i didnt notice ting lih... anyway, you didnt even recognise me at Metropolitan also. lol

travis_ckf, What time did you go to Metropolitan?

Alot of pics we take at the same time...
Maybe you can try to PS ur photos make them look better...

Which is Natalie?
The one in the 1st pic "acting cute"?

  Next Year...     
No nid lah... Shoot again @ others events...

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2174/bangkok4eo9.jpg

this is nice travis !

Thats y u see my picture thread not hot one 

This shows that:
1) lowyat photographers are more into portrait photography

or

2) lowyat photographers are just plain 'mata gatal' 

well composition wise, not bad but still can improve.. i saw a lot of repeated subjects throughout the temples, so why not try various angles to make it look like some kind of abstract patterns instead of normal eye-level shots?

in this kind of place, it's good to look for patterns to make the subject more interesting...

Haven't got time to slowly wait for all pictures to load but I like some of your composition, for example this.

It's ok... I also dun have lenglui's in my thread. It's ok...

Where did you focus this car? the wordings are blurred
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You made Esther look so blur. You're really handshaking at 1/250
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4171/dsc0138vm9.jpg

check back the pic for your response on #1. i'm not taking about the red fairlady

50mm at 1/250 shouldn't be blur. practice more. the other one with phoenie and esther also the same prob even at 1/40

i'll giving comments about technical wise not composition.

first of all, as usual, when ppl get 50mm, they will very fanatic about f1.8 

i notice a lot of pics shooted at f1.8, pls remember photos not always necessary to be so bokeh, i know u want to try it out but pls prevent it.

the DOF is so narrow at f1.8 and coupled with manual focusing with ur D40, it is nearly impossible to get the subject in focus especially if u shoot ppl face..

if u want bokeh/wide aperture, this lens is sharpest at f2.8.

for me, only shoot at f1.8 if u really desperate and no other choice OR the focusing distance is somewhat far with poor lighting condition.

as for manual focusing with ur D40, use the focusing green lamp to help u, the focusing will lamp will based on ur focusing point, remember to see where is ur focusing point.
pls trust the green lamp and not ur eyes.
long time didn't gv so serious comment, lol..of coz it is not related to any gals portrait..lol

sorry to say that, i cant sense any NIKON of the series in term of color , focusing, sharpness/definition, expo

already lorh 

ok i try to tell u, but if u still cant get it, mean this is my conversation pro lor
3# i can see a man holding cam shot himself.
4# very mid ...but color not strong enuf
race queen, 7# n 8#, i felt that u shooting in car lo
6# look like kena crop.

the rest pict i cant load.

Seems like u struggling using MF with the 50mm coz i think in this kind of event u have to be quick....

My advice to you is use P-mode, dun dabble with Manual mode and manual focusing if you're working under stressful environments like event portraits coz if you're not extremely familiar with your camera, it'll wreck your images.

yeah i believe so.. but why play around with Manual mode in the first place? issit becoz the D40 built-in motor thing??

Your pictures were ruined quite bad it seems.. wait to the next roadshow.. hehe

Oh he is using Nikon D40 I forgot
Patutlah manual focusing adoii ... time to change body already

i dun understand this. hard to focus using af-s lenses?

oh ic... u didnt have a af-s lens! mmmm...no wonder so hard to take shots.
in that case, nice shots coz without the af-s.... i'm cacat