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Yearly Archives: 2012

Kuwait Rally Championship 2012

Kuwait Motor Racing Club (K.M.R.C) is organizing the 4th Round of Kuwait Rally Championship 2012 on Saturday 24th March in Julaia’a, behind Bnaider Mosque. This should be a great opportunity for photographers to capture yet another sporting action after the recently held Kuwait International Motocross Challenge 2012. If you missed the earlier action, it’s time to catch some action thrills now. To know more on the program detail, click [here]

Organiser Facebook page, click [link]

Photo source: Dherar Al Rshoud, Kuwait Motorsport

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Visit to Kuwait International Motocross Challenge 2012

My first ever visit to an International Motocross Bike Race was with mixed emotion of happiness and pride. Sure you judged the reason for my happiness, but the pride was for a simple reason of having an Indian rider “Jinan Chellikkattil Dasan” representing my country at an International Level and the final icing with a win in the 4th place. Jinan who represented the Liberty Kawasaki team from UAE, hails from Thrissur in Kerala. A total of 22 countries featuring 45 contestants participated in this tournament including teams from US, France, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, South Africa, Switzerland and Belgium.

The day as forecasted turned dusty with strong winds by noon, with my commitment back to office I packed my camera gears, only after witnessing few spectacular moments of passion, speed, control and power. The event was well organized and witnessed by more of photographers from Media, Groups, as well as Individuals and Blogger’s, but lacked the general spectators. The reason could be the unpredictable weather…. (as usual over the weekends).

Overall, I did have a good time and also had the opportunity to meet few fellow photographers.

Winners:

1st place – Chris Moakley, Switzerland (MX1 Class), Mohammad Jaffar, Kuwait (MX2 Class) and Sulaiman Al-Mislem, Kuwait (ClubMan Class)

For photos of the event you can visit my Flickr set [here]

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Mega Deal on Sigma Lens

AAB International Photographic Co. is a photography specialized company with an array of exceptional showrooms distributed throughout the state of Kuwait. They have over 30 years of experience catering to the photographic needs. AAB has recently acquired the SIGMA product agency here in Kuwait, other than other famous brand which the company already owns. The company vision is impressive and their slogan is quite inspirational “We Rule the Photography World”.

AAB are official distributors for Nikon and Canon Products, Agents for Sigma Lenses, Orkio Bags, Integral Memory Cards, Phottix photo accessories, Praktica Camera, Rollei Cameras. They also sell all types of accessories including battery Grips, Filters, Bags, Tripods, Batteries, Lens caps, Flashes, Flash Triggers, Memory Cards, etc. In addition the Services department, that has all kinds of photo finishing services, digital prints, enlargements, mounting, Converting VHS to DVD their Photo gifts department assist you to print picture on Mugs, Tshirts, plate, pillow, puzzle, calendars. These whole streamline of products make AAB an official Photographic store.

AAB is planning for a real market capture, offering the best deals on all SIGMA product as well on other camera brands and accessories. Their latest 1 day (15th March, 2012 ) deal on Sigma products shall offer almost competitive price to the Amazon store. Mr. Ahmed Burghul, Business Development Manager at AAB is quite positive and feels the initiative taken by the company shall offer photographers the value for their money and in a way assist to continue their hobby. He further goes on to inform that AAB will soon release the Nikon D800 in Kuwait which was recently announced by Nikon.

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Kuwait International Motocross Challenge 2012

The Kuwait International Motocross Challenge 2012 is taking place on Saturday 17th March. This event is organized by Kuwait Quarter Mile Auto & Motorcycle Club and will be held at the recently built racing circuit course in Wafra off the King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz Motorway. The length of the course track is 1600m with a minimum width of 7m. The event is open to all nationalities and is categorized in different classes. This will be a great opportunity for Photo enthusiastic to shoot fast sporting action.

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Adobe LR 4 Released

Adobe team has officially released “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4” photo management software. The company had very recently this year released a beta version of the software and now has rolled the final version. I’ve have used Lightroom 3 (LR 3) for my Post Processing and been quite happy with its extensive image management tool which lets you easily import, view, edit and organize your photographs. Adobe is offering the full version with all its features and future updates for less than $150. You can actually download a full-featured 30 day trial and try before you buy.

Here’s a quick peep on the new features of Lightroom 4 (LR 4) compared to the LR 3, and why you should consider upgrading to LR 4.

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Kuwait MET Department Photography Contest

The Meteorological Department at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in Kuwait is pleased to announce its photography contest which will be held as one of the activities celebrating the World Meteorological Day (March 23rd, 2012). The aim of the photography contest is to document the meteorological phenomena occurring in Kuwait and to encourage effective and productive communication between the department and the public.

To participate, your picture must be about a meteorological phenomenon in Kuwait. The last date for submission is March 15, 2012. The winning photos will be sent to the World Metrological Organization. First place winner will receive 100 KD, second place: 75 KD, and third place: 50 KD. Fourth to tenth place will receive 30 KD.

To participate and check the rule and regulation for the contest, check their official photography contest page [here]

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Nikon Storms Photo-World with D800/D800E

After months of rumors, Nikon has finally announced the D800 and D800E to their latest DSLR lineup. Both these cameras with Nikon FX-format CMOS sensor can deliver an unbelievable 36.3 effective megapixel. The World’s highest (as of 07th Feb, 2012) in terms of effective megapixels. Nikon claims you can enlarge the image as big as A1 poster-sized prints (59.4 x 841.1 cm/23.4 x33.1 inch) at 200 dpi, or crop aggressively to reach the composition you desire all without sacrificing the detail and tonal range of the original.

Nikon D800 has optimized low-pass filter which reduces false color and moiré when compared to the Nikon D800E, which incorporates an optical filter with all the anti-aliasing properties removed in order to facilitate the sharpest images possible.. This is the only one difference (as claimed by Nikon) between the 2 cameras and perhaps the reason for difference in price too.

The D800/D800E set a new benchmark for high-resolution D-SLR cameras, with crisp clean images across a wide ISO range. Flexibility like this opens up new imaging opportunities for both still photographers and cinematographers alike during the “magic hour”, the time just before dawn or at dusk when available light is often beautiful but scarce. Even at high ISO settings, the camera’s intelligent noise reduction systems manage noise without sacrificing fine details, giving the D800/D800E the edge. High image quality at higher ISOs also means that you can shoot still images handheld more confidently, knowing that fast shutter speeds will reduce blur.

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