Self Potrait Competition

One of the photography forum that I'm more active in (Alpha Malaysia Club: http://www.amc.com.my/) is holdng a weekly challenge photography competition. Decided to enter it with the above entry. Done using 3 separate shots combined together. Shot using the Sony HVL-F56AM flash gun set on a tripod, and firing wirelessly from my left. One good thing about Sony's Alpha flash system is that you only need to buy the external flash, ANY Sony Alpha flash, and straigh away you have wireless flash capability. No adapters, no wireless commaander to buy. Great for novices like me to learn and strobist ways.... You think this photo is nice?

New update: Nope, I didn't win the self potrait competition. :( But some of the entries are reaaaally good. You should go and check it out!

My Beercan is Here!

No... I'm not turning into an alcoholic. By "Beercan", I meant the venerable Minolta's legendary telephoto zoom lens. The actual name of this lens is Minolta AF 70-210 f4 (32) - quite a mouthful, I have to admit. But why the nickname "Beercan"? Well, because it literally looks like a can of beer! This is the lens mounted on my Sony A100 dslr:

You can see just how big this lens is, by comparison to my Sony A100 dslr. They really made it huge back then. A lot of metal & glass for the money.

Why all the fuss about this lens? Well, for one, the bokeh (blurr out effect) created by this lens is simply mind-blowing. It is very smooth. Here are some fast & simple shots to demonstrate the nice bokeh from this lens. I had only resized these photos and had not done any other post-processing to them at all.