ANIMAL

ANIMAL 

INSTINCT 

Inside and Wild: 

Discover 

Butterfly Effect 

We can see 

Deer 24Hrs 

Lens! 

Sigma 35mm 

1.4 Prime 

MEERKAT 

Far Far Away From Home 

Pro Inside: 

The Unsung 

Studio Photographer 

Professional Technics 

in the Field (C14204) 

MSc Biological Photography 

& Imaging 

Nssrul Hadi 

Abdul Rashid 

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David McMahon

EDITORIAL 

First of all, I’m not very in organized things and I know that sometimes I will rush about last 

minutes works. Sometimes ill took a month for me to finalized which one is suitable for front cover. I am 

happy with the progress and finally with all the hard work that been done, we managed to publish first 

edition of Animal Instinct on this month. I am very nervous to hear the feedback from everyone about 

the magazine. For the first edition, we have a story about captivity on Meerkat. How they survive in far 

away from home and surrounded by people. Beside that, don’t forget to read about urban wildlife 

section as we feature a story about deer lives nearby city and people. As we know Nottingham has a 

deer park, so I assumed that every one maybe or already accidently saw them at your backyard or 

running in park while you have a picnic. 

Beside story about animals, our magazine also has few other stories about photography. So its 

like you buy a wildlife magazine with photography stuff inside it. So it’s like a package. So for this time, 

we do a review about one of the reliable and money worthy prime lens, it’s a Sigma 35mm 1.4 “Art” 

version. We also have an interview with local photographer that very talented and amazing. I let you 

guys read the story inside the features section. 

So hopefully you guys reading our first edition magazines issues. Please relax, sit down and 

have a cup of tea while reading this magazine. Enjoy! 

Hadi Rashid-Editor. 

Deer at Wollaton Park, Nottingam,UK

BIRD 

BIRD 

With the hunting skills that they have, falcon can be categories as a dominant 

predator within their environment. When they reach their prey, they will easily break 

their prey’s neck because falcons have an angular bend on their beaks. Falcons 

are well known to be one of the fastest flying birds in the world. The Peregrine 

Falcons hold the record for the fastest animals in the world. They can fly and even 

fastest during diving with the record during diving is 322km/h. 

What is falcon? Sometimes people who not very familiar with the, 

will easily confuse or exchange them with hawk because of size and 

colour. Basically both of them are bird of prey and fast but what actually 

falcon is? 

Falcon is a bird of prey that belongs to the Genus falco. There are 

various species of these raptor birds in the genus falco family. Their 

long wings and powerful beaks that are adapted to the way the birds do 

hunting can identify them by strongly clawing and then they will tear 

meat of the captured animal. Normally when falcon fully mature, they 

can fly at extreme high speed and easily changes directions because 

their wings are tapered and thins. For young falcons, they longer flight 

feather are normal with any other flying bird but they make it easy for 

young bird to learn how to fly. Beside that, the young falcon also will 

learn superior prey hunting skills that will make them familiar with it so 

that when they grown up, it make easy for them to hunting. 

Stoops begin 300-3,000 feets above their prey and 

either by grabing or by striking it with the feet, hard 

enough to stun or kill it. 

Falcon commonly nest in holes in tree or on natural ledges on cliffs. They 

normally will have four to five eggs with buffy white colour, speckled and blotched 

reddish brown on it. The maturation period for the egg is 28 or 35 days and when 

the young falcon’s come out, they will be take care for 35 days.

BIRD 

BIRD 

LANNER 

THE LANNER FALCON IS A HANDSOME AND POWER- 

FUL BIRD OF PREY, WITH GREY-BROWN TO SLATY 

UNDERPARTS, A CREAMY WHITE THROAT AND 

UNDERPARTS, SOMETIMES WITH THE DARK SPOTS 

OR STRIPPING AND A CHARACTERISTIC RED- 

DISH-BROWN CROWN ON THE HEAD 

SAKER 

THE SAKER CAN BE CATEGORIES AS A BIG AND STRONG FALCON. 

IT LARGER THAN LANNER AND IT HAS VERY 

WIDE WINGSPAN FOR ITS SIZE. 

Sometimes, people miss looks at them and thought is a Peregrine Falcon 

because of they has same size but the different is body colour. Lanners are divided 

into Feldeggi breed in Europe and Erlangeri breed in North Africa. The latter is 

a bit smaller with less spotted and paler underparts and a darker grey back. 

During juveniles, both breeds are much slimmer with brownish back and dark 

streaked underparts. Lanner falcons live on African seashores as well as in continenetals 

areas, from Mauritius to Egypt. It can be found also in Italy, at Balkan 

Peninsula, Turkey and small part of Asia. In Africa, we can found the nest in semi 

desert areas of Moroccan Atlas until Lybia and around dry Savannah. In Europe, 

They live in rocky areas with steep cliffs and also on littoral cliffs. 

Lanner live in pairs but when comeout for hunting, they will do in group. 

