Adib Noh Photography

Thank you to fellow photographers at 500px who liked and loved my simple posting as shown below. I learnt the hard way that more meaningful photos are better than thousands of so-so snap shots.

Hazy days are boring for my heart and irritating for eyes and frustrating for my legs who are itchy to cycle.How do I take a nice photo on such a boring day?My mood is no there.Any way,on my way home from Pullman Hotel,Putrajaya I stopped and took this shot of a bird sitting alone on a lamp post at Taman Seri Empangan.

Little knowledge is very dangerous. Corrupted knowledge is fatal!In my case,I have a little knowledge of photography but lacking deeply on camera hardware/software and colour behaviour.One of my mistakes was that I made an assumption that shooting in B&W is better than shooting in colour and later convert to B&W.It sounds logical but it is not true. After getting some answers on WHAT to shoot,WHEN to shoot,WHERE to shoot,the final question comes hitting my nose on HOW to shoot before my fore-finger click the shutter.Below are the main points to be considered in using my camera with reference to the notes as shown in the above image: 1.File format 2.Black and White Mode 3.ISO sensitivity 4.White Balance 5.Exposure Bracketing All the above are very technical to a water engineer like me.But if I want to be in control of the output i.e the photo,I have to know and manage these processes.The next phase of my journey...

I only know of portrait  photos when I became the CEO of a listed company.The corporate department got a professional photographer to shoot me in my room and the company boardroom.It is for our company  annual report.Previously,I only take passport size photos for my IC/Passport or some ID photos to be attached with any applications.Before joining the BOD, I only have family and wedding photos.By the way,I was brought up in my kampung and no portrait photos of my parents or grand parents ever seen hanging on any walls in our house. My interest in portrait photography began when I borrowed a 50mm prime lens and I  started shooting my first grandson.He is a cute and naughty little fellow two years ago.He became the fist "victim" of my trial and errors and along the way,I made many errors.When my family members already got fed up with me snapping at their faces,my friends become the second wave of "victims".From my short experience in exploring portrait phot...

In the next twelve days,I will be exploring the theory and good practice of B&W photography.Herewith I uploaded four photos that were converted to B&W from my existing  colour photos.The chosen photos have some features that would make them look better in B&W, hopefully. Why suddenly I want to shoot in B&W? Actually,my interest began more than a year ago when I started  to take part in Street Photography,where most photos are in B&W.Slowly,I began to see its beauty without colours.To me,colours are more real than B&W.The coloured photos reflect reality of the world as it is.At my age of 60 years plus,I have never seen this world in black and white.To me then ,B&W are just images of the reality-in two tones! Last weekend,I came upon an old Digital Camera Magazine,Dec.,2008.Reading it again after seven years,I saw a series of articles on B&W photography.I counted 25 pages of them.After reading and pondering on this subject matter,the...

a  On my way back home,we got hungry and stopped at Petronas Solaris Station to eat at Craven Cafe which serves my favourite mee mamak.To my unpleasant suprise,it was cosed.I don't know whether it is going to remain close or just for a day.No notice/So,my son decided to eat at Hot & Go.It is a small stall but looks nice and I felt cozy inside. Inside my sling bag,I had my usual compact Lumix LX5.While waiting for the food to be prepared I decided to sit on the opposite side of beautifully designed wall(as shown above) ,on my right was the counter and on my left was the view towards the entarnce shown below.I told myself to wait and shoot when I see someone sitting in these locations. In the above photos,I used the wall as a an attractive background for a shot of a lady waiting for her order,and I also used the glass opening to frame the photo of a gentleman catching up with his smart phone outside the stall. By fixing my location to shoot,I put a physica...

Here are a few attempts I did this morning to get creative shots while I was doing my morning walk.. Today is my lucky day.As soon as I saw this bird sun bathing on the guard rails at the weir of the lake,I took out my Lumix LX5 and zoomed at it at 4X.I was very scared it might just take off on seeing me approaching it.I was as slow as I can to prevent the bird from sensing my presence.As soon as I got this image on my back screen,I just pressed my shutter button.Two seconds later this bird flew away.Pheww.. Without the presence of this bird,this landscape photo is life less.It took a lot of efforts,patience and good luck to get a great shot! Anyone can get a good photo of a beautiful landscaped scenery.But the real challenge is to make ordinaryscenery looks great with creative natural  lighting and ingenious composition.In the photo above,I used a beautiful building facade as interesting background for the photo.And for the photo below,I used a branch of a tree with...

 Looking back to my learning to shoot a good photo,I think it started when I got my Lumix LX5 way back in 2011.Every time,we cycle in Putrajaya,I took photos of my rides and blogged about them.During my rides,I met and learnt photography from my riding buddies-Pak Rahmat,Nazley,Adzmi , Firdaus and others.My main focus was in composition and I shoot on auto mode most of the time till end of 2014.As my composition improved my photos also improved.My confidence was boosted when an Ad Agency bought my first photo to use in the advertisement of property projects developed by PJH Sdn. Bhd.I was so happy because my photo was printed in three national newspapers.Currently,I have more than 50 photos at Getty Images for sale and this year I sold one.As they say,the rest is history.The point I want to make here is to get our composition right. Over the years,I have developed my own style based on some good principles and practice from the Masters.In these three photos I took ...

I have blogged about its environmental impacts and significance,so here I just look at these photos from a photographer's view points.When I saw green water,I knew that was the work of algae contamination.But from layman view,it is unique when the  colour of the pond is green. So  here are my shots on a hazy and misty morning 7th Oct.,2015 at Pantai Irama ,Bachok.

SERENITY IS A WORD I HAVE CHOSEN FOR THE TOP AND BOTTOM PHOTOS The above two photos were taken a few years back while I was looking for something beautiful and at the same time learning to use my first DSLR camera.Last year,my school mate mentioned about my photos I posted at my facebook.He told  me that he liked my photos.I was looking forward to hear that my photos are nice and beautiful but to my pleasant suprise  he said my photos gave him the feeling of calmness and goodness.Then only I realised that my photos like the two above have their own stories.I thought I captured the beauty but the serenity was potrayed to my viewers.From my observations,serenity and beauty are mutually exclusive-one is not the other.However,serene photos have their own beauty.. Below,I attach a few more photos that I think have the serenity element and evoke the feeling of calmness,tranquility and peace. Large body of still water is the common denominator in my pho...

  If I were to call this kaki-lima in Malay,the new generation will give me a blank face.Translated literally,it is a five-foot passage way in front of a row of shops.Foot is an  Imperial British measures and now everything is in metric system.So for the purpose of sharing my photos,I call this passage way as shop corridors. My first encounter with arched shaped corridors was in the first week of January,1965 when I arrived by Mail Express train from Palekbang in Kelantan at KL Railway Central Station.I was on my way to SDAR in Tanjung Malim then.At that time,I did not have a clue of what it was but I like the shape of the arched passageway or corridors.Eleven years later,in 1976 I graduated from Sheffield University as a civil and structural engineer.As they say,the rest is history.. A few days ago,I went to The Curve for lunch with my wife at Little Penang.Along the 'kaki lima',I saw beautiful geometrical shapes,patterns and perspectives.In addition,the colours ...