Did a portrait from during one of our skate session sometimes in September. What do you guys think?

After going through alot of DIY pictures and forums, I’ve finally managed to finish one of my (many) DIY works for my 500D: DIY magnified viewfinder.

Based on the design from here, I gathered the required materials needed: magnifying glass, a small square container, a couple of 2inch pvc pipes, matte black spray paint and hot glue.

I didn’t take a step-by-step pictures but here you can see the first prototype I did. Note the eyepiece from my DVX100.

And here’s another picture from another angle.

This might be late for me to plan my week ahead, but this is only Wednesday, so there’s still time to plan for another 4 days ahead. So here’s what I might be doing for the rest of the week.

Wednesday: join Lust SS team for street skating with Thai’s pro skater Jeerasak after work.

Thusday: Spend time with my wife.

Friday: go out filming for the upcoming team video.

Saturday: MY BIRTHDAY:)

Sunday: go to KB for Boards Blades Battle 2(009) competition.

Here’s a short behind the scenes video edit for the Salam Aidilfitri photoshoot.

Here’re a few pictures from the photoshoot for the Hari Raya greeting card that we (Zati and I) made for this year.

I came about with the idea a few weeks before Hari Raya. I was inspired to take the picture when I remembered seeing Bala’s picture a couple of years ago doing a fishbrain on a ledge wearing his traditional Indian clothing during deepavali. (I can’t find the link to the picture now, else, I would have posted that picture here. Bala, Keats, or someone who has the picture, could you guys send it to me or gime the link so I can post it here. thanks).

I talked to Zati about the idea and we agreed to it. In order to keep it as a surprise, we limited the number of people who would help out during the photoshoot and to find a suitable, quite place that we can do the shoot. I asked help from my cousin, Saiful, and a fellow rollerblader, Asnalicious. Both of them were really helpful during the shoot.

When we arrived at Muara beach, we had a few test shoots and tried to find a decent angle. Since it was almost 11am, it was really hot and the lightings were difficult to set up. We end up using only available light as we did not have enough strobe power.

Asnalicious was the man behind the camera. He’s been asking me questions about DSLRs as he’s wanting to get one for himself. He was eager to help out during the shoot and he can play around with my camera.

I asked Saiful to help me take videos during the whole photoshoot. I will be posting a short video within this week for the short behind the scenes videos. UPDATE: The video has been uploaded. Click here to see the video.

There were also a funny moment when we had to help Zati get on top of the ramp. It wasn’t really a good idea to get her up there since she’s pregnant! But Alhamdulillah, nothing bad happened and we got the picture we needed.

These last few pictures were other alternatives that we had prior to settling with the chosen picture.

After we got the shot, we moved onto the small hut nearby for some post-wedding picture. I haven’t processed all the pictures yet, but here’s one as a teaser.

^Strobist info: 1 bare nikon sb600 on full power camera right slightly above our head level. Camera info: Canon 500D, 18-200mm @ 100mm, f/5.6, 1/250.

I would like to thank Zati, Saiful and Asnalicious to make this photoshoot happen. InsyaAllah we can come up with something similar or even better for next year. Once again, thank you very much.

To all my family, friends, brothers, sisters, readers, rollerbladers, skateboarders, visitors, in Brunei or overseas, I’d like to say Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri. I apologize for all things said or done, intentionally or not. Please remember your loved ones, and be safe on the road. Do buckle up. Enjoy. -Eyan and Zati

Did this photoshoot sometimes last year. Only now I managed to post it.

The event will be happening this Sunday, 16 Aug 2009 at 9.30am. This will be held around Jerudong (contact Bob on the number above for the exact venue).

If you’re not sure what LomoMatrix is all about, you can google it or youtube it. I’m sure it’ll be a fun thing to do. Bring your family, friends and anyone to the event. But don’t forget, bring your FILM camera. If you don’t have a Lomo camera, it doesn’t matter. Get yourself a disposable camera and go there!

A couple of product shots I did for RPS’s new Lust t-shirt. Shirt was lit by 1 nikon sb600 directly from behind. Curves, levels adjustments and cropped during post.

This is my latest video. A 5 mins short video of Brunei’s RockPaperScissors team featuring Bahrom, Samsul, Koo Jin Chen, Cefu, Eyan and Woorapaj “Note” Boonim. Videos were taken during 2008-2009.

Equipment used: Sony HC20E, Panasonic DVX102AE, Canon 500D+50mm f/1.8, Sony VX2100E, Sony FX1000E.

I would like to thank Bahrum, Koo Jin Chen, Ruddy and Kalik for taking the videos, Koo and Bahrom for taking the time to help out in the editing room, Zati for being patient during the days and nights I spent editing this video.