Up close and personal

Kopisanangan

…The Dusun word for ‘greetings’…

It does sound a bit formal especially when you don’t know each other, but perhaps I can change that…

I was born in Kiulu, Sabah,  has friendly personality, averagely good looking, likes to joke around …and had fell heads over heal with photography since 5 years back.

My deep interest towards photography, leads me to seek knowledge from those considered ‘master’ in their own field and I am happy to say that, I certainly did not lose anything by learning from these masters.

Along my 5 years affair with photography, I have learn a lot. My experience in taking full advantage of the local climate, understanding the local culture, adapting to local customs and eying the local street, combined with the knowledge on the technical part of  photography…has helped me in capturing moments that I want and I guess some might consider them as ‘pleasant to the eyes’.

Then… I began to receive questions, the same questions but repeated by different persons..“How did you get that?”, “How did you set your camera?”, “What ISO did you use?” …and I can only help by saying “…with the correct setting.”

But then the questions didn’t end there…so back from July 2010 at Tasik Likas, I sacrificed my weekend to conduct a humble tutorial for those who wants to learn the basic of photography. It was on this month that Basic Photography Tutorial by Lano Lan was born.

…Now we are not strangers anymore, since you know something about me already. So please, drop by sometimes and say kopisanagan…I would like to know you too, my friend.

-Lano Lan-