Color Checker Passport

Dear All Friends,

The art of color management is all about getting your colors to match from input to output. It all begins with the camera. If it doesn’t capture accurate color, how can you expect realistic reproduction?

However, technology has come a long way in the past few years, and creating a color-managed workflow is no longer reserved for just photo professionals.

Please kindly Contact us if you are interest. Thanks (Valid to Malaysians)

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WORKING, photos by Tara Sosrowardoyo

You are cordially invited to the launch of the book

WORKING
 
and the exhibition
10 MALAYSIAN ARTISTS: 
PORTRAITS FROM THE WORK PROJECT
BY TARA SOSROWARDOYO
 
on Saturday, 2 October 2010 at 8pm
 
at Zinc Art Space
Lot 61, Jalan Maarof, Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur

The exhibition will run from 2 to 12 October 2010
 
RSVP contact@rogueart.asia +60 16 266 7413 www.rogueart.asia
 
With thanks to ZINC

Opening hours Monday – Saturday 12pm – 7pm Sundays & Public Holidays open by appointment
info@zinc.com.my +6 03 22825388 www.zinc.com.my

WORKING is an artists initiated project in association with ROGUEART
Artists for the WORK project: Ahmad Fuad Osman, Ahmad Shukri Mohamed, Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Chong Siew Ying, Hamir Soib,
Jalaini Abu Hassan, Kow Leong Kiang, Raja Shahriman Raja Aziddin, Ramlan Abdullah and Yee I-Lann

Boogeyman, orang besar

Blackbox mapkl.

Boogeyman – yee i-lann’s solo at MAPKL

 

Don’t miss. Boogeyman, at Black Box at MAPKL, Solaris Dutamas, KL. Sept 16-Oct3. Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm.

the sharing photo exhibition annexe

We have seasides and sunsets.

We have lots of portraits. Children and old people.

Some flowers and plants.

There are always lotus flowers.

There are some interesting street scenes from India. Their titles sort of spoiled the integrity of the photographs. I began from the left with the portraits which I think most people would instinctively go for once they enter. Once you make a round to the end to the right wall, the whole row of sunsets and seaside pictures that mark the end of the exhibition became sort of an anticlimax to the show. Although it lacks a central theme but the arrangement is nicely done.

let there be light… photo exhibition

Tuesday 31 August, 8.30pm

Lobby, klpac (click here for location map)

~ There will be a special buto performance by Nyoba Kan during the launch ~

Let There Be Light… will feature 46 different photographs based on one single theme – light (or the absence of light for some). It draws from the collection of 14 photographers of our close-knit club who come from all walks of life and different photography backgrounds. This wonderful melting pot of cultures, photography styles and interests is evident in the upcoming exhibition. The photographs showcased range from those that play with natural lighting to those taken with artificial lighting, performance photographs to abstract images, portraits to landscape and so on.

We would like to invite you to take a peek into our lives and our respective journey through the photography world…

Let There Be Light… is presented by Kelab Shashin Fotografi Kuala Lumpur & klpac with the support of CLICK! photography magazine and Canon. The exhibition will run from 1 September to 3 October 2010 and viewing hours are from 10.00am to 10.00pm daily.

RSVP for the exhibition launch by 23 Aug

e-mail weelingc@gmail.com or call 012 307 1133

About Kelab Shashin Fotografi Kuala Lumpur…

The club was founded by Mr. S. Arase Sugawara, a Japanese national who came to Malaysia to teach photography in the 1970s. He set it up in the mid-1990s and the members met in his office cum studio. In 1999, the members had to find a new home. At that time, they were already taking performance photographs for The Actors Studio (using film!). Allan Wong approached Faridah and Joe and they welcomed the club with open arms and offered the members a space to meet in The Actors Studio @ Plaza Putra complex. So they packed all their worldly treasures into one tall filing cabinet and moved…

Then disaster struck. The flashfloods hit KL in 2003, the club lost all its worldly treasures including rolls and rolls of film. Homeless again, they were taken in by Mr. Ho of CLICK! photography magazine and once again they moved their tall metal cabinet with its new friends – one big folding meeting table and yellow plastic stools.

When klpac opened its doors in 2005, Joe and Faridah re-adopted this group of nomadic photographers and their metal cabinet found a home in a brand spanking new studio. Their decade-long friendship with The Actors Studio continues until today and its members continue to capture all the performances produced by klpac & The Actors Studio (in digital of course!)

Find the club on Facebook here.

Useful links

Website as mentioned by Eiffel:

http://www.americansuburbx.com/

The golden gate bridge photographer: Richard Misrach

Meeting at Azrul’s studio

Azrul’s 807 studio at Ampwalk, jalan ampang. 8:30pm. Let’s get serious!

The studio is the block behind the shopping mall. You can either park underground or behind the mall on the road side.

18 July Meeting Notes

I want to thank everyone for coming to the meeting. And unfortunately we didn’t get the chance to meet Dr.Wolf from Goethe-intstitut Malaysia. He was engaged at another event on Sunday. Nonetheless, he is keen to see our proposal for the coming exhibition. Alex and I will prepare a proposal and budget for the venue, time schedule and the participants’ list for Dr.Wolf.

