Professional Photographer Quotes

The camera can photograph thought
- Dirk Bogarde

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst
- Henri Cartier Bresson

It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.
- James Lalropui Keivom

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!
- Ted Grant

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
- Ansel Adams

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
- Ansel Adams

You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
- Anonymous

Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.
- Anonymous

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.
- Lewis Hine

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn’t a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say.
- Anonymous

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
- Richard Avedon

Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
- Ansel Adams

I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
- Mary Ellen Mark

One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.
- Anonymous

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Autobots Have Their Own Chick

Went to AutoCity Juru Penang at 13 June 2009, to taken picture of chick and some car over there. Actually car can’t give interesting to photographer but chick always make almost all photographer happy when taken picture here. Many high power and modification can saw here. Loafed with Shutter Asia members such as Mujid, BumbleBee, Azlan and many more and we walked together. Here many of photographers from somewhere else that I never seen before also came here. OK, below is my pictures taken during that day.

Shooting Date:13/6/09. ISO 100 18mm f/7.1 1/200sec
Tokyo police car, why this car being here? a alot of crime in Malaysia, maybe?

Shooting Date:13/6/09. ISO 100 50mm f/2.8 1/200sec
Sales girls poses together before sale ticket to Sepang GT race.

Shooting Date:13/6/09. ISO 100 50mm f/1.8 1/2500sec
This is miss ermm, i don't know because the word is behind that flyers.

Shooting Date:13/6/09. ISO 100 33mm f/5 1/100sec
nice poses given by nice model, and Wow! we like this model so much.

Shooting Date:13/6/09. ISO 100 45mm f/5.6 1/160sec
HEHEHE (^^) the another sexy poses given by her. The yellow car suitable for her.

Shooting Date:13/6/09. ISO 100 38mm f/6.3 1/125sec
The Japanese police girls in duty. Police also want to look beauty. Right miss police girls?

Shooting Date:13/6/09. ISO 100 33mm f/6.3 1/125sec
Yes! I am super police girl. I will fight for justice! are you ready malaysian!!!

Shooting Date:13/6/09. ISO 100 50mm f/1.8 1/320sec
This is miss AutoCity 2008. sweet with her smile.

Shooting Date:13/6/09. ISO 100 55mm f/5.6 1/125sec
Artis from japan shown their own unique dance just like playing Para-para paradise.

Shooting Date:13/6/09. ISO 100 18mm f/3.5 1/800sec
Myvi with unknow body-kit. i think this car cannot use on the road.

Suhar & Siti Khadijah

This assignment make to my neighborhood, the location is nearest to my house. Thanks god all done and my neighbor were satisfied to my work. Started in the morning, and after had lunch, the photoshoot session started. This is economical package that I ever had after demanding with my neighbor. He wants me to not print and the picture and just gives the softcopy for that day. So if you plan for your wedding but needs to budget for investment, let us know. Contact our team and we can make special deal for you.

Shooting Date:6/6/09. ISO 100 38mm f/5 1/60sec
Jangan korang cemburu dengan kami. okeyyy?~~

Shooting Date:6/6/09. ISO 100 50mm f/1.8 1/100sec
Jaga kesihatan dengan memakan buah-buahan.

Shooting Date:6/6/09. ISO 100 50mm f/1.8 1/125sec
HAHAHA to I'm married.

Shooting Date:6/6/09. ISO 100 35mm f/4.5 1/30sec
Yeah let's eat together.

Shooting Date:6/6/09. ISO 100 18mm f/3.5 1/50sec
Our dais, HAHAHA.

Shooting Date:6/6/09. ISO 100 18mm f/3.5 1/10sec
Today in history, we just married. Nobody will be scandal with my husband.

Shooting Date:6/6/09. ISO 100 18mm f/4 1/60sec
Happy bride with the kids. the over excited smile was given to photographer. Click picture to enlarge.

Shooting Date:6/6/09. ISO 100 25mm f/4 1/60sec
This "keris" will be evident.

Shooting Date:6/6/09. ISO 100 18mm f/4 1/60sec
So happy together and gether .

