A morning at Broga Hill....

Broga Hill is a famous place for Malaysian photographers to have a session of photo shooting. It is located in Semenyih, Selangor and offering a nice view of landscape. I was going there with a few friends, in a morning after my working hours.

It was my first time to the place and early objective was to 'click' sun rise in a morning day at Broga Hill but because of nice panorama view with blue sky, we changed it to portraiture outing (haha, weird but that true! - i will tell the reason later in this post). We arrived there a lil bit late, somewhere around 7++ because we lost while finding the entrance.

Without spending much time, we took our gears out of the car and started our steps heading to the look-out points. We went there with no proper preparation - no drink, no food, I wore jeans with a shirt and crocs - because I tot, it would be easy as 123 but I was wrong. Half way walking, we started to feel exhausted. Nothing to drink, so we slowed down our speed.

After a few stops, roughly about 45 minutes walking, we finally arrived at first look up point. Without think much, I putted my right hand on a700's body, left hand on its lens, Sony Carl Zeiss 1680 and my finger was clicking on shutter release. Click! Click! Click!!! Damn, I realized that we were late, no more sun rise except for blue sky equally exposed with the land. Nothing interesting to shoot from my eyes, so I decided to do portrait, and yeah my friends were the model on that day. Haha.

I amazed with the first click on my friend's face, it was nicely exposed with a green background from 'pokok lalang' and blue blue blue sky! Thanks God for good weather. We took turn to be the model and I was not thinking about landscape, sun rise, etc anymore. The reason is simple, it is because I couldn't get the sun rise. So, I rather change to portrait shoot. In my head was "it would be enough if I can come back home with an outstanding picture".

These are the output of the day:







A question just came to my head a minute ago when I said "... an outstanding picture", do I get an outstanding picture? My answer will be NO but these are good and I like them all. To be outstanding, they are not up to it. I compared my pictures with those Pros like Ted Adnan's, I feel that mine is lacking something - something that I can't tell the weaknesses of it - if you have the answers, please do let me know. :).

I am planning to go there again with better preparation for portrait shoot - flashes, softbox, umbrella, tripod, reflector and not to forget, food and drink. Ah, thats a lot and who will carry them all? :(. Another problem is the model. :(. Whatever it is, I will remain positive, positive because I love photography so much. There will be a light at the end of tunnel - oh I repeat this phase again. Haha. :p.

Ok la guys, I feel tired - I just finished my night shift a couple of hours ago. See you again in next post - Faiz & Zie wedding!

Oh I almost forget. As usual, feel free to visit my flickr at http://www.flickr.com/afhamaziz.

Thanks and have a great day!!!