Nothing explicit, just that the burnt skin tone on the right isn't that appealing.

I see that you still can't differentiate between high key shots and distracting burnt skin tone shots.

I would say, composition is important, so does the overall photo elements e.g. exposure, sharpness, color. If you think capturing moments alone would suffice, you might as well just capture moments with Nokia phones. Reason why people upgrade to DSLR? Simple, better color, better sharpness, better exposure and metering, so why discard all these?

It'll be even nicer if you could rephrase it "ieR doesn't know how to differentiate burnt skin tone shots and nice highlight or whatever, so ieR better avoid these tills ieR could differentiate better in future."



This post has been edited by vikingw2k: May 25 2010, 10:37 PM

No idea, perhaps someone took it too personal when I'm commenting on ahtsong's shot. No offense ahtsong, but the burnt skin tone is the very first thing that comes into my mind. Second thing is the leg being cut off. My sincere comment

This post has been edited by vikingw2k: May 25 2010, 10:41 PM

Does that mean that one is not allowed to give genuine comments just because someone is sharing his happiness? Emotions at door please. This is a photography forum. I believe you guys are mature enough on how to differentiate genuine comments rather than getting emotional over one's comment.

Alright, let's discard it and back to photography.

ah, let's not quote my previous comments and mix up with coming ones. I comment based on what I see now. Nothing related to previous or what and I don't see anything wrong giving genuine comments on what I feel. Yes, you may counter me should you have different opinions, but in a more constructive way and not telling me stuff like "hey, people sharing happiness" or worse going too personal. Doesn't that sound as if I can't comment just because someone is sharing his happy shots? I believe everyone has their right to voice their personal opinion in this photography forum as long it's appropriate.

I feet even worse that someone couldn't differentiate sharing emotions and commenting on photography elements.

Nah, I was quoting you and moo together. Anyway let's not drag this further shall we? I had left my comments, whether one is able to accept it openly or take it emotional it's up to you guys. When people don't comment, people complaint. When people leave genuine comments, people still complained. Funny isn't it?

This post has been edited by vikingw2k: May 25 2010, 10:59 PM

Non taken mate. I knew you were just kidding that's why I just fooled around with you but seems like others are taking it too serious about this so called heat. Come on guys, it's just a genuine comment from me. Take it or leave it. Don't make yourself sad just because you can't accept others comment.

d4rkholeang3l

Try shooting close up? Some of my attempt on stray pwuhsee that I met along my outing journey. You gotta be careful on ya background.

Nothing high tech la. Just snapped with 24mm at about 10-20cms away from the pwuhsee. Didn't bother to blast the flash to not frighten the black kitten behind.

Also, try to get to the same eye level to the cat instead of shooting top down. I was lying flat on the floor aka commando crawling style when I was taking the 2nd pwuhsee shot.

Good attempt but I was thinking you might want to change the orientation to portrait and use a lower aperture to get sharper image as I notice it's a tad soft there. I have something similar to yours taken years back to show how it'll look on portrait orientation though the composition might not look nice. Hope it helps.





Thanks for the compliment and sharp eyes you have there. There's a black kitten behind drinking milk.

Aperture : f1.4, ISO : 3200. 24L Mark II on my 5D2. Don't bother too much on gears first. Work out on compo

Anyway here's another plant shot with 100mm.



d4rkholeang3l - Bring your sales discussion off from this thread. Thanks.

This post has been edited by vikingw2k: May 26 2010, 12:18 AM

Alright. Would appreciate if you could remove the signature linking to the sales thread too considering it's banned in LYN.

Yeap, sensor dirty and pic slightly noisy cause snapped using ancient body. Just uploaded that picture to demo the orientation. Will remove and reupload again later. No idea what insect is that on the tip of the flower.

If you want to focus on the outstanding one, try to frame it using rule of 3rd. Something like this



Now is this something. Nice shot there.

Nah, I ain't any sifu. Still on the learning curve. No doubt that shot is really nice.

Thats my favorite walkabout lens now among all my 16 lenses. Razor sharp at wide open with awesome bokeh!

It's one of the sharpest lens available in Canon. No need to fake the sharpness and bokeh in PS. It just comes out like that. By the way your aunt owned that much of gears huh?

Yea, relax la.