Shooting Date:6/6/09. ISO 100 37mm f/5 1/60sec
Sedangkan lidah lagi tergigit, ini kan pula suami isteri. Buang yang keruh ambil yang jernih, baru tenang peribadi.

Special to Kimo

Comment and Critic most welcome!
Yesterday (Friday), after back from work, actually that was my last day for industrial training (practical). When I relaxed at home want to sleep, I can’t sleep. Work up and turn on the PC and of coz the word that I was comment to Kimo. I’m write that I want to edit his picture, so open the photoshop to edit it. Here it is the picture; the caption is Terminator – assassin of Kimo. Duration to finish this picture is 4 hour.

Click here to link to kimo blogs.

Ps to Kimo: if you want to republish this picture, please put FlickrJunk link to your website or place that you want to put.

The left picture is original picture that Kimo given to us. Click to enlarge.

Penang Dragon Boat and Kids?

Went to Penang dragon festival at … . We arrive to that place at evening. Nothing too much to taken the picture cause of many of participant rest under canopy and that day was a hot day. Many of activity had finish already, so we just watched the boat parking and people loafed around. I’m just taken picture of landscape of the lake (Empangan Teluk Bahang). After stayed at there we head to QueensBay Mall. Same like before nothing to do and taken the picture. We founded a group of kids danced on the stage for unknown ceremony, and yes of cause, we taken kids portrait.

Shooting Date:23/5/09. ISO 100 55mm f/10 1/200sec
The boat parking in other side

Shooting Date:23/5/09. ISO 100 55mm f/10 1/200sec
Yeah, work hard + speed work = success

Shooting Date:23/5/09. ISO 100 55mm f/10 1/200sec
Landscape from visitor site.

Shooting Date:23/5/09. ISO 100 18mm f/11 1/400sec
Kids always want to play around

Shooting Date:23/5/09. ISO 100 18mm f/11 1/400sec
Yeah, Landscape again. the whole situation as we can see.

Shooting Date:23/5/09. ISO 100 18mm f/4 1/60sec
This two kids feld to excited to watched

Shooting Date:23/5/09. ISO 100 18mm f/3.5 1/60sec
Raise up your foot and jump.

Shooting Date:23/5/09. ISO 100 55mm f/5.6 1/80sec
Get on dancing shoes (artic monkey) HAHAHA.

Yus & Mien + Niizam & Fara

I’m followed Taro to wedding at Alor Setar, Kedah. That was the Friend wedding. Friends who also joined is to wedding is Rizal, and Ganes, special thanks to them. I just make charity to Taro and enjoy the wedding photography and did not take a profit from Taro. Here it is the photo, sorry for the late of this entry.

Shooting Date:16/5/09. ISO 100 54mm f/5.6 1/60sec
This is make-up time. Why so dark hah?

Shooting Date:16/5/09. ISO 100 18mm f/3.5 1/10sec
Twisted camera.

Shooting Date:16/5/09. ISO 100 33mm f/4.5 1/10sec
Enjoyed when we taken picture of her.

Shooting Date:16/5/09. ISO 100 24mm f/5.6 1/60sec
The kid would like to sing the song.

Shooting Date:16/5/09. ISO 100 22mm f/5.6 1/60sec
Makan beradap ceremony for Yus & Mien

Shooting Date:16/5/09. ISO 100 25mm f/5.6 1/60sec
Makan beradap ceremony for Niizam & Fara

Shooting Date:16/5/09. ISO 100 22mm f/3.5 1/50sec
Just married, so wonder LAH what ever they want to poses.

Shooting Date:16/5/09. ISO 100 24mm f/4 1/60sec
And another poses.

*Portraiture for all. Click picture to enlarge and/or save. Picture above are copyrighted however we let you save the picture or copy and publish on other site.

Another pictures:
Shooting Date:16/5/09. ISO 100 25mm f/4 1/60sec
If the kids want united?
Shooting Date:16/5/09. ISO 100 28mm f/4 1/60sec
Taro had advertised his camera.
Shooting Date:16/5/09. ISO 100 18mm f/3.5 1/60sec
Rizal and Taro showed their own skill. I’m just wondering, why so serious?

* = Only this picture