Lanz PhotographyYour Portrait and Wedding Photographer

I just got back from Sheffield Malaysian Games. My wife invited me to join her friend’s birthday party at Shere Khan Restaurant, here in the Curry Mile of Manchester. Yes, along the road you will get the taste of curry and halal foods with affordable price. A place for Malaysian not to be missed when travel to Manchester. (Postcode M14 XXX for those who wants to install the map in the Satellite Navigator lah).

I got load of pictures from Sheffield to upload but I got to publish this first since these ladies love their pictures to be taken, I gave them the go first. Anyway, it’s her birthday!!

I went to watch the football game – Piala Perantau organized by Kelab UMNO Manchester & Salford. The weather a bit muddy and hardly to see sun shines through the cloud. Well, I came there a litte bit later, that’s why lah. I’m going to blog the so called sports picture soon although I didn’t really excel at those type of action photography :).

Everywhere I go out w my camera, I’ll try bring a long my speedlights. Even without this lighting device, I can still use my trusty built in flash on my camera. (The results not as pleasing as using the speedlights though). Inspired by Joe McNally works from Nikon CLS DVD, I give it a try to rely on the speedlights TTL.

With the help from the single ladies, I meter the background and prefer the sky like this. Yes, I can increase the ISO senstivity to brighten my subject but I think the noise might ruin those pretty faces. I set my flash to TTL and dial down 1 stop. I like my speedlights because I can turn the picture from this..

a little harsh but better than the above. A slight error is the shadow overcast to another person far right. This can be fix by rearranging them carefully. Overlooked problem, but it’s a valuable lesson. Another tips is to get to know your subject first rather than ask them carelessly to pose for you. Who wants to pose and receive direction from stranger eh? Having a huge camera didn’t give us a ticket to ask anybody to pose the way you want it. Except those models in automotive roadshow. heehe

..and last but not least, Thaqif with his new fan.