Snap Shots Talking photography with Jasonmumbles and SmashpOp
Life in a frame
By JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my MY trusty five-year-old Canon EOS 40D died on me two months ago. After much consideration (read: budget constrain), I finally got a Canon EOS 6D to replace my work horse. The camera is equipped with a 20.2 megapixel full frame (35.8*23.9mm) CMOS sensor, DIGIC 5+ image processor, ISO range of 100 [...]
The right view
By JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my The key to capturing a great photo is not, I believe, by using the latest and most advanced camera or understanding every technical aspect of photography. It is through good composition. A composition is a way to present to others what you have seen through your point of view in an [...]
Big purchase
By JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my Buying a compact camera is a lot easier and simpler compared to buying a DSLR. Buying your first DSLR will require spending more time and research as you’ll be splurging a few thousand ringgit on a gadget that you would probably be using for the next few years. To help you [...]
The right choice
By JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my I HAD a tough time buying my first DSLR five years ago. I spent weeks researching, reading online reviews and asking for opinions from experienced photographers before I finally splurged RM7,000 on my gear. Buying a new camera is no easy feat these days. There are simply too many brands, types [...]
Picture perfect
By JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my PORTRAITURE photography is one of the most common genres that most new and young photographers want to pick up; with humans as subjects – particularly female models. However, many do not realise that portraiture photography is also one of the toughest genes to master due to the amount of variables involved [...]
Doing it slow
By JASON LIOH Photos by JASON LIOH and ROBIN WONG alltherage@thestar.com.my INSTEAD of selecting a shutter speed fast enough to stop motion and produce a sharp photo, some people choose a slow shutter speed to introduce “blurriness” into their photographs. This type of photography is called the shutter speed photography and it allows you to [...]
A photographer’s story
By JASON LIOH Photos by LUKE CHUA alltherage@thestar.com.my I was introduced to photographer Luke Chua’s blog by a friend, and I was really amazed by his work. His photos, technically and artistically, were definitely not the work of an amateur. In fact, they looked at the very least like the work of a semi-professional. Now [...]
Foodie pics
By JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my PHOTOGRAPHING food used to be a habit among food bloggers in the past but thanks to photo sharing sites like Instagram, that habit has been taken to a whole new level. Almost everyone takes photos of food now. People even joke that they can’t enjoy their food until a photo of [...]
Phone photos
By JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my I HAVE a confession here; I used to sneer at those who use their mobile phones as their primary cameras. Regardless of all the unique selling points advertised by phone manufacturers, I believed it was still a camera that produced sub-par quality images. The low megapixel count, a smaller-than-your-pinky-fingernail sensor size, [...]
Mode-ify
By JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my MOST of you wielding DSLRs and semi-professional compact cameras will find a few icons and letters on your camera dials. While the icons are mostly self-explanatory, the letters – P, A or Av, S or Tv or M – will take some figuring out and are in fact the five shooting [...]