Click*Syndicate Kembali.. Intan & Fairuz Part #1
Assalammualaikum dan salam sejahtera buat semua pengunjung setia Click*Syndicate | The Blog ni.. Pheww.. Dah berapa lama saya tak sempat nak update blog ni dan terbiar bersawang.. Maafkan saya guys and girls..! Semenjak dua menjak ni macam-macam perihal isu-isu berbangkit terjadi.. Baik pada keluarga saya sendiri dan juga pada hala tuju Click*Syndicate photography. Kesihatan kedua orang tua saya (Mak dan Abah) berada ditahap yang agak merisaukan, (at least untuk seorang anak sulung seperti saya, ianya merisaukan). Bila tubuh tua mereka semakin dimamah usia dan kesihatan yang semakin meruncing, saya jadi terpana dan pilu. Segala usaha saya untuk menjaga dan berikhtiar berubat buat mereka bercampur aduk dengan bebanan kerja yang ditanggung.. Saya tidak merungut langsung, hanya sekadar mahu berkongsi kisah suka duka saya selama ini..
Click*Syndicate kini bukan lagi sebuah organisasi seperti mana ianya dahulu. Organisasi yang saya maksudkan ialah begini: Sebelum ini, Click*Syndicate adalah ramai.. Terdiri dari beberapa jurugambar professional dan separa profesional di bawah satu nama iaitu Click*Syndicate Photography.. Kini, Click*Syndicate hanyalah saya seorang.. Click*Syndicate ialah Farul Azri dan Farul Azri ialah Click*Syndicate. Tiada lagi Abu Bakar Fahmi a.k.a Enche Burn dan juga Daniel Malek atau Danny Malek dan juga tiada lagi mana-mana photographer yang bersama Click*Syndicate melainkan saya seorang.. Apa yang ada hanyalah mana-mana photographer profesional dan separa profesional yang akan ‘tag-along’ bersama saya dalam assignment assignment akan datang.. Tidak timbul langsung isu-isu seperti photographer bermasam muka sesama sendiri atau sebagainya.. Saya sebagai Principal Photographer telah menyediakan wadah dan juga ruang ilmu bagi mereka-mereka ini belajar dari pengalaman yang ingin saya taburkan secara percuma yang telah lebih 10 tahun saya kutip dalam kerja-kerja mengambil gambar (cuma setahun kebelakangan ini saya kembali aktif setelah diam bertahun lama) tapi atas alasan-alasan mereka sendiri yang tidak mahu (mungkin ego) belajar, maka apa daya saya lagi.. Saya hanya mampu doakan yang terbaik buat mereka semua.. Amin dan inshaallah..
Buat Mak dan Abah, inshaallah.. Kesihatan yang baik masih ada buat kalian.. Buat Mak, Selamat Hari Ibu pada tanggal Mei 8 yang lepas dan buat Abah, Selamat Hari Bapa yang akan datang bulan depan.. Buat semua pengunjung The Blog ini, maafkan saya kerana dah lama tak update apa-apa gambar ataupun info terbaru, so bersama posting kali ini saya sertakan gambar-gambar sekitar majlis resepsi Intan & Fairuz di Taiping, Perak bersama rakan photographer saya Enche Hasbullah Hashim atau lebih glamer dengan nama Pak Lah The Pegawai Uganda.. Hehehe..
Gambar-gambar majlis ini akan saya bahagikan dalam 3 bahagian; #1 – Make up, #2 – Majlis Resepsi dan #3 – Outdoor.. So, guys and girls, keep on visiting okay.. Saya akan kembali aktif mengemaskini The Blog untuk tatapan anda semua.. Inshaallah..!
Wassalam
Farul Azri
Principal Photographer | Creative Director
Click*Syndicate Photography
+ (6) 012 610 8355
farulazri@click-syndicate.com
Shit Happen and Damn Snatchers..! – Kisah Rompakan
On my earlier post, I’ve mentioned that I wanted to take a holiday on Chinese New Year, and so did I and I was all alone… Today, I just came back from my holiday that supposed to be only a 3 days escapism from work loads, Kuala Lumpur noise and such. I went to the nearest island from KL which is Pangkor in Lumut, Perak. The 3 days holiday turned to be a 5 days holiday for me. Why? Because I was being robbed while I was there in Teluk Nipah with nothing left on me except my wet cloths.. Nothing.. Not even a single cent in my pockets..
