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)

turn on the energy saving bulb, and leave the 3 in the background off

its way too underexposed for my taste

I couldn't figure out how environment and energy saving can be put together in a frame. Basically if you save the energy, you save the environment.

That is a common misconception. Energy comes in many forms, it is not necessarily tied to just the electricity we use. It can be the energy that humans have to perform work, or energy to run certain things (e.g. your picture).

Energy also comes in many forms like nuclear, water, kinetic, coal. Not all forms of energy saving saves the environment. If we save kinetic energy or water energy, it does not make much a difference to the environment.

Since you mentioned its a competition within your company, why don't you provide us with the type of product or services that your company offers, that would give a better idea how to fit it to the theme.


Just an example of putting saving environment and energy saving:
Try to picture 2 guys in a park. On the left side, you have a guy in foreground reading a book while the background has trees along with a trashcan saying"recycle paper". While next to the guy reading the book is another guy with a laptop.

So the picture tries to show that reading book saves energy (no need laptop battery), while in the background showing the lush nature with the recycle bin (books/paper can recycle).

This isn't a very good idea, but just trying to give you a concept of how to put both concepts into 1 picture. It would be much easier to give ideas if we know what kind of product/services your company offers.

Having a baseline to think along helps lot compared to pulling something out of thin air. Good luck with it.

Don't forget the theme of the picture is suppose to be Save energy and save the environment, so focus on the save energy part more.

Point noted. It's refrigeration products. Thanks



This post has been edited by kelvinyam: May 31 2007, 12:57 AM

I was in Mid Valley and took a few shots:

Few photos taken in Science Center (Pusat Sains Negara).











This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Jun 23 2007, 12:31 PM

Some random shots:







My cute little Junior:


C & C are welcome

This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Jun 23 2007, 12:32 PM

Yeah you got the flower on 2nd and 3rd pic is same as my home garden.

This post has been edited by Cosef: Jun 23 2007, 12:43 PM

Your cute little junior looks very curious!
Great shots on the flowers..

These were taken at Lake Garden's play ground:

Tried to do panning shot:


My Junior, being scared by a few rounds:


This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Jun 24 2007, 05:59 PM

Zoo Negara:

The Eye


Couple


Please don't go...


Chatting


What are you looking at?


Companion


Mr. Utan 1


Mr. Utan 2

Can't get it "up"


Sharp vision


Focus 1


Focus 2


Parrot 1


Parrot 2

Very nice captures of the birds. They are great!!

Thanks. Couldn't have done it without that 12x zoom.

Omg..the chimps looks like humans!

KLCC Park

Little girl in pink


Pressing hard


Posing


She's pretty


C & C are welcome.

second pic it owesome...
the very moment...

Thanks man.
I've taken more than 120 shots... and only 12 are acceptable. 10% yield, that's low Luckily I'm not shooting film.

Flowers


1/160, f5.6


1/125, f5.6


1/250, f5.6

This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Jul 28 2007, 01:44 AM

This was captured in my house garden. I have captured a few with minimum aperture but still couldn't gat a sharp image. The length of bee is about 5mm. Under a heavy crop, the noise can be seen even at ISO80. I used layer mask to apply noise reduction on the BG, and sharpen the bee by 150% with Unsharp Mask.



F8, 1/30

Please comment and advise how I could improve further.

This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Aug 4 2007, 10:09 AM

don't know why Canon didn't handle noise of PnS systems as well as they done with DSLR. i also find noise at ISO 100 of my S3 IS too like your pic, if increase shuttle speed will get sharper image but also need to increase ISO so noise....wao

maybe coz they don care really much on that aspect?

The noise is due to sensor size. The higher megapixel per square mm, the higher the noise.

so how Fujifilm does so great to handle noise with their PnS ? almost their PnS very clean even at ISO 800

prosumer cam mar...but i must admit...its quite a decent performance...

I got to agree with you. When come to sensor, size does matter.

I would say Fuji has a very good image processor. At high ISO, it seems it's better than Digic III, at noise handling.

For the price of RM1400, I'm afraid we can't demand for more.

whoa...we here PC FAIR somemore..selling at 1699...

I think even for the later S5IS, many shops do offer RM1400. You get cheap printer in PC Fair, not camera

my place "pc fair" is only stock "clearence fair"...

I was in a chicken rice shop today...



F2.7, 1/10

cha siao!!!

Flower


F8, 1/250

Butterfly #1

F2.7, 1/320

Butterfly #2

F2.7, 1/400

I wish the background for butterfly shots was less "busy", but couldn't find a better angle.

This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Aug 5 2007, 05:20 PM

2and 3 de insect doesn't suit the flower le......

