Seeing all the great shot, I would like to share too...

Recently, went to China. So I would like to start off with China shot. China, here I come~
Enjoy!

1番 - 天安门 (Tiananmen Square)


2番 - 天安门 (Tiananmen Square)


3番 - 天安门 (Tiananmen Square)

This is not a good shot after all because of hazy and underexpose sky, overall underexpose the whole picture. Very bad...

4番 - 悬空寺 (Hanging Monastery)


5番 - 云岗石窟 (Yungang Grottoes)


6番 - 颐和园 (Summer Palace)


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7番 - 长城 (Great Wall)


8番 - 长城 (Great Wall)


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10番 - 长城 (Great Wall)


11番 - 天漠 (Tianmo - Sand City)


12番 - 天漠 (Tianmo - Sand City)

I really like the Camel shot but the sun flare eventually spoil the picture. This is the effect without lens hood... Well, from optimistic point of view, it looks quite creative hahaha... (self convince *sad*)

13番 - 定陵 (Ming Tomb)

This is on the way to 定陵, I don't have nice shot inside 定陵 though...

This post has been edited by InfiniteVoid: Oct 12 2006, 02:03 PM

Random shot in China

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This picture appears to be not nice because of overexpose sky. Man... I hate hazy sky!

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Another bad picture... too shallow DOF and overexpose lake... though I still like the other half of the picture hehehe...

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One of my favorite shot. I should have learn panning shot before taking this shot. It would a lot nicer with panning shot.

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Some old street. Another one of my favorite shot.

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Bee....

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This is my hero hahaha...

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Isn't she cute in little butterfly wings?

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Chinese wordings on the wall

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Fear factor

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Those Scorpions are alive. It's still struggling before being fry and eat.

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Hahahaha... these are all dead Scorpions Look at the variety of foods you have

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I'm daring those who want to eat it...

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Another shot...

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Starfishs

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Something is not right here...

Can you translate the chinese characters for us AMS?

Good shots overall but the shots of the Great Wall was underexposed.
Need to work on your metering a lil' next time. Shooting stone structures are a lil' tricky at times, practice more

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e204/Inf.../camelflare.jpg

Far away Camel : "Hey! No shooting my girlfriend!"
Near Camel : "Come on-lah, I am trying to strike a pose here ..."

who eats those stuff?! i guess chinese would be the last to survive if all stock animals just suddenly died..

AMS? err... what is that?
The picture name contains the name of the place in English. Just see the property of the picture

Thanks for the advice. Indeed I'm not yet learn on metering when I was capturing those shot but now I know how to utilize the metering. Will try my best next time. Hope I have another chance to visit Great Wall.

BTW, which is picture is underexposed? Because most of it was overexposed, I used PS to bring down the expose and lift up the color. Or else, you will see white haze and shallow DOF.

Agree! hahaha..
Guess what, my friends did tried on Grasshopper. Eww... I don't dare to try.

They also eat rat.. and people in Korea eat dog (poshintang) now those would be interesting shots

This post has been edited by wodenus: Oct 11 2006, 03:40 PM

I have one of my friends shot in HK where skinned dogs hang like chicken/duck in a stall ... ewww ...

Now that is a great shot..

灯笼

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AMS = Ang Mo Sai (chinese educated in Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan (SRK but currently known as SK) and Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK or just SM sometimes) and never bothered to learn to read Chinese )

wow.. nice shoots..
i like the fear factor area.. nice man...hahaha

ooo... ic ic... let me search around for English. Will update later

Thank you

bro.. u got test the food ah?? i mena Scorpions n other.....
how the feel?? good??

shot 29, i think u used flash? spoiled the mood nia..

Nope, I didn't but my friends did. They tested Grasshoppers, Starfishs, Seahorses and Silkworm's Pupae. All gross, don't dare to try. My job is to take pictures

They said Silkworm's Pupae taste like egg and Seahorses taste like ikan bilis yucks...

Nope, all my shots are without flash. I hate to take picture with flash. I prefer natural lights as it bring the mood of the pictures more lively.