During hunting, female will acts like a beater and hunt out the victims while the 

male remains a bit behind, ready to pounce down on the prey. This is quite rare 

technics among the birds of prey but it can give them enough food to survive. 

During hunting and flying, Lanner can be considered as one of the fastest falcon 

during flying. 

Usually, lanners don’t build their nest for breeding. They like to reused corvidae’s 

old nest or diurnal birds of prey abandoned eyries. We can found the nest 

on a ledge, at sheer promontory or a tree. Female lays 2-5 eggs between February 

and March. Both of male and female will look around fro the eggs and normally 

the youngs will fledge after 40 days after hatching. 

The Saker can be categories as a big and strong falcon. it larger than 

Lanner and it has very wide wingspan for its size. The Saker has a large range of 

colour from dark brown to grey and almost white. Saker also can breed with gyrfalcons 

and form a hybrid falcon. The saker originally coming from southeast 

Europe and Asia. They can be found at open plains and forest steppes. They can 

be found on the steppes of Mongolia, southern Siberia and around Russian Altai 

mountains. 

They spent most of their time hunting for mammals like rats, stoats, weasel, 

Siberian chipmunks and birds. They dive fir their prey at 200mph. The Saker 

falcons are aggressive hunter and often attack bigger prey than them. But normally 

the female are more furious than male. 

The Saker Falcon is the favorite bird among Arab Falconers. Many of the 

birds are trapped in Arab countries when they are on the way to migration to 

Middle East. They are being most favorite because it will help the falconers to 

captured juvenile female sakers and train them to hunt because it’s easier to train 

compare with adult. Sakers always be a target and caught over Asia Region and 

sold to the Middle East falcon market. Without breeding, the sakers population is 

in dangers of declining. 

At the moment, there is no accurate figures how many saker falcons left, 

but it is believed that there are getting extinct. Hopefully in the future our next 

generations still have a chance to see the furious saker flying around.

BIRD 

KESTREL 

WE CAN FIND THEM WIDESPREAD AND OFTEN COMING 

AROUND IN A BIG GROUP OF BIRDS. THEY CAN BE 

CONSIDERED AS THE BIGGEST FLOCK OF BIRDS PREY IN 

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They normally lives around of few habitats such as woodland, farmland, 

fresh-mashes or even at town centre. Basically anywhere that it can find prey. 

During autumn season, a lot of kestrels coming from Low Countries, Scandinavia 

and central Europe. During that time, you can spot them easily around sea walls 

and salting area along the east shore of The Wash where there is recorded 

almost 70 kestrels spotted there. 

Kestrel can hangs and fly at a height of 20 or 30 feet poised in the air with 

quivering wings and widespread depressed tail searching the prey at ground 

below. If there is no prey around, it will make fly forward or in circle for a few times 

to make sure the prey is at the ground. Beside that, the common kestrel is the 

only kestrel in Britain that can do hovering while heading into the wind while hunting. 

Despite being persecuted during the 19th century when gamekeepers virtually 

vanished them from some parts of the British Isles, the kestrel has made a 

remarkable comeback and despite recently 29% reduction in the population but it 

still number roughly around 35,000 pairs. One of the main reason why they recovery 

so fast because it has learned and find new hunting area such as roadsides 

and town centre. It’s also able to switch to different prey for each occasion and 

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MEERKAT, 

CAPTIVATE OR NOT? 

Human and animal always lives freely without 

boundaries in this world. Since long time ago, 

human and animal always rely on each other’s for 

everyday activities like farming, entertaining and 

even using for wars. Animal likes horse, cow, sheep 

and even birds will put in the captivity to make sure 

the animals are not runaway and been stolen. Since 

Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt has established the first 

zoo in about 1500 B.C by collecting animals from all 

over Africa and its becomes more popular by every 

leaders or kings around the that time to kept their 

animals that they collect from each continent. In 

United Kingdom, the first zoo that been opened is 

London Zoo. 

If you are living in England and want to see 

the animals coming from Africa continent, the only 

place that have it definitely at the zoo. Even sometimes 

from different continent as well. For example, 

we can see live polar bear at Doncaster Zoo, a 

group or “Mod” of Meerkat captivate at Chester Zoo. 

Sometimes its keep me thinking, are they really 

happy living in the artificial place, far away from 

home? 

Some said that it is good to keep them captivate 

because it can prevent from vanished from the 

world. It keeps them save from predators and 

poachers. Beside that, to keep them calm and feel 

at home, we have to provide a very big cage with a 

similar environment to make sure they are happy. 

We need a big cage because we as we know that 

meerkats living in a big clan so with big cage, it not 

to cramp and easy for them to maneuver around. 

Behind the happiness, we always know there is sadness behind. Even 

though it is good keep them, give a good food and nice cage to stay, they 

always disadvantage to captivate them. We know that meerkats lives in a group 

of 20-30 families, sometimes they put them in a small cage. Not enough space 

to them to play around. They can easily get stress out. Beside that, we know 

that meerkats hobbies is foraging. So we have to make sure that there is 

enough space to do it. Beside that, we know meerkats do not keep they fat in 

the bodies. So that it is means we need constantly give them food. But what we 

saw is most of the zoo only give them three times food per day. It is can make 

them sick and has improper diet. They can die easily. 

