Ena Photography

Aliah & Anas – The New Chapter

Ena — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:28:29 +0000

A big big congratulations to bestie Aliah and her hubby Anas on the new addition to the family. The baby arrived way earlier than we all expected but nonetheless he’s a healthy baby It was an experience to be there with you, hearing your screams and laughter and 30 mins later out stroll this young one. Here are a few photos that I manage to capture of the young one, who, as of today has yet to be named.

Solemnization of Hunny Madu & Khairul

Ena — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:54:57 +0000

“Hunny Hunny…uh sugar sugar, you are Khairul’s candy girl…and you got Khairul wanting you!” Congratulations to my dear friend Hunny / Miss Strong who is now known as Mrs Strong The solemnization ceremony was held at Hunny’s parents place on her birthday, April 1 (no this was not an April Fool joke). As her friend and the official photographer, I proudly present the not-your-average shots from the joyous event. Most of these photos were also shown in the slideshow during her reception which was held 2 days later. You may find the slideshow below

Lightwriting

Ena — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:28:25 +0000

I can’t wait for Liyana to release her upcoming single, Lightwriting – the song will definitely be my feel-good wake-up song in the morning.

Pesawat – Utopia Mag Shoot

Ena — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:17:35 +0000

About 2 weeks back the boys had a shoot with Utopia magazine. So I’ve never heard of this magazine before but I bought a copy when the photos came out. Sorry but I dislike how the text are written in the magazine. It encourages youngsters to use terms like ‘dey’all’ (they all) and u’all (you all). Putting that aside. I took some photos during the shoot as well……. way better than the ones in the mag may I add. Haha

Pesawat at BH Shoot

Ena — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:35:24 +0000

About 2 weeks back the boys (Pesawat) had a photoshoot & interview with Berita Harian for this article. Not wanting to disturb the photographer, I did not bring my dSLR but I did have my point & shoot cam with me. Since the article is out, thought I’d share a few shots and a video from the shoot.

Rock The World 9

Ena — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:38:55 +0000

Rock The World 9 ….. in rain. The event which was held at Bukit Jalil car park on Saturday, boxing day of 2009 featured 60 bands on 3 of its stages – Chill out stage, Indie stage and Main Stage. It rained as soon as I arrived – which was sometime about 2.30pm…and boy did it rain. It rained for the most part till 8pm and even causing a black out in the VIP tent at one point. The rain caused a delay resulting in a backlog of performances. The organisers solution? Each band could only perform 2 songs – initially it was 4 songs in 20 minutes (which is insanely rushing if you asked me..especially when you include set up time). Hmmm. I am disappointed. But who am I to compare my woes to the fans who came to the venue as early as 10am, get caught in the rain, waited up for their favorite band..and only to enjoy 2 songs. Sigh.

I’m dumping all the photos I’ve posted in facebook here. Sorry folks about the arrangement of the photos. There’s a bug with my wordpress that causes it to go haywire with galleries when there are more than 30 photos. Photos contain shots at the VIP tent and performances by Labrat, Pesawat, Joanna & Co, Couple, Stonebay, Yuna and Liyana Fizi.

Video: Quick Beauty Editing

Ena — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:18:53 +0000

Quick post and first screen capture test. Here’s a video of the light beauty editing I did yesterday. Its an old old old…really ancient picture. It’s a picture from my first fun photoshoot session with my besties back in 2005. I wasn’t using a dSLR yet, hence the quality of the picture is a bit blergh. Not sure if you can really see the difference between the before and after since her skin is already almost-perfect. What I did was to remove any blemishes, soften the skin (cloning tool), remove highlights on her nose and cheeks, remove eyebags and a slight dodging and burning to bring out the contrast.

Video:

Resulting photo:

Zas

Ena — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:13:57 +0000

This took forever. Just recovered from a bad flu – well still recovering. In addition to the horrible sore throat, I just lost my voice today as well. It must be the heat in Kuala Lumpur; one second it’ll be raining every evening and the next its like a dry spell.

