ier, sushi i like the last one...no point having the others too distracting since ur emphasizing the sushi instead..
and wanna ask, the last pic is also a crop from your first pic or its a different shot??

the phottix battgrip selling for rm180 if not mistaken from digitalmania...comes with an extra battery somemore....

same pic. i was trying to relay the msg, that 10mp give u a lot space to work with... that pic is cropped from a much larger pic, so is the first pic is also crop from the same larger pic.

I like this one

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Added on March 3, 2010, 7:53 pm
I think need some correct white balance... coz too yellowish
Maybe wait for sifus to comment
I'd like to read their comments as I can learn too

btw mastering89, thanks for sharing your photos here

This post has been edited by Banzai_san: Mar 3 2010, 07:54 PM

Camera Model - Sony A230
Lens - SAL 75-300
Aperture - f/5.6 (not sure)
Shutter Speed - 1/640 s
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO - 400

anyone know how to check full EXIF data with linux ubuntu??
It din show the aperture..haiz

@ieR

maybe if you can also focus inner part of that Sushi, I think it would be more delicious!

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Added on March 3, 2010, 8:41 pmSome more someone blog posts which enlighten of color correction to make ur pics more delicious

Title : Its just color correction, not rocket science…

Part 1 - http://www.fendyzaidan.com/its-just-color-...science-part-i/
Part 2 - http://www.fendyzaidan.com/it%e2%80%99s-ju...nce-2%e2%80%a6/
Part 3 - http://www.fendyzaidan.com/it%e2%80%99s-ju...-part%e2%80%a6/

Ah.. shooottt.. I've been reading more photograpy articles more than my lecture notes, web design inspirations and FYP readings...

This post has been edited by destfull: Mar 3 2010, 08:41 PM

guys need some comments and suggestion to pp this photo... the white light at the back is too glaring... T.T

My amateurish food photos

Photo #1: Ubi penyek... common malay cake / kuih


Photo #2: Tanimbu ... Sabah kampung dish


C & C appreciated

u guys are making me hungry~~~~
ier: i like the last 1... nice~~~
mastering89: wat dish is tat? looks delicious~~~ may b u shudn't shoot from the angle where the steam is going to? keke...
d4rkholeang3l: ur macros are nice~~~~
Banzai-san: the ubi penyek looks a little messy but i blive it's yummy... the tanimbu doesn attract me much from it's appearance....

Banzai_san : Hahaha yea the Tanimbu makes me feel... geli. LOL.

eddybeh : Play around with the exposures?

You are right on the spot
The ubi penyek is messy. Some already eaten by my cousins/uncles/auties

The tanimbu doesnot attract me either. hehe... It is actually a kampung dish. A poor man's dish (macam "shepard's pie" for English folks)
Simple soup + fresh water fish (eg talapia etc... but here, prawns were used) + some sour fruit (should be buah bambangan muda (a wild fruit) but here using the belimbing buluh) . The old kampung folks used to (in the olden time) bring this dish to the sawah bendang and have it during lunch .


hehe ...
it tasted quite ok actually... some similarity to laksa penang... without the spaghette/pasta. But laksa penang sourness comes from asam keping. This tanimbu get its sourness from sour fruit.

Its my first time heard of Tanimbu dish... I guess not many city boy sabahan like myself have heard of it either.

This post has been edited by Banzai_san: Mar 3 2010, 10:20 PM

guys, juz wondering if y'all have any idea on wads the name of this effect n how can i get it? photoshop?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2747/439757..._13d5d89a19.jpg

PIC'S ARE FROM BRO PRAZOLE WITH HIS a550

PS: <3 this kind of pics

this look better? i tuned down the offset a little n push the gamma correction a little.

in this case, i'd prefer the edited one, but if for me, instead of going lomo-color, i'd do it in black and white and also not to burn out the part on the right side's center.

i believe you're using your flash for this? what i normally do is take a reading of the background 1st (partial metering), then i'd put the values over to manual and let it stay that way, then control the flash's power to light up the subject, probably in this case, 1/16 would be enough do the job.

Smoky and steam is different. Not easy to catch steam, need to check your backdrop and the angle you trying to capture. Like ier said, there is no right or wrong to take food pics. However, there is a guideline to make it attractive. Practice makes perfect.

There's one forumer, vkeong... check out his blog. His food photos quite awesome, I don't know what setup he uses to take those pics, wondering whether he uses flash for those shots. I find it somewhat overkill to use a flashgun in restaurant taking pics. Maybe it's just me....

http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/app...ions/psactions/

ya, i used flash... oic.... i read about tat technique somewhere... but it was after i took this pic... too bad...

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Added on March 3, 2010, 10:35 pmoh ya, wanted to reconfirm something, FF cant use DT lens? or is there anyway to make it usable?

This post has been edited by eddybeh: Mar 3 2010, 10:35 PM

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eddybeh : FF CAN use DT lens. Just that the FF will be in APS-C mode lo. (:

from what i can tell from that site's food photos, quite a number of them are shot with the use of flash, albeit very small amount and nicely diffused. some that have sufficient natural lighting are shot without. for food photos, its very important to have the white balance set correctly, or else the food will look unnatural and in some cases, sickening. you dont want to be eating some beef burger with a green color-cast now do you?

i may not have steamy food pics in my collection, but here's something rarer to catch than steam.