Haida 150mm Filter System

Haida 150mm filter system is a Lens filter system created by Haida Company, a company located in Ningbo, China, the system is made to provide some ultra wide lens, like the Nikon 14-24mm f / 2.8, Sigma 20mm f / 1.4, Tamron 15- 30mm f / 2.8, Canon 11-24mm 4L USM, Nikon 14mm f / 2.8D, where the lens does not have all the conventional filter thread on the front lens.

Basically, the filter system consists of two parts: the first part, filter HOLDER and the second part filter Gazette. Part holder may consist of several parts of the set ring and clamp filter circuit. While its filter sheet, is a sheet of glass / resin which can be bought separately and tailored to the needs, eg Gradual ND, ND stops 3x, 6x stops, 10x stops, etc. Both this section can be seen in the photo below.

Haida 150mm Filter System

Installation

In this filter system, I give an example of how to install this filter system on the Nikon 14-24mm f / 2.8g ED lens, the other lens could be different way to install.

1. Holder Installation, you need to do is remove its lens from the camera body once, then insert the first ring holder on the rear of the lens body. Combine with the center by turning the screw (thread) on the second part of the holder, make sure the front camera lens hood into the part. After a round screw tight enough, then the lens can be mounted on the camera body. At this stage, you keep this holder on its lens during the trip and is inside a camera bag. (See photo below)

Pemasangan Filter HOLDER

2. Filter’s Clamp, before taking the picture, attach a sheet of filter required may be one or two filters stacked on the filter’s clamp, by sliding and enter into his brace, then after his mounted filter, this filter plug clamp (already existing filter ) to its holder on the lens. Once installed it is ready to do your photo shooting.

Complete Set after installation

Tips and Tricks

1. Be careful in installing / removing the sheet filter to / from its clamp, make sure when enter in the flat position and parallel to the rail of his holder. To prevent damage to the clamp and its filter sheets. Remember 150mm sheet filter system is not the cheap stuff.

2. Make sure you install the holder on the lens when you are still at home, while the clamp and its filter can be installed while location shooting. This is to avoid its lost your time while shooting and prevent of the entry of dust into the camera’s sensor when you uninstall and install ultra wide lens.

3. Bring a lens cleaning cloth for cleaning your front glass of ultra wide lens and filters, given the ultra wide lens front most convex and large, as well as your filter is relatively large, it will quickly get dirty easily during a photo shooting session.

4. Do the experiment yourself, how to influence the outcome filter your photos with different the camera settings, and try with different weather condition. Never was in a hurry, but do it slowly, accurately and surely. Discover your own style and pattern.

Assigned Location

Watu Bolong beach as assigned photo shot location, is located exactly on the east side Drini Beach, which is one of the southern Java coast range that Baron beach. Approximately 2-3 hours by car or motobike can be reached from the city center, with the route, Yogyakarta – Road Wonosasri – Piyungan – Wonosari – Baron coast highway – Drini Beach. Forwarded by walking along the footpath from the Drini Beach.

Background

This Landscape photo assignment purpose to try the result of Haida 150mm new filter system that I bought at a local camera store in Yogyakarta. Filter system that I use here is reserved for Ultra Wide Lens AFS Nikon 14-24mm f / 2.8g ED.

Haida 150mm filter system

For those who are new to wear this system, do not get confused because all there in the instructions leaflet, is the installation of this filter system requires us to remove the lens from the camera body much earlier, so that its holder can be rotated and paired with its filter holder.

After that, the new camera can be screwed into its body and its replaceable filter. His own Filter Sheets standard width of 150mm and can be paired 2-3 layers at once, for example GND filter stacked with ND filter.

