Program of Events for the Month of May & June 2010 at the Nikon Centre Kuala Lumpur
Nikon D Users Workshops
Results of Nikon Photo Contest
Nikoners Walk About
Photography Exhibition
Talking Photography
Photo Critic Session
Nikon Shooting Stars
Nikon Best of Friends
About Nikon Centre
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GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR NIKON DSLRs
Basic Photo 1
Nikon Seminar Room
11.00am to 4.00pm
Sat 1, Sun 2, Wed 5, Sat 8, Sun 9, Sat 15, Sun 16 and Wed 19 May
Sun 6, Sat 12, and Sun 13 June
Course Fee: RM50.00
(D40, D40x, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D3000, D5000, D90, D300, D300s)
This workshop is ideal for beginners who have just bought a Nikon DSLR camera or those looking to get started and knowing the operation of the camera. It will take one through the user’s manual, learning the basic digital camera terminology. Hands on instructions and practical sessions are critical at every step of this 5 hours workshop.
For more information on the schedule, syllabus or other workshops and course fees are available at the centre, please call the Centre, or log on to the website: nikoncentre.nikon.com.my or email nikoncentre_kl@nikon-asia.com
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Building your Picture Techniques
Basic Photo 2
Nikon Seminar Room
11.00am to 4.00pm
Sat 22, May & Sat 19, June
Course Fee: RM180.00
This workshop is ideal for beginners who has bought a Nikon DSLR camera and do have a basic working knowledge of the operation of the camera. It is ideal for those wanting to have a better feel and an in depth understanding of the creative modes available with the DSLR and looking to have a stronger approach to photography. It offers photographers an understanding of the importance of the balance of techniques and the art in taking pictures.
Participants will learn the digital camera terminology and have an in depth understanding of the operation of the camera. Hands on instructions and practical sessions are critical at every step of this workshop.
Hobbyists, beginners wanting to be more creative and to discover their own approaches in their photography will find this 5 hours workshop most useful.
Pre-requisites: Basic introduction photography knowledge or those have completed Photo 1
Schedule, syllabus or other workshops and course fees are available at the centre. Please call the Centre, or log on to the website: nikoncentre.nikon.com.my or email nikoncentre_kl@nikon-asia.com
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Learning to See & Control your Pictures
Basic Photo 3
Nikon Seminar Room
11.00am to 4.00pm
Sun 23, May & Sun 20, June
Course Fee: RM180.00
Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense means using your senses, your intellect and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the world around you. If you find that, your images often lack the ‘wow’ factor, or as if you can see, ‘a good picture’ but you just cannot capture that moment or composition, as you want it? Now is the time to break through those barriers and free yourself to explore and capture what has previously felt out of reach.
This workshop is tailored for photographers wanting to break through those barriers, learning the approaches, and discovering how to utilize an open-minded, creative approach to photography that breaks stereotypical barriers and methodology. Fieldtrips, classroom critiques and reviews of works are included in this 5 hours workshop.
Pre-requisites: General basic working photography knowledge is required. For those who have completed Photo 1 and Photo 2.
For more information on the schedule, syllabus or other workshops and course fees are available at the centre, please call the Centre, or log on to the website: nikoncentre.nikon.com.my or email nikoncentre_kl@nikon-asia.com
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Results of Nikon Photo Contest ‘A Celebration of Colours, Culture & Heritage with Nikon’
1,671 entries were received after the closing date on March 31, 2010 with 1, 466 from the open category and 205 from the school children/youth category. The judging was held on April 5th, the judges were Mirco Lazzari, our guest Sports Photographer (Italy), Azrul Abdullah, Ng Kok Leong and Hadzme Mohd Jaafar.
Winners for the open category are 1st prize Low Yong Seng (Johor), 2nd prize Yaman Ibrahim (Selangor) and 3rd prize Mohd Ghazali Kori (Terengganu).
Consolation prizes are: Ng Choo Kuan (Perak), Lin Joe Yin (Selangor) and Siti Khadijah bt Kamarudin (Selangor).
