night shots, try under-expose by 2/3 to 1 stop.
that should bring out some detail in the lanterns.

k will give that a go when I get the chance to shoot again... any ideas on why is it orangy instead of red ?

because the lantern is overexposed already. details of the lantern all washed out.

you are trying to capture the firework and lantern together?

the lantern is too overexposed, and the middle part already become white color

try spot metering on lantern, point at somewhere between the edge and the center then underexpose by 1 stop, that should be good

my first time trying on light painting, kinda failed because not dark enough

Chck out sean liew for light painting.

will check it out, but i just do this for fun la

i shoot RAW almost all the time...
if using D800...
i think i nid at least a 64Gb CF or XQD for that...
so dis is one of d main reason i'm not going for D800...
now waiting for d ISO and see how...

D800 does not have support for XQD.

XQD does not increase storage capacity.

His photo really inspiring. Click spoiler to check it

lol...nice one

gone through some of his light painting album in his facebook, great work!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/agito666/sets...57626743470074/

nah, noob light painting as background XD

icic...
paiseh...
den should be D4...
remember d specs wrongly...

no one has the link for the comment the photographer made on the D800???

pic from F1 just now.. just before the rain..

Look for CM Leung, its not hard... he's well known.

I know him, but I can't google anything about him and D800

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Added on March 25, 2012, 8:57 pmcan't find it on his blog nor his FB

This post has been edited by hkenh: Mar 25 2012, 08:57 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=101...&type=1&theater

There you go... -.- just type CM Leung on FB first one is him already aiyo.

cheh. . . it's a description of a photo
and I'm not familiar with Timeline

and i could only find his another FB site

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Added on March 25, 2012, 9:13 pmaiya. . . jpeg and RAW are very different too in terms of noise
from the RAW sample that I've seen thus far, it's usable up to iso 3200
but all the samples are untouched, with the details the D800 is able to retain, it should be quite easy to reduce the noise and add some sharpening to it on the higher iso shots.

This post has been edited by hkenh: Mar 25 2012, 09:13 PM

no one would expect that to come from fb. zzz... some more it's just a one phrase comment. put that comment into the d800 thread in dpreview, sure get cursed for trolling.

yeah exactly, i google his page and his fb link to his business fb page
mana tahu it's only a brief description of a photo on his own personal fb page =.=''