The zookeeper should have an age limit for every animal that they keep. 

They should not keep animals that already old and sick just because there is no 

supply for new animals and for the sake of money. We know that sometimes it is 

hard to train new comers animals, it will take a few years for them to obey the 

orders but that actually what we have to face and responsible if we want to keep 

them. If we can rotate our animals that we keep, we can get new animals that 

healthy and people will enjoy coming to our zoo.

Basically, there is a good and bad in term or captivate the animals. We 

can get a very great impact from captivate them from outsiders. For the time 

beings, we rarely heard about meerkats has been poach by poachers. But it is 

good to preserve before those things happens. We can save them for next 

generation so in the future, new generation still know and notice about them 

before. As our generation still notice about the present of dinosaur by all the 

fossil and pictures, we want them to know those animals but in better way. 

With a good and safe place to stay, we have to provide them with 

a balance food and suitable diet for them. Make sure if want to keep 

them, give them a lot of food because they do not have any body fat 

stores. That is why if we saw them constantly digging to find a food. 

Meerkats are mostly carnivore or insectivore. However, they still eat 

some plant, vegetable or fruits to balances the diets. They do eat 

insects like crickets, worms, roaches and etc. But to be remember that 

always rotate the menus, as they can easily feel bored with the same 

diets everyday. 

One of the good reason to captivate them is we can educate 

people about animals especially the meerkats. We always see families, 

a couple, a group of student from different grades and etc likes coming 

to the zoo. People enjoys to watched they movement especially when 

they on sentry standing on the rock or tree. Zoo can gives education 

especially to young education about the animals. 

They always one to be a “sentry” to detect when predators is coming.

DEER 

DEER 

IT’S A BIKE? NO. IT’S A CAT? NO. 

IT’S A DEER! 

I coming from a country if I want to see a deer, either I have to go to the 

zoo or go into the jungle. But if I am lucky enough to find them in the jungle as 

we know that, deer is an animal that really shy and not very friendly if get 

closer or feel threaten But now with a lot jungle that already been explore and 

destroy by human to build something such building, a theme park or shopping 

mall, all the animal sometimes accidently lose into concrete jungle that surrounded 

by human. For example on 2013, at Nara in the centre of Japan, 

around 1,000 Sika Deer who roam the street seemingly not afraid with all the 

transport and human passing by. In Europe, at The Nottingham Wildlife Trust 

(NWT) have a number of calls about deer roaming around in the east of the 

city. It’s seemed they are not afraid to human already. NWT said that the deer 

population is growing across the UK and because they are territorial animals, 

they are moving into village and city area to find new place.

DEER 

DEER 

There are few deer park at public park in the world surrounded by human 

population. On of example is at Nottingham, United Kingdom. At first when I go 

there to looked around, I just amazed that I can get so close to the deer and they 

come nearby to the fence. But suddenly I saw one of the deer run away over the 

fence and I just realized that there still have a gap or door so that people can enter 

the deer park. I just wonder is it safe or not? Because what I remembered is deer 

can act vey aggressive if they feel threaten. 

There is an advantages and disadvantages about this matters. One of the 

advantages we found here is, all deer’s that lives in the park surrounded by half 

gated security, they are save from predators even though few of them jump out 

and roaming around outside unintended. Beside that, we can save them from wild 

hunting or poachers. We know the only place that we can see animals from all 

over the world is at the zoo. If you are lucky, the zoo located nearby to your house, 

otherwise you have to travel far home and for those who have very big families, it 

can cost you a lot of money. It is really great to have public parks that have friendly 

animals, not a meat eater and we can get really close to them. Beside that, it is 

good for young generation to see and learn about them. We also can gain the 

population of the animals for a while. Keep and feed them properly and when they 

are ready to go, we can transfer them back to the jungle. They get the natural lives 

back. 

“Deer’s that been keep alive in the public park always been take care 

very well. They get enough food and attention as well. They never face 

any short of food or running away from hunters or poachers. So they 

always stay healthy and probably safe to come closer” 

There will always have a bad behind the good things. Urban wildlife sometimes 

can get crazy as well. For example, in Arizona, U.S.A wild pigs like to sneak 

into backyard of residential and try to find a food, water or shade. If it not been 

disturb, wild pig will spend more day at the back. But as we know, a wild pig is 

quite aggressive animal and can dangerous to public. Even though there is people 

that keep wild pigs as a pets, with enough food and good shelter, still there is a 

time that there will venture out from the cage or shelter and hunting for food outside. 

In this situation, they are obvious can make very road traffic hazard and 

sometimes it can cause a vehicle accident. Maybe it worse if they come out at 

night at people not very aware with them, car or lorry easily hit them so bad. Same 

things happened with the deer as well. Beside cause a problem to traffic and 

around public roads.