Winners of the school children/Youth category are: 1st prize Lim Tau Won (Kuala Lumpur), Kwok Zhe Yan (Selangor) and 3rd prize Foo Seh Kai (Johor)
Consolation prizes are: Lee Hui Ping (Selangor), Muhammad Azizi Rosle (Selangor) and Andrian Tam Wae Jim (Selangor)
Nikoners Walk About
This monthly program allows Nikoners to experience, share and exchange hands on instructions and feedbacks on the usage of the camera. It will also allow users to meet one another of the same interest group to gather information and exchange interests of places, subjects, ideas of photography and a feedback session for the formation of special interest groups to cater for different levels and interest among users.
This will be an ongoing monthly event, where, Nikoners begins from a place of not knowing what photographers need to know to make what photographers make as ‘art’. In this spirit of not knowing, we attempt to create an environment in which a range of interests and influences can be brought together. This get together is open and with flexibility, to create opportunity for participants and contributors to invent scenarios and possibilities for how to speak and learn together.
Please call or email nikoncentre_kl@nikon-asia.com to register.
Participation is free
Meeting venue: Berjaya Times Square
Time: 8.45am
Dates:
Sat 29 May D3000, D5000 users
Sun 30, May D90 users
Sat 26, June D40/D40X/D50/D60/D70/D80 users
Sun 27, June D100/D200/D300/300s users
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Photography Exhibitions
Beyond Our City: “lights & Myths”
Part 2
Sat, 1 to Mon, 31 May
Nikon Photo Gallery
Presented by Goethe –Institute Malaysia with support from Nikon Malaysia and Epson Malaysia
Admission Free: Daily 10.00am to 10.00pm
"Lights and myths" is a group exhibition embodying the vision that captures the capricious rhythm of our cityscape. After the completion of the "Mapping Invisible Cities" project supported by the Goethe-Institut in June 2009, 13 local photographers who wanted to share their own personal vision of the city came together to form the "Beyond the concept of city photography" project. This project was initiated and led by local curator and photographer Alex Moh together with Azrul K. Abdullah and Kelvin Chan under the support of the Goethe-Institut. Its aim is to open doors for young photographers to explore new possibilities, experimentation and celebrate freedom and spontaneity in exploring new ways to photograph urban subjects. This body of works is the outcome of a 5-month long continuous dialogue, sharing and reflection between the photographers on their own interpretation of the cityscape.
Participating photographers include Assakhof Ab. Satar, Chong Yuk Jye, Faz Kamaruddin, Karthikeyan Rajamanickam, Liew Lee Yook, Lim Li-Ling, Lim Thian Leong, Michael Thessel, Nadia Jasmine Mahfix, Nur ‘Atiqah R., Raja Indra Putra Ismail, Shafina Sheridan and Tan Chee Hon.
A Celebration of Colours, Culture & Heritage
Tues, 1 to Wed 30 June
Nikon Photo Gallery
Presented by Nikon Malaysia and supported by Epson Malaysia
Admission Free: Daily 10.00am to 10.00pm
On January 18th, to celebrate the launching of the Nikon Centre Kuala Lumpur and the collaboration of Nikon (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd with Futuromic Photo Av Sdn Bhd, a photo contest with the theme ‘A Celebration of Colors, Culture and Heritage with Nikon’ was organised to commemorate the occasion.
1,671 entries were received after the closing the closing date on March 31, 2010.
This exhibition will display the winners of the contest for both the open (adult) and school children/Youth category from the contest.
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Talking Photography aims to share experiences, techniques, ideas from photographers and related themes and is open to audience of all levels of experience and knowledge. This monthly talk aims to be the nexus and catalyst for discussion, thoughts and critique on photography. Guest speakers and renowned photographers of all practices will be invited to share their thoughts on the medium of photography and their works.
From the Jailhouse, he rails to the mortuary
Nikon Seminar Room
Sun 27th, June at 3.00pm
Admission is open and free
K. Azril Ismail; an MA in Art graduate from UiTM, Malaysia & earned his BFA from Columbus College of Art & Design, USA, is currently lecturing for the Photography Department for the Faculty of Art & Design, UiTM & also an active visual artist whom was known for his documentation of now-demolished site of the Pudu Prison of Kuala Lumpur. His current portfolio was extended further when he accomplished his first phase locomotive culture of Sentul & publication of “Project IDOM: The Next Stop” & the “Iron Dragons of Malaya”
He is now currently preparing his new portfolio & publication of the second phase of "Project IDoM", the Pudu Jail, & the Forensic Clinical Research for the upcoming year. He had participated in many exhibition spaces, since his first solo exhibition at the Wei Ling Gallery.
