Ok, thanks.

How about colour space? sRGB or AdobeRGB? If shoot in RAW it doesn't matter right?

These few days i saw i lot of photos posted here. May I know those pics are untouched or Photoshopped? Can post pre and post edit pic for comparison or not? hehe...

not only kit lens will have that problem, even my tamron 70-200 has that. weird though, both my canon 50mm and 18-135mm didn't have this problem. I just remount the lens and most of the time it will be solved.

Haha, nola, I just would like to know how the untouched raw image looks like before it developed. Before this, i thought the photo i saw here is raw from the camera. It makes me feel 'amazing' about DSLR quality. But after i owned, the story is slightly different now and i start to doubt on that. No doubt about you guys shooting skill,  just curious u guys how 'depth' the raw image has been developed only. Anyway, this is what i thought, no hard feeling.  

Huh, kitlens so cheapskate? Mine is kitlens that u mentioned.

Thanks in advance.

Haha, I'm not only have to learn how to use camera, also need to learn how to develop photo, that's why yesterday i adi got a copy of photoshop cs6 to be installed in my PC, open it up, look alot more complicated than my cam setting.

for some reason i prefer undeveloped as it looks more natural.
just boost the brightness and contrast a little.

Felt the same here, I think he overused the Split Toning or turned the WB warm too much.

For the highlights you can use warmer color, but for shadows always use cooler color to balance out the whole picture. Might not be totally correct, but that's what I always do at least, because when you add warm color to a high-key picture, it will turns really yellow, adding some blue might help to make it looks more natural.

Developed by LightRoom

That kitten photo might be overcooked but this one looks fantastic lei 

the leaves at the foreground is distracting but overall the picture is still usable

take note that the cat and the leaves has different color, if you want a warmer tone, try adjust the green hue more to the yellow side, in lightroom the green hue value should be around -20, if you think the green i too saturated then try to desaturate the green, not too much but maybe -10 or -15, can try to play with luminance as well

that way you can leave color tone of the cat untouched, so let's say you want a warmer tone you can adjust the whilte balance +200 or +400 from your current white balance reading, if you are using lightroom then click on the temperature slider and roll your mouse wheel to adjust, that way will be faster

lastly the eyes, lightroom got an iris enhance brush preset and it works everytime, when you enhance the details in the eyes it will look very nice

the final touch up would be adding some vignette to make the viewer focus on the cat since the leaves at foreground is distracting

Wah, you really took a lot of photos bro

I think for the 1st photo, it might be better to have just composed the lower right corner of the photo- showing just the boats and the sea. After all, the there is not really anything on the left anyway haha Of course, to do that you might need to zoom a bit..

2nd shot I think the some of the shades of green are a bit too saturated, but I love the lights and shadows on the sand though, very nice... I didn't notice the tire tracks at all until I read your photo title haha Might need to change title 

Just my noob 2 cents 

The first one looks too blank... But the second one Have to step up my game liao

I liked the last gen more also, furthermore the price was lower and equipped with 7 airbags ( not sure 6 or 7 ). the new one was kinda... meh, after the rising of price.

Anyways, saw you guys making HDR landscapes, wanted to share an amazing photographer's HDR work to you all.
http://janek-sedlar.deviantart.com/gallery/

Most of his shots were shoot using 18-105 kit lens. Really amazing HDR.

His works are really amazing. i can see tons of hours of editings went into the pictures.

well... too many crazy talented photographers on deviantart.

Hello everyone, I actually used a lot of DSLRs before and now I'm looking to get one for myself.
I'm aiming particularly at Nikon because I like the specs.

Currently I got my eyes on the D5300 which of course is not available yet.
I want to ask : are there any estimated date of arrival to Malaysia and the price? Also which lens would you all recommend to bundle the camera with?

Thanks!

What lens is that?

oh i duno... i think i was play a bit dota2 with her before when party with one of my friend.
ya, i thought it can't spot that much when zoom out 
i was wanted to clean the wig hair line one, then when i see the complicated background. i was like fark it... apply some noise reduction then save it XD

btw spam 2 more. 



arrived in SG around 4am. wandering with friend and shoot this from midnight till morning... 

IMO AA filters are quite controversial...
Either to get more detail and sharpness or no, but got a soft touch of AA to it looks more pleasing.
Price gap of the D7000 and D7100 is really large though

Point taken.
Another question I'd like to add -
There are two versions of the Tamron lens mentioned by bro PF T.J., but do we really need the VC?
tamron AF17-50MM F2.8 rm1190
tamron AF17-50MM F2.8 VC rm1580

390 bucks for that

Yet another midnight project

Can use for normal shooting also, I'm wearing glasses but still can see the entire frame with the magnifier on, so for someone without glasses, should be no problem at all. I bought mine for 120 at YL camera. 
Adjusting the angle of the coins and my flash so that just the center coin reflects light.
It's a huge pain in the ass too since I have to take several times and adjust 
 

Sifus, do you all actually use any types of filters for the lens?
I know many people does put filters but I'd like to ask if there anyone putting a dummy filter to protect the lens or not so expensive LA the gear

Macro shots of spiders for today 



All shot with 105mm + ET
ISO400
1/250
F16
+0.3EV (kept forgetting to put this back to 0  )

The deal seemed pretty alright if the Raynox 250 is in very pristine conditions
Otherwise, just stick to getting plastic extension tubes, they offer high enough magnifications for you to start learning already
You will also need flash for better shots, can either get a flashgun or DIY a diffuser
Most of the macro sifus have a Raynox 250 for their setups, though I have never tried one yet