These photos were taken in Tasik Chini and Cherating.

#1 Fisherman at Tasik Chini



#2 Girl in pink



#3 Having fun



#4 Bored



#5 Waiting



#6 Sunrise 1



#7 The right moment



#8 Shell and boat



This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Jul 28 2007, 01:00 AM

#9 In the middle of ocean



#10 The sand-man



#11 The moon



#12 Sunrise 2



#13 Sunrise 3



#14 Sunrise 4



#15 The morning bird

Love #5 and #13. Nice macro and silhouette

I always wondered about those shots on insects, do you actually go near to them or zoom in on them?

This post has been edited by sojen: May 3 2007, 09:47 PM

That spider was at quite a distance from me, so that shot was taken at full zoom of 12x or 432mm (35mm equivalent).
No cropping is done.

fantastic shot.
Don't mind tell me how u shoot the moon and sunrise ?

3 and 10 is nice!

The moon was shot at 12x zoom. Max aperture. Spot metering on the moon. I was told that I'm missing a lot of detail and the shot can be better. However I'm not told that what can been done to improve that other than investing in astronomers equipment.

The sunrise was also shot at max aperture. Segment evaluation metering. My cam refused to focus on the sun, so focus and metering was done on the cloud next to it. I did a bracket of 3 shots with +/- 1EV, and select the one with exposure I like most. I've selected the 0EV for these shots.

Wow!! it's wonderful !!!
GREAT SHOT!

Awsome shots! Can fight with DSLR. Composition was quite good too. Well done! Later can teach me more about our S3 IS. Hehe...

3,8,15 boleh tahan ! the pic 8 if the boat behind bokeh abit mayb nicer and 15 zoom nearer~ background bokeh abit ~ zheng ! ( just my little opinion hehe) S3Is memang boleh tahan : )

yep,u're rite
but i don't know why, after save ur photo of the moon to my computer, i use exif reader of ACD SEE to read your photo exif. And it appears that u used f /3.5 with shutter speed is 1/400s ? Although i agree that can not shot like this at that aperture ?

i tried many times to take pic of the moon, i used f8, iso 200, but never get as sharp and detail as your pic. So maybe the problem is metering ? Can u tell me what's different between 2 ?

Honestly #8 is the least I like, the composition is just like not right. Perhaps the shape of the boat is not nice enough. I've been wondering around the boat before taking quite a few shots, only this one was selected.

When I shot the moon, I use aperture priority, and I never thought it's so bright and shutter speed was increased to 1/400.
For your case, ISO200 might create enough grain to damage your shot, since you will need to crop off 80% of your shot. I think your problem might be focusing. Try set it to manual and have it at infinity since the moon is definitely far enough. I'm not sure you want to use f8, since it's kinda small, but you can always try out a few aperture setting and select the one come out the best.
Another thing to take note is the environment you shot your moon from. Have some place with least light polution. I took mine at a dark beach. You may want to try it from the jungle I think shooting from the front of my house with all those street lights standing around will not work.

love those sunsets..

Err... those are sunrise shots

oh, yep maybe the problem is " shooting from the front of my house with all those street lights standing around will not work. "
thank you very much
although i alway use Manual mode. I think f/8 is a must cause can take sharp picture, when i try f /3.5 it's not clear and sharp.

uhm, but how about the different between 2 metering ?

The difference? You mean metering type?
Spot: 1% at the center of the frame
Center weight: 10% at the center of the frame
Segment evaluation: Average metering on few segments on the frame

Since you want a correct exposure on the moon, so your metering shall be on the moon, spot will be most suitable. Besides, even at 12x zoom, the moon is still so small.

hi bro your sand and boat pic is what aperture and shutter speed?

ShutterSpeedValue - 1/40 seconds
ApertureValue - F 8.00

I used the smallest aperture possible so that both the boat and shell can be in focus.



This post has been edited by kelvinyam: May 12 2007, 09:08 AM

A submission to a photo contest held by my company with the theme Energy Saving and Save The Environment.
The photo didn't come up to my expectation but I have no idea what I can do to improve it, I'll need some comments and recommendations.

Maybe the photo theme shows a little about energy saving when comparing 1 light to 3 bulbs... but doesnt really show save the environment. Is that whatyou were looking for?

Perhaps you can find another type of object that also illustrates energy saving and put in a background that shows the environment(e.g. nature)