In this session of slide show and talk, Azril will share with us his experiences in his documentation work of the Pudu Jail, the Iron Dragons of Malaya and his ongoing works at the mortuary.
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Photo Critic Session
Nikon Seminar Room
Fri, 25 June at 8.00pm
This is a monthly event of joint collaboration between Nikon Centre Kuala Lumpur and PhotoMalaysia. Members of the critic panel will review selected images from the participants and share their thoughts on the reading of the images. It is an ideal platform for participants to have their works revealed and seek opinions on their works. Forum members are by invitation. Participants must submit 3 to 5 images to enjoy the session. Interested participants are to log onto www.photomalaysia.com to register their interests in the session.
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Nikon Shooting Stars
This program is supported by Goethe Institute Malaysia and Epson Malaysia.
Sun 16, May at 2.00pm
Sun 20, June at 2.00pm
This is an open mentoring program for serious amateurs and emerging photographers by the members of the Nikon teaching advisory panel.
A theme will be revealed for the Nikon International Photo Contest 2010/11 and the selected participants will get to prepare their images through this program for the competition. Besides, the group will be involved in other photography project s this year, later follow by exhibitions and publications of their selected images. Participants will have to meet regularly, once a month at the Centre to present their works for critic and selection.
A good working knowledge of photography is required, participants are required to discuss, willing to work on their images, and open to criticism of their works, with only a limited number of participants will be selected for the projects. Interested Nikon-ers will need to turn up for the first session discussion at the date stated above.
Further enquires can be made at email nikoncentre_kl@nikon-asia.com or call the centre.
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Nikon Best of Friends
Calling all Nikoners! Sends us your best shots of Malaysian landscape that you have taken and we will select the best images, and have them exhibited at our photo gallery at the Centre later this year. An exhibition pamphlet will accompany the works during the exhibition period of 6 weeks. After the exhibition, all the prints will be returned to respective photographers.
The theme for this first chapter is Malaysian Landscapes that includes seascapes, city and townscapes, or you can interpret what you would picture as a ‘landscape’. To participate, send us each image in low res of not more than 1MB in jpeg file for our selection. If your image is selected, we will reward you with a gift from our Centre.
Send your entries to nikoncentrekl@gmail.com
Admission is open and no fee is required. Dateline is Saturday 31st July 2010.
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About Nikon Centre Kuala Lumpur
The Nikon Centre is the largest first one-stop venue for Nikon camera enthusiasts and photographers of all levels to experience, practise, learn, and find inspiration or share the tools of photography and witness the works of local and international image takers and makers. You will enjoy a high level of personal attention and exclusive benefits that afford unparalleled access to photography. It will provide facilities, resources and opportunities for enthusiasts of all ages and abilities to engage with the medium of photography.
This unique and exciting Centre has a showroom of the range of COOLPIX, digital single lens reflex cameras, full range of NIKKOR lenses, including speed light flashes, sport optic and other lenses accessories. In addition, it has a client reception area, a service and repair department, a modest gallery space for exhibitions and a seminar room for workshops, forums, talks and training programmes that reflects the very best of ‘At the heart of the image’ from Nikon.
The Centre offers the services of a team of technically experienced personnel, photography knowledgeable facilitators and advisory staff to meet your needs that exceeds your expectations.
Located at Level 1, East Wing of the Berjaya Times Square Mall, which is situated at the heart of Kuala Lumpur, is easily and conveniently accessible by all forms of public transportations. This Centre opens daily from 10.00am to 10.00pm including public holidays.
Members of the public seeking advices for equipment, camera enthusiasts and photography hobbyists, amateurs or professionals will be able to have a hands-on experience, after sales service, to gathering of information, or wanting a learning experience and networking among photographers, will find the Nikon Centre, a partner for photography.
Nikon Centre Kuala Lumpur
Lot 01-10, Level 1,
East Wing
Berjaya Times Square
1 Jalan Imbi
55100 Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA
Owned and Managed by Futuromic Photo AV Sdn Bhd(326822-T)
t: + 603 214 20218, 214 20219
f: + 603 214 20229
Website: nikoncentre.nikon.com.my
The Nikon Centre Gallery is supported by EPSON & SANDISK