DEER 

DEER 

Many lot people like to see deer because of their beauty. They can be 

very gentle and we enjoyed looked at them. But actually they can cause a lot of 

trouble and can be a destroyer as well. They can come and sneak into city without 

any warning. The deer themselves may not coming so often, but their effect 

on the landscape can course a lot of money to re-developed. For example, 

few suburban counties just outside of New York City, deer population are large 

enough that several town are paying to reduce the deer population through contraception 

or culling programs to reduce risk or disease cause by deer. This is 

because beside of risks cause by deer such as road accident, it also can bring 

a disease call Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). It’s a transmissible neurological 

disease of deer and elk that can produces small lesions in brain of infected animals. 

Its similar to mad cow disease in cattle and scrapie in sheep. Even though 

there is very rare case it happened to human, we better prevent before it to late. 

“Public trying to approach a deer” 

It is good to have wild animal that hard for to see everyday, but it lives 

nearby our house. No need for us to travel far away or do a jungle trekking just 

for sake to see those animals for example likes a deer’s. Maybe each county 

should have or keep any wild animals in the park so that it can make human 

more close to them. But make sure that those animals are safe for public. Beside 

that, the authorities that responsible for them need to upgrade the security to 

make sure it can less the animals trespassing and making less trouble around. 

Human and animals should not be separated that much because we do live together 

since ages.

SMALL 

WORLD 

SMALL 

WORLD 

BUTTERFLY EFFECTS 

WHY THEY HAVE A LOT COLOURS AND PATTERNS 

Butterfly can be considered as one of beautiful animal in the world. 

They are soft, colourful and no harm to any other nature accepts they 

get the nectar from the flowers and the caterpillar eats the leaves 

around. They wont hurt or sting any one. We never heard that people 

die because of being stung by a butterfly. Normally if other animal eats 

butterfly, they will immediately spit it out back because of the poison 

stored in the body will cause severe vomiting. Maybe because of this 

things and the reasons of we can see a thousands of species of butterflies 

flying around over the world. They are can be considered as one of 

the largest group of insects inhabiting on the earth. If you realizes, even 

there is a thousand species of butterfly around the world, each species 

will not have a same pattern and colour of the wings. 

Butterfly can be considered as one of the most striking colour 

display found in the nature. As they fly from one flower to another 

gathering the nectar. If we going to butterfly, sometimes all the 

colourful that coming from the wings make us fly away with beautiful 

thing around. Actually all the colourful wings that butterfly have act 

as a camouflage, mate attraction and warning signal. But what is it 

that makes the vibrant and colourful colour appear to dance? How 

can they possess such intense colour? 

Butterfly gets their colour from two different sources, which is 

ordinary colour and structural colour. The ordinary colour comes 

from normal chemical pigments that absorb certain wavelengths of 

light and reflect others. For example, the pigment chlorophyll colours 

plant green. It soaks up the blue and red colours of the spectrum, but 

not the green. That is what you see on your eyes when it bounces 

back. Most butterflies get their different shades of brown and yellow 

from melanin, the same pigment that makes you tan during summer. 

Structural colour from butterfly coming from specific structure of the 

butterfly wings. butterfly wings are covered with a lot of little scales 

which layer on top of each other and are separated by little pockets 

of air. Because of this colour appear to sparkles and shift as an 

observer moves is actually a light effect known as iridescence. 

Iridescence is the visual of something having a milky brightness and 

play of colours from the surface. All the reflections concentrate and 

compound each reflection make it more vibrant visual displays of 

colours. Others animals that have iridescence such like fish, seashell 

and peacock. Butterfly use their colourful ability to camouflage, 

breeding and warning signal to others butterfly or animals.

SMALL 

WORLD 

SMALL 

WORLD 

CAMOUFLAGE 

MATING 

By using colour, butterfly use it to find correct partner for mating. 

Normally a male butterfly has several way of discover weather he has 

found a female of his own species. One way is by sight. The male will look 

for butterfly with wings that are a correct colour and pattern. When a male 

sight a potential mate it will fly closer, normally behind or above the 

female. Once closer, the male will release special chemicals call pheromones, 

while it flutters its wings a bit more than usual. The male may also 

do a special dance to attract the female. These dance consist of flight patterns 

that are peculiar to that species of butterfly. If the female is interested, 

she may join the dance. They will join their abdomens together. During 

the mating process, when their bodies join together, the male transfer 

sperm to the female. As the eggs later pass through the female egg-laying 

tube, the sperm fertilizes them. Normally the male butterfly will dies soon 

after mating. 

Butterfly use many ways to hides themselves from predators. Sometimes 

as with neotropical metalmarks (Riodinidae), they simply hide under 

leaves, out of sight. Most of the species rest in more open situations 

though and conceal them using technics such as camouflage. Camouflage 

is generally considered to describe something with colour, pattern and 

texture that enable it to blend well against a natural background. butterfly 

rest on many background such as soil, rock and tree trunks. Butterfly can 

camouflage using the colour and patterns on their wings. It helps them 

blend with their surrounding and become invisible to the eye. Beside that, 

disruptive camouflage dazzles the eye by providing visual cues that override 

the characteristic of creature. The eyespots found on many butterfly 

and moth species create an image of large, circular eyes often similar to 

the eyes of predators. Another example is octopus ink. It can disruptions 

that catches the eye and disrupts smell and sight to allow the octopus to 

escape. 

