I have been very busy volunteering the Transformers Convention itself, and I didn’t manage to update any post to my site.  The three days Transformers Convention 2009 in Queensbay Mall just ended, but the memory stays forever.

Those who missed it, don’t worry, I have covered most major parts of it.  I shall give you a “virtual tour” on the exhibition for those who missed it, and for those who wanted to know more.

At the moment, please enjoy the exhibition while I prepare the virtual tour for you all.  Stay tuned

http://www.calvinstudio.net/?page_id=971

There will be a photography contest organised by Lost World of Tambun, and sponsors from Canon. Good news is, there will be cash price plus Canon Cameras to be won.

Penang is dispatching a wolf packs, join us if you can.

DATE : 5TH JULY 2009

SUBJECT :
MISS MODEL OF THE WORLD MALAYSIA FINAL 2009
LIVE PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST

DATE : 5-7-2009, Sunday,

TIME : 9.00am to 11.30 am

at Lost World of Tambun, Sunway City, IPOH

1st Prize : Cash RM1,000 + Canon EOS DSLR 1000D +(Kit Lens) EF18~55mm IS + Certificate
2nd Prize : Cash RM 700 + Canon Powershot A1000 IS + Certificate
3rd Prize : Cash RM 300 + Canon D. Printer CP-760 + Certificate
5 Merit Prizes : POP-EOS Miniature Thumbdrive + Certificate
10 Consolation Prizes : PROMO – WOE Backpack (NP)

Organizing Committee
Miss Model Of The World Malaysia Final 2009
Live Photography Contest

c/o. Poon Photo, 26, Jalan Laxamana, 30300 Ipoh.
Tel: 05-2559491

Download the Live Photography Contest Form here:
http://www.badongo.com/file/15564849

and for Penang wolves, follow up the discussion here:
http://www.sopjm.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=536&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Update: http://www.calvinstudio.net/?p=1021 for the photo gallery

June is seriously a happening time conjunction with school holidays in Malaysia and Singapore.  As the Auto-City Super GT Road Show just ended last week, there are more to come.

If you like to see some Beach Volleyball matches, here is something interesting to you.

Sunway Carnival Mall in Seberang Jaya is having a Beach Volleyball competition on 20-21 June 2009, this coming weekend.

If you would like to see or Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball-like action, or simply wanted to shoot some sport action, you should pay a visit that day. Don’t expect too much of bikini, sweaty and bouncy action ok?  Worst case is all turned out are males-only player.  I will be the first one to leave the scene if worst case happened.  After all, all the fun stuffs happens only in computer games.

Event: Beach Volleyball Semi Final
Venue: Sunway Carnival Mall
Date/Time: 20 June 3pm

Event: Beach Volleyball Final
Venue: Sunway Carnival Mall
Date/Time: 21 June 6pm

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen is coming this month. Conjunction with it, Queensbay Mall is having a Transformers Convention, not to the scale of BotCon (Official Transformers Collector’s Convention), but it is considered a grand one in a tiny Island that smaller than a dot in the world map, in fact, it is much greater scale than the one in Kuala Lumpur.  Don’t expect Machael Bay or Peter Cullen to show up as Special Guest.

I hope they do more than just exhibiting, selling or auctioning cheaply made Hasbro Transformers toys, maybe there will be cosplayers dressed up in an Optimus Prime or Arcee costume made with Milo container or something to entertain the crowds.

As a big fan of Transformers from Penang Island itself, a serious collector of Transformers, and a photographer, I have no reason why I should miss this convention.

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The Final day of the Auto-City Carnival 2009 was simply amazing! With lots of fun and trill activities running non-stop in the entire day! From Children colouring contest, to GT Racing Demo, to Beauty Queen Street Parade!  I was completely enjoyed every moment of it despite the short misty rain in the afternoon.

The GT Racing Demo was kind of dangerous to perform on such a small area, with no proper safety barrier, kids and family running around, nobody is expecting a race in such a crowded place. Despite with all personnel safeguarding the road, I think it is still pretty risky as kids or unexpected people may walk into the race track even with personnel and railing guarded the track.  I don’t see any emergency unit standing by in case anything a happened.