The reason the picture looks like this is because of the spot light at the background. I tried to avoid it but it still spoiled the picture because I prolong the shutter speed.

Thanks for the comment.

My testing shot

30番 - Water Color Flower

hmm... bokeh too strong until it makes the picture looks like water color

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Looks like the kit lens is not performing well. Look at the vignetting...

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33番 - Sharpness


34番 - Randam Flower


36番 - Purple Lotus

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I was facing metering picture for this picture. I believe spot metering would be very standing out here. Unfortunately, 400D don't have spot metering... sigh...

38番 - Close Up Insect


39番 - Close Up Plant


40番 - Close Up Stool

That is freaking Earthworm's stool

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I like this picture...

Manage to translate most of the place to English.

Thanks for viewing.

Ok... my pictures below are inspired by WildPiew's idea. Sorry for copying the idea by placing some wording in the picture. Sorry WildPiew. I must highlight the idea is from WildPiew.

Here ya go...

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Sorry for heavy pictures(44 >.<) loaded. Thank you for viewing.

i liked the purple lotus.. nice colors.. would have been really great if u got the whole flower aside.

Thanks for the comment.

Would like to try different angle but too many unsightliness scene

Thanks for viewing.

no.40, what does it mean? getsu no yu?

tsuki no wa = ring around the moon

wah i heard my name
anyway nice pic

Thanks for viewing...

Don't mind I copy your idea

hahaah i also copy from other ppl idea la

Some updates of my shots...

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Thank you for viewing

might be better if the coffee is not stirred
personal taste oni

maybe a lipstick mark on the cup will be better?
personal taste oni

Kirei to omoshiroi ne ... gambatte yo Infiniti

alamaks
u sure lar
so many models

Aiyoyorrr... heavy loading gallery for my dial up here

Nice nice... and satifying pict in the end... voila

Kirei to omoshiroi ne ... gambatte yo Infiniti

well done..but with 48,i would prefer the spoon in focus or not there at all.. abit too distracting.

Will try my best on next shots. Thanks for the comment.

I prefer there is smoke come out of the cup hehehe...

Thank you

I apologize for the heavy loaded files. Thank you viewing

These are the shots that I took during the trip to butterfly park. Quite disappointed that I didn't charge my battery. The battery dried out after captured about 50+ shots.
Sigh... better prepare myself with extra battery next time

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I think this is overexposed becoz the detail of the flower had been wash out with pure white only. I think I mistaken the exposure compensation at +1.

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crack wings Poor butterfly

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look at my mouth

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weee... spider web Very hard to get focus on the web, this is the best I can get so far...sigh...

I think I can do better with micro lens. Now... have to add EF 100mm f/2.8 macro to my wish list. Arrgg... *struggle with the wallet*

Thank you for viewing.

This post has been edited by InfiniteVoid: Oct 27 2006, 03:00 PM

It's okay ... imagine ... "There's no spoon.."

If anybody can do that, he/she can fly already

Today's theme, 花(はな), flowers...
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wow! so clear~~~ and the fish is scary

hahaha...ya that fish is really scary. looks like can fit my whole hand in

nice flower shoot..

thanks for the compliment

Some experiment shot...

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#58
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e204/Inf...ana/hana-06.jpg

this one caught my attention.

Jolin Concert...

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Energy... almost "extinct" group... only 3 persons left
Invited as special guest

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Sigh... it's kinda hard to capture the pictures. Lots of "huge" hands were blocking the way.

Lots of "soft" image where the focus got distorted. Holding an ultra zoom lens at miles away kinda challenging Worse thing/killing thing is low light. How much I wish I have an IS ultra zoom lens...

This post has been edited by InfiniteVoid: Dec 11 2006, 11:31 AM

wah bro..
how near you are to the stage?
of should i ask..what lens did you use?
they let you in with a camera meh?

IS won't help much if the subject is moving. you need those L lenses with telephoto and wide apertures.

Erm... quite far away from the stage hehe..
I was using 90-300mm lens (yup, the free lens for 350D), I bought it from someone for quite cheap hehehe...

