PSPJ Photographers at St. John's Hill, Malacca @ 26th Jun, 2010

Thanks to all th partcipants and mentors who made our Enjoy Photography workshop on Sun 5 Sep 2010 a success. Check out the scenes during the workshop here.

A couple of announcements to take note:

September Outing: Bukit Permai Lookout Point

Please be informed that our September Outing as follows:

1. Bukit Permai Lookout Point
    Date: 18 September, 2010 (Saturday)
    Time: 5pm, wait beside TALIPON Restaurant
    Theme: Night Scene, Landscape, HDR

2. Open Submission
    Theme: Hari Raya Celebration or Moon Cake Festival Celebration 

More infomation, please click here .

Penang trip:  25-26 September 2010
For our Penang trip, we wil be having a photo sharing session with the Penang photo club. Please submit your best images (no specific theme) for photo sharing session. You can do so by emailing Ripi at ripi@pspj.org.

Kuala Lumpur Photograohy Festival (KLPF 2010)
PSPJ will be having a booth at KLPF this year on 29-31 October.

• You are invited to volunteer to help out at our booth during the event. We will soon be opening a thread on the forum to provide further details.
• You are invited to submit images for this year's exhibition with the theme “Malaysia, 1 Fascination”. Deadline 15 Sep 2010. For more information, please click here.

Monthly Meeting: September 2010

Please be informed that the monthly meeting for September will be at 3pm this Saturday, 4 September 2010.
Venue is as usual at Kuala Lumpur International Hotel. For more information, please click here.

September Meeting Agenda:

• Photo Challenge - Tanjong Harapan (please submit 3 images)
• Photo Talk on High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography by En. Khairul
• Briefing: Penang Trip - KL Goh
• Briefing: Ipoh Trip - Patrick
• Any other matter

PSPJ is holding a one-day Enjoy Photography Workshop, a photography workshop for beginners, on Sunday 5 September 2010.

The course is free for those who signed up during the KL Photograohy Festival 2009 in August last year and during the DCIM Show 2010 in May.
For other members the fee is RM100. We have limited seats for 40 persons and acceptance will be on a first-come-first-served basis.

Time: 9am - 3pm, Sunday 5 September 2010.
Venue: Kuala Lumpur International Hotel

For more info please click here.

Please be informed that our outings for August are as follows:

2nd "outing" August 2010 

In-house seminar on Photoshop and camera basics

Date: Sunday, 29 August 2010
Venue: Kuala Lumpur International Hotel

For more info please click here.

1st outing August 2010

Tanjong Harapan
Date: Sunday, 15 August 2010
Meeting place: 3:45 to 4:10 pm at the Batu Tiga tol

For more info please click here

August Monthly Meeting: Sat. 7 August 2010

For more info please click here.

2 Days 1 Night Penang Photo Tour

Please be informed that PSPJ is organining Penang Photo Tour. More information, please click here.

Please be informed that this trip is now open for member's spouse and friends to register. The fee for non member is RM260. We are offering a free one year PSPJ's membership for those non member who sign up for the trip. They have to submit the membership form before 26th of October, 2010 or the free membership offer consider void. 

Please be informed that our outings for July are as follows:

1st outing July 2010

Street Portraiture
Date: Sunday, 11 July 2010
Meeting place: At 8am at Central Market main entrance

For more info please click here.

2nd outing July 2010 

Putrajaya Floral Fest
Date: Sun 18 July 2010
Meeting Place: 8am, Presinct 2 main entrance
Theme: Tropical Splendour

For more info please click here.

3rd 'outing' July 2010 

Indoor Model Shoot
Date: Sat 24 & Sun 25 July 2010

For more info please click here.

Next Monthly Meeting: Sat. 7 August 2010

For more info please click here.

Please be informed that our monthly meeting for July 2010 will be as follows: 

Final call for Malacca trip for San Pedro Festival

Member or member's spouse and friends who like to join this trip, please contact the following committee:

1. Amril Izan 012 289 5364 amril@pspj.org

2. Jean Yap 016 305 3344 jeanyap@pspj.org

Saturday, 26 June 2010: We will depart from Amcorp Mall at 7.30 am sharp to Malacca.

Please be informed that our outings for June are as follows:

1st outing June 2010

Putrajaya Dragon Boat Festival
Date: Sunday, 20 June 2010
Meeting place: At 8am at the Putrajaya Watersports complex.
Theme: Scenes of the dragon boat festival

For more info click here.

The official website: www.putrajayadragonboat.com

2nd outing June 2010 

Malacca trip for San Pedro Festival
Date: Saturday, 26 June 2010

For more info click here.  

