i use bulb mode and i open the shutter more than a minute with f22, ISO100

that is the only angle i can find in my house

increase exposure around 0.2, lighten the shadow, increase contrast and increase vibrance to make the food look rick in color and exposure to brighten the surrounding and feel like you are taking the picture under good lightning

that's what i normally did for my photo, i'm newbie in editing too and still leaning

ya, its slightly underexpose.
if it was me, i'll crop it tighter to get rid of the empty spaces on the top etc.

also since got so much noise, one thing u can also try is convert b&w and use selective color to bring out just the satay and sauce color.

first time doing wildlife close up


DSC_8186 by K_S16, on Flickr

This post has been edited by amduser: Mar 18 2012, 03:58 PM

not tempting
no cucumber there to add more colourful in pictar...

Hasn't been uploading new photos since my iMac broke down last year. Waiting for new replacement ._.

lol~ probably out of the house just to experiment

I also learning how to take food photog technique. Learning from sifu goldfries~

I actually added some sharpening during PP. Made it look like noise it seems... but iinm ISO was at 400. Will expose it a little more

There were cucumbers but not together with the satay so I didn't thought of putting them together. Thanks anyway! Will improvise

How come break down? iMac is so nice, use it in college and I jelly =/ wanna take all of it !

Harddisk "kong" that time. I think is because of torrent download too often punya pasal. Sent it for repair and come back already but a few albums of photos hat I forgot to save into my external gone together with harddisk, so mood spoil till now :/

Hi I own a D7000. Would like to know which prime lens i should opt for(new to photography and first prime lens) . My kit lens is the 55-105mm. And also woyld like to know the effectiveness of a reverse ring compared to a macro( or micro for nikkor)lens. Where do i get my hands on one?

Perhaps 35mm 1.8G or 50mm 1.4G/1.8G? Putting myself in your position I would pick the 35mm as u already got the 55mm covered near to the 50mm.
However it also depends on what u shooting as well. Walk around or full body portrait 35mm will be nice; while half body portrait 50mm is just wonderful.

Try them out at Pertama complex. Plenty of camera shops there.
Personally, I think micro/macro lens is not necessary unless you really like to shoot figurines/toys(even insects are hard to shoot with a 60mm macro lens) or u are a macro shooter

Just my 2cents

Yup Pertama, rememeber to nego, always good price there.

With ur 55-200, i recomend 35mm too, but 50 is really good, 50mm1.8d cheap

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Added on March 18, 2012, 7:01 pmAnyway, cant wait to shoot time lapse with D800.

If i ever decided to buy it;

This post has been edited by hidden830726: Mar 18 2012, 07:01 PM

sometime you need to balance your sharpening with noise reduction

another method you can try is to use the sharpen function in adjustment brush to sharpen selective area

Alright. I'll try that selective area technique. Thanks. btw, I pp'd using laptop, I realise that when I use a CRT / iMac and laptop, all qualities are slightly different so each time I wanna pp I have to use the monitor, sigh.

if u want macro, perhaps consider the nikon 40mm f/2.8 macro lens, rm800-900 i think...either way i think its the cheapest macro lens around now.
or slightly higher, tamron got a 60mm f/2.8...

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Added on March 18, 2012, 9:39 pmanyway...here i was curious about the D800...
then it said batt life is around 850 shots...
then i thought...ok...get a grip...
then the grip street price in US is USD450! zzz.

This post has been edited by Everdying: Mar 18 2012, 09:39 PM

Just got back from my shoot... wah seh my Hoya HD must be damn oily or something.. flare like mad when I was strobing had to remove it for shooting tsk.

Buy 1 at a time lo.

Most ppl dont need grip imo.

But grip makes it cool..

i use the grip alot, and especially with telephoto lenses.

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Added on March 19, 2012, 1:00 amtaken from bmw malaysian open fb page....small boy playing with D3, 70-200vr1 and 2x tc



This post has been edited by Everdying: Mar 19 2012, 01:01 AM

Fuiyoh!! Younger than me!! @@

I am lost... where are we now?

I saw a 13-15 year old boy with a D300s with vertical grip and 70-200 VR2. Dad brought him to Cathay Photo to buy a camera bag.

He brought the camera along to fit the size of the bag. Pretty clueless, both father and son. Hahaa. I enjoyed myself looking at them being clueless.

This post has been edited by ifer: Mar 19 2012, 04:44 PM