Real World Results

Here is below sample shots landscape photo in Watu Bolong Beach, included camera settings (EXIF),

NIKON D800

, f/8, 30secs, 15mm, ISO100

NIKON D800

f/8, 30secs, 14mm, ISO100

NIKON D800

f/13, 10secs, 14mm, ISO100

Happy hunting and enjoy it,

Sad Agus PHOTOGRAPHY, 2016

Google Photo HTML Link Problem

I’m having trouble making html link on the photographs which I will include in my blog articles. For a while I decided to give dg link source of Nikon Image Space.
Here’s an example link from Nikon Image Space site:

Finally, after get searching some website, I’ve got to put my google photo into my blog here. It’s simple.

1. Go to google photo website > photos.google.com
2. Sign in
3. Click in one of your photo
4. In Safari, right click in the middle of your photo
5. Click in “Copy Image Address”
6. Add html link to your blog as below

<img class=”aligncenter wp-image-249 size-large” src=”Paste html link here” /></a>

Here is below of google photo link that is working:

Here is insert media direct from wordpress:

Aerial Photography & Videography with Drone

My House from the air | From Drone

Several years ago, I was amazed and flabbergasted that someone who can shoot of Prambanan temple, tall buildings in Jakarta city from the air. Looked absolutely stunning; perhaps this is because we rarely see the appearance of the land, another object within a relatively close distance. I desire to know more about the aerial photography, led to the unmanned aircraft equipment, which is often called “Drone”.

Drone

DJI Phantom 3 Professional | From Drone

In recent months, Drone no longer high price which was more than $2000. And recently it’s only view hundreds dollars for simple Drone. This is due to the rapid advancement of technology and the many research and development in this device. However the price of Drone still fairly expensive for general photographer or videographer enthusiasts in Indonesia. The most inexpensive price drones that can be attached with GoPro cameras costing nearly  US$1,000. There are several Drone below US$500, but of course with the limitations of the camera resolution and duration of flying time. Modern drones and for amateurs, usually have a battery power source that can hold up to fly approximately 20 minutes – 25 minutes.

Camera

4K Camera | From Drone

Equipped with a tiny camera attached to the bottom with a flexible holder called Gimbal; which can rotate up, down; some are able to rotate left, right to 360 degrees. The most popular today is the camera drones that can achieve 4K resolution (4,000 pixels) – truly remarkable progress. Just imagine; with HD resolution (720 pixels) or UHD (1080 pixels) only, the displayed video have been alreay so clear. So with 4K resolution – a video produced will be cleaner and sharper as crystal clear…!

Remote Control

Remote Control | From Drone

Remote control function for controlling the movement Drone start of the takeoff, in flight, and landing. Some of remote controls can be connect to Gadget (Smartphone, Tablet, Computer); then all the pictures out of the camera will be displayed in a “live view” or realtime. In fact all of the camera controls still photography and videography all can be controlled and commanded from a remote control itself or your gadget.

Practice… Practice… and Practive….!

Practice… Practice… Practice… | From Drone

I’m still learning and get familiar how to take good composition aerial pictures, either Landscape, Architecture, or urban. Currently, there are more important than photography or videography, that is how I can get used to and skilled in manuevering Drone while flying; for example, the movement of “difficult” as flying arround of objects (orbital), or track down in narrow river or slope, movement up or down while rotating (yo-yo), and others.

Having fun

In the meantime, I am still enjoying my Drone with simple movements. There are several stages before you fly the drone and must be thorough and get patient. Do it slowly and carefully. When the first fly, I hit a wall of my house and had also fallen because snagged kite string.

I may to write easy guide once I use to fly with my Drone, of course I will share in my next blog posts. Below is my video of Plaosan Temple, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

 

Happy Dronie,
Sad Agus
DJI Phantom 3 Professional

 

In youtube.com

My photo gallery in youtube

 

Enjoy it.

Industrial Photography

From Landscape

My job this time is to supervise and conduct observations of sediment layers containing oil on drilling rig in the coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Drilling oil wells is an important thing for the company I work for, because drilling is to know the content of the oil in the reservoir section the other side. Even platform to suck oil out to surface have been installed and are being prepared.