That night, I was out alone for a night photography session at the beach. As I place my camera and tripod at the beach, I lay down my body on the golden sand and watch the stars spreading the night skies of Pulau Pangkor. I place my Targus backpack at the side of the tripod and camera. Everything was fine until I hear a very slow sounds of movement of a person at 3 meters from the place I was laying down. I quickly pick up my torch light and flash out for my camera and luckily it was still there but then only I’d realized that my backpack was already gone. During that time as well, I saw one guy holding something black (like my backpack) moving slowly not far from the place where I stood. I then quickly grasp my tripod and camera and start running chasing that guy!
How fast can you run on a sandy beach and in total dark? My answer is, NOT THAT FAST! I stumble upon my foot step and when I look up, that guy has disappeared in that total dark.. I started searching and asking everyone that I saw along the beach, but all of the answer i received was no.. “Sorry la abang, kita orang tak nampak siapa-siapa pun.. Kalau kita orang nampak, kita orang janji untuk tangkap dan pukul ramai-ramai..!” Then I stop for a while to catch my breath.. I swear to God, if I ever find or met this guy again, he’ll be in deep trouble. He was messing with the wrong person. I started to hold my fist at this time..
Here is what I’ve lost in that incident. (And if you guys out there came across anyone who are selling the similar things like mine, please personally contact me):
- Targus backpack for Apple MacBook Pro 17″
- 1 unit of Nikkor 50mm f1.8D lens (serial # 0988050)
- 1 unit of Nikon SB-600 Flash unit (serial # 2937974)
- 4 pieces of Phottix PT-04 flash wireless trigger
- 1 piece of 85w Apple MacBook Pro MagSafe Power Adapter and AC power cord
- 1 piece of original Nikon Transfer Cable
- 1 imported book (A History of God – by Karen Armstrong)
- Topman Leather Wallet
- National Identity Registration Card
- National Valid Driving Lincese
- 2 ATM cards
- 2 credit cards (Mastercard & Visa)
- Money in that wallet
- My cellphone (and all of my contact numbers – including your numbers)
- My condominium access card
- My house keys
- My car keys
- My friend car keys (Honda Civic FD2 – That cost me RM2300 later for the replacement unit – I am still wondering why I had his car keys in my backpack).
- 4 pieces of Panasonic HHR-3SPT AA rechargeable batteries up to 2,400 mAh (Use for speedlight).
- Velbon Tripod Bag (Made in UK).
- Click*Syndicate’s photographers name cards.
- … And a few more items that I can’t think off right now.
As a result, I was wandering around lost for two bloody days around Lumut Jetty with policeman with no money not even a single cents, no credit cards nor ATM cards to withdraw money, no phone and numbers to make calls (I am very bad at remembering numbers), no food nor drinks (except for mineral waters that I bought the night before the incidents) until a guy came and help me who is happen to be a student of University Technology Petronas (UTP).. Only God can pay you back dude! Thanks Khairul Anuar.. I will greatly remember you forever..! My estimated lost in total was around RM4,000 – 5,000 and that is lots of money..! Arghhhh…
If you guys came across somebody or someone selling those lens and speedlight units with the given serial number that I’ve stated above, please do contact me at +(6) 03 6141 7702 (Click*Syndicate’s office). For the time being, I have no cellphone but I can still be reach at the number given around office hour from 9am – 5pm.
My future clients and ex-clients that hasn’t collect your wedding album please as well contact me through that number or my emails at: farulazri@click-syndicate.com
For those who’ve send me email before, I will reply your emails as soon as possible once I’ve settle every documentation on this case. And to those who’ve send me text sms on my cell phone before, I will announce my new number soon (or much probably the old one) in this very blog and please do send your text sms again later.
Have a nice day everyone, and be very careful on those damn snatchers around us. Shit do happen.. Once in a while!
- Farul Azri
Tone Mapped Photos For Wedding?
By the time I’m writing this, I’m sitting alone at Starbucks Coffee in Pavilion, Bukit Bintang. Enjoying my cup of Javachip Coffee with whipped cream.. Yummy..! I dunno what happen to me for the past 2-3 days.. But one thing that I know, I love to be alone for the time being. Looking at these people walking, passing by this very aisle of Pavvy makes me felt so much refreshing and relax. By the end of this week, I’m gonna take a 3-4 days off to my secret hideout place.. Where else beside my favorite sandy beach? I need a time off.. Seriously..
Kuala Lumpur is such a nice place to live in or to work. But too much of Kuala Lumpur makes me sick. The noise, the people, all those ‘mat rempit’ stuff, the crime and everything.. They’re all just cause me pain in the head.. (now I sound old).. LOL..
