Good ... GOOD! Muahahaha ..

UPDATE: Port Dickson revisited

A trip back to my old hometown on one Sunday afternoon.

1. Sepia shot 1: PD town


2. The greenish old abandoned railway


3. Old town PD


4. The old rusted and damaged phone booth. Used to make my calls to home when i was a kid.


5. Sepia shot 2: The quiet lane.


6. Sepia shot 3: Good old days huh?


7. The Rock, the sea, the sky


8. The lover's lane, the sunset shots i took near the beach.


9. last one. Lovely evening indeed!


Please give some C&C for my improvement. Next shots,......u know what will happen next weekend at KLCC Convention center heh?

#2, 3, 4 n 5 should be nice for portraits shoots

#9 might be nicer if can shift a bit to the right?

4. should look better if you take the whole phone boot...then can have the pattern
7. angle no that good ler...in my opinion lar...
8,9 the exposure adjust a lil...the pondok looks very dark...

just my opinion ar...

Thanks for the comments aba9785 & orenzai, but hopefully i would like to have more comments from the others.

This post has been edited by travis_ckf: Jul 30 2007, 08:29 PM

#1
The sky highlight has been clipped. Overall over exposed. Check the histogram.

#2
F4 is too wide, that's why your DOF is shallow. Use smaller aperture and use tripod. The composition is nice though.

#3
This scene is very difficult to have the correct exposure because the sky is bright and the stall is dark. Use tripod, bracket your exposure, and merge them using layer and layer mask.

#4
Try to create some diagonal line to bring out what you are trying to tell, the phone booth in this case.

#5
Not bad. I like this one.

#6
Good old days? I don't get it. The white is too white until the detail can't be seen.

#7
The colour is flat. Some level adjustment shall fix it.

#8
Having some foreground object (tree in this case) doesn't really work on every shot. I would have preferred a cleaner shot without the tree, which is kinda disturbing.

#9
Rule of thrid, don't put the beach/land line in dead center.

i would say composition is the biggest thing u need to improve in this series... try to 'read' the landscape and imagine how to make the place look interesting... this one is not technical, but more to the artistic value of a photo.. so if u ask me how, then i can;t answer u..

but some tips may help:
1. #9, the silhouette jetty does not stand out because it got mixed with the trees at the back, so it looks like half dark, half bright.. make the silhouetted lines simpler..
2. #4, if the old phone is the focal point, just focus on the phone, not the surrounding.
3. #6, i would rather shoot some 200m - 300m away from the 'apek', and use a telephoto lens to include as many column as i could, so it will look like some kind of pattern and maybe let them to look like 'isolated'...

hope this helps...

Thanks alot for ur comments. I somehow felt landscape pics are harder to take compared to potrait shots from my previous series. The problem is i was using kit lens which might lampered some of the shots here. A 55-200 should be on my hands, hopefully soon.

Looks like i need to plan another photography trip to pd, hopefully i will improve then.

im planning to go there as well some time... maybe can do a small outing then.. i missed PD beach landscape..

i would have liked number 9 to be taken from near the place you were standing in number 8 (but in a recomposed scene without the tree and nearer to the water) which could have been quite dramatic should you meter off the sun to get silhouettes of the *humans and bridge, with them overlooking the water and having the sun in the background... also if you had opportunity to slow down the shutter to less than 1/15 to get a more surreal effect on the water, that would be nice too... which would have been possible since the *humans seem to have settled down anyway...

overall pictures are ok, but number 2, 4 and 7 just doesn't take the cake...

PC FAIR KLCC AUG 2007

Vol 1: Lengz!!!! Working in Tomato booth

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More to come in these few days!

wah.. better than what i have.. i only shoot her sitting at the front there...

Nolah, apparently i met her for the 1st time and i managed to took a num of pcis, together with another pro photographer from photokaki until the boss kacau the both of us.

the boss didn`t really kacau us woh... there are 3 of us there...
but still you have the chance to move around and shoot mah.....

today many boss sure unhappy to see my group walking around.....
by the way, we are shooting girls with their products mah.. no harm doing side advertising...

Ur gang secured a lot of contacts.

Extractly, that the whole point of this series. I trying to shoot ladies with their product lines, killing 2 birds with one stone where not only promoting their product but themselves too.

Alright, before i go to sleep, perhaps i post for vol 2!

Vol 2: Ladies with Products!

1. Windows Vista Ultimate


2. The galore of vista & office 07


3. Sony vaio


4. MSI Laptop group


5. MSI Laptop: Individual (she sweet! )


6. Dopod new Smart phone


This post has been edited by travis_ckf: Aug 4 2007, 01:13 AM

by the way.. the sony and msi girls complaint the laptop are heavy.. mine was like 2.9KG and vaio are 2.5KG... msi one even lighter coz when i hold it . no feeling at all.....

more photo please...

Dummy set kot

Btw guys i will appreciate if there any C&C can be given on my PC Fair potraits.

Looks like i am the only one so far with the PC Fair chick coverage.

hmm waileng one WB out