if the lighting is very consistent what u do isplace the card on table or any where, so it able to reflect the ambient light,
then just use camera to snap the grey card
if there is lighting, there will be different white balance to start with

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Added on April 3, 2012, 12:06 pmyeah this has been working for me all time. easy to setup

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A battery grip would help a lot though. Anyway, best traffic was Friday. Saturday was a little crowded and therefore quite difficult to get close and one-on-one.

Anyway, curious if the girls on Sunday were different from Saturday because most of them on Friday were also on Saturday.

Eh your flash balance pretty good also what. why not using it? lol

Im still trying to learn how to balance flash properly and so far still mix bag also you still using demb pro?

I shoot RAW and I'm using Pocket Whibal G6 as my WB reference for PP. Tried for JPG once (using PRE WB on camera), but didn't really confident of its accuracy since my card is small. It should be accurate though as peeps at Michael Tapes tested the Whibal one by one.

deng, those are some nice shots! how did u set up ur flash may i ask? bounce card? direct flash? im really keen to know!

Speaking about flash... Did you see the ones that had huge softbox with a dedicated lightstand? Did not take a photo of it but it looks very intimidating in a huge crowd to be walking with one.

Hmmm its quite funny that Nikon added the 28-300mm as the d800 kit lens while at Lensrental.com suggest you not to use it with D800

Here's the link! D800 Lens selection process

Woahh nice pictures from the Motorshow!! Are there any up coming similar events? I also interested to shoot Thai girls! Haha

celciuz flash looks like using omnibounce / diffusion dome?

i seen someone in PCFAIR KLCC doing that, had his 'assistant' carry a 60x60 softbox on a stand just for him.
imo they look kinda pathetic.

anyone had used something like lightsphere?
any review on these kind of thing?

beautiful shot and poison me to take 35mm 1.4 instead of 24mm 1.4

Definitely, but it will add up to the weight... so pros and cons I guess. I went on Sunday, super packed! Imagine it took me 2 hours just to get to IMPACT because of the standstill jam. Then I decided to drop by on Sunday, got more images of cars and also I can shoot the girls easily... they will just pose specially for me haha! No need to wait for turn LOL. Lesson learnt, for such event always go on weekdays.

I'm usually a lazy bump... prefer to hold just the camera and not something big sticking upwards. I'm using Demb Flash Diffuser Pro for these.

Its a DFD Pro, a bounce card type of diffuser.

Yeap, I noticed them at the back area... where there was a Super GT car near there... those Thai DK (drift king) cars were placed. But many of them were like bringing the model away and then shooting special shots... Some sort like what I do in Msia at times haha! But overall the girls are very friendly and cooperative (majority) unlike in Msia its minority are friendly... mostly just pose for people they know.

Nope. I use DFD pro, a bounce card type of diffuser. I know my friend in KL back then did that before... the softbox thingy haha!

Haha I like the 35mm range more than 24mm. Both are great lens, just depends on user preference and style of shooting.

DFD pro with the diffuser in front? then 'almost' similar effect la
except u dont lose as much light as a diffusion dome.

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Added on April 3, 2012, 3:05 pmi have the DFD classic, tho most of the time i only use the diffusion dome that comes with the flash...unless i really really need to throw more light forward.
but im also very lazy, and the dome is easier to setup

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I put it in box..take out the lens and also the battery..not sure how long, but i can say roughly 1 mths..because been busy with my assignment and class on weekend and work on weekdays...

Normally when we need to sent for service? I meant what is the shutter count need to sent for service?

this is gonna be really awkward for me...

my fren pre-ordered a D800 recently... (had a D7000 wif 18-200 b4) but dunno the difference between FX n DX until I explained it...

since so much money blown on the body, and the criteria is a light + jack of all trades lens for traveling, so my fren asked if the 28-300 is ok...

i said yes

The pic the other day show up at Nikon RUmour

Nikon 3D mirrorless digital camera?



This post has been edited by hidden830726: Apr 3 2012, 04:23 PM

I find the dome is no good for big open space. Maybe indoors small rooms still ok, but big halls such as the IMPACT Challenger its useless and wasting too much power, no point using. Might as well shoot without flash.

not really, the dome is still throwing some light forward.
plus ur only using 35mm, so ur not that far away anyway.
if u notice alot of shots, its not just about the exposure, almost all will have some nice catch light in the eye, thats where a flash can come in handy.

This post has been edited by Everdying: Apr 3 2012, 05:04 PM

cool camera..

very nice colour, SOOC or PP? if PP can teach me how u make ur colour nice? is this call colour pop?

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