Ahhh long time didnt post here..

let me help you bit... to just start learning try this.

find a dark room or outdoor

1. get a light pen.
2. Set your camera to the "M" mode. And set your camera maybe to begin capturing after 2 or 10 sec second timer (for you to run to the place)
3. Set your shutter to to Bulb mode or anything longer than 2-30 seconds (depending what you want to draw or how long).
4. Set your focus to infinity to avoid out of focus.
5. Hit on your shutter button and proceed to the place you want to draw.
6. Then let your imagination to try diff things and try and error the timing

er.... i think senget ad... try making the horizon horizontal... n wat is the 2 bulat thingee on top? i don know about this...if bright abit bit wud b better??

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Added on February 21, 2010, 1:22 amwanna ask... tomolo's workshop who going??

mastering89: Interesting, though you can make it better by Digital GND (Google it).

nashakir: If you use -2 EV and ISO400, and brighten it up later, it is the same as using 0 EV and ISO1600.

in my opinion..try to adjust using hue and saturation at photoshop.

by the way, where did u got your IR Filter?
how much??
me also interest to buy that filter.

wheeee, infrared 

this seems a lil' underexposed to me 

Im still learning... but IMHO food photography generally is to make the food look delicious (although at times, one may want to shoot the bad side (or fault) of the food).

In my opinion, a good food should look fresh not pale (eg green vegis should look fresh green, not pale and rotten), colorful not bland (note: colorful does not necessarily mean many colors. It may mean for example a sate ayam look "golden"ly delicious, not pale yellow ... etc), beautifully presented not cluncky and messy (eg bits of food arranged in beautiful arrangement... not berterabur or for example in your picture, the plate look messy )

Maybe some other can explain more

p/s: pls correct me if Im wrong...

Just pluck this out from my old blog entry. My friend Dennis gave some tips on food photography couple of months ago.


8. Steam
Food looks good when we can see the steam, it relates to being quick.
- Style, Enhancing, Polish of the food can be done using Olive Oil.
- Use artificial steam. To make artificial steam economically, use cotton. Wet the cotton and place it in the microwave for a minute, take the cotton out and place it behind the subject/food.
- Etc

it's normal to be smoky

hot icecream?

mastering89: The bottom part could use some brightening (but keep them in shadow.)