I don't think they allow camera inside coz one of the security caught me capturing picture. But too bad that ain't working as concrete rule... coz tons of ppl bringing camera and camera phone to capture so I was like what the hell...

BTW, I caught 1 person even more superb than me. The person was sitting in front of me. With 3G phone, he was showing video over phone for his friend to watch

IS does helpful as I was handshake like hell at top zoom. Wide aperture and IS are the good combo that I should get

Forgot to add 1 thing, I still get soft image even Jolin was standing still. IS does help in this situation.

BUT

Very huge draw back is the size of the lens. It is darn huge..... and darn expensive..................

This post has been edited by InfiniteVoid: Dec 11 2006, 02:27 PM

Huge lenses (dun have to be too huge, about 8" long will do) have an advantage of creating a 'blockage' in front of ppl where their head will keep on knocking into it. My tactic is simple : Keep on 'tapping' their head with your metal lens and say 'Sorry'. It's very painful if you get 'tapped' a few times trust me! I experience it once before ... during the RO Concert at Mid Vallery last time I didn't actually tap the girl's head, I actually knocked her with my 70-200mm and she yelled! Didn't know metal L-lenses are so hard until that moment.

What she did? Simple. She blocked me, and when I said "Excuse me" she looked at me and didn't listen. Sorry-lor, I didn't knock you, you were swinging your head to the song and you knock me mah!

A long range telephoto with IS/VR will do you good. A 300mm will suffice

This post has been edited by ac98: Dec 11 2006, 02:38 PM

walao... jolin... can bring camera mer??? that day i go wedding dinner, if not i sure go watch... nice pics...

Ouch... that's painful
I'm afraid will be easily caught by security guard hehehe...

Security Guard (at gate) : What is that stick pointing out of your beg? Please open your beg.
Me : Errr... nothing, it is just a stick for protection. You know lah, nowaday so many snatcher.

Security Guard (at gate) : Please open your beg.
Me : *can't be help*

Security Guard (at gate) : Sir, I'm sorry we can't allow camera in this concert. We can't allow you in.
Me : What the... I already paid for the ticket!

Security Guard (at gate) : I'm sorry, sir!
Me : *take the lens and whack the guard* EAT THIS!!! !@#$%^&^%$#@!@#$%^

Joking only don't be serious

(Come to think twice, I'm seriously wanted to knock the head in front of me, coz he kept on block me , worse thing, he wasn't totally in for the concert. As I can see he is not enjoying at all)

You missed it! It was very nice but she claimed this is her last concert in Malaysia. I wonder true or not...

yalor..said last one..
maybe do in malaysia so ma fan..haha..
nice stage nice lightning..

Could Twin's incident be partly of the causes? Sigh... I really missed her dance

Thanks for the compliment

wait wait..
twin incident?
maybe i miss that one..but what happen to them?

This post has been edited by VincC454: Dec 11 2006, 03:14 PM

ehem ehem... being peek

really? aiya. then cannot see her beautiful and nice bodyline again lah.

My jungle tracking trip
with lots of water flowing shot

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woah
very serene looking at these
calendar shots!!!!!!

The water in picture 93 looks like mist.

Nice shots by the way.

sifu sifu how you capture the picture looked mist..

used lower shuttle speed??

I didn't realize it is quite suitable for calender. Come to think of, I will make it desktop's calender wallpaper hehehe...

Thank you

There is still miles away for me to reach sifu standard. So please don't call me sifu as I'm still a learner like you

To achieve these kind of shot, slow shutter speed is the key. Yes, you got it right. But there are some trick. You need to use ND8 under bright sun to achieve slow shutter speed or else the result will be overexpose. Normally 1 sec is more than enough to achieve this effect but I opt for slower than 1 sec. Some of the shot I used 20 sec - the end result will create mist effect. To be able to use less than 1 sec shutter speed, need to depend on the situation of the environment. It was fortunate that some of the shooting spot is shaded by huge tree.

i love the pictures. what camera u use?

if put as my laptop wallpaper got any copyrighted issue?

Nice pictures there... Where was it?

And which tripod did you use? Heavy carrying ar?