I will be using the following list:

Chu Chok Seng
Edwin Shiaw Chin Han
Erwin chong
Hirhaniff Tahir
James Valentine Singh
Kelvin Kok
Lenice loh
Mazlan Saleh
Mohd Shazni Zainal
Munira Rohaizan
Myra Cheng
Nafizah Nayau
Wong Chee Kin

Please let me know if I miss out anyone’s name here. We will set our deadline for first week of November. And hopefully we can expect at least 3 good pictures from everyone. So keep shooting.

The invitation to have a volunteer leader still stand. Let me know.

Winning photos from Laos

Selected winning photos from Laos. A children’s photo competition.

http://www.arterimalaysia.com/2010/06/25/beautiful-ordinary/

In Between Meeting Sunday Nikon Centre

11 July, Sunday 3pm at Nikon Centre.  Discussion.

agung nugroho widhi’s garden

Untitled #12 (from Artificially Natural series) 2009
Digital c-print on Hahnemuhle Baryta FB photo paper
75 x 75 cm Edition: 1/6

Untitled #4 (from Artificially Natural series) 2009
Digital c-print on Hahnemuhle Baryta FB photo paper
75 x 75 cm Edition: 1/7

Untitled #11 (from Artificially Natural series)
2009
Digital c-print on Hahnemuhle Baryta FB photo paper
75 x 75 cm Edition: 1/7

Untitled #14 (from Artificially Natural series)
2009
Digital c-print on Hahnemuhle Baryta FB photo paper
75 x 75 cm Edition: 177

inbetween meeting Azrul’s 807 studio

Erwin’s suggestion: Friday 2 July. Any takers?

Erwin – Month June

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mazlan’s garden

Meeting at 807 Studio

This is an ad-hoc meeting at Azrul’s 807 studio at Ampwalk, Jalan Ampang. 9pm, wednesday 9 june 2010. Bring your pictures and questions.

venue: 807studio Sdn Bhd 218, Jalan Ampang, The Ampwalk Building, 8th Floor, North Block, Kuala Lumpur.

Ed Ruscha’s Palm trees

Banal objects can be interesting subject when they are collected in a context we don’t usually see them in. Ed Ruscha self-published as many as 16 photo books between 1963 and 1972. “A few palm trees” was published in 1971. He is more recognised for the series of photographs and paintings of petrol stations. He also photographs other trivial things such as swimming pools, parking lots, etc. The problem with his books is that he never explained anything in them. Although the four pictures I have up there are side-by-side, all palm trees are on separate pages in his book. That at least can tell us that he didn’t intend for us to compare between one with the other side by side. In contrast with Bernd and Hilla Becher’s water towers which are normally presented in a group side-by-side.

It’s not about the subject

It’s not about the subject

Here’s another secret: in photographic art, it’s never about the subject.

It’s always about the underlying compositional structure. Subjects that may be there are chosen because they support or create a structure, not the other way around.

What a subject does in real life is irrelevant. In a good photo, subjects are chosen to provide the shapes or colors we want to lay down the basic design of an image.

This is a statement from a web article written by Ken Rockwell, a reasonably famous photographer from USA. There is some truth in the statement. Let’s have this point as a source for discussion here. I would like to hear your views on this statement. Try to digest his statement with what you’ve heard and understood from the 3 meetings we had and what you have learnt so far from the facilitators. There is no right or wrong answers. This is not a test. Just sharing…

TTSession – Open call

This is be the place to place your TT order. Place, date and time. First come, first serve!

For those who missed the last meeting, it is your chance to pick up what you’ve missed from the other members who attended.

IN-BETWEEN MEETING

VENUE: ANNEXE GALLERY, CENTRAL MARKET

TIME: Morning 9:00am

DATE: This Friday 28th May (wesak day, Holiday)

2ND ANNUAL KL PHOTO AWARDS 2010: Awards Presentation + Finalists Exhibition

Awards Presentation: Thu 20 May | 8pm

Photography Exhibition: Fri 21 May to Sun 6 Jun | 11am to 8pm daily

Presented by KL Photo Awards

Admission Free

Steven Lee

Erna the project manager

my favourite winner Rachel Lim from Singapore.

NSS Erwin – Week 2

My idea of taking this group of picture,

1. Different Cares – the feeling like some one who is within the care of mother will be tidy and arranged, compare to the life out of love, they are messy and uncontrollable.

2. Family playground – Garden is a playground for family, some of the playground may only suitable for young people, some may only suitable to old people. Garden is a natural place they can fit both. activities happened could happen from “calm” to “extreme” .

3. Green ≠ Drugs – I accidentally notice the green growth in between of the partition, and in the middle there is a box of a cigarette . It give me an idea before the tobacco turns to “cigarette” is green, yet they are separate with other of the plant.

4. Limited Space – photo taken at the back of some terrace house, they used up the limited space to build a garden.

5. Unlimited creativity – Photo taken the back of a apartment, the tree at the ground level is very creative, they’ve been shave into shape, but compare to the tree at the 1st floor.

6. Above ≠ Below – taken at apartment area, found that the garden above the ground floor is all staying inside, but compare to the ground floor, could plant alot of different plant and even fruits tree.

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