bag around revealed it's contents, that's right, my dreams and prayers have been answered, she bought me a Crumpler 5 Million Dollar home to house Nikki!

I was trembling with excitement as i removed the paper wrappings to reveal the product. 

Foooh! Velcro silencer (whatever it is)..Lol

This bag may look small but it's like Doraemon's pocket. You can fit literally loads of stuff inside it.

It came with 2 mesh pockets one in front and one on the top cover. The material is ultra tough and the partitions are hard as a brick.

So time to load her up now..

My 5million home currently houses:


My Nikon D3000+ 18-55mm
Charger
USB cables
A lomo camera
SD cards
Some absorbent gel to absorb water
Tammy 70-300mm
Nissin di622 flashgun
Cleaning kit
Batteries 




Preety alot eh..Well it is really like a Doraemon's pouch.

Kick Boxing/Mixed martial arts

My roommate, Mr Azim, apparently attended kick boxing classes a few years ago, this thus explains the high flying kicks he executes during futsal and his preferences to always use his legs as his main choice of arsenal.

Pre warm-up and stretching prior to the shoot

"Safety First"

I had to ask him real nicely and had to convince him that I will retouch the pictures to give him an " Arnold Schwazenger" look. Well sad to say this was the best I could retouch his pictures with.

Some high flying Kick in the A$$ shots to get the party rolling.

 "This is how I face up to Microbiology workbooks" says Mr Azim

"This is how my PS3 beats your XBOX360" says Mr. Azim

"This pose is called "The Edward Cullen", it is my ultimate weapon to make girls fall for me" says Mr Azim.

Some light strobing  experiment which i tried out. I used a purple/white cardboard as a snoot and fired the flash at 1/2 power.

This two poses reminds me of Adam Lambert's CD cover, for some strange reason. I am not implying that this photo is gay, it's just a funny thought that popped out in my mind when i was viewing through the shots again.

Last but not least, Muscular hypertrophy!

That's it for this edition. Comments and critiques are welcomed as usual.

Muscle Museum

As you may notice i have often shot girls, Wee Phei Yee to be in particular, i have decided to change from my usual niche to a more masculine approach. Shooting topless males. No don't get me wrong I have not hopped on the dude train yet, but I think i might have a strong liking towards Ricky Martin now. *cough.

Neways back to the shoot. Model wanted to remain anonymous so we shall just call him Mr. A. I picked Mr a for 3 very simple reason out of my 3 other candidates.
a)he has no beer belly
b)he has some height
c)he is NOT so hairy.
Well to sum it all my first candidate bitched out on me and did not show up whereas my second candidate for this shoot was just too shy to strip, making me guess he must have some hairballs at his belly or probably he is really fat.

Im not as great as Mr. Keane at shooting a guy alone in a room showing of his muscles. But well here are the results.

To be honest my male model does not really have that much features to shoot on, cause he told me he has not been bulking up after getting married, hence the "after marriage belly syndrome"

But thank God he is not that "Buncit"

Back to musculoskeletal class, how many muscles can you name here..Heeheh

You wouldn't want to know how i positioned myself for this shot. Let's just say it is a little unorthodox.*cough

And lastly some man Boobs. Comment and critiques welcomed, tembak away!