Lots of funny characters from the sponsors made special appearance today, including a God of the Wealth (财神爷) from Da Ma Cai, Two-legged walking cheese from Pizza Hut, Chicky from KFC, Kuntum’s mutated rabbit, numerous Special make-up from Ivy’s Studio joining the Beauty Queen Street Parade.

The Miss Auto-City Pageant 2009 and Manhunt 2009 Final was a quick one before they announce the result.  The stage lighting again is great to photograph and with the right White Balance, ISO and Aperture, it was another walk in the park.  I just love the couple shoots.

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The second day of Auto-City Carnival was a amazing.  The crowd is great, I wasn’t expecting much to get from the second day as I am already satisfied with the result I got from day one.  However, day 2 was even better.

Miss Auto-City Pegeant 2008 Natalie Chuah was busy being surrounded and photographed by hundreds of Photographers.  I bet her eye could hardly open with dozens of flashes non-stop shooting towards her.  I didn’t follow the crowd as I’ve already have plenty of her photos yesterday.

The sunset lighting was perfect today at 7pm.  Photographers was massive with all kinds of toys not to miss the great sunset lighting.

One of the event girls I must mention - Vince Wong.  I had the opportunity to work with her dispite the busy time and crowded area, she was pretty much stayed focus and followed my instruction.  She is cute, smart and picked up my eye contact and body language instruction I sent to her very quickly.  Many of her photograph are just stunningly beautiful. You must see her photos.

The Semi-final round of Miss Auto-City Pegeant 2009 and Man Hunt 2009 was better than the first round, eleminated some of the rhinos elephants dinasours. The stage lighting was perfect, all photos turns out perfectly great and balanced, making the photographing experience was a walk in the park.

The Miss Auto-City Pegeant 2009 also included “Auto-City’s Got Talent”.  Some contestants sing, belly dance, traditional dance, and even play piano.  How I wish there are buzzers like in Britain’s Got Talent, some of the performances are so horrible and deserved to be buzzed off within the first ten seconds.

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The first day of Auto-City Carnival was a great experience.  The crowd is small, I have the opportunity to photograph the Miss Auto-City 2008 Pegeant with very little interference.  Especially Natalie Chuah, she is such a gorgeous lady, extremely photogenic and easy to work with.

It started off with few photography session in the afternoon, opening ceremony in the evening. 

Followed by first round of Miss Auto City Pegeant 2009 contest, and Fashion Show of Miss Auto-City 2009 in front of SOHO, all the way until 1am in the morning.  It is the longest first day event I’ve ever seen with TWO fashion shows running one after another.

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As I was talking about LSD NiMH rechargeable batteries yesterday, coincidentally Nikon also announced their own NiMH AA rechargeable batteries and chargers. Namely EN-MH2-B4, and MH-73 respectively.

The Nikon Coolpix L100 also received an updated firmware to support the new EN-MH2-B4.

Nikon never said anything special or capacities about this EN-MH2-B4 than regular NiMH batteries, and definitely not a word about it is Low Self-Discharge batteries either.

The EN-MH2-B4 also just a regular AA/AAA charger, nothing much interesting.

I stay with Sanyo Eneloop for now.

Press release:
http://www.nikon.com/about/news/2009/0609_mh-73_en-mh2-b4_01.htm

The Eneloop vs Imedion experiment I wrote earlier received a few good feedbacks.  Numbers of sites when talked about Eneloop and Imedion eventually some pointed to my experiment like in Lowyat.net.

It is rather surprisingly difficult to locate retail shops in Malaysia that stock either Eneloop or Imedion.  There is one online battery specialist shop called JJ Sales & Service Shop located in Penang that specially carrying these specialised battery to fulfil photographer’s lust.  They found my experiment and linked to me.

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Switch World 2009 is mainly just an exhibition about Apple products including iMac, iPod and iPhone. The good news to photographers is there will be a mini photo contest on 6 June Saturday for the Fashion Show, and you can stand a chance to win some Lowepro products.
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