desat and increase the exposure???

hope 11-18mm got stock today midvalley no stock leh

hi guys. long time since i last spam a pic. here's 1 taken from Anime Fiesta '09 held at Sunway Pyramid last weekend:

nice edit... ^^

thx bro

slow slow..... i oni got kit lens oni..... saving for flash 1st..... wakaka......

dont listen to him..i nv spent alot also

anyway..kitlens can do wonders with flash...good choice ^^

yet to explore.... wakaka.... after tomolo's 4.30 then i can go around n shoot ad..... bt going for avatar 1st... wakaka.....

maybe u can find some "inspirations" from the movie..lol...i always try to get ideas from movie..drama..song..or things happened around me...i find that it gives ur photo a "theme"..rather than just take up the camera n shoot with nothing in ur head..

thx for the tips... will try n work on it....

achew: Nice catch on the hair light!

It probably is due to the background lights on the top, causing the underexposure. If you notice the highlights from the far-away lights are not blown.

amadeo: Yes it is - on top, you see two things;

1) Cats-eye bokeh due to the front element being not big enough for the whole lens (77mm already still not big enough!)

2) Rectangular cropping due to the rear baffle which is rectangular. I wish it didn't have this.

lol..yea..if i manipulated the bokehs..u probably wont see any cat eye or odd shapes bokeh..there is only borderless round bokehs inside..lol

My kit lens AF mechanism failed on me, guess its time for an up grade. can someone recommend a kit lens replacement, am eyeing on all-round zoom lens with budget <1500 to replace the kit lens

current eyeing on
tamron 17-50
sony 16-105
sony 18-200

can somebody give a hint

tammy if u need constant aperture...16105 if the need of range > aperture...

tammy 1750 or sony 16105....both good lens....u wont go wrong with either lens....18200 also good...covers from wide to tele....

i remember reading somewhere that one of the sony lens is equivalent to the CZ minus the Z coating, was it the 16-105 or 18-200?

achew: beautiful hairlight. IMHO the cateye bokeh a bit too strong though, and the patch of white on top right a bit distracting, but main subject really awesome catch

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Added on December 23, 2009, 12:23 amthe 16105

This post has been edited by lwliam: Dec 23 2009, 12:23 AM

very noob... cant understand about the cat eye bokeh.... can explain a bit? or any links tat talks about it?

as the name suggest..cat eye bokeh refers to those bokeh in cat eyes shape..for eg



whereas usually the "ideal" bokeh(at least for me) is circular..

it is oval with sharper ends and usually appears more prominently at the edges of an uncropped image