“Gong Tengkujuh” Celebrating the Photographic Arts

1.Full Name: Mohd Zulkamal Radzi

Name: MzRadZi

Facebook: Mohd Zulkamal Radzi

Photography Involvement:

Mohd Zulkamal Radzi’s journey as a photographer begins when he start his profession as a Science Officer at the Institute of Oceanography (INOS) UMT. A part of his responsibility at INOS requires him in camera usage and interact with nature; consequently photography has become a major interest in his life. He loves to learn and explore the techniques and the secrets behind the remarkable pictures taken by professionals and amateur photographers. He believes that photography never ends, there is always something new and it has become a way for him to share his adventures and love of nature with friends and family. The journey of learning photography is still ongoing. Landscape, macro, astrophotography and lifestyle are his way of photography and what turns up always surprises him.

To full potential his photography skills, he went to a few basic DSLR courses and participated in photography community activities and forums. He gained many advice and guidance from friends and also from those who are sharing the same interest. He also learns from YouTube and websites and believes that there is tons of photography knowledge waiting for us to grab on.

Equipment:

Camera: Nikon D3

Lens: Nikkor 50mm, Sigma 24-70mm and Tokina 17-35mm

Assesories : SB900 Speedlight,

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2. Full Name: Borhanudin Mohd Yusof @ Mohamed

Name: Borhan Yusof

Facebook: Borhan Yusof

Instagram: borhanmy

Photography Involvement:

Borhan’s passion about underwater photography emerged two years backs, after 10 years of service with UMT as a Lecturer at Department of Creative Arts & Recreation Science, Center for Foundation & Liberal Education (PPAL). His passion in underwater photography was shaped by his interest in scuba diving as Scuba Instructor for the past 8 years and also through the encouragement from his dive companions. Underwater photography has led him to travel to the diving destinations in Malaysia and Indonesia to experience different underwater landscape and marine life.

Underwater photography is a huge paradigm shift for him, which gives a different perspective towards underwater marine life and scuba diving. His experience involved, capturing artificial reef photos for the Department of Fisheries in Johor, Terengganu and Kelantan, but most of the snapshots are for his personal collection. Scuba diving gives him a chance to interact with the unknown and the magical. Therefore, his aim in taking photos is to capture and share the unique aesthetics of underwater marine life with peoples above the surface. He always believes that impressive aesthetic underwater images should help to raise awareness for the stunning beauty of the oceans  – ‘Seeing is believing’.

Equipment:

Camera: Sony RX100M2,

Underwater Housing: Aquapazza

Strobe: 2 x Inon D2000

Macro Lens: Subsee +10

Wide Angle Lens: Inon UWL-100 Type 1 + Dome

Tray: Nauticam

Arms: Inon

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3. Full Name: Muhammad Sharwan Bin Abdul Ghani

Name: Mat Rambo

Facebook: Mat rambo

Instagram: Mat_rambo

Photography Involvement:

“Photography is not only my profession but it is also my desire”, Muhammad Sharwan Bin Abdul Ghani (2015). Muhammad Sharwan also known as Mat Rambo has been working as a photographer and videographer for UMT since 2007. Later, he has been given responsibility to capture moments during events and activities such as convocation, sports coverage, portrait studio and other UMT’s formal events. His works in photography for UMT has been recognized as he had been requested to facilitate the convocation for University Malaysia Pahang – UMP in technical aspect few years back. Beyond that he had involved in photography and videography course organized by UMT for students and staffs as assistant instructor.

Muhammad Sharwan desire in nature photography is not limited on land, in 2009 he started to full potential his skills in photography by taking lessons in scuba diving and underwater photography. Since then it gave him a bigger perspective on photography and its definition.

Equipment:

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark 111 with Canon 70-200mm

Lens: 24-105mm, 50mm

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4. Full Name: Asmadi Bin Ali

Name: putera

Facebook: putera trg

Photography Involvement:

Asmadi Ali is a talented IT Officer at Information Technology Centre, UMT. His talent not limited in IT, but also in photography. Asmadi started involved in photography seriously since he owned his first DSLR Canon 7D in early 2010. Asmadi began to take photography classes such as Composition, Landscape, Bird and Wedding Photographer, to broaden his knowledge and at the same time enhance my skills and talent.

Even though Asmadi is a professional trained IT Office, he is still a photography enthusiast. Asmadi actively involve in photography community even though in different genre such as landscape, Bird and Macro photography. Currently Asmadi actively involved as wedding, corporate events and freelance photographer.

For the time being Asmadi is not ready yet to participate in any photography competition, but when the time comes, Asmadi will definitely taking part. For the time being, he is focusing on enhancing his skills and talent in photography.

