PictFest 2011 is an event organized by salingsilang.com in conjunction with kufoto.com and fX LifeStyle X’enter, starting December 9th to December 10th (that is today!).

PictFest is all about photography and also social media…to find out more about the event (and also the schedule) you can go to their official website at www.pictfest.com. (more…)

As part of Canon Photo Marathon Asia 2011, this event is one of the biggest photo competition event in Indonesia. Other participating countries are Singapore, India, Vietnam, and Malaysia.

Canon Photo Marathon Indonesia 2011 took place in Yogyakarta (September 24th) and Jakarta (October 1st), and we are attending the Jakarta event. Managed by PT Datascrip as an exclusive distributor of Canon camera products, claimed that more than 3000 photographer, both from Yogyakarta and Jakarta, participated in this event . Besides photo competition, there are also some photography workshops conducted by professional photographers in Indonesia. Winners of the photo competition will receive, of course, Canon cameras, and tickets to Photo Clinic to Tasmania, Australia.

During the event, we managed to shots some pole panoramas at the location, which is Ancol Eco Park. This place is amazingly huge, even with 2500+ participants wandering around to get their best shots for the competition, there are still many areas un-explored by them. Below is 10 panoramas (out of 18) that we took using a 9 feet pole to get a ‘different perspective’ of the event. (more…)

A panorama taken at this height brings a lot of new challenges within the process, especially during capturing each frame. We need to familiarize with the pole which was constantly swinging.

This is our first panoramas taken with Nodal Ninja Fanotec Pole Series 1 combined with Ultimate R1 panoramic head. (more…)