17-70 is a macro? I'm planning to buy a Nikkor prime and then later save money on a Sigma tele. Now want to play with portrait first.

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The King Of Bokeh... hahaha

Was googling around and saw Ken Rockwell's article about the 135mm, was amused to see the title King Of Bokeh... hahaha

Just reading about lens made me feel so obsessive. Now waiting for the chance to give them a try.

Bila mau poison?

curious. How do you guys define portraiture? Headshot only? Head and shoulder? Head to waist? Full body shot? Difference lens for different coverage, right?

I'm trying to relate to filmmaking. Like they got closeup, medium shot, long shot, etc. in the scripts...just some suggestion...

This post has been edited by geekster129: Nov 10 2010, 12:23 PM

Depends the question is based on film photography or digital photography... If 35mm film photog, i assume it's ff lor. (if the question technical to some extent )

This post has been edited by geekster129: Nov 10 2010, 12:35 PM

Exam can ask in lowyat forum ka? Hehehe

Show people your metrosexual camera body?

Pink is the new black?

d90 is a really great camera. Even just the kitlens it is producing great images. I haven't even plug in a prime to unleash even nicer looking pics.. Haha..

Slr usually won't reach the point it become a dinosaur. As time goes by, the image output is still awesome. Just that lacking features. If i ever got a chance, i still wanted to shoot again with my dad's minolta film rangefinder camera. The picture quality is nice. But too bad, it has retired after 30 years of service. It was made in the year 1969.

This post has been edited by geekster129: Nov 10 2010, 06:55 PM

I didn't say that the kitlens can produce up to the point of super awesome looking images with bokehlicious depth of field, but it has served me well for the past few events.

Btw, the 18-105 kitlens is not any cheap glass wei.

This post has been edited by geekster129: Nov 10 2010, 07:19 PM

Bro, can add me to the D90 users' list ka?

seeing is believing.

spam some noob kitlens bokeh shot first:



This post has been edited by geekster129: Nov 10 2010, 09:33 PM

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/...o-white-balance

donate it to me

why not 1/100s or 1/125s? Usually static pictures don't need high shutter speed.

You finally got the exposure right.

Next thing -> Highlights, contrast and color.

This post has been edited by geekster129: Nov 11 2010, 10:46 AM

Once you have fullfiled ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture, you have the last ingredient to fulfill: Lighthing/Patience/Look for other places

Sometimes due to weather, the lighting is just not desirable for the overall output, which either makes the picture looked dull and flat. Different timings have different lighting effects on the final color, bright sunny days usually will produce sharp looking and desirable pictures. Even for sunset, between 6-8pm, you have to be very patient and wait until the best lighting which gives you a very stunning output.

Speaking about puffy clouds:

The sun was right behind the clouds, illuminating the back of it, giving an interesting glowing effect.



Just saw some nice looking shape clouds at around 2pm yesterday, but only lasts for 5mins

Snapped with my phone only, no DSLR, ND Grad filters whatsoever with me at the moment...

This post has been edited by geekster129: Nov 11 2010, 11:23 AM

Haha... it's nothing to do with the discussion thread. Just that the best moments always happen when I don't carry my DSLR around.

But nowadays, hazy weather and cloudy weathers during weekends, make me feel frustrated at times.

This post has been edited by geekster129: Nov 11 2010, 11:36 AM