Friday, October 30, 2009

Mooncake Festival in UTAR Kampar

Although it’s a bit late, but the Chinese Language society and the other 3 societies did this Mooncake Festival grandly. Real complements to them for making this event so successful… Even the case of heavy raining in the evening did not deter students from coming into campus to enjoy the festival.

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The place was basically packed with people… I guess the students are extremely bored at home… so they opt to come over to this event…

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There were some stall selling food and the earnings will proceed to charity.

Some games for students to participate in…

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This friend, together with his gang, was trying to cheat his way through… Instead of one person blowing the candle, the other 3 friends were helping him to blow the candle.

Later about 8.15 pm, the performances started…

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Love this shot very much… the lines on the floor was stunning…

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Mongolian Dance… Well done!!!

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Another cool performance of dance…

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The Chinese Fan Dance…

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Another Hip Hop…

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Then this one was interesting… Jai Ho… The dance…

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Another interesting slow shutter shot…

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This one with multiple lighting is very cool… slow shutter, and the photographer on the opposite fired his flash… stunning…

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Korean Dance… hmm…

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The MCs for the evening… 

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The group photo of crew members and organizing committee members…

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Here are a few things I discovered along the way…

i) UTAR students really rich la… I did a quick count and there were more than 10 people with DSLR…

ii) It’s been a while since I shoot events like this… kinda fun to do it again… definitely love the energy. How I hope that I can have an AF 50 mm…

iii) Over-exposed photos can be converted to Black and White… and looked even better!!!

iv) Very hard to shoot dances with lots of moves… the AF points may be out… ended up missing some potential shots…

v) Comparing this shoot and the shoot when I first got the camera, this is a 90% reduction in the number of photos shot!!! Which means that the shots are much better… and thought are put in before composing…

Anyways, UTAR HAS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE USE OF POLYSTYRENE IN THE UNIVERSITY!!!!

5 Responses to “Mooncake Festival in UTAR Kampar”

Joshualaw said...

OMG...kampar there got lots of girl dancers hor...

Mike Cheong said...

yea... quite true... haha

also, a lot of handsome guys too... some are even more handsome than you... :P

kws said...

Very nice photos you've got there. Hey show us more of Kampar's splendor - be it nice scenery, nice macros, or handsome guys and pretty girls! Hahaha.

Mike Cheong said...

I wanted to... still looking for that Special, heart-quickening scenes...

I guess you've seen some of the photos... and also, I've got some plans on how to feature a series of Kampar photos... :)

Be patient oh...

Unknown said...

thanks for some photographic technic! Im a nature lover, spent most of my time with stream, jungle, waterfall and mountains... sometimes it hard to catch the beauty and lovely of nature >.< Im a student of UTAR too! from FEGT, glad to be fren!