Even though we see a butterfly as beautiful and colourful animals, 

but they are not easy to be eating by predators. They used their bright 

and colourful wings to scare the predators. We called warning coloration. 

The monarch butterfly bright colour are warning sign for vertebrates 

to stay away. Scientist calls this aposematic colouration. Just like 

human learn high visibility vest and orange cones mean danger, so 

predators will know or learn that those bright colour are dangerous to 

eats. 

WARNING 

COLORATION

BRANCA ILIC 

FROM NOTHING TO EVERYTING

FEATURES 

FEATURES 

Branca Ilic used to study a language and literature back at her university 

times. And she never thought that she would fall in love in photography for the rest 

of her life. 

When she finished the university, she comes to England to start a new life. 

After trying different type of works, she find it suit with her life. And the photography 

things happened after she delivered her first child when she started to take a lot of 

picture of her baby and fall in love with photography. That’s how the journey begins. 

HOW IT WAS STARTED 

She never plans to be a photographer. It’s started 10 years ago 

when she get her first camera. She never attended proper education 

like university or college for photography. All she does is leaning 

from Internet, online, books, Magazine and anywhere that she can 

get knowledge about photography. After 7 years of self-thought, she 

finally decided to start-up a photography business. 

THE CUSTOMERS 

“To build up the names is not easy” said Branca. When she started 

the business 4 years ago, she do gave free services photo shoot for 

about 6 months before she slowly established herself. She asked 

anyone that willing to be a model, to comes to her studio and get a free 

photoshoot session. After she gained the confident with the result, she 

starts to accept the customer. Basically she never advertises her promotion 

or job at any advert channel like magazines or internet. But she gets 

new customer by the recommendations from previous customer that 

satisfied with her job she feel lucky that all customers just comes to her. 

MY STYLE 

“My style is modern and contemporary” said Branca. She do a lot of fashion 

photography and when she on assignment, she will dress-up her model eithers 

they are kids or adults with full of style. Beside photoshoot a model in the studio, 

she also does product photography as well. She said she has a constant customer 

that asked her to do a product photoshoot. Beside small items to be shoots in the 

studio, she did photoshoot big product that required her to do it outside. She did 

photoshoot product such like a car and interior design things. But she more focuses 

on the studio photography. 

COMPETITION 

When asked about competition, she did not like to 

compare with others because she does what she likes for. 

For her it is all right if someone didn’t like her style or photography 

because they can go to other photographer that 

they prefer. She said that nowadays a lot photographer that 

doing same things with her and quite challenging. But she 

said everyone has their own style of photography. How they 

control or used the lighting or how they edit the photos etc. 

But she believed it is a healthy competition actually 

THE PROCESS 

Basically she did everything from a beginning. She 

will plan what style should she do for the job. Then after 

do a photoshoot, she will do the editing and processing. 

After she gets the confirmation from client, which photos 

has been choose, she will send it printing.

FEATURES 

EQUIPEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY 

She not really followed the technology very much because she more focusing on 

the process and try to get the best result. When she started to take picture, she 

only used Nikon D50 and she upgrade slowly. But the most important for her is 

studio lighting. Because, with good studio lighting, she can control everything, so 

it’s not that important to get newest camera with big megapixel. Currently she 

using Nikon D700 camera with several lens. 

SIGMA 35MM 1.4 “A” SERIES 

REVIEW 

Sigma Corp. announced it during the 2012 Photokina Exhibition. This lens 

basically is a part of Sigma “A” series of lenses and their target market is for 

pro-consumer photographer. This lens was designed for full frame camera for 

each camera mount. But it is also can be use for crop-sensor cameras (APS-C). 

TECHNOLOGY 

Coming with Hyper Sonic Motor (HSM), 

it makes this lens very quite as we do not 

realized that there is a motor on it. Beside 

that, it can focus very fast even during low 

light condition. This lens also has a floating 

internal focusing system that allows you to 

get superior optical performance when we 

want to do a close-up picture. Sigma Corp. 

upgrade the glass for this lens and use the 

SLD along with FLD glass element, which 

are equal to fluorite to help and get correct 

both axial and chromatic aberration. All this 

upgrade and new technology for this lens 

make it one of the best lens in the league. 

STUDIO VS OUTDOOR 

She enjoys, comfortable and loves doing studio photography because she can 

control everything by herself. But in her opinion, if you shoot outside you will never 

know either its going to rains, windy, heavy snow or etc. it quite challenging. She 

hopes that people keep coming to any studio to do a photoshoot. After all, it’s up to 

public what style of photography they want. 

She hopes that people will keep coming to studio to do a photoshoot otherwise 

no more studio will be open sooner 

When asked about what she do on free times. She said “I always 

spends time with her kids who are 7 and 10 years old. 