The photoshoot below was done for my friend (Zas’) portfolio. He’s done a few ads (both print and on screen) but has yet to prepare himself a proper portfolio. The photoshoot was done at a friend’s residence sometime around late noon and we had it wrapped up within 3 hours. 99% of the photos were shot in black and white. There were some colored but I wasn’t too fond of the lack of contrast.

In all shots we only used one flash – direct! Waa who assisted me with the lighting did all the set up while I told him specificly what I wanted. I love you Waa! Lol. Before you start to think otherwise, Waa is one of my close friend and he’s a talented photographer himself.

By the way, I do have a behind-the-scene video of this photoshoot. Syazman dropped by with his D90 so he did take some videos. I have yet to see him since the shoot though. Sigh. Will check if its post-worthy later.

Before you open the pictures below or scroll down may I remind you that there are a lot of skin in these photos. So if you’re not comfortable with such pictures, please do not proceed.

Radio Fest 2009

Ena — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:16:18 +0000

Ok. Ok. I’m pretty sure some of you are getting tired of the gig shots. I’ll promise a portraiture post for the next one – think male, oil and skin – hmmm! Something for the girls! So let me just make this quick. On 22 November I attended Radio Fest 2009, a joint host program by radio stations such as Hitz FM, Fly FM, XFM, Era and the such. It was held at Bulatan Bazarenaa Shah Alam which is really an open space surrounded by parking lot and the Shah Alam Melawati stadium. When we arrived it was drizzling, the crowd was so so (of course. with the rain and all) and Pesawat was in the middle of their sound checks. After 3 hours of killing time, the event finally kicked of at 4pm with Pesawat as the first band followed by other performers such as Bittersweet, Aizat & Bunkface. As usual, I always have a ball whenever Bunkface performs. Its something about their energy (and the lead vocalist good looks I guess). Heh.

Totally unrelated but bumped into Liyana (ex Estrella) during lunch time. Here’s her giving her sultry pose.

Kudux of Pesawat

Sam of Bunkface

Kukubesi – The Manipulator

Ena — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:37:17 +0000

On Saturday I had the chance to join a gathering between two photography groups – Kukubesi and Chot Touch. Kukubesi is local photographer, well known for his surreal almost paint-like editing on his photos. Dark and surreal would be the two adjectives that I would associate his pictures to. He is also popular for his manipulating skills which is totally amazing. Manipulation of photos is not the same as retouching. Manipulation requires a whole lot more effort and patience – think of zooming a picture at 100% and working a section at a time of a photo. Chot Touch on the other hand is popular local candid photographer. I came to discover his work when I was notified by a friend that a picture of my best-friend was inside Flickr. Like me, his main gun is a 50mm yet he uses it on the street – taking shots of strangers. That dude has balls yo! Haha.

While I didn’t get the chance to socialize with the group as I intended to, I had the chance to capture a few portraits and the one I’m most honored of, the portrait of Kukubesi himself. The gathering was held at Sg. Congkak – a waterfall area in the woods so I know there will be a lot of mud. Hence I really wanted a subject that was willing to get dirty in the mud and I was thrilled that Kukubesi was up to the idea. Not only that, to make the portrait even more unique and different, I needed it to have some sort of action and Kukubesi came up with the idea of spurting out sand. Gosh. So yes.. indeed he put sand in his mouth and spat it out.. resulting in the portrait below. A whole lot more was captured with his camera and you can check out a shot edited by him at his website (its the first picture).

Editing wise. I wanted textures in the final picture. Textures, hard, gritty and extremely contrasted. Not many are fond with this type of editing but what do you think? I’m pretty happy with it.

Believe it or not the picture above was the first shot. We then tried numerous times to perhaps capture it with a better lighting but couldn’t came close to this one.

A few more of my favorites are in the gallery.