Impossible 70D + 18-55 at that price.

Too bad it's a typo

Shot my friend's watch


No.7 by GM Yong, on Flickr

Using 1 speedlight with softbox. (again not canon gears btw)

Thanks

haha I am glad that you all liked it since it's a quick shot and I know nothing about watch also (they look a lot more complicated than cameras to me )

Did a quick sketch of the setup (sorry if it looks bad XD). Basically I placed the softbox and light super close to the watch to that it would form a soft highlight on the glass instead of something patchy. It's a little inaccurate for the angle of the light on the drawing but you have to keep on adjusting until you get "that shot". I don't know much about the 10:10 rule though but I did adjust the time a bit during photographing it so that it look a little more interesting (original time was around 7:30-7:40pm. Hope this helps

Looks good but I feel like a dark background might suits better (easiest way is to grab a black plain T shirt).

getting closer and bumping up the contrast and clarity might improve it too.

Try to take few pictures on the same position with exposure ranging from -2 -1 0 +1 +2, you might get surprised by how darker/ brighter affects the whole feel of the picture

Just finished editing this one from the same set.

any c&c on mine, sifu?

Thanks a lot for liking them

Yeap and since you mentioned him, my inspirations on photographing watches are actually from him. never get tired looking at his works.

wonder about this thing too, but I guess it shows the smooth surface of the glass so I like it. Unprocessed raw actually has quite heavy glare, have to tone down the exposure a bit to compensate

Went through some pictures I took in 2014 to get back some memories, and realized how bad they look because of my addiction to split toning that time

Did some quick reedit to them and found out that sometimes less is more (just some exposure and white balance correction from RAW).

Quite easy to get I think for a 70-200mm f2.8.

get 3rd party 70-200 if you are tight on budget

those images were shot on a rm1.5k tamron 70-200 lens.

Depends on personal preference, really.

I shoot mostly macro and portrait when I got the 70-200 so it was the perfect lens for me during that time. Not really recommend for food photography as the DOF is too shallow and requires you to stop down a lot to get enough focus.

It's quite bulky to carry around also and always get you unintended attention from strangers.

as the old rule always says, focus on your angle/ composition/ lighting first. a lens wont really make your picture improve a lot unless it's a specific purpose lens.

yeap I agree with this, it really speeds up the whole process of setting up and getting the shot. keep on zooming in and out will create more troubles for me only

anyways, using 70-200mm for food is quite tight in my opinion and if you just using the wider focal lengths there's no point in getting one also.

shadow/clarity is too heavy imo, try pulling back a little bit.

Trying out some car photography (just a brief 10-20 minutes of photoshooting). Not that easy to get good photos to be honest, requires more practice

No such thing as safe website, the moment you decide to post up your thing, get ready to be stolen. Even some sites disable download but a simple printscreen can still steal your picture easily.

how's the 5D classic so far? always wanted to get one but never got the courage to bite the bullet

a6000 wins 700d by a lot. 760d might be on par with a6000. but you can't really compare 2 different type of cameras.

700d is just too old compared to a6000. if you are buying kit lenses only, go for the sony system, mind you if you plan to step further into the system, sony lenses going to cost you a bomb. you can only get a kit 16-50+55-250+50mm for the a6k, the 10-18mm is 2.5-3k alone.