Equipment:

Kamera :
Canon EOS 5D Mark II With Canon 400mm Tele-lens
Canon 7D

Lens :
17-40MM L F4
24-105MM L F4
70-200MM L F2.8
55-250MM F3.5
50MM F1.8
400MM L F5.6Speedlight:
Canon 580EX II
Nissin Mark II
Yong NuoFilter :
Raynox Macro Filter
ND1000 UV filter
ND300 UV filter

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5. Full Name: Mohd Shukry Bin Tahar

Name: Syuk

Facebook: Syuk Yei

Instagram: syukyei

Photography Involvement:

Mohd Shukry Bin Tahar or “Syuk” as a nickname by his colleague and friends is a photographer at Centre of Corporate Communication, UMT. Syuk’s interest in photography starts at a very young age. He being introduced to camera by his teacher when he was in school, since then he has always been fascinated by the photography concepts and sees so many photography angles everywhere he goes.

Syuk is a passionate landscape photographer but he is actually trained as professional electrician. Syuk thought that it is the ends of his desire in photography since he further his study in electrical program after finishing his high school. But it does not stop there, with the help of his deep desire, skills, knowledge and his works in photography, Syuk has been given a chance to foster his photography desire as he being appointed as UMT’s Photographer in 2009. Since then Syuk has never look back and continue to enhance his knowledge and skills in photography for the love of his dream job.

 

Equipment:

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon 1DX.

Lens: Canon 24-70mm, 50mm, 70-200mm

Accessories: 580EXII Speedlight

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6. Full Name: Syed Ahmad Rizal Tuan Nek

Name: syedrizal

Facebook: Syed ahmad rizal

Instagram: syed_ahmad_rizal

Photography Involvement:

Syed Rizal is a Senior Lab Assistant at School of Marine & Environmental Science, and has always been interested in photography. After more than 15 years of service with UMT, its all begins since 2009 when his first time using underwater camera, canon ixus 65. Then, gradually the hobby has becomes his passion, and urged him to learn and upgrades his knowledge in scuba diving until he becomes a SDI Dive Master, plus share and discuss among his likeminded friends about photography. Along the time slowly he upgrades his camera and equipment.

For him, nature photography never gets boring, whether it be underwater or land, because it is always a new angle he can introduce to his photo.  Other than a photo naturalist, he is also have involved in taking pictures of artificial reefs in the waters of Terengganu, Kelantan, Johor and Kedah for Fisheries Department and his latest underwater job was at Layang-layang Island for underwater post-box for POS Malaysia in August 2015.

For land photography he considered himself quite lucky because nature of his job requires him to assist UMT students (final year and master students) to do sampling or field study at Forest Reserve. Therefore, most of the images of his land photography were taken during the sampling for UMT students and scientific expedition organized by the Forestry and Wildlife Malaysia for species identification purposes.

Awards:

Marine Park Malaysia Underwater Photography Competition 2015/Underwater seascapes (3rd Place)/Underwater macro (finalist)

Equipment:

Underwater

Camera: Nikon D80

Housing: Nexus

Lens: Nikon 60mm & Tokina 10-17mm

Strobe: 2 units of Sea&Sea YS 90

Land

Camera: Nikon D7000

Lens: Nikon 60mm Macro, Nikon 50mm, Tamron 90mm Macro, Tokina 10-17mm, Sigma 10-20mm, Tamron 70-200mm.

Accessories: 580EXII Speedlight

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7. Full Name: Kamaruzaman Arifin

Name: Kamaruzzman

Facebook: Kamaruzaman Arifin

Instagram: maroboat

Photography Involvement:

Kamaruzaman is an experienced marine assistant at School of Fisheries & Argiculture Sciences. Kamaruzaman never lost his attachment to the sea, he learned to respect the marine wildlife since at a very young age. And this is the main reason why he is so passionate about underwater photography besides 18 years of scuba diving experience including eight years as a SDI Dive Master.

Kamaruzaman started his underwater photography in 2008 with Canon G11 and Patima Housing, since then it has been given him a new meaning of scuba diving. As his underwater photography becoming serious, gradually he upgrades his underwater camera and its equipment. Underwater macro photography is always his interest, and now underwater seascape starts getting his attention.

Award:

Underwater Photography Competition, Malaysia International Diving Exhibition 2010 Underwater Macro (1st place)

Equipment:

Camera: Sony RX100M1,

Underwater Housing: Nauticam

Strobe: Sea&Sea YS27DX

Macro Lens: Subsee +10

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8. Full Name: Tengku Iskandar Zulfahmie

Name: Ku Fahmie

Facebook: Tengku Iskandar Zulfahmie

Instagram: Ku_Fahmie

Photography Involvement:

Tengku Iskandar Zulfahmie is a photographer at Corporate Communication Centre, UMT. His first experience in the field of photography started when he was in school. It’s all started in 2009 when his passion turns to profession after he was accepted as a photographer and videographer Centre of Information Technology, UMT. In the field of photography, he has been involved in a lot of events and programs that requires him to capture memorable moments such as the official university programs, sports events, and even aerial photography.

As a photographer by profession, he consider himself quite fortunate not because of he loves his job, but he has been given an opportunity to broaden his photography skills and talent such as underwater and aerial photography. The passion towards photography leads him to become a freelance photographer during his free time. Currently, he is still learning to enhance his skills and explore new viewpoint in photography.