Please be informed that our monthly meeting for June 2010 will be as follows: 

Malacca trip now is open to member's spouse and friends! Book your seat during the meeting.

New member who joined during the DCIM show, please come to the meeting, we will take your photo for membership card.

1^st outing for May 2010

Colours of Malaysia (Citrawarna)
Date: Saturday, 22 May 2010
Meeting place: At 5.30 pm at the flagpole, Dataran Merdeka
Theme: Scenes that depict the celebration of Colours of Malaysia.

More info and to register your participation here.

DCIM Show 2010

Please be informed that there will be DCIM Show from 14 to 16 May, 2010 at Midvalley Exhibition Centre. Please look out for PSPJ booth (booth 3004) for new membership signup at special rate. See you there!

Please be informed that our two outings for May are as follows:

1^st outing

Colours of Malaysia (Citrawarna)
Date: Saturday, 22 May 2010
Meeting place: At 5.30 pm at the flagpole, Dataran Merdeka
Theme: Scenes that depict the celebration of Colours of Malaysia.

More info and to register your participation here.

2^nd outing

Berjaya Hill Resort (formerly Bukit Tinggi Resort, inc. Colmar Tropicale, Japanese Gardens). Entrance fee: RM15.
Date: Saturday, 29 May 2010
Meeting place: At 7.30 am at Gombak toll (after the toll).
Theme: Scenery around Berjaya Hill Resort including landscape and architecture.

More info and to register your participation here.

June monthly meeting

Please be informed that our monthly meeting for May 2010 will be as follows: 

Check out the Top 5 images for our themes in March here.

Please be informed that the second outing for April 2010 will be as follows:

For further details, please click here.

 
1st outing for April 2010
Outdoor Model Shoot
Date : Sunday, 11th April 2010
Time : 8am - 12pm
Venue: To be informed once you register

If you haven't registered by now, there are only a few places left and going quickly.
If you want to register, you can post at the forum or PM (private message) to jonleon (John Liang)

For more info on the outing, please click here.

Please be informed that our outings for March 2010 are as below.

1st photo outing: Sungai Gabai waterfalls
Date: Sunday, 14 March 2010

For more info and to register for your participation: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?t=1708

Thanks to all the members who attended the 23rd Annual General Meeting on Saturday 6 March 2010.

The new committee that was elected for 2010/11 is listed here.

Check out the pictures taken during the AGM and March monthly meeting here.

The Top 5 pictures for the outings for February 2010 are here.

 Please be informed that our monthly meeting for March will follow the AGM as announced above. More info here

Please be informed that our outings for February will be as follows:

1st photo "outing" for February
It won't be an actual outing where we go as a group but we will be having a photo challenge (submit 3 of your best pictures) taken during Chinese New Year-- anything related to Chinese New Year will be accepted. So during this long Chinese New Year weekend, get your camera out and capture scenes of the celebrations and decorations.

2nd photo outing for February
Date: Saturday, 27 February 2010.
Location: Fo Guang Shan Dong Zen Temple (FGS Dong Zen temple), Jenjarom
Meeting place: 4pm at front of the main building.

Theme: Chinese New Year festivities 

For more info (including maps): http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?p=7512

Monthly Meeting: February 2010

Please note that our monthly meeting for February 2010 will be as follows:

Time/Date: 3pm, Saturday, 6 February 2010
Venue:
Kuala Lumpur International Hotel
No. 79, Lorong Hj Hussein 2
Off Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz
50300 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Please be informed that our second outing for January will be as follows:

2nd photo outing
Date: Sunday, 24 January 2010.
Location: Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur
Meeting place: 8.30am at entrance of Central Market

Theme: Urban Animals. Capture shots of animal in an urban (in the city) setting. 

Please be informed that our first outing for January will be as follows:

1st photo outing

Date: Sunday, 17 January 2010.
Location: Bukit Melawati, Kuala Selangor
Meeting place: 8.30am at entrance (ticket counter for the 'train')

Theme: Open theme

For more info: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?t=1654

On behalf of the committee, I'd like to wish Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all PSPJ members!

Let's all take some time to shoot for our Annual Contest (details below) during this festive period.

Monthly Meeting: January 2010

Please note that our monthly meeting for January 2010 will be as follows:

Time/Date: 3pm, Saturday, 9 January 2009 (not 2 January)
Note that members at the December meeting voted to have the January meeting postponed to the second Saturday because the first Saturday is the New Year holiday long weekend.

