some home cooked japanese food...


お好み焼き Okonomiyaki by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr


カレーライス Karē Raisu (Japanese style curry rice) by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

taken with V1. somehow the V1+kit lens looked better than J1+pancake.

This post has been edited by little ice: Nov 13 2012, 01:34 AM

my gf cooked. me dumb dumb at cooking.

she followed some japanese (translated) recipe i think, and sometimes tried to refer original japanese recipe book although hard to understand. better than those recipe books by those japanese-chef-wannabe.

This post has been edited by little ice: Nov 13 2012, 11:20 AM

spam some evening shot, taken with V1.


Evening sky by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

Evening sky by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

Evening sky by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

Empty Field by Little Ice LYN, on Flickr

picture spam...


This post has been edited by little ice: Dec 5 2012, 05:09 PM

more...

and more...

lol yeah not much meaning in those shots, i just snap around sort of for "blogging that'll never be posted online".

thanks for looking at my photos and your compliments...

This post has been edited by little ice: Dec 6 2012, 10:47 AM

spam some korea BBQ shots, meat all g-yoke so non-halal... so-so quality but it's a groupon deal so portion big big, 2 plates full of meats (and huge loads of veggie).

bad lighting and the actual scene is worse than the photo.

EDIT: re-upload with minor tweak...



This post has been edited by little ice: Dec 9 2012, 01:34 PM

thanks for looking!

actual lighting was bluish fluorescence and a little dim, so i cheated on white balance a bit . shot with V1 and the basic 10-30mm kit lens.

bump the shutter speed? try S mode, set shutter to 1/80...

BK or Dazs?

try switching to McD? much easier on the pocket.

oops, i did mean BR, messed up with Burger King pulak.

christmas is near...

drink all you can @ bistro...i only manage to tapau 3 glasses.

thanks for looking...

i use as large aperture as i can since not much difference in DOF due to small sensor, which depends on the focal length ranging from 3.5-5.6, ISO 1600 and above (i think, some are ISO2000-3200) for most shots except those purposely put under the bright lamp. very dim lighting like average bistro, not like disco though those almost pitch black lol...

you'll have to take the shutter speed into consideration. with VR lens like the 10mm-30mm kit lens i use for the V1, i can shoot comfortably at 1/20 hand held and lower if brace on table/sofa/etc. if no VR will be different story.

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Added on December 12, 2012, 5:34 pmif you mean increase the aperture size means smaller number beyond the spec, no. if you mean increase the number means smaller aperture, then depends on which camera/lens. DSLR lens may or may not have manual aperture ring on lens, most mirrorless lens doesn't have aperture ring, and 99.9% compact cameras doesn't have aperture ring. those that doesn't have manual aperture ring, there're always way to set the aperture via menu or dial control.

This post has been edited by little ice: Dec 12 2012, 05:34 PM

since the aperture isn't much of an issue for smaller sensor so i just focus on my shutter speed and leave the ISO on auto. if big sensor, and shooting close to subject, you don't want too big aperture since you can only see small area of the subject in focus, the rest all blurred.

i mainly shoot in M mode means aperture and shutter speed in manual cause i want to freeze the aperture setting as sometimes the camera choose higher ISO but smaller aperture which is unnecessary, then i leave the ISO on auto which control the exposure. when there's tricky situation where the meter will most likely result in blown highlights or push shadow too much, i switch to S mode or A mode and play with EV setting. in such dim bistro, i just use M and i think only a couples i use S. the metering of the V1 is doing pretty good job. in this regard.


i shoot RAW only and process in LR4, since i can recover the highlights quite a bit (like the 1st and 7th, if don't touch the highlight slider, it's blown quite a bit). as for ensuring sharp shots, to me the most important thing is to try to make sure my shots are as steady as possible so i check my shots immediately after each take/series of takes. nothing really special on the sharpening and noise reduction though i try to keep the noise reduction minimum (no more than 15 on luminance, and color noise already default at 20 i think), so upon resizing there the noise seems to disappear quite a bit.

but if you pay attention to the subject, those are really just still shots and not challenging at all and i can take my own sweet time to shoot as many times as i want.

one more shot shows the bar counter, and a nice white piano behind(?!) the bar counter.

lol genting i think no one give a dam la.

dunno? never been there. but i wouldn't assume other country automatically practice the same culture as us, even if it's just next to us.

some of my recent shots on V1.


a place that everybody knows well.












and a tasty pudding!