Ok guys and girls.. Let’s just go straight to the topic before I can have my holiday soon.
After I’ve posted Gia portfolios in HDR photos, I’ve been asked by a few people on what I think about tone mapped / HDR effects on wedding photography? So here’s my answer.. I’m not a big fan of HDR photography actually. HDR for me, is very useful in landscape or architectures photo and such. But when it come to a wedding photography, I give it 50-50. If requested by the clients, I’d say why not? But please bear in mind, that not all of your wedding clients love HDR effects. Some of them don’t even know what the heck is HDR. (Read until the end of this article, And you’ll know what is HDR). To make a HDR look image, the post-processor / designer (in this case, it’s me) will need lot’s of time and lot’s of coffee! It is a very much time consuming thingy for most of the post-processors / the designers. So to clients, please be very careful if you want to request this kind of image. Because of it’s time consuming ‘nature’, I’m afraid that your wedding album will be delivered late.. LOL.. Unless the ‘makers’ are all big names and well known photographers such as Syahrin Aziz and such, then you can rely on them!
Wedding is always a ‘one-day-off’ events and you can’t reverse it back. What you saw right in front of your eyes will only happen once (most of the time) and then you can only pray hard for the same incident or moment to happen again. This is why I’ve trained all of my photographers to have eye like an eagle.. LOL.. Normally for wedding photographers, they’ll shoot in Jpeg format. But for me, I’ll shoot the make up sessions and some of the events of wedding in RAW format (the rest is in Jpeg). Why RAW? This is because all of the originality (colors, tone, white balance and such) is still in it ‘uncompressed’ state. And at this stage, you’ll need a RAW file format to turn it into a HDR photo at later post-processing stage. (Jpeg can’t be processed into HDR since it’s already being compressed).
Original HDR photos need at least 3 RAW exposures to make it beautifully rendered. But through 1 RAW file it is also can still be use for HDR conversion (except it wont be regards as ‘original HDR’.. LOL). Now, HDR and tone mapped is the same techniques if you don’t know..
So, with this article I’ve added some of my previous photos that I’ve converted to HDR / Tone Mapped… So tell me what do you think? LOL
Now I can have my holiday..! Yay!
- Farul Azri
If you need to know more about HDR, click here and read about what Wikipedia have to say about it!
Jom Makan-Makan…
Baru-baru ni aku ditugaskan untuk shoot gambar makanan lagi. Macam yang aku buat dulu, (check kat posting ni) dan kali ini bukan sahaja gambar makanan, malahan gambar para chef pun aku snap jugak. Hehehe.. Dan macam biasa, setiap kali aku shoot gambar makanan, aku mesti jadi lapar gila.. Arghhhh..
Gemuk la aku ni tak lama lagi.. Ohh ya.. Kalau ada mana-mana restoran, hotel nak aku shoot untuk korang punya food photography, silalah email ke contact@click-syndicate.com. Aku bagi harga baikkk punyaaa..!! Hahaha..
- Farul Azri
Gia by Farul Azri
Okay guys and girls..
We gonna stop posting about wedding for a while. The wedding season for last year has already wave us all goodbye.. LOL.. Since there’s no wedding for the time being, we go and shoot something else. Over last week, our Principal Director, Farul Azri was assign by this beautiful lady known as Gia, an uprising actress and talented model to shoot for her modeling portfolios. Farul was assist by Daniel Malek on the shooting day. All of the editing and post-processing was done by Farul Azri him self..
Enjoy Gia in HDR (High Dynamic Range) format photography…
For more of Gia photos, please click: (more…)
Click*Syndicate Wedding Slots For 2010 Is Now Open!
Guys and girls.
We are working for a new look of The Blog and the new websites. There’s a few of new things coming in the Click*Syndicate. Enche Burn will soon be our Junior Photographer and Daniel Malek of Purple Grapes Photography will join in our team as Junior as well. That’s mean Enche Burn and Daniel will soon be assign for any future photo shoot on their own. There might be one or two Chinese photographers to join in the team as well for us to cater the Chinese and Indian wedding in future. New graphic designers will also be pulled in soon. Our service price will also be increase a little bit (mau bayar gaji orang maa) and our work quality will be improve. That one we promised and guaranteed!
So for those who are still not making any bookings for your 2010 events, please do so now as the new price will take place on March 1st, 2010. Please check out our promotions page or contact our Principal directly at +(6) 012 610 8355 for more info.