Beside that, I love cooking and baking as well”. But most of 

her free time she will spend with her children. 

SHARPENESS 

Even though this is a third party lens, but the result of the photo surprisingly 

amazing. At first, I am not a fan of third party lens because I have a horrible history 

with it. But after a few years and Sigma come out with this lens, I am quite interested 

to tried it and after gave a shoot with few outing, I am quite impressed. For 

the price almost half of the expensive first party lens likes Canon and Nikon, you 

can get a very sharp image from it, even when used at its wider apertures, though 

it must be stopped down slightly for maximal sharpness.

REVIEW 

EXHIBITION 

SIGMA 35MM 1.4 “A” SERIES 

BUILD UP 

What I like most about this lens is Sigma used new coating for their lens. 

I have a bad history with my pervious Sigma Ultra Wide 10-20mm F3.5. Coating 

from the body peel of very quickly after a while I am used it. But with this 

new coating for the “Art” series, I can describe it can beat first party lens anytime 

soon. In my opinion, the build quality of this lens is very good and very 

sturdy as well. This lens has a focusing ring and a auto focus or manual mode 

that we can switch anytime. One of things that Sigma has been improved for 

this lens is even the focusing ring is easy to turn but its offers a solid level of 

resistance so accidental focus adjustments are minimized. 

PICTURE OF MY FATHER 

BY PETER DAY 

I already owned this lens since 2013 and it’s a must have a lens when I going 

around in town or walkabout during weekend. For street, 35mm is very superb as 

it’s a perfect balance of tight and wide without being so bulky to put in your bag. I 

am always recommended to my friends whose looking for great walkabout lens 

especially for full-frame user. I can say that with the value and quality that we get 

from it, I am really satisfied with it. At the moment, it is one of my favorites lens 

so far. 

Date: 21st March – 4th April 2015 

Opening Times: Tuesday-Friday 12-6Pm, Saturday 11-5 PM 

Venue: Surface Gallery. 16 Southwell Road, Nottingham, NG1 1DL 

When you remember someone that you really loved already 

gone, defi nitely you will do anything to make sure that he or 

she still in your memories and remembered for eternity. This is 

what Peter Day does to tribute his father, by doing a photo exhibition. 

. If you come during launching day, you have the opportunities 

to meet up with Peter Day himself. There also have free 

beverages for those coming. 

The exhibition was held for 2 weeks from 21St of March until 

4th of April 2015. It’s located at Surface Gallery, Nottingham 

and opening times is Tuesday to Friday from 12-6 PM and Saturday 

from 11-5 PM only. Everyone is free to enter the gallery. Beside 

that, the exhibition been supported by using public funding by 

the National Lottery through Arts Council England

REVIEW 

The gallery is very simple and cozy. The theme of this solo exhibition is loss, 

memory and reflection. The entire picture was taken by Peter Day himself to contribute 

about his father house that located at Brighouse, Yorkshire. He started to photograph 

the picture, eight month his death. He tries to share his personal experiences 

when you loss someone and maybe viewers can feel it based own their experiences 

as well. “ I am to cause viewers to stop, reflect and consider for a short time” said 

Peter, and what he hoping actually and “I am not sure we ever come to terms with 

loss, but my project places this grief at the centre so that it can be communicated, 

measured and discussed”, said Peter again. 

When we enter the gallery, we can see the large empty area at the middle of it, 

there are only two benches for people to sit down. During peak hour, people can move 

around easily without touch each other’s. The first picture is on your left when you 

enter the gallery. So if we followed the photo one by one, we can see the story behind 

those pictures. Beside that, every two or three photos, he will put one poem related to 

his or fathers life. It quite interesting and makes us want to read the poem. The poem 

also related to the next photo that we would see. To be honest when I entered the 

gallery, I not sure and understand what the story of the picture. This is because all the 

picture that he taken quite subjective in term of the exhibition title. It’s more to fine art 

because at first I thought it’s all about physical of his father or something like that. But 

I’m totally wrong about it. It’s more to something that related to his father. Peter Day 

also put two digital monitors at the wall so we can see every picture that been exhibit 

one by one more digitally. Beside that, a catalogue and pamphlets containing texts, 

photos and write-up from the project, been provided by organizer. 

Overall, the exhibition is quite different with others. We can feel the feeling of 

when someone that you really love and closed already gone and left us forever. This 

project is about the bonding of relationship that never end between son and his father. 

HOW TO DO 

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY 

HOW TO 

It is not hard to explain the meaning of street photography. If you go to 

Google or Wikipedia, you can find the meaning easily. But from my opinion, 

the meaning of street photography is, you shoot an event or public without 

their realized it. You just point, shoot and go away from them. Without any 

setup and no repeated on that action again. Only live action will do. But 

sometimes you can ask a permission to take a photo especially people. 

Street photography is very subjective. Normal people tend to shoot 

what they see from their eyes only. But those who are really aware with the 

surrounding, they can see a lot things on the street. For example people 

walking at the zebra crossing wearing a black and white pants or eldest 

eating an ice cream, sit at the bench with a big beach mural at the back. So, 

to be a street photographer, you must alert with surrounding or have a catchy 

eye. It can help you very much. 

