another addition for what has everyone stated: LR is such a memory hog software compared to PS.

Kill HDD never mind, my laptop has an mSATA and another HDD 
LR and PS if same type of processing they can do, why adobe like to release so many subsets of the same thing 
cheaper price for software specifically for photography processing?

Happy Winter Solstice! 
Nice shots man!
#1 should be a Phintella versicolor ♂, don't think its a baby haha
#2 is a juvenile Cosmophasis thalassina. They love to point their abdomens upwards while moving~ And they become very beautiful when grown up:



#2 is not an easy shot since this particular species is always on the go lol, great one!
#1 is an orange-banded hornet, not to be trifled with Its not venomous la, but the sting will be very painful, and it has unlimited "ammo", unlike bees
#2 is a young housefly I think, whereas #3 is a signal fly (nice find!)
But what amazed me most is #4 haha, don't even know what it is!
Nice one shooting with tripod and stacking 

post 1 nub photo to show how important raw file can recover from highlight and shadows

only FF can do it? DX can't?

I realised that too, but edi try my best to bring back the details.. so meh~ 

Nice, I didn't focus on the white dress until others mentioned about it tho. My eyes went straight to her face
Can use brush tool man. Carefully painting the white areas of the dress and while still in brush tool, lower down highlight, or lowering a bit of exposure, add some contrast I think. Still can be recovered.
Great work, man I don't even have a zoom lens for this. I like the moth's wings, if only can see the pattern clearer.

Another National Geography edition

Love is in the air by NurAzam, on Flickr

One of my favourite spiders- Herennia multipuncta


Lens - Nikkor 105mm + ET (36mm + 12mm)
Aperture - f/16
Shutter Speed - 1/250 secs
ISO - 400

Flash fired at 1/32

not sharper arh? hmm.. nvm la. u got many gold ring.. 58mm go grab!

Wait guys...The 35mm f/1.8G lens don have manual aperture ring, means it is impossible to reverse lens if i want to play macro?

Probably not gua, but sweat and moisture does make the rubber expand la, which is part of the reason for it to peel.

Read alot of entry level DSLR recommendation threads today...

Curiously i wonder why ppl seldom recommend Nikon entry level DSLR if compare to Canon and Sony? I read alot of reviews, those in depth analysis, also shown output quality from Nikon is higher than other brands in the same class. The most commendable item for Nikon is hard to learn for newbie in fact they know the quality of Nikon is better.

I dun know, before i own my D3200 less than 2 months ago, i have almost near to nil knowledge regarding the relation of exposure, shutter and aperture. But after less than 2 months, i already able to use manual mode now. Almost every night at home since i bought, i will take out my Nikon to play around even though i have nothing special to shoot (Yesterday i check my shutter count, reached 3359 just over 6 weeks), just shoot and compare the difference of each setting, read and understand the histogram, read online guide, read camera magazine (5th issue bought this week). IMO, Nikon menu setup is not as hard as they mentioned, each items has guide on that, just press a little '?' button will do. For me just same as driving a brand new manual car and learn all the characteristic from the feedback of the car.

My opinion, if ones feel difficult to learn, is not becos it is difficult, just they dun have enough patient and passion for it. Then i would recommend taking compact cam rather than DSLR, cheap and easy to use.

Just my thought.

not to mention Fuji is chasing up too

well canon in that range i don't think can fight with.

and Samsung i'm not sure, but got a little for the market due to the name i guess...

Read alot of entry level DSLR recommendation threads today...

Curiously i wonder why ppl seldom recommend Nikon entry level DSLR if compare to Canon and Sony? I read alot of reviews, those in depth analysis, also shown output quality from Nikon is higher than other brands in the same class. The most commendable item for Nikon is hard to learn for newbie in fact they know the quality of Nikon is better.

I dun know, before i own my D3200 less than 2 months ago, i have almost near to nil knowledge regarding the relation of exposure, shutter and aperture. But after less than 2 months, i already able to use manual mode now. Almost every night at home since i bought, i will take out my Nikon to play around even though i have nothing special to shoot (Yesterday i check my shutter count, reached 3359 just over 6 weeks), just shoot and compare the difference of each setting, read and understand the histogram, read online guide, read camera magazine (5th issue bought this week). IMO, Nikon menu setup is not as hard as they mentioned, each items has guide on that, just press a little '?' button will do. For me just same as driving a brand new manual car and learn all the characteristic from the feedback of the car.

My opinion, if ones feel difficult to learn, is not becos it is difficult, just they dun have enough patient and passion for it. Then i would recommend taking compact cam rather than DSLR, cheap and easy to use.

Just my thought.

not to mention Fuji is chasing up too

well canon in that range i don't think can fight with.

and Samsung i'm not sure, but got a little for the market due to the name i guess...

Double posted, hehe. But nice one, like the sparkle from the web, and the spider looks like a lime. lol!

Double posted, hehe. But nice one, like the sparkle from the web, and the spider looks like a lime. lol!

sometime i really wonder if nikon is really using sony sensors, i've seen many sony camera doesn't capture good low light shoots like nikon does

canon lens is cheap because they dont have focus motor inside, but their lens lineup is more like quantity > quality, i heard their 35mm 1.8 prime is really bad at wide open and need to stop down to f2.8 and above

what i like about nikon is the dynamic range and the color, tried to do single image HDR on canon and nikon and i like nikon RAW file more

and canon having larger user base most likely is because of the advertisement and sponsored event from canon malaysia, you dont really see much nikon sponsored event, even advertisement also not as much as canon
NEX crappy? i thought nex is better than sony alpha entry level and peoples always talking about nex nex nex

but one thing i dont like about sony dslr is the electronic viewfinder, used too much battery, i've seen some sony user posting in their facebook that their camera can only last for one day for normal usage in event