Canon Sunday Sunset

Canon EOS Experience Seminar @ Merdeka Palace, Kuching. 20 July 2008

I spent my Sunday at Meredeka Palace (a local hotel located across the road from Central Padang - I guess that’s why they named it “Merdeka”?) attending the Canon EOS Experience Seminar. It was a full day event with a free lunch thrown in which could probably explained why the 150 available seats were taken up rather quickly! Anyway there were two speakers - Kaz Chua and Teoh Peng Kee who wowed the audience with their amazingly sharp and mouth watering high resolutions photos (care to count the fine hairs on a caterpillar?). Equally if not more mouth watering was the lovely model who was there for the live studio shoot demo. There were displays of all the EOS DSLR cameras and EF lens and I was never more tempted in my life.

Ian Chung holding a larger than life poster-size printout of pinup girl and then later snuggling up to her posing with her in the flesh. Yeah Ian has a GREAT Sunday. Beats mountain biking right Ian?

It was a good seminar (marred slightly by the inconsiderate noisy and rude people on the upper gallery) presented by 2 pros who knows their stuff and by the end of the day the sight of the model, the lovely body of the latest EOS-1 Ds Mark III (with a whopping 21.1 Megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor) and talks about RGB, CMYK, AWB, RAW, MTF Curves, Gamut Mapping, etc as more than I could take and so armed with my friend’s compact IXUS 960IS (I do not own a Canon camera - yet) I had to step outside to catch some air. One can easily get carried away with the technical aspects of photography especially all the newest gear cramped with the latest technology; and forget that photography is an art and a feeling for the creative which can ultimately be captured with one’s instinct rather than fancy equipment. It’s more so the photographer not his camera that makes a good picture. But then again the affordable (Pro entry level DSLR) new 12.2 Megapixel Canon EOS 450D DSLR would not hurt either! *wink*

I was thinking that the above shots would make for a glorious poster had they be taken with a DSLR and shot in RAW rather than JPEG on the humble IXUS 960IS. *sigh*