My Indirect Mentor - Carlos Nizam

 I can say that, i learnt photography thru the hard way

trial and error, broken patches here and there,

heck even when i tot i had my first *bigcamera* still it wasn't a real DSLR

it is still considered a compact macro zoom camera : Finepix Fs9500

oh yess, i still remember that one, after all its the prototype cam for me =)

tho now its broken, and i can't fix the damn thing because malaysia does not produce this model nomore.

after i had finishes A-Level in 2009, then i'm really thinking seriously to buy my own DSLR

with the money supposedly for surviving 3 month's time in India given by my sponsors,

add a little couple of bucks i managed to scratch under the rug, table, porno cds whooppss,

then its all set n go.

and yeah, that guy above, his name is carlos nizam,

now a photographer for getty images, and he does photojournalism in travel photography.

back then he's still with Ministry of Moment, a wedding group of photographer,

and thru one of his clients, my cousin's wedding, i met this jovial guy.

he's plain simple, direct kinda guy, and yeah he smokes marl's too, so that means he's my kind-o-guy.

he'd needed to unload one of his older models, the right now i'm using Nikon D80.

so yeah, he'd sell it cheap, i'd take it by heart, and wallaah!

one week later, and still owning now,

MY NIKON D80.

hohoho.

and hell yeah, i'd think the shutter counts would be like, 70K maybe by now?

basically i'd been raping the damn camera for the past one and half years ago dude hahaha.

oh my cam's a masochist, she can handle it well babe, no sweaatt.

so in a way, he can be considered my indirect mentor,

teaching me a level advanced in digital media, 

how to compose, how to bring out the colors, how to be proud of ur damn pics.

right now he's having his first solo exhibition in UKM Bangi,

i'd just returned from that place, and fak yeah, the printings are AWESOME PAWESOME!

i'd try to bought one, but it cost me RM350, haha pro's price beb, can't say much about that

even that is considered cheap weyh, in his line of work the pics can be sold for about RM 4000.holycooww.

u guys can go and check his work over there, or thru his flickr here

i can say that, i'd kinda jealous of his lifestyle,

travel to places around the globe shooting helluva goddamn pics,

but hey, rezki org beb, apa nk dikata hahaha.

all i can say is

Good Luck mateeyy!

u fakin promised me to go into studio next year, u betta goddamn remeber that!

hahaha.

Godspeed!