First of all, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri buat semua muslimin dan muslimat!

Lama giler tak update blog aku ni. Hampir sebulan lebih kot. The main reason is because I am devoting myself throughout the holly month of Ramadhan. Sepanjang bulan puasa lepas, aku tak gi shoot memana pon. Aktiviti aku sepanjang bulan pose yg lepas: kalau hari kerja, trus balik rumah untuk beli juadah berbuka dan jugak berbuka puasa dengan family. Malam pulak imarahkan surau dengan solat tarawih. Manakala hujung minggu seharian lepak kat rumah, baca Quran, kemas rumah dan main dengan anak-anak. So, tak terfikir pon nak gi shoot memana sebab sepanjang bulan pose lepas, mmg aku ade banyak aktiviti.

Yup! You've read the title correctly. I have switched to Fujifilm camera; Fujifilm X-T1 to be exact. Bye bye Olympus OMD EM1. It is not that I don't like you, but.. I have to admit that your dynamic range capability just can't compare to Fujifilm. I know... it's because of your sensor size. Other than that, you are one good all rounder camera for me...

But I still have to let you go because I'm not that rich fella driving BMW or Mercedes car living in a private apartment with private pool. To keep two cameras and maintaining both camera at the same time is just impossible for me. So I have to choose, and I have chosen Fujifilm X-T1 to replace you...

Sedikit pengenalan mengenai time-lapse photography:

Secara ringkasnya, time-lapse photography ni adalah cara pengambilan gambar secara berterusan dalam satu selang masa (contoh: 3 saat dari frame yg pertama, kedua, ketiga dan seterusnya) sehinggalah menghasilkan beratus-ratus keping gambar, dan gambar itu semua disatukan menjadi sebuah video. Dengan time-lapse photography ni kita dapat melihat dengan lebih jelas perkara-perkara yang selama ni kita tak pernah amik tahu pon - contoh: pergerakan awan, manusia, kereta, tumbuhan dan sebagainya.

It has been a while I haven't shoot any landscape and/or architecture of any sort nowadays. Since having OMD EM1 as my photographic buddy (and dumping my old Nikon D7100), most of the time I just focus on candid, macro and street photography. I have tried to shoot landscape with this EM1 but it has disappoint me so many times - especially when shooting for slow shutter. I can clearly see the hot pixel on the image... Very frustrating!

The OM-D EM-1 is equipped with HDR functionality built-in to the system. You can simply turn on this feature by using the HDR button that's available at the top left corner of the body as shown in this picture. By pressing this button, you'll have a variety of option to shoot for HDR such as:

• HDR 1 - Four shots are taken, each with a different exposure, and the shots are combined into one HDR image inside the camera with high contrast setting.
• HDR 2 - Four shots are taken (same as above), but the camera process the HDR images with low contrast setting.

With the above settings, the camera will automatically merge and process the image accordingly so that you don't need to manually edit it with the computer software. But if you wanted to manually edit your HDR images, you can also choose from these options as well :-