thanks albert

nice moment.. but still can't freeze the movement..
even high iso with flash triggered?
low light very hard right..

Gear limitation.

i set as shutter priority, so get as much ambient, ntg to do with gears. I could bump up shutter, jz flash would fire harder, thats all

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Added on July 24, 2010, 9:58 amits not always about gears viking

This post has been edited by lwliam: Jul 24 2010, 09:58 AM

Thanks guys for all the advise.. Will send it for check 1st.
In case the repair cost it too expensive what is the suggested model I should buy? Still noobie here.. Owning SLR for more than 1 year but treat it like P&S camera.. Use it for taking site picture only. How bout a330?

then why not just get a PnS? its cheaper and is much smaller, so you can put it in your jacket or bag easier

maybe get the NEX

Anyone going for Sony Zoo Negara Photoshoot Challenge on 8/8/2010 ?

if not here. where i want to go

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Added on July 24, 2010, 11:55 am ya quiting.



This post has been edited by kennyohngu: Jul 24 2010, 11:55 AM

registered.... but wife said wan to go shoot dogs in Dogathon.... will cancel with shum later....

http://www.vet.upm.edu.my/~dogathon/

sunway convention centre? lighting is very tricky there.

nice moment though

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Added on July 24, 2010, 2:45 pm[rant]just back from my convo ..

all those professional photogs damn pro lo..

almost 70% of them was using bounce flash more than 70 degrees when the ceiling the at least 7 meters high at the lowest point..

finally someone knocked some sense into them after 1 hour when they started to use direct flash. ok, maybe they were using iso 1600 or and above or 1/30 shutter all the time? oh well. [/rant]

This post has been edited by zstan: Jul 24 2010, 02:45 PM

Sometimes ppl point the flash up doesnt mean they dont know what they're doing la. Don't simply conclude that they're lousy photogs. Coz proper way to use a Stofen is to point it up to let it do it's job.

juz got back from PM newbie outing. damn tired and sweating like piggy XD
the models no sweat like me

spam one unrelated pic .

no they are not using stofens.

direct flash 90 degrees without wide panel or bounce card.

This post has been edited by zstan: Jul 24 2010, 03:16 PM

First time went out to take photo after owning my first camera NEX 5. C&C are welcome. Just started photography and want to improve more.



Thanks everyone.

yes, lighting is seriously haywire... as i nearly always shoot jpg, its a test of skill shooting there.. inside there are very cool temperature violet tube lights, warmer flood lights and if flash, will be at 5500K which doesnt fall in either of the 2 temperatures, at the reception there's warmer than usual tungsten, and huge 20meter ground to ceiling skylight window giving diffused sunlight from the side and suddenly the there's a wall blocking the sunlight, so tungsten light dominates again, all in the vicinity of a reception table..

7 meters is nothing, even calculating bounce distance, is only 14 meters, there's still plenty of juice from the flash... adding with ISO 1600 (lets say), then it would be even further. i've successfully lit up a subject nearly 50 meters away, and it was nearly overexposed. and that was using my A100

after 1 hour, presumably every shot they take was with flash, battery could be slower to charge up the flash capacitors, so, if me, i'd use direct flash for a lesser discharge, thus more accurate flash power at every subsequent shot

edit: miscalculation, 7 meters high doesnt mean 14meters bounced, as that would mean firing straight up.. if 70 degrees angle up, would mean 7.45 meters diagonally, which means 14.9meters, about 15 meters bounce.. which this could mean (and this is fact usually very few ppl take into consideration when bouncing the flash) that the subject distance is approx. 5 meters away

This post has been edited by lwliam: Jul 24 2010, 03:48 PM

@lwliam
so you used Auto WB? or custom all the way?

yea..many factors that will affect a shot..anyway didn't get shot much..dun care la..

counting down 2 hours to my lens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This post has been edited by zstan: Jul 24 2010, 03:39 PM

@esmonde:kinda like the colour of the #1 though a little bit underexposed for me

@william:I shoot mostly in jpg too,sometimes I really haywire together with the haywire lighting

@zstan:Yo,welcome to the tammy 1750 f2.8 world

some pic spam from me...first time snapping this type of photo..

err, wireless flash from top



c&C pls

i feel its better if u diffused the light instead... aka bounced

the highlights are all clipped

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Added on July 24, 2010, 3:51 pmi ONLY use AWB when outdoors in bright sunlight.. else, its always custom.. be it manually setting the Kelvin values, or using a white/grey card, in fact, even when outdoors, i'd still custom it to prevent different color shifts in a set of photos. AWB can be a bit hit or miss sometimes.

why 2 hours? how is the lens arriving?

This post has been edited by lwliam: Jul 24 2010, 03:54 PM