Canon PS SX50 HS

*Picture courtesy of Canon's website.

I recently acquired a new toy for myself — a Canon PowerShot SX50 HS digital camera. I actually wanted a DSLR but this'll do for now. :) This would be my second camera I have ever gotten for myself. The first one was a measly 4.1MP point-and-shoot Nikon digital camera I got in 2006. Lol! After that I've been using my family and friends' DSLRs, which are mostly Canon. Most of the time I use my iPhone 4 5MP camera to take simple photos.

Canon has always been my favourite brand for cameras. I don't think I will ever buy other brands especially for DSLRs because I'm so used to Canon cameras. I'm still a newbie photographer actually but I really do enjoy taking pictures and wish to master the DSLR so I could take nice pictures like my favourite photographers, Zhang Jingna and Tricia Gosingtian. Even both of them use Canon! :D

On to the Canon PS SX50 HS, this camera is pretty impressive. One thing that caught my interest is the zoom capabilities. This camera has a whopping 50x optical zoom that can reach up to 1200mm. I decided to try it out and see how far I am able to zoom in to a certain subject. I chose a scenery just outside my window to test it out.

*Photoshop used for colour adjustments.



I'll be zooming in at these two spots: a tree at a couple of houses away from mine and at the antenna tower on a nearby hill. The shots are taken right from my window. I'll be zooming in at 200x (the furthest).



This is the tree that has been zoomed in at 200x. I'm suprised how clear the picture turned out to be!



And this is the antenna tower that has also been zoomed in at 200x. Really impressive! Now my head is filled with crazy thoughts about stalking people from 5km away. Haha! Just kidding. :P

So far, I'm very contented with my new toy. It's easy to use, lightweight, has superb zoom capabilities and great image quality. :)

Sec 13 Shah Alam

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Tools: Canon 60D with 18-55mm, Adobe Photoshop for retouching

This is a panoramic view of Section 13 Shah Alam from FM Clique studio. It's my favourite view! Can see a lot of things from here, including the humongous Shah Alam stadium. I frequently come to this place to do work and usually stay there till late at night or after sunrise. I would never miss to step outside to the balcony and enjoy the view. It's very relaxing, especially after midnight. It can get noisy thanks to the sound of cars speeding at the opposite road but somehow I'm immune to it.

The original pictures were quite awful. It was just a random shot actually. Then I decided to create a panoramic view using two seperate pictures and stitched them together. I retouched the picture in photoshop and voila! It looks better. :) Though imperfection can be clearly seen where the photos were stitched, but what the heck lol.

I am not much of a photographer but I really do enjoy taking pictures and wish to become better in photography. :)

Time-lapse: Happy Birthday NK!

I was asked by a friend, Ishkander, to help him take some pictures for something he was working on for a certain special someone's birthday that was coming up. He wasn't exactly sure of what to do with the pictures; that was where I thought Hey, let's try doing a time-lapse video!

Happy Birthday NK ♥ from Reysha Kamal on Vimeo.
Photography & editing: Reysha Kamal
Tools: Canon 60D, Time Lapse Assembler, iMovie '09

This would be my first time doing a time-lapse video, yay! :D I actually enjoyed doing it because it was quite easy to render and the editing didn't took me much time. The only con is that my hands hurt so much after that from snapping gazillions of photos continuously; I think my thumb almost broke off! Lol. I ended up with almost 800 photos in a period of 2 hours. Only used half of the amount though for the video.

Plan didn't fall through – Initially, we were shooting this process at an open field near my house at night. We were already halfway through it and were about to light up the candles when suddenly a wild strong gust of wind appeared, and it started to drizzle. The wind was really creeping me out, and being on a dark field surrounded with huge trees just brings the creepy feeling to a whole new level. So in the end, we resorted to using a hall at another place to shoot this. Well, couldn't use nature as the background but glad that the pictures turned out alright! :)

Never expected the video to turn out rather romantic haha, I actually love it! Eventhough it was quite simple really. :) Posting some pictures from the photoshoot because candles and bokeh effect are just so lovely together!! ♥ Fresh from the camera, pictures aren't touched up. :)



My top favourite picture of all, it's so lovelyyyy. ♥ *v*



Arranged candles lighted up.



A small heart. ♥



Bokeh candles from the side.



NK ♥



My friend, sitting beside his finished work. :) I could feel the emotion conveyed in this picture! ♥



End product bokeh. :)



The end product. :) Lovely ain't it?

So, to NK, happy birthday! And I hope you love the video and the great effort that was put in by my friend here, all for you. :)