East Java, Indonesia | liewwk

Finally, I make a trip to a beautiful Indonesia again and this round managed to visit East Java which include Papuma and Bromo for seascape and volcano view …

we reach Surabaya which a real busy city , car moving slow …… and we travel ~7-8 hours down south to Tanjung Papuma … spent 2 nights with mix of cloudy and clear days we enjoy the beautiful beach , sunrise, sunset and nightsky … and I am sure will re-visit this place very soon ……….

after 2 nights spending over here , we travel ~3.5 hours to Mount Bromo. another 2 “cold” days we had on the Lava View resort which give us beautiful 2 sunrise, nightsky but no luck for sunset …….. this place like other share a very beautiful volcano … we climb up for 2 viewpoint which I will share the view soon here (by update)…

1. Penanjakan 1 – easy to access but very limit space for photography

2. Penanjakan 2 – nearer to Lava View resort but need ~20-30min moderate hike but plenty of space for shooting .. 😀

*** both view are facing direct south which have sunrise on left ….

2013 Nov – Photohunters – East Java Outing

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update 2018 Jul 1

– simply another Papuma Beach Milky way .. think everyone come here is easy to get this view

update 2018 May 22

– this is from 2018 May Photohunter to East Java .. some capture as usual at this beautiful place

the sunrise view , and this is captured with Panasonic G9 80 Megapixel High-resolution Mode

– a nearer view with Mavic Air

– beside sunrise , sunset also can have good view here

– nightscape view at Mount Bromo always highlight of the tour

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– after sunrise sessions, most the tourist will travel close to Mount Bromo with horse or by walk .. this could be good moment capture some good horse moment

– beside Mount Bromo, as usual we visit this lovely beach call Papuma Beach … sunrise, sunset , slowshutter and nightscape all can be attractive here

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update 2017 Nov 30

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update 2013 Jul 25

… Mount Bromo Dawn … 1. SIngh-Ray RGND 2 stops

update 2013 Jul 22

… rocky-rainbow … 1. Lee filter GND .6s 2. Lee filter Big Stopper | ISO 200 | 45.0 sec at f / 14 | 21 mm

update 2013 April 11

– sunset spot and good to be there low tide

… wave sky rocks … 1. Lee Filter GND 1.2s

update 2013 April 10

… stand Still , Papuma … 1. Lee Filter Big Stopper 2. Lee Filter ND .9 pro glass 3. Lee Filter Glass Enhancer

update 2013 April 8

– cold , windy .. and misty at lower level …………

update 2013 April 3

– a place with strong wave, whole beach is like facing from North-East – South-West .. full with rocks… take extra care of the wave and wet rocks

update 2013 March 26

– I wish I stay near our hotel for the closer view of this beautiful moment even the hotel facing west

1. Singh-Ray RGND 3 stops 2. Lee Filter Pro Glass .9

update 22 March 2013

… volcanoes … 1. Lee Filter Big Stopper 2. Lee Filter Glass Enhancer 3. Lee Filter .9 Pro Glass

update 20 March 2013

… misty crater … 1. Singh-tay RGND 2 stops 2. Lee Filter ND .9 Pro Glass

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May 22, 2012November 26, 2012

some recent Milky way capture

update 2012 Nov 26

update 2012 Aug 10

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Exposure 30
Aperture f/2.8
Focal Length 14 mm
ISO Speed 1600

Amed, Bali

Bali

My recent Nightscape workshop 2012 Aug

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... owlhouse - Milky Way ... — … owlhouse – Milky Way …

even KL, Malaysia may not good place to chase Milky Way .. but I still travel around this year … and here are some update shots …

*** I still use the same method as share HERE

*** my previous share HERE

Update 25 June

Milky from Sekinchan

more Milky Way pictures

update 17 Jun

– Exposure 30 Aperture f/2.8 Focal Length 14 mm ISO Speed 1600

February 28, 2012April 2, 2012

worth the risk ?

just back from Semporna, Sabah… a beautiful place where I think all photographer will love it ….

thanks our Bintulu friends share this outing with us and my gang to make this happen .. a wonderful trip even not much pictures but a trips with many good and fantastic memories …

we looking for opportunity to shoot the nightscape and sunrise on the island and managed to arrange one on 3rd day of our trip .. we decide to go to a small Island (recommended by the boatman) to have beautiful Milkyway and sunrise shot …. so we have to start leaving from ground 330am … and with small boat (that carry max 6ppl) toward a “small Island” that took us ~1hr ++ to reach … and it is almost TOTAL DARK while we travel … !!!! and it was rain too … it was so scary while we traveling to the island .. … and no one is dare to repeat 2nd trip on next 2 days … … think back .. how could we manage to travel with small boat 1-1.5hr at total darkness … with strong wave !!!!!

and the 1st picture I capture …

still remember how dark when we travel to the Island … SCARY !!!!

November 22, 2011November 22, 2011

where is the reflection …

we are keep looking for possible angle to get the reflection but too bad we fail to capture it ….

by the way … how many of us .. actually know it is a black and white while we shooting or convert it after it do not look good on the computer screen ? … and we should know what/how we edit our picture before press the shutter ….?

