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Asian Beat Band Competition! Loon Fay from Photomalaysia.com graciously extended invitations for photographers to volunteer for the event and snap pics. Right after church, went down to Beach Club, KL. Monorail broke down, and was super late and packed!!

Basically, i went there with kit lens in my gear (haha, christmas is near, get me some good gear! hohoho!), therefore under those lightings, most of my shots underexposed, and did not do any post processing, but i picked out a couple to show you. Got some more, but uploading slow..so next time la.

This guy above damn cool, like Simymo, i like this band, unfortunately, the rest of the participants were darn noisy, typical rock kind, i dare not say they sucked at playing or singing, but too much noise can become TOO MUCH NOISE. so so noisy, can't hear the words sung, guitar was full of typical malaysian rock solos, only slicing and fast picking but not really in harmony with other band mates and not much rhythm to it. Tsk tsk, can't we adopt "less is more" when writing music? haiyo, my turn to write la!

So shot shot shot, with my kit lens, i can barely do much except to hope for the best with my settings and my trial and error shots. But got to meet new people, photographers as well from the forums, nice people.

At the end of it, we were rewarded with a group photo! yay! Beer which i did not drink, instead i took coke, and it's free! whee!
Got free Yamaha t-shirt too! so cool, and got a tag saying we photographers of the event, haha, indeed, indeed.
Through this, experience gained, knowing my limits and my gears limits, really need to save up to buy some good practical gears! Met new people, which always is a plus point for me.

In the end, the group won and representing M'sia in the international finals is some rocker group whose music i could not appreciate, Sorry man, i like cleaner stuff, noisiness also has its limits mann...
Msian music scene got hope, but not as much when bands who only play certain kind of music are promoted, i heard some underground stuff and they are pretty good, must go learn from them as well. Let's write stuff, anyone interested?