now this is cool pic , can see the smoke.

aaron, gold3knight, WildPiew

Thanks for your kind words of encouragement!

Some pix of the Moon Cake Festival.

Conditions were kind of challenging for a newbie like me. Windy conditions blowing the lanterns around and of course the haze. The better pictures were taken just before and right after sun-down.


The rising moon



Discovered that using tripod, dapat star effect from the lights

Lanterns galore. Any shape, colour size and type






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Muhibbah spirit
The light of Ramadan standing side-by-side with the strung-up paper lanterns




The star of last night's photo session.

Anticipation.
Eagerly awaiting jie-jie to light up his lantern




How to set camera to take pix without flash where there are some low light (like from the lanterns) and dark surrounding area?
Tried with some low-sync flash; but results are not good either.


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The Rising Moon is beautiful.
Lanterns are fantastic.
I usually try with 2nd curtain sync flash when I want the lights to stand out, and still have some of the surrounding lit up, like below. Otherwise I would just use the max iso then pp to darken what i didn't want to show and highlight what i want to emphasize.
I hope i'm not imposing for posting my photo here.


Attached thumbnail(s)

Thanks Knight for the tip! ..and complete with pix too!

U know what? I actually had a similar picture with the shadows formed by the gate reflected on the floor. Of course, my pix comes without your lovely daughter in it.

The haze and now the monsoon rain has put a stop to my experiments.

Some of them experiments I did last month .

Actually, was experimenting with lights and movements. Was trying to get that 'out of this world' feel like those of space craft zooming around in outer space. But as you can see, it ended up more like


My Tequila series..... Progression (rather, should be 'regression') of sight after Tequila.

No Tequila


1 Tequila


2 Tequilas


3 Tequilas


No more Tequilas ..anythime soon!
Does the brain matter look like this as well after a few Tequilas?

very nicely artistic zoom shots.
since outdoor experiments are interrupted, do indoor experiments...

dun drink and drive and dun drive and shoot

Love the 'Tequila' shoots man! LMAO

Thx Knight for the words of encouragement. Those weren't meant to be artistic shots. But it doesn't hurt that you see them as such

Glad you had some laughs out of my pix.
So, Shifu, any tips on how to get the "Startrek" effect?

Yeah...should have stayed with this instead



Or the absolute sober option..."Coke Is It"
*Will i be slapped with a plagiarism charge?*



For the so claimed healthier version..Coke Light
*It tastes funny*



I still prefer this.
*Would you like to have a tiny sip of LongJing? *



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I have a mini clay teapot too, a gift from my jiang nan local tour guide, but it wasn't very pretty.

for the star trek effect, I think you need to mount the camera on a tripod to minimise camera shake.

The handiwork of the ones I bought (think it's from Shanghai area also) are quite fine. Each one is about 1 - 1.5 cm height, c/w detachable lid!



I read somewhere...they move the camera back and forth while on slow speed. *Am now thinking of those camera-man sitting on a stool mounted on a rail...like filming a movie. *

The sky cleared after 2 days of incessant monsoon rain. Couldn't resist the itchy fingers...just had to take out my camera altho it was like 7.15 pm

Rising Moon
Only noticed the rising moon after I reviewed the picture!



This one taken on a different day. Short respite from the monsoon rain, and the clouds got back in ...real quick!



Like the red glow of the setting sun on the cloud

i can also see specks of dust bunnies, fibre even.
But very nice colours

I know of a big blob...(as big as my rising moon in the picture) always appearing at the same spot.

But fibre?...chai na li?

Couldn't resist taking a snap of the Beautiful cloud formation this morning on my way to work. On closer look, discovered the moon is still visible!

Just want to share this glorious morning with all of you. Have a nice day!









And a Rainbow too...thanks to the polariser

Whoa, boleh tahan jugak your dust bunnies hor?

u need to do some blow job...





















i mean, blow away the dust

aku takut nak mess with them bunnies, nanti dapat heart attack, notwithstanding that they aren't the playboy version.

naughty boy ....don't make suggestive remarks to ah-mah