Venue:
Kuala Lumpur International Hotel
No. 79, Lorong Hj Hussein 2
Off Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz
50300 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

For more info: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?t=1612

Please be informed that our second outing for December will be as follows:

2nd photo outing: Bukit Cahaya

Date: Sunday, 20 December 2009.
Location: Bukit Cahaya Agricultural Park, Shah Alam
Meeting place: 8.30am at the entrance. It opens at 9am.

Themes:
1. Open theme (other than macro and close-ups)
2. Macro and close-ups 

For more info and to register your particpation: : http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?t=1613

Our Top 5 images, in 3 themes, selected during our December meeting can be viewed here:
Congratulations to those whose images were selected..

Due to requests from members we are having an impromptu supplementary outing this Saturday as follows:

Date: Saturday, 12 December 2009.
Location: Bukit Bintang area
Meeting place: 3pm, in front of Pavilion.

Theme: Christmas. Capture the Christmas decorations around Pavilion which has a beautiful reindeer that is lit up at night as well as the surrounding Bintang Walk and Bukit Bintang area.

For more info: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?p=7165

Please be informed that our first outing for December will be as follows:

1st photo outing

Date: Sunday, 13 December 2009.
Location: Pulau Ketam
Meeting place: 8.15am at the Port Klang Jetty (changed from 7.30am, since first ferry departs at 8.45am).

For more information and to register your particpation: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?p=7136

Other upcoming activities

2nd photo outing: 8.30am, Sunday 20 Dec 2009 to Bukit Cahaya agricultural park, Shah Alam.
For more info and to register your particpation: : http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?t=1613

Monthly meeting: 3pm, Saturday 9 January 2010. (Not 2 January)
Note that the members at the December meeting voted to have the January meeting postponed to the second Saturday because the first Saturday is the New Year holiday long weekend.
For more info: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?p=7137

Please note that our monthly meeting for December 2009 will be as follows:

3pm, Saturday, 5 December 2009
Kuala Lumpur International Hotel (address and location below)

There will be a slideshow on a trip to Vietnam.

For the monthly photo challenge please submit you images for:
1. Sekinchan outing: 2 themes: landscape and open theme, 3 images each.
2. Orang Asli settlement: Theme: Rural scenery including people, 3 images.
So a total of 9 images can be submitted.

You can also purchase the PSPJ T-shirt during the meeting. RM30 each.

For any queries, please contact Ripi at 012-282 5317

This announcement is also in the forum: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?p=7110

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Kuala Lumpur International Hotel
No. 79, Lorong Hj Hussein 2
Off Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz
50300 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Website: http://www.kl-internationalhotel.com/
For location map: http://www.kl-internationalhotel.com/location.php
Telephone: 603- 2697 8833

Map:
StreetDirectory: http://tinyurl.com/63erpt
Google Maps: http://tinyurl.com/7y2z2z
Nearest train station: Chow Kit Monorail station. Head East along Jalan Raja Muda Aziz for about 150m, then turn right into Lorong Haji Hussein 2 and walk for about 250m. The hotel will be on your right.
GPS: 3.167020,101.701760‎ or +3° 10' 1.27", +101° 42' 6.34"

The second outing for November:

Time/Date: 8am, Sunday, 22 November 2009
Location: Orang Asli settlement, Batu 12, Jalan Gombak
Meeting place: 8am, in front of the Orang Asli museum. Since there has been some questions about which orang asli settlement we're going to we better meet at a more well-known landmark (the Orang Asli museum) and then we can explore other place from there.

Theme: Rural scenery including people.

More info here: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?t=1584

Our first outing for November:

Time/Date: 8am, Sunday, 15 November 2009
Location: Sekinchan paddy fields
Meeting place: 8am, Opposite the Police Station in Sekinchan town.

Themes: There will be 2 themes:
1. Landscape (typically is the vast paddy fields which at this time of the year will be close to harvesting time with some fields already being harvested).
2. General - other than landscape which includes people etc.

For more info: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?p=6928

Please note that our monthly meeting for November 2009 will be as follows:

3pm, Saturday, 7 November 2009
Function Room 1, Level 2
Kuala Lumpur International Hotel
No. 79, Lorong Hj Hussein 2
Off Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz
50300 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

For more info: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?t=1558

The 3rd PSPJ photo outing for October is as follows:

3rd outing for October

Time/Date: 9am, Sunday, 25 October 2009
Location: KL Tower International Jump 2009, KL Tower
Meeting place: At the lobby of KL Tower
Theme: Action. Depicting the activities of the base jumpers doing their stuff.

The KL Tower official website: http://www.menarakl.com.my/index.cfm

If you have any queries please call Ripi at 012-282 5317

For more info and to register your attendance: http://www.pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?t=1556

Please note that PSPJ's 2nd outing for October will be this evening at Brickfields.