To do street photography, the important thing you must have is a 

camera. It is not an important you have a very high-end equipment or camera 

to get a good photo. I believe it is all depends on your eyes and your heart. 

Combine this together, you can get a marvelous picture by using a kit lens 

with a cropping camera. Basically, you can use any camera you have, a compact, 

polaroid or nowadays a lot people just using their own high end hand 

phone camera.

HOW TO 

After you have your camera as your tools, you have to make a plan what 

you want to shoot. By having a plan, it make your task more easier because it 

help your mind to command your eyes to find what your already to capture. 

Beside that, you also can look at other peoples photo to get some ideas. When 

you already have a plan, which mean you know what equipment you want to 

bring. Try to go out as lean as you can be. You probably need one camera and 

one lens only. For example, Canon 7D with 50mm 1.8 for candid street photography 

would be enough for one day outing. 

Sometimes you may just stand or sitting around in the street and look at 

people to get an idea, try to blend with surrounding. Beside that, to be a good 

street photographer, try to be simple and different ones. Something that can make 

people stare at your photos and said “Wow”. You should try to think outside the 

box. Try to be creative and different as possible. 

One of main factor to get a great impact on your photos is know when the 

correct sun light. You will find a very limited source of light around the city 

because surrounding by building etc. It’s better you chose the right daytime before 

you go out to shoot. My opinion is the best time is on the morning and evening 

light because it much softer. Here is some advices what can you get or do on 

difference situation and times. 

1 Sunny : Everyone like sunny day and they think with a very bright day, we 

can get nice and clear picture. But please remember that actually to much light 

especially during afternoon, the light is not that suitable to do a street photography 

especially if you doing portrait. This is because if too much light and you shoot 

direct toward sun, you may shoot silhouettes or shadows. But if you’re going creative, 

you can play around with the shadow or silhouettes and sometimes can 

creates a strong impact on black and white photos. 

2 Raining: Normally you will get less action of people during raining especially 

during heavy rain or thunderstorm. But just be prepaid because sometimes 

good things will come out during the worst situation. Maybe you need to increase 

your ISO to compensate low light and increase the shutter speed to play around 

with the rain. 

HOW TO 

3 Night: A lot of people think that you will find a lot of difficulties shoot on nighttime. 

But with new DSLR or compact camera that can increase the ISO without 

sacrifice the image quality, I believe we can get a lot of moment. For example 

people smoking outside the convenience store. With a great composition and nice 

light source, can create good photos. Beside that, having a big aperture lens is 

one of the advantage and don’t be lazy to bring your tripod as well. Try not to use 

any flash. 

Composition 

For my opinion, one of the way to make you photo interesting is mastering 

your composition. There is no wrong to have a eye level composition and probably 

favorite way to compose nowadays. But with having a little bit creative and 

difference from others, you photo can be remembered for a lot time. For example 

shoot from below or above. We always rushing to capture everything that we saw 

on the street without planning the composition and we always shoot from our eye 

level only. This will make your photo no different with the others. Try to wait for 

good moment, timing and different POV, you can get good photos. 

Camera Setting 

There are no strict rules about which camera settings should we use for 

street photography. It’s very subjective actually because it depend on which Mode 

that you comfortable. This is because you need to comfort and believe to yourself 

to get nice photo. For beginner, don’t be shy to use Auto Mode. If you’re pretend 

that you already pro and use wrong camera setting, and miss the good situation 

on the street because wrong setting etc. So just be humble and keep learning 

from the pro. If you already master with camera setting, the you can explore and 

experimental with the setting such as using slow shutter speed to get the movement 

impact or use biggest aperture to get the nice “bokeh” background. 

A lot of things we can see at the street. Sometimes it can be memorable and 

some of it can be remember for a log time. We are probably the one that captured 

those important things around the street. Just keep practices and hoping one day 

something big happen just in front of our eye, at the right time and we ready to 

capture it.

ANALOGUE 

ANALOGUE 

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 

PHOTOGRAPHY 

BEFORE AND AFTER 

Since the first digital camera has been developed by Eastman 

Kodak worker name Steve Sasson on the December 1975, 

the technology becomes more advances and sometimes too 

complicated as well. If during film photography, they were using 

light sensitivity to capture an image. But for digital photography, 

the device known as an image sensor has replaced the light 

sensor. These sensors are made up of millions of photoelectric 

devices that convert light into an electrical signal. The two most 

common types of image sensor used in digital camera are CCD 

(change coupled device) and CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) 

sensor. 

LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY 

The meaning of landscape is the visible surface of the 

land that allows the eye the power to wander and to name 

places, or more precisely to rename, as the places already 

have an origin names. Basically landscape is a spaces within 

the world that never been touch or empty. Normally people will 

capture natural world but we also can focus on view of big city 

concrete jungle that created by human to took a landscape. We 

call it urban landscape. 

Today we can consider photography as one of the main tools to tell a story. 