Equipment:

Camera: Nikon D3 and Nikon D4S

Lens: Nikkor 18-35mm, Nikkor 16-35mm, Nikkor 50mm, Nikkor 70-200mm

Accessories: SB900 & SB910 Speedlight

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10. Full Name: Mokhtar Ishak

Name: SuperMokh

Facebook: SuperMokh Mokhtar Ishak

Photography Involvement:

Mokhtar Ishak or known as SuperMokh is a prominent photographer in UMT with over 25 years of remarkable experience. He started involved in photography in 1990. Photography changes the way he sees things, everything around him looks different when he starts to see it in a photographer’s viewpoint. He believes that a photo can capture a moment, and have it forever. Light, shapes, colors, textures, people, buildings, trees, flowers and everything around him changed his everyday experience.

His enthusiasm of constantly seeking knowledge and fresh techniques and tendency to innovate new ideas in photography is never fade. In 2005, he was appointed as an official photographer in KUSTEM (UMT) since then he dedicated to photography seriously. But learning to become a great photographer is a serious challenge for him.

Even though he is a photographer by profession, the mesmerizing beauty of nature that inspired him to become a photographer, and attempt to capture those precious landscapes, wonderful flower, and unique wildlife moments. Photography inspires him to always expand his knowledge and brings him to the different world and cultures. His commitment to photography is as strong as ever, in 2015 he had been given the opportunity to make photo coverage in Balkan countries such as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Turkey under an attachment program with TV Alhijrah.

Equipment:

Camera: Nikon D3S

Lens: Nikkor 16-35mm, Nikkor 50mm, Nikkor 70-200mm

Accessories: SB900 Speedlight

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11. Full Name: NOOR AZHAR MOHAMED SHAZILI

Name: Noor Azhar Sa’diah

Facebook: Noor Azhar Sa’diah

Photography Involvement:

I have been taking photographs for more than 30 years and have used Canon cameras all this while. It started when I needed to take photographs of salmon eggs and hatchlings for my PhD work in 1980 in the United Kingdom. The Canon AE Program, my first SLR camera came in handy as well for filming my children while my wife and I were studying in the United Kingdom. Over the past few years I developed a deep interest in things macro, but it has always been about flowers, insects, mushrooms and the plants that I could find around my garden. I am learning as I go, and have not invested much in terms of camera equipment – sort of “photography on a budget”. It was sort of always tinkering around with budget stuff and I like things that way. When my old manual flash-gun gave up the ghost and I couldn’t get any flashguns with cable anymore, I started using a macro LED ring flash. Most recently I have acquired an Aperture 2.4G Trigmaster kit to trigger an off camera flashgun. The macro ring LED light just does not provide enough light for the very small apertures I need for macro-photography.

Equipment:

Camera: Canon 40D

Lens: Tamron SP 90mm f2.8 macro lens

Accessories: off-camera flash gun GN14 and LED macro ring flash light.

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12. Full Name: Fadzil Mohd Akhir

Photography Involvement:

When I was a kid, I always play with my father’s camera. It’s an old Continental TXL camera with a manual lens. I learn the art of installing the film manually using a dial, play around with the lens focus and in a way appreciating the depth of field and the importance of lighting to a photo. I left it so long before I pick up a DSLR camera 15 years later. I suddenly felt the fun moment that I used to had when I was a kid. I started enjoying myself taking pictures of my family members, capturing moments and emotions.

My work somehow allowed me to travel to many places around the work, and that’s where I found my real passion of traveling photography. Photography became like a travel journal to me. It captures the moments and stores a memory that you cannot describe in words. I enjoy looking back at the photo i took, because it gets me back to the moment; the place, the time and the feel. Most importantly, this whole photography experience of capturing the valuable moments of the past has allowed me to ponder over the beauty of Allah’s gift and creations.

Equipment:

Camera: Nikon D7000, Fujifilm X20

Lens: Sigma 18-200mm, Tamron 28-75mm,

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13. Full Name: Zulfigar Yasin

Photography Involvement:

Zulfigar Yasin is a marine ecologist studying the tropical coral reefs and coastal forests. This has taken him to Africa, the Amazon rainforest, the Galapagos islands, Australia, Japan, Antarctica and the Indian Ocean which has allowed him the opportunity to chase his other love – photography. The opportunity to recording images of natural beauty and the splendors of the underwater life has always captivated his mind’s eye. He has published several photography books and hosted four main exhibitions on his photographs. He is now working in Universiti Malaysia Terengganu.

Equipment:

Camera: Nikon F5, Nikon D810, Nauticam casing and INON strobes

Lens: Nikon 35-80mm, Nikon 28-300mm, Nikon 10.5mm

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14. Full Name: Norul Aina Amirah Ab Rahman

Name: Aina Amirah

Facebook: Aina Amirah Rahman

Instagram: AinaAmirahRahman

Photography Involvement:

Equipment:

Nikon D-90 SLR Digital Camera with Nikkor 18 – 105mm VR Lens Kit