April 21, 2011April 21, 2011

Simply Stars chasing Outing on 30 April – 1 May…

Let’s have fun to shoot some nightscape, stars, star trail ….

or you want to increase some of yours shutter … you may able to make this

if Lucky, we should able to see this

I will disclosure the location to those confirm attend ,,,

the location should be ~2-2.5hours travel north from Kuala Lumpur

do drop me message or comment if you interest

1. liewwk

2. shunfa

3. Seesy

4. Carmen

5. Nick

6. Abah

7. Melvin

(due to the location stand place limit, will have some control of the number …. ~25 max)

what to bring …

1. camera

2. wide angle/kit len (widest aperture)

3. tripod

4. shutter release cable

5. small torch light

6. snack

*** special pririty given to www.photomalaysia.com member .. and please provide me yours nick

for details please refer http://www.photomalaysia.com/forums/showthread.php?t=160658

April 11, 2011April 11, 2011

How I shoot Landscape – black card method (use finger)

I actually want to share this “black card” quite some time ago .. but I always forget and not really able to get some good result to share … and while I am doing this , one of my gang actually notice me shaking my finger around the front len .. and she did ask what was I doing … 😀 and here you go ….

what is black card method and when will we use it ?

when we having different exposures, I normally do GND filter, exposures blending, black card, HDR …(we not going to discuss all here but share some sample)

A. GND filter

this is just like GND filter, most of the time we have big dynamic range/different between sky and foreground.. it normally have different from 2-9 stops …. e.g. for standard sunrise/sunset/magic hour environment, we face 2-4 stops different between foreground – sky… to resolve this we normally use GND to single frame picture have the correct exposure among foreground and sky e.g.

1. without GND

2. GND

– the sky is ~4 stops different from the foreground…

– I use GND.9s for above picture and do some PP trick to make the right exposure

B. HDR (seldom do this …but think we still good to know this)

– why I choose HDR … this was shoot use my SIGMA12-24mm which cannot fit any filter

– it was too cold to think which method to choose so I simply shoot 7 exposures back 😀

3. black card

– seldom use this as I am not really experience

– filter much easy

– need a lot of try and error but the good light could be disappear any time

different exposure due to the village lights — original shot without any filter, blending, black card

– why I choose black card, the environment was dark, not sure how/where to apply GND

– multiple exposures will take double or even more times for single shot

– the exposure different >3 stops

for me I know the area that make me concern as below

– so what I did was, use my fingers block the over expose area

– allow only ~2-3 seconds exposure over 30 seconds exposure, so I block it until last few seconds and I remove my finger

so I get

most of the time we just need try and error, where some fail sample .. think only expose for ~1s

milky — wrong timing to shake the black card/finger

I will discuss more on other method in future … but let’s try and error on black card 😀

March 22, 2011July 17, 2012

some of my Nightscape/Stars collections

Me and my gang was crazy with nightscape with stars since last year but too bad year end is not a good season for stars photography due to weather … so we stop for months and now we are back with full actions where we are thinking, dreaming of stars every moment .. and we also try to plan as much as possible stars chasing outing 😀

some of my stars pictures

1. my very 1st “plan” star shooting

... Galaxias | the milky way ... — … Galaxias | the milky way …

2. star trail from USA

... a cold Startrails ... — … a cold Startrails …

– still time elapse for the stars movent

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewwk/4598121297/

3. while waiting for the sunrise

... another waiting moment ... — … another waiting moment …

4. waiting for sunrise also

... the Star still Shines ... — … the Star still Shines …

5. my 1st Milky way

... the Milky way ... — … the Milky way …

6. … the Dawn full with Stars …

More Nightscape and Stars pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewwk/sets/72157625783040852/

and have share how I shoot stars

March 3, 2011March 7, 2011

My 1st Milky Way …

it is not a dream, we able to shoot the Milky way at not really too dark area … it was my dream to chase it 2010 but some how I failed to make it … but 2011 me and my few close friends (shunfa, Lio, Jason … SP …. Mingkai) have start our crazy chasing project where we travel ~400km (return) 3 times in a week …. even we try to make it coming weekend but due to the some security issue at the location so we decided to cancel our trip there ….

one of the failure Milky chase

My friend – Shunfa was so happy while he 1st got it with him 30mm F1.4 … and too bad what I have much obvious compare to what he has, not matter what setting I use (high ISO, long exposure, ISO NR, LE NR … ) but my F2.8 lenses still cannot get any clearer Milky as compare that 30mm F1.4 got … hmmmm so the conclusion is under not so dark place. it is always good to use bigger aperture lenses to have more stars, brighter stars (so thicker star trail) and more objects (Milky way) …

let’s me share my setting and some PP done on this

Canon 5dm2 + Canon 15mm F2.8 + tripod for sure
# Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 43/1 second ===> 43 second
# Lens F-Number / F-Stop = 28/10 ===> ƒ/2.8
# ISO Speed Ratings = 500
– no Manipulation done ..
– crop both site to make square look (no crop on top and bottom)
– some dodge and burn on the sky

and previous share How I shoot Stars..