anyone interested in participating this Guerilla Photography Exhibition in Subang Empire Shopping Gallery?

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viewfinder no need to care since it doesn't affect image quality and it is a lot of work like align the prism for viewfinder and etc

sometime the dust is not inside the viewfinder itself but the mirror that reflect light to the viewfinder, try to brush it off at the mirror see how it goes

that body doesn't have much button compare to D7000, but there are a lot you can do if you make use of the swivel LCD screen

anyway.....gonna ask the sifus here a question, what should i take note of when shooting fashion portraiture? should i focus more on full body and make sure DOF is enough to cover the outfit?

so far there isn't any major issue beside dust and oil issue in D600 units

my use my d5100 to shoot under rain and bumping here and there during event and still working fine

DSLR is not water resistance, some are weather sealed

even though your DSLR is not weather sealed you can still shoot under the rain but not heavy rain la, and of course to cover the viewfinder, buttons and mount parts when you are not shooting so the water wont sip inside to the internal parts and damage the camera

salt can rust metal/iron very fast best to clean the body after exposed to salt water

i use wet cloth to clean the body, the lens front and back element just use lens pen, easy and no messy

having halo effect in HDR is like an instant kill to your pictures, proper HDR pictures shouldn't have halo

actually it can be done with just 1 RAW file instead of exposure stacking

if you use lightroom only then you have to mask it very careful and slow with your brush tool and also play with other sliders too

in photoshop there is a auto mask feature that can easy select the hill only, leaving the sky untouch then you can do your adjustment on the hill only and not affect the sky

for other software i dont know la, i use lightroom to do it only

if single RAW file, you can just straight away use selective editing brush to burn & dodge each part of the image, no need to split to multiple image file

but it can only be done if the camera sensor is capable to capture the dynamic range, and Nikon DSLR is good in that

use brush

not the water they are talking about, is the sky

you dont check your image when you process it?

G lens will always have the widest open aperture when it is mounted, the F number that you see in your LCD is applied when you click the shutter button

so focus at 1.8 and 2.2 makes no different, since you're in event, i assume it is indoor, there are limitation on the lens AF, if not enough light it wont be able to focus well, sometime even in ballroom also will have trouble focusing

and you cant focus and recompose with f1.8, you have to compose then focus and when you focus cannot focus on single color subject, let's say your AF points is at the person's cheek then the lens might have trouble focusing, try focus between eyelid and eye ball, that way you have the color for the lens to focus

but i find that widest aperture for G lens is quite sharp already, loving the smoothness and details of prime lens at widest aperture

1 stop means 3 clicks of the camera dial, if you use manual mode, each time you turn the dial by 1 click the exposure bias will be overexpose or underexpose for 0.3

cosplay?

got facebook page?

i also shoot cosplay in event

cosplay itself is not dangerous but quite beneficial, only the people around everyone of us that have a negative perspective on cosplay and ACG is dangerous, you dont see japan being a dangerous country right?

This post has been edited by amduser: Oct 26 2013, 08:06 AM

wow......amazing pics there!!!

you already got 24mm to 50mm range? those range are quite important too

for phone and tablet there's no such thing, even though your phone USB port can only take 1A charging power max, but you plug in to a 2.1A powerbank or outlet, it will only take in 1A of power

for your d70s, it is recommended to use back the charger when you bought your dslr, cable can change, use universal adapter also no problem, make sure your charger can take in 110 to 240v of power

to generalize all the fans boys:

canon = gear head, we are the white knight, the noble, our cannon is the biggest and it is white so it doesn't absorb heat like the black does thus it prevent overheat of the lens

sony DSLR (not so applicable for NEX user) = my camera has this this this and that features that other camera dont have, 12 fps jpg panorama stitching which is faster than D4 shutter speed, and i got the translucent shutter not to mention that our flash can bend left and right unlike C and N. Sony also made camera sensor for nikon so our sensor will definitely be better

nikon = judge it yourself

welcome welcome....

no point learning so much on the paper without going out and shoot, so the most important is still "take your gear out and start shooting" but of course you have to learn from everyone and apply the concept/skills/ideas to get what you want

the aperture control how much light is allowed to pass through the lens for as long as the shutter is open, wider/bigger aperture (low F value) create blur (bokeh) to area that is not in focus, while smaller aperture (higher F value) make depth of field (the focus area) is larger, thus more area in focus and less blur area, but you are letting less light through your lens that's why you need slower shutter and higher ISO to proper exposure
somehow we prefer to be active in LYN instead