Nowadays by having one picture, you can spread it and tell the rest of the world 

about it. If your picture can give a lot of impact, it can make you famous. 

ANALOGUE PHOTOGRAPHY 

The term ‘analogue photography’ or ‘film photography’ refers to photography 

using a camera and film. With each click of the camera, light interacts 

with the chemicals in the film and an image is recorded. The collected 

images in your roll of film then will be process in the lab or dark room. During 

the process session, few chemicals will be involved which is makes the 

images come to life. 

For this time, the article will touch about how we can combine old and 

new technics of photography to develop a very good and nice picture. It’s a way 

to use a digital and analogue photography together. We will used a medium 

format camera name Fuji GW6902 and pair it with Black & White Rollei Retro 

400s-120 negative film. For digital side we will use Canon 5D MK3 with Lens 

Sigma 35mm 1.4.

ANALOGUE 

ANALOGUE 

Analogue Plus Digital 

For this article, we are pairing out medium format camera, Fuji 

GW690II with Canon 5D MK3. Here is some info about Fuji GW690II. It’s 

was released in June 1985 have a minor revisions to the previous version. 

This camera had interchangeable lens. It has hotshoe, the shutter release 

has a lock. So after you press the shutter, you have rewind the film. The 

grip is checked compare to ribbed before. And the strap lugs are conventionally 

one to each side, rather than both on one side. The GW690II are 

ten and five grams heavier than before. 

Basically to make sure that we have a correct data for the analogue 

camera, we have to put a digital camera side by side. So when we get the 

info from digital camera, we will put the setup on the analogue camera. 

Now we get the info and we are save to shoot using analogue. 

Normally after we finish developing the film, we will use a scanner to 

get those images from the film. We will put the film under the scanner machine 

and after it done scanning, we will get black and white photos in our 

computer. Now have those photos in the computer. If we want the photos 

turn into colour, we can use a Photoshop to changes it from black and 

white to colour. Even though the technology is different between these two 

cameras, but when we combine it together, the result will be marvelous. 

Analogue Nowadays 

Nowadays, people lives surrounded by a lot of new technology that 

some of it we never thinks that it will happened. For example a technology 

that allows us to transfer every picture that we shoot using digital 

camera immediately into our smartphone. Before this even we used digital 

camera, we still have to wait to transfer it into computer. Even though 

all this smart ways can make you process faster, but there is still people 

that love to shoot using film. 

When we asked them why they still stick to the film camera, they 

answer is the element of surprise and patient is their main reason. By 

using analogue camera, you are curious what result did you get? It’s the 

result perfect or disaster. You will think harder about what you’re doing. 

Every time and frame can be assigned and a physical cost, so you will 

tray a little bit harder to make sure that you get nice shoot and counted 

every shoot as the best. Using analogue also teach us to be more 

patients. There is no LCD screen to check your shoots, but that make it 

more interesting about analogue. You only can see the images that you 

captured after the film roll has been processed, scanned and printed. 

Sometimes if you’re busy, you have to wait a few more days to settle up 

the process thing etc.

ANALOGUE 

People excited to wait everyday to look forward what is our next technology 

on the camera. But we must remember that before all this new technology 

comes, there is always the old that be as our guideline. It will be a bonus if we 

can have and keep it for our next generation so that they know how analogue 

camera look a like. 

Urban Landscape 

While people do enjoy taking picture of wide open space around the county, 

people that have a very limited times to travel around to the rural area, still 

can do a landscape photography. We called it Urban Landscape. Some 

people might thing it is not suitable because they feel like landscape only 

suitable for nature landscape photography. Actually urban landscape can 

produce beautiful and fantastic photos as well. 

Many of the world's most admired cities and urban designs have their 

origins in garden designs. The reason for this is that garden and landscape 

designers have always been concerned with the composition of landform, 

water, planting, buildings and paths (including roads, avenues and garden 

paths). Having learned this compositional skill at the human scale of gardens 

and parks, they bring their experience to urban design. Large cities like 

London present a multipart human made landscape in which groups of social, 

domestic and industrial forces have shaped the environment. Each of it leaves 

its mark and put on to the multipart of layer. 

Every urban photograph we can easily identify where the location of. But 

some of it not and some of the picture will be notice by a caption. Location 

that we put can be in term of geography and climate, central or marginal to 

the city. Sometimes, we can recognize the extract location where the photo 

has been taken but with the help of few landmarks around, it can be identify. 

This can help us locate the picture within the spatial entirely of the city, 

because the location within a city tell us a lot about economics, the type of 

community, activity and travel. 

Sometimes each urban photos that been taken has an information about 

that specific location. Each location can be identify from the history or people 

that lives around it. The photographer might origin comes from the location or 

comes from outside. It is an advantages if the photographer origin from the 

location so that he or she knows people, activity or event around him. 

Urban landscape can show the present, what its look alike. We always 

wonder what it will look 50 years ago? Are these buildings remaining the 

same building before? Or we can shoot it now and keep it for another 50 

years and see how it looks a like later. It can be guideline for new generation. 

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