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Sounds like a devotee? Yes. Temple after temple on the 5th Day of Chinese New Year (年初五). We went to TianHou Temple, the biggest temple in KL after brunch (Malaysian slang: Breakfast and Lunch together!), and visited the Taiwan’s FuoGuangShan (佛光山) initiated DongZen Temple after dinner. It was actually planned by me. If you have read my previous post about TianHou Temple at night and FGS DongZen Temple at day last year, this is an update to the same places but in different time of day!
What are the 2 things dominated temples during Chinese New Year? Bingo! It’s lanterns and incense. Here are some photos captured in Tian Hou Temple…
There were people all over the temple who came here for prayer, devotion, site seeing, lantern watching, photo taking and so on…
What you could see from the above photos other than lanterns are lanterns or else lanterns. Have you got enough?
In the evening, we travelled for 1 and a half hour to another temple in Jenjarom, near Banting, Selangor. It’s DongZen Temple. Parking were all full and we needed to parked our car 2 blocks away. DongZen temple is the uprising destination during Chinese New Year because of it’s attractive lighting at night. Many people come here merely for it light decorations every year. I’m one of them…
All decorations with lighting are creatively designed and constructed with steel frame and thin cloth.
Wu Hoo! (五虎) Five tigers in the Year of Tiger.
GuanYin in a lotus pond.
Lanterns. This time is a mix of red and yellow lanterns… 
At around 10:00pm, actress acting like a GuanYin (观音) parading in the crowd and splashing holy water to the crowd.
This sculpture of Buddha attracted many crowds as well.
Remember where the ‘paper felt’ buddha statue stood last year? It’s GuanYin statue this year…
UPDATED: Click Here to view High Resolution version of all the above photos.
As there were so crowded inside the compound, I did not take many photos indeed. These are just some introduction images to DongZen Temple at night. The traffic was so jam when we left the place and guess what? We reached home at 1:30am! 
Today is the 11th Day of Chinese New Year. There are still 4 days for whoever interested to see all these lighting and lanterns at these 2 temples. And I’m still have 4 days to celebrate this Chinese New Year of Tiger. GONG XI FA CAI – Travel Feeder, your only travel photo blog.
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Often enough we are relying on our camera’s intelligent to meter the scene for appropriate exposure. While the technology advancement has made our digital cameras so clever that they get it right on the spot most of the time, there are sometimes, under some tricky lighting condition, our camera metering can be fooled by the scene. This is when we should adjust our exposure compensation EV value.
One of the example is shooting portrait under overcast weather. Your portrait will be mostly under exposed if you were relying on camera’s matrix metering. In most happened occasion, you should increase the EV value to at least half a stop to capture a proper exposed portrait. Look at the example below.
This portrait was shot with exposure compensated to +1/3EV of a stop. The overall exposure is alright with no clipping highlight and shadow. However, if you look at the portrait alone (in this case would be my 2 children), they are slightly under exposed. This is where the mid tone is. How to create a cleaner portrait shot? I’ll need to adjust its level in post processing. Firstly, push the mid tone of the image towards the highlight zone. In this case, I need to blow some of the backgrounds like the sky and the boats, in order to get a perfectly exposed main object (the kids). Then I adjusted the middle tone contrast to reduce shadows of the children. Finally, I sharpened the image and that’s it!
This is the end result: A cleaner, brighter and more eye catching portrait shot. Because I pushed up the mid tone which is normally referred as key tone, a High Key portrait photo is created. In order to have a clean high key photo, you’ll need to capture the scene with reasonably correct exposure in order to avoid noise when adjusting the key tone level. In this case, the above photo would not be as clean if I captured with camera’s default metering which would be 1/3 stop under exposed. So back to the basic. Check the histogram on a trial shot to make sure the exposure is what you desired, and compensate if it is not. Enjoy photographing! – Travel Feeder, your ultimate travel photo blog.
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