First lets clear all the cobwebs and dust in this blog.

I have not blogged because I have nothing to share with the worldwide web. Not so much nothing more like nothing interesting to say. Yeah sure there's been issues in the world, local political scene, idiotic Ministers and idiotic Malaysians but its just not worth my time. I have better things to do.

Lets talk about cravings....yeah cravings. I have a new craving, its the Panasonic GF1 (shiver). After researching online for about a month, I am now convinced that the new way to go for digital cameras is the Micro Four Thirds system. The leading brands are Olympus with their EP-1 and EP-2, Panasonic with the G1, GH1 and Lumix GF1.

I really don't mind lugging around a knapsack with one film SLR camera, DSLR camera, Flash and a couple of lenses. But with the M4/3 system, I would be carrying a little less. Imagine a compact size digital camera with SLR capabilities, exchangeable lenses... woohoo. It is the way to go I tell you.

In one professional photographer's website, he was so amazed of the picture quality that he predicted the death of DSLR by the end of this decade.

Anyway, I have been reading so much on photography recently that I stopped to realise we malaysians especially almost all the time take pictures indoors. As a result of being forced to use flash, the pictures comes out stiff and blown out. I have perfected the technique in on camera flash. I use the bounce method of course with high ISO and fast lenses. Now, I have decided to put away the flash in my dry box and shoot without it.

I have to get out more and shoot outdoors with God's given natural light. So in the next few postings I will show the results. In the meantime here are some...

Outdoors pictures. see how nice it looks. This was taken on film SLR with a fast lens.

My favorite picture of all. This is my niece. Taken on film SLR with bounced flash to my back. I cannot remember the aperture but looks like somewhere between f2.0 and f2.8

This picture was taken from light coming in from balcony. No flash used here. Au naturale.

This picture was taken with the on camera flash bounced to my right. I like the natural look to it. Of course did some adjustments in post processing.

This was taken with the flash pointing backwards. It doesn't look like flash was used at all. That was the idea.