Thanks for your support!
Click*Syndicate Photography
Kuala Lumpur
Hafizah + Shahrul The Engagement
Okay guys and girls. You’ve watched the teaser, and now as I’ve promised, here are the photos I’ve shot during Hafizah and Shahrul Nizam engagement ceremony in Klang last weekend, December 27, 2009. Both of them are sweet and both of them is very much romantic (this is my personal thought) and both of them share a good taste of music and movies to list on..
We at Click*Syndicate wish them all the best for their future successes.. And err.. Don’t forget to invite us again on your guys wedding day December 2010. Not only as a guest, but as your official photographers.. Hahaha…
Nazrul + Gucci
Another assignment for our principal, Farul Azri over the weekend was to shoot this male model, Nazrul or better known as Bob for his personal portfolios. There were tons of photos of him but we have to be very selective since it contains nudity and er.. Erotic photos? Hahaha. So we guess it can’t be publish in here since Click*Syndicate The Blog is kinda open to everyone.. Kena ada lembaga penapisan maaa… Haha..
By the way, in these photo shoot, Farul have tried to implement his idea over lighting in photography and guess what, he just used one single lighting for strobing with a few filter being attached. They shoot in dark and here are the end result. There not much of post processing involved in the whole process..
Enjoy Bob and Gucci!
Thareq & Nurul Ayu Pre Wedding
Yesterday was a very joyful and adventurous day for both of our photographers, Farul Azri and Abu Bakar Fahmi or better known as Burn. They was assign to shoot the pre wedding photos for this lovely couple who will get marry by end of this year. Thareq and Nurul Ayu was very sporting and helpful throughout the entire photo shoot process and we was very happy to be working with them!
Anyway, without doing the much talking as usual – Lets just the photos speak for it self! Enjoy.. :D
Click*Syndicate Is Currently In Jakarta & Bandung
Buat model-model, teman-teman dan semua sobat-sobat di sekitar Jakarta dan Bandung, fotografer dan juga pengarah kami, Farul Azri kini berada di Jakarta dan Bandung atas urusan memotret model dari Azerbaijan. Buat sesiapa yang pengen dipotret juga bisa menghubungi beliau di nomor 081 386 319 557. Buat model perseorangan Indonesia semua ini hanyalah GRATIS!
Kepada yang mau dipotret pre-wedding ama pasangan masing-masing juga bisa menghubungi beliau terus untuk temu janji dan soal harga. Farul akan berada di Bandung pada hari Rabu dan Khamis (Oktober 7 & 8, 2009) dan kembali ke Jakarta pada hari Jumat (Oktober 9, 2009). Pastikan temu janji loe.. Yosh!
Next stop… Singapore (Next week)!
Click*Syndicate Photography
+(62) 81 386 319 557 (Farul Azri)
Travel Photography Series Part 1: Hiroshima
Recently one of our photographers, Hazril Hafiz went to Hiroshima in Japan for an assignment and he brings back tons of travel photographs. It can be said that all of the photographers in Click*Syndicate do travel a lot. So, from now on, we’ll update with travel photos from time to time.
Anyway, here’s a few of Hiroshima photos, a historical city.. The victim of World War II.. Enjoy!
Zairus Fadzli Is No More With Us!
This is just a short notice to tell our beloved clients and friends that Zairus Fadzli a.k.a DDlalok is no more with Click*Syndicate photographers team effectively starting from September 1st, 2009. Any other jobs represents him related to photography and such has got nothing to do with Click*Syndicate anymore.
Please be notice. Thank you.
Click*Syndicate Photography
Kuala Lumpur
I Like Tronik II
Here’s a few pictures of I Like Tronik II events shot by one of our photographer’s, Enche Abu Bakar Fahmi ort better known as Burn. The show feature a live electronic music set performed by many including Bottlesmoker (Indonesia), Bit The Medusa (Indonesia), Hud Evil Hud (Kuala Lumpur), Hentai Kookies (Kuala Lumpur) and our very own Click*Syndicate principal, Farul Azri with his trio, The Lovecraft… Enjoy viewing!
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Photografix Manipulation Series
The Invincible Man – A self portrait by Farul Azri
Coming soon ‘The Photografix Manupulation Series’ at Click*Syndicate.. Stay tuned! :D
And for those who hasn’t done the booking yet regarding our July wedding promotions, please do so as the date is filling fast. Book us now for anytime of your wedding event date within this year and get the price of this promotions..! Contact our representative now!
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