This time, Management asked me to take a picture of this platform, which is attached with drilling rig where I am working on. This drilling rig, this time in charge of drilling multiple horizontal wellbore. When I met the head of the company’s drilling supervisor, he asked me if I bring my digital camera, I said: “Sorry, if I do not bring it this time.”

From Landscape

Finally, after worked on drilling preparation one of oil well, then Drilling Supervisor allowed me to use the Nikon Coolpix S3600 compact camera and booked me to one crew boat to take some pictures around the drilling rig. I told Captain Ship to maneuver to west side of the drilling rig, so the shots are not “against” sun. For me, some of the shots was not disappointing and quite well.

From Landscape

After take editing some shots in the Macbook Air and get these done, then emailed them to management officer. That’s a bit of my experience working other than as a geologist in the oil drilling rig, as well as amateur photographers.

Enjoy the pictures,
Sad Agus
Wellsite Geologist Consultant
Peninsular Malaysia
November 2014

Move to New House – “Omah Aring”

Omah Aring | From New Plemburan

After over a year of waiting, Finally I and family moved to our new house, “Omah Aring”, which means the sides sloping roofed houses. This house consists of two parts: the main house and “joglo” house. The main house idea came from my wife – Ambarwati, located at the back, which is nuanced semi-minimalist for living family. While the front house is Joglo; does not require a design plan, just follow the design of the old Javanese buildings. I ordered this Joglo house from someone in Wonosari city, Yogyakarta. Its formed of teak wood “Joglo” house pillars; This “joglo” house, I use for the living room, a place of worship, reading room and lounge, and can be used as a gathering place in an event or party.

Joglo House | From New Plemburan

The term “Omah Aring” comes from Yuda de’angelo, is an architect who designed this house. Construction of this house longer than I expected; because a lot of details that need to be repaired and making up of joglo been very slow. Initially, beginning in 2014, our family is planned to move, but the main house is not well prepared to live; because there are some parts that must be repaired. Finally, on July 20, 2014, 10 days before Eid, we moved into our new house – “Omah Aring”… Horay…!

My Family | From New Plemburan

This house, I dedicated to my beloved wife – Ambar. I am glad that she is happy after my family moved, although joglo house not ready when we move. The second floor of the main house is ready for living. Currently, the ground floor is still in the stage of final finishing, such painting “melamine” wood frame, doors and windows; while installments and complements the interior furniture.

From New Plemburan

Its still a lot things to do for final settlement, but at least my family happy for our own home sweet home and gathered with family – Ambar, Ajeng and Dimas – this is the most beautiful time for my family.

Greetings from Omah Aring,
Plemburan, Yogyakarta.

Back Work in Malaysia

From Photo_2014

The photo above was snapped by my colleague – Toni Juritno; using iPhone4 mobile phone, when we worked together at the drilling rig West Prospero, off the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

Mid-2014, I had to take chance of job opportunities in Malaysia. One of the leading European oil companies, implementing programs in the field of oil drilling east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. This plan would explore drilling time approximately 16 wells in the program one more year, so I should be ready to undergo the task as a Wellsite Geologist at drilling rig.

From Photo_2014

Starting with the first exploration well and success, with penetrating some rock formations, including the reservoir layer, taking rock core samples , perform a series of the electric logging (wireline logging).

Schedule this time, I worked for three weeks. Starting from the top and the drilling of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Luckily, I was able to go home before the day of Eid. Fasting in this year of Ramadan at the drilling rig, feels normal; because I was accompanied by my senior colleague, Toni Juritno.

From Photo_2014

From Photo_2014

Some of the photos in this page are my shots. Taken from the drilling rig. The digital camera is belong to company, Nikon Coolpix S3600. This pocket camera produces good pictures; of course they are need to process by Adobe Photoshop.

Happy works…!
Sad Agus
Wellsite Geologist Consultant
Malaysia offshore, July 2014