Sony Alpha Convention 2011-Exhibition & Talks

Okay more boring posts! XD

Let's start all over again shall we. I arrived at KLCC at about 10am..and what greeted me kinda caught me by surprise as i didn't attend the Sony Alpha 2008 convention. I was more like expecting a full day talk thingy, didn't realise they have an exhibition as well.

Some interior shots of the hall:

Breakfast for the day! Salmon sandwiches~! =D

Participants were also given a 'passport' for us to collect chops when we visit different 'countries' throughout the exhibition hall. After that we can qualify for a lucky draw. Didn't get to win though D:

Singapore and Indonesia~

The first talk i attended for the day was Steve Chong's talk on the Light and mist of Yuan Yang .

Steve explaining how he had to wait until the 2nd day before the mist cleared at Yuan Yang(somewhere at China) before he took the shot of the sun ray shining through the clouds.

Next up was Darren Chang's talk about Automotive photography! Very inspiring. Hope to do some of my own car shots soon.

My 3rd session of the day was with Grant Corban about the business of wedding photography!

A very experienced wedding photog!

Grant was saying that we should only use the best gears we can afford if we were to shoot a wedding! Not forgetting that we should also dress up professionally and many other stuffs.

Crunching indeed. I think i can earn more being a small time wedding photog. Hmmmmmmm.

Grant's talk was very..how to say...business minded? Wedding photography to him is very very serious business, everything must be shot in RAW, no compromises on lightings..etc etc...

Which is totally opposite with another wedding photography talk i attended later that day with Mun Keat. Mun Keat is different in a way is that, he works alone, only with a assistant if he can afford the luxury, shoots JPEG and goes for the more simplistic approach.

Mun Keat stating a point.

Oh let's not forget Bernice... photo journalism at it's best.

There was this photo challenge and smile hunt(will blog about this in the next post) to spice things up too. Sony has been quite generous with the prizes!

For this creative photo challenge, participants had to rearrange those objects into something creative and submit their shots.

Participants submitting their shots while some attempting to take a few pics.

My shot which won the consolation prize! =D

Dance performance

I also had the chance to get iER to calibrate my back focusing a300 and he did wonders!! A big thanks to him. Now my shots are as sharp as ever!! Wohoo~

iER calibrating the cameras.

Test shot after the calibration. Sharpppppppppppp. *drools* Now i more daring to shoot wide open liao. WOHOO. More test shots will be posted in the next post~

There was a caricature session going on too~

Artist deep in thoughts.

Sonia having a go.

A studio set up which we never got to use.

Last but not least, the closing ceremony of the Sony Alpha Convention 2011!

The main behind this event- George Wong, giving his closing speech!

George picking the lucky draw winner. The guy's expression behind him is priceless.

Biggest winner of the night! Sony a55 weii! *envyyyyy*

Ok that was a reaaaaaaally long post. Stay tuned for more. ;)