If you can't make this evening there we have a 3rd outing and also a supplmentary outing that you can participate. Please refer to upcoming activities below.

2nd outing for October

Time/Date: 5pm, Sunday, 11 October 2009

Location: Brickfields

Meeting place: In front of Sri Kota supermarket which is a large maroon coloured building at the corner of the the main junction in Brickfields as you enter from Bangsar or town (from Central Market/KTM/Sentral). For a picture, please click here .

Theme: Deepavali. Scenes that depict the Deepavali festival and Indian culture around the Brickfields area.

For more information, please click here.

If you have any queries please call Ripi at 012-282 5317

Upcoming activities (click to get announcement on forum)

Sunday, 18 October 2009 – Supplementary Photo Outing: Malaysian Waterski and Wakeboard Championship

Sunday, 24 October 2009 – 3rd Photo Outing: - KL Tower International Jump 2009

Saturday. 7 November 2009– Monthly meeting for November

October monthly meeting

Please note that our monthly meeting for October 2009 is as follows:

3pm, Saturday, 10 October 2009
Kuala Lumpur International Hotel

For more information please click here.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE MONTHLY MEETING FOR OCTOBER WILL NOT BE ON  3RD OCTOBER SINCE WE WILL BE HAVING OUR 1ST OUTING FOR OCTOBER AS FOLLOWS:

Time/Date: 10am (revised from 9am), Sunday, 4 October 2009
Location:  Genting Adventure World Carnival (beside Gohtong Jaya: http://www.genting.com.my/en/mydream/gt_jaya.htm )
Meeting place: Main entrance of the event.

Theme: Action/Sports photography

The Genting Adventure World Carnival itself is from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 October 2009. For more info: http://www.adventureworldcarnival.com

For more info and to register your attendance: http://www.pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?t=1504

Our second outing for September will be as follows:

Time/Date: 5pm, Saturday 26 Sept 2009 (rescheduled from Sun, 27 Sept 09)

Location: Shah Alam mosque

Meeting place: 5pm around the clock tower at Dataran Shah Alam.
Pictures: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/2fe827/
Street Directory Map: http://www.streetdirectory.net.my/malaysia/kl/travel/travel_id_9452/travel_site_285/
Google Maps: http://tinyurl.com/nab76e
GPS: 3.0739, 101.5181 (3° 4' 26" N, 101.5181 E)

We will meet back at Dataran Shah Alam at 8.30pm. Dinner could be had at KFC across the road at Plaza Alam Sentral.

Theme: Night scenery of the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque (Blue Mosque): http://www.panoramio.com/photo/15991060
Post processing is allowed.

Technique: Bring along a tripod and a remote shutter release. The best time to shoot is the blue hour which is after sunset (7.07pm on 27 Sep 09) and lasts between civil twilight and nautical twilight (7.28pm - 7.52pm on 27 Sept 09).
Reference: http://tinyurl.com/kmph6d
More about blue hour: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_hour
Taking blue hour photos: http://www.mice007.hu/2009/01/taking-blue-hour-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-262
Night Photography Tips: http://www.photography.tutorialsstock.com/Basics/Night-Photography-Tips/Photography-tutorials-234.html

Check out the pictures taken during our latest monthly meeting on Sat 5 September 2009 here.
And the Top 5 pictures for the month here.

Our first outing for September is as follows:

Time/Date: 5pm, Sunday 13 Sept 2009
Location: Ramadan Bazaar, Masjid India
Meeting place: 5pm at the Masjid Jamek LRT (on the Majid India side i.e. across the road from Masjid Jamek). We will have a group picture here then head towards the Majid India area.
Theme: Street photography. The images should depict the scenes of the human activity around the Masjid India area with focus on the Ramadan Bazaar which is set up during the fasting month.

For more info and to register your attendance, click here.

Other upcoming activities:
2nd outing for September 2009: Shah Alam mosque (26 Sep 09).
1st outing for October 2009: Genting Adventure World Carnival (4 Oct 09).

Monthly meeting for October 2009: Sat, 10 October 2009

Please note that our monthly meeting for September 2009 is as follows:

3pm, Saturday, 5 September 2009
Kuala Lumpur International Hotel
For more information: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?t=1443

For visitors to KLPF and new members, please check out our website and visit our forum:  http://pspj.org/phototalk/index.php

For new members, you're invited to join the next outing: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?t=1457
And remember, the next monthly meeting is on Saturday 5 September: http://pspj.org/phototalk/viewtopic.php?t=1443

For any queries, please contact Ripi at 012-282 5317 or email ripi888@yahoo.com.