Later tonight I'll clone off all those busy BG and I guess it will be better.
What do you mean by not suiting the flower?

in terms of color wise...brown+green doesnt give a strong contrast...just my opinion...no offence...

You got a point. No wonder I keep wondering something is not right... brown and green doesn't really match that well.

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Added on August 5, 2007, 6:55 pmMore flowers:

#1

F3.5, 1/100

#2

F3.5, 1/160

#3

F5, 1/125

#4

F3.5, 1/200

Comments and critiques are welcome.

This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Aug 5 2007, 07:03 PM

nice angles you have there..but is this from your garden? oh ya...why your aperture so low can still take so nice closeup? i tot need put much higher? i dunno anything bout it so need ask...heheeh...

Yeah, these were taken from my mum-in-law's garden. She like planting lots of flowers

Large aperture (small F number) will shallow the DOF. Since the object is not too small, so it's kinda compensated. If I'm taking insects, the aperture will need to be smaller to keep most of it within the focus range.

Photo #1, #3 and #4 were taken at the max focal range. I zoom all to the max on my S3 to take those shots. I can have a nicer bokeh doing this than open up the aperture.

let me see...if you set it lower means you get wider DOF right...so for close ups...if you set it lower then the background wont be so blurred? shallow means blurrier or less blur?

Better angles can be taken with the flowers. The best out of the crop is #3. Try to use super macro if you have this function to get the best bokeh.

Smaller aperture (large F number), wider DOF, less blur; larger aperture, narrow/shallow DOF, more blur.

Better angles, can be more specific?

yep i get that part...but for taking close ups you used f3 which is a low aperture and it blurred the background... since it also did the job of blurring, what would be the difference if you used higher aperture? same results?

Don't take from the bottom of the flower. Flowers are the most beautiful viewed from the top or the side at an angle.

Higher aperture means larger F number? It will make it less blur. Still blur, but just a little less blur.

OK I got it.

yeah higher aperture means larger f stop don really understand...since higher means shallow/narrow DOF then why make it less blur?

This post has been edited by orenzai: Aug 6 2007, 01:45 PM

Less blur because you got more depth of field. Means more things are in focus in the background.

Large fstop number means wider DOF, not shallow/narrow.

OMG..so i have gotten it all wrong all this time...so if i use f8 lidat then use to shoot landscape lah?lolz...lucky someone explain to me...

To make you confuse further, there's always an optimum aperture which is usually the center of the whole range. For lens (SLR), it's usually F8. For S3IS, I've yet to find out, since I can hardly notice any difference in term of photo quality, other than DOF.

optimum aperture means the sharpest photo taken? no le..i read the article say that lower f stop=bigger aperture=wider DOF ler...

Lower fstop = bigger aperture = lesser depth of field.

Thats why bokeh shots always use low fstop.

i see..so for landscape is set to high f stop?

I will assume so, since for landscape, you want to retain as much detail as you possibly can.

thanks for explaining dude..if not i wont know at all

It is known as the hyper-focal point. Usually prosumers and P&S is at f5.6.


Smaller f number = wider aperture = shallower DOF = blurrier background and vice versa.

thanks for the explanation...real help...

Whats the aperture range for your s3is? i thought it was only f2.7-f3.5? how do you get f8?

Wahhh ... so many sifus explaining here!

The aperture range given represents the widest aperture achievable by the camera at wide angle for the former and telephoto for the latter.


Seems like you have caught the sarcasm bug.

finally !! canon powershot club in here haha..
just bought the S5 series ..noob here btw

Welcome to the S series club.

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Added on August 8, 2007, 7:47 amI have a question here, let's say I set my S3 aperture at F3.5, in term of opening, is it the same as F3.5 on a SLR lens?

This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Aug 8 2007, 07:47 AM

Hahaha all you need to do is wiki, cut and paste, and sifu-like already

ohh... f8 for telephoto... how much you bought the lens??

you guys know where the S series lens sell ? i mean the tele converter and wideangle lens ..i wanna get it ..

Should be sold in all Canon concept stores although they are usually out of stock.

KLCC has stock though but its kinda ex. Err why are we changing Kelvin's thread to a Q&A thread?

Relatively, yes.

Please do not doubt other people's knowledge if you are smart enough to look for information on your own.

Dude, chill. It wasn't meant to be serious.

compmac seems to be a very serious guy ler... chill bro...

I don't mind at all. I don't own this forum anyway, it's a free space for everyone, isn't it?

kelvin,u use any tele converter to ur S3 ? any pic ? hehe

No. I don't have any tele converter.

dang .. i thought u used any converter cuz
all ur pic were quite sharp ..

I'll take that as a compliment, but I think the credit is S3IS