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Agito666, damn nice wei the 1st picture!!

Hehe, maintained my reputation as top spammer

This post has been edited by [PF] T.J.: Apr 1 2014, 11:31 AM

Sharing some cats and dogs photos taken during my recent Taiwan trip











More~


This post has been edited by [PF] T.J.: Apr 1 2014, 12:00 PM

Focus recomposing is usually not accurate when your DOF is small oh
Try manually selecting AF points?

Can try it using Liveview too if you need to "focus" on areas way outside the focusing area haha

Time for you to get the Nikon D8000

Time to shoot moar

Nice phone there mate!
New one?
I think your photo lacks a main focus, as in I'm not sure what you are trying to show with your photo if I didn't read your title
Next time try to use a clean background (remove the other phone, headset and Nikon bag), or blur out the background altogether with large apertures (either shoot at max focal length @F5.6, OR any short focal length @F3.5), so that the focus will be on the phone and box itself

Don't worry man, my 1st few thousand photos were very bad as well haha
You'll slowly learn about composition, lighting and post-processing along the way~
In fact, its good that you have already started using LR while you learn your photography, more efficient

I don't have any phone shots T___T
But I do have some camera shots. Just for your reference, I'm still pretty noob at this:




Oh ya, this too hehe

Keep it up~

This post has been edited by [PF] T.J.: Apr 2 2014, 12:46 AM

Try to use Spoiler tags for long replies ya bro
So to keep things less messy

Ohh... that one was just fooling around with the colors..
Based on what I've learnt, sometimes it feels nicer to have the same colors in a photo of a product e.g. The Olympus is red so I choose red background lights; Sony NEX is pink so I picked pink-coloured, girly stuffs

Take your time to learn bro, eventually will become great like the sifus here
Don't worry too much about advanced lighting first, that can come later~
As for composition, for a start, don't put your subject at the middle of a photo, put on the sides instead ~

Same here, felt like wasted a lot of photos when I look back now
Thanks sifu, your photos are much more cantek

Yeah, bling bling
Make very good background for "fancy" shots

Yeah, I have a "reputation" to defend here

It was flower season in Taiwan, took A LOT of flower macro shots
All shots taken with 105mm or 24-70mm











Moar:

I think post-processing has become an essential part of photography already
The higher you go, the more processing work you'll learn and apply

Its very hard to produce a photo that stands out without any post-processing

This is also one of the reasons why Adobe is being sued for "distorting reality" But this is life la haha... we all love Pacific Rim right? lol

Oh, this one only applies to girls I suppose.. or those in advertising haha
Personally I think man with pimples = manly

Same here
I think you only need it only if you're very particular about the final result haha
And its better to buy only when you are sure you will be sticking to that same lens

Thanks for taking your time to look at the photos mate
If you want to see the full album, with descriptions and itinerary, do feel free to add me on FaceBook haha~ Was too lazy to retype captions for Flickr

Ahh, I've been trying to learn this effect for quite some time too haha... asked around but no one seems to know or want to help T___T

Its very simple actually haha, you simply need to (Lightroom 5) pull the left end of the tone curve up.. that will make the black color lighter (should be able to get similar effect by increasing the "Blacks" bar just below "Whites"), thus giving the effect , at the same time (depending on the amount of light in your photo), you decrease "Highlights", "Shadows" and "Whites".
After this, do some minor tweaks until you get the effect you want Can adjust "Temps" and "Tints" too, usually I will increase the Yellows by a bit

I usually like to increase the Hues of Yellow and Green by a bit (~+5-+10) if there are greeneries (tree, bush etc.) in the shot. This of course, depends on your personal preference, I prefer greenish photos over yellow... At this time I only know how to really tweak Yellows and Greens, still practising with other colors

Sorry if unclear haha, its a bit hard to generalize
Different photos will require different "magnitude" of tweaking haha... takes time to learn and apply

Good eyes mate!
Its a 1.7kg SIRUI, I've purposely chose this one because its light, small, sturdy, and at the same time doesn't cost a bomb like Carbon Fibre ones do haha
I love this tripod~ Only weakness is that it cannot reach very tall height, probably around 140-150cm only, which is not bad la haha

I want D8000 only

Feel free to ask, don't be shy haha~
All the best ya

Oh, you've been there before? haha
Really nice place... if given the chance I'll consider migrating there
Good food, nice weather, beautiful place and very friendly locals

Can add me here haha:

Please let me know who you are ya haha, I don't simply accept requests one, too many jor

Hey, thanks for adding man haha
You should try searching for "tanji" and look under Google images

Ahh, nice profile pic haha XD
Wow, didn't know Taiwan had such a huge impact in your quest for photography haha
I'm sure you'll take way better photos now
Japan's very beautiful during this time right? Nice yo hehe~

For the highlights, shadows and whites, I usually decrease them if the photo is under bright sunlight. If indoors, then increase them haha Sorry missed out just now But again, how much to tweak varies between photos ya~

It took me 10 days to finish editing my 10-days Taiwan trip photos too hehe, but its totally worth it la~

I can't remember the exact model haha, but its under this series:
http://www.siruicanada.com/tripods/t1204.htm

First encounter with real Tulips

So many colours, so beautiful