Hey guys. I'm new to photography. Hope to learn some techniques and tips from the experienced people in this forum.

Just got myself a digicam early April 2007.

These are my shots of the Fashion On 1 in 1 Utama.

Do forgive my shaky hands. Some shots were were excessively cropped and blurred due to extreme blurriness.


These shots are the lineup by G&H. Tomorrow morning maybe I will post up more of the other lineups by Miss Selfridge, Guy, and Tangoo
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Added on April 15, 2007, 1:11 amhmm, cant seem to post up anymore photos.. Anyone know why?

This post has been edited by sojen: Jun 16 2007, 08:46 AM

you have a limit for # of images per post.

when you add a new post after your own post, remember to TICK the box for
Do not combine with previous post?

after that you can add more posts.

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as to your shots - great that you manage to capture them in pairs.

it's just your picture editing needs a little work, for example the soften-effect makes your pictures look dark.

for other pictures, you can crop a little here and there to cut out the unwanted background.

those darkened pictures shouldn't be shown in the first place. sorry la, i mean seriously only put up those you think that's good.

anyway, nice try!!

EDITED : typo. again. arrghh.

This post has been edited by goldfries: Apr 15 2007, 01:30 AM

Thanks. Those dark pictures not because of soften effect, it's because I didn't use flash in the beginning... Next time I put up those ones I think which good ones only. Ok here goes..
Miss Selfridge lineup:

These shots were taken from Ground floor, 1 floor directly above the podium.
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This post has been edited by sojen: Apr 15 2007, 08:23 AM

what i meant was that it's already dark enough, soften it makes it doesn't help. dark pictures look darker.

hrmm. i was there at Miss Selfridge shots too. at LG.

lacks sharpness even without the softening.

either u did alot of pp or the models skII until become plastic

Sojen ... your images lack sharpness, colour details, white balance, composition and angle. The post processing is not working and everything lacks impact. Please work on your photography first, impress us with your Photoshop skill later

Noted.

It was the photoshop gausian blur at 50% opacity...

Thanks for the honest comments guys. Just starting out photography, hope to learn plenty from you guys.

Take a look at this picture(No cropping, only resizing). The closest I can stand from the upper floor balcony with 4x optical zoom maxed out with my A540. This was my best shot for sharpness (for the girl on the left at least...) even though it's still not up to par.



Can you guys suggest me some settings or techniques to improve my image sharpness and lighting? I'm not really sure what kind of settings to use...

I want to improve myself before the next shooting that is held next week.

This post has been edited by sojen: Apr 15 2007, 07:08 PM

Ohhhhhhhhh you are using point-and-shoot digicam, no wonder ...

need to upgrade cam joh

Yalah, no point tipping P&S user jor ... later upgrade to DSLR have to tip and comment again

hahah.. poison ppl...

Eh.... so fast upgrade to DSLR? I just bought this camera 2 weeks ago only...

somemore now the shops I see no more selling my model... Only sell A550 and A560..

i buy A540 dunno for what... the uncle tell me dun buy A530 because model no more in production but he sell me A540...

Nvm, i think i will train my composition and angle first. Other things when got money only worry about it hahaha

can wan. even P&S people can learn shots.

don't be so discouraging la.

EDITED : Sojen, you don't worry. P&S / prosumer can snap nice shots wan la. don't worry. even now i'm guiding my honey to use Prosumer cam. she got quite some shots from 1-U FO1 too.



This post has been edited by goldfries: Apr 15 2007, 11:38 PM

Yeah lah, that's right too. ac98's comments are poisonous and a bit harsh i think.. . maybe some comments on composition could be helpful, and the technical aspects can keep until he buys a dSLR..

Then you'll be spending even MORE
Okay okay dun wanna poison you anymore. P&S is best to learn up composition since you have an advantage of a viewing LCD. But keep in mind, the world of a VIEWFINDER is much more wonderful and of course more stable than a off-body LCD. Best to keep your camera closer to your body for more stability.

I din use the LCD for taking pictures oh.. I see through the optical viewfinder, plus it helps me to save battery. . Can squeeze 300+ shots with 2300 AA battery.

I try to press my hands against my body and face against the screen to reduce shakiness, but somehow sometimes my pictures still blur, not sure its still my shakiness or the models walking.

Now I just have to figure out some good settings for the manual mode

Time to add in more pictures...

I tried to overcome my dark shots by timing my shots with the sifus flash at the podium. My flash cannot reach from the top floor




This post has been edited by sojen: Apr 16 2007, 08:40 AM

time to upgrade to G7 or D series
for the external flash 430ex | 580ex

Went to Batu Caves with some friends. Here are some shots trying different stuff.

Taking a different approach as opposed to the Fashion photography

Outdoor shots now



Heaven and Hell



Trying silhouttee shot



An attempt to use natural frames like the wall, bar and poles...


By the way, for the last shot. I was wondering how some of you do those awesome bokeh shots? I want to focus only on the monkey and the background behind the poles to be blurred...

the first image of the batu caves series is one of the most common angle ppl use to describe batu caves, but nothing wrong with that.. and why the second image is named 'heaven and hell'?

Good attempts Sojen ... I have a shot of 'Heaven and Hell' too

Haha. The top bright light part is heaven and the deep dark cave part is hell.

My friend brought me to Bukit Jalil. Here are the night shots. All taken between 10pm and midnight. Messing around with Shutter Speed Priority... No idea what I'm doing haha

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In Picture #3, see the top left corner with the cars. They were from the Ultimate street tuners event I think. All ready to race. Revving their engines so loud. I even heard some dude using a mike scolding the others cars:"Oi tepi tepi, sini mau lumba~!"
Something like that. I even heard it so loud and clear from the top of the hill..
I think there were about 5 or 6 of them.


That aside, Tips and Comments to help me improve please... Greatly appreciated.


EDIT: Thanks simmy. Found the PS autocolours.

This post has been edited by sojen: May 2 2007, 08:26 PM

the picture are greenish. did you try changing white-balance to get better effect?

It was under Auto White Balance. I think I must have messed with the Colours settings.

But I kinda like the 'greening' effect

Ok. Next time I will make sure my settings are properly done... this round was to experience the shutter speed priority mostly.

you can slightly adjust the green tone using PS, works just as good

Finally finished my exams. Full freedom.

Went to picnic in a park with some friends.

It's picture time~!










Comments and tips are appreciated. Help me to improve my composition and other stuff. Thanks.

More pictures

Oh? Next time must try to go there in the evening then.. My shots were taken in the morning mostly around 8-10am.

And the tong sampah was intentionally put into composition.. Maybe I have some weird twisted mind.

Thanks for comment, will try to improve my composition even more.

the tong sampah doesnt work la

Selayang Park? It's a used mining pool-lar
Yalah, lotsa ppl go there fly kites in the morning or evening one.

Back from Redang island.
Picture time.

More.

Sunrise and sunset pictures








The picture below is sunrise on day 3. Too many clouds so cannot get the nice orange like in day 2 sunrise.


This post has been edited by sojen: Jun 16 2007, 12:39 PM