Hi,

Here is some of the photos that I had taken from Namibia, a small country from Africa. Take note that it was solely a bussiness trip (a short one), thus we did not have extra time for leisure traveling (I wish I could). All pictures are taken in the rush, either while walking to the car, while the car is moving or in hotel room while waiting for something else. Thus do not expect those usual wild life pictures from Africa.... Not yet la... Maybe next time...

All pictures are taken solely with one lense, my trusty EFS17-55 f2.8 USM IS. Yeah... There is no space in my camera bag, not even for a flash gun nor lense hood.

The first potrait show that while waiting for my partner to re-charge (smoking) at transit, we met up with an ex-UK navy and took his picture. He claimed he was in war with the Japan during the 1945. And yes, he smoked a lot... just like my partner.

While I was troublshooting some software application issue since 4 AM (I was very hardworking le...), I realised there was beautiful sunrise just on the windows. It was beautiful, but really dark. I have to use setting such as f2.8 at 1/6 (ISO400) with 2/3 under exposure compensation. Thanks to Canon incredible Image stablization technology that allow up to 3 stops shake reduction. Every shots at 1/4 - 1/6 are SHARP! Cool..... And the lense is sharp directly from f2.8!!!

While on the way for our presentation, I saw a beautiful building on the middle of the road (actually a round-about), I quickly took this picture at wide aperture. I knew I need f2.8 to get rid of dirt view on the car windows. Thanks to Canon excellent auto-focusing with USM technology, it quickly lock the subject into focus at f2.8 and made the windows dirt dissapear.

After serious works, here was the serious lunch. Below the prawns, there was actually some soft of pineapple-like fried rice + french fries. The fried rice taste good. In fact, looking at the picture again and re-calling my memory, I felt hungry now. Right-bottom is very flesh and delicous sotong. It was a BIG plate. By the time I 'settled' the prawns, rice, fries and sotong, the fish slide (bottown-left) was kind of cold liao and not so tasty lo.... I would suggest the plate to be shared among 2 adults.

We had our dinner at a beautiful place. Too bad photography is not allow. Thus I have to simply shoot and close my camera. Here I could suggest to get the new EOS 1D mark III with silent mode. And yes, I had my very first Zebra-Steak over there. The steak was the size of normal chicken-chop, but somehow I felt very full after finishing it. The Zebra-Steak taste nice and I would certainly recommend you guys to try it when you have the chance.

On the way to the airport, I took this picture behind the driver. Most of the place beside the town areas seem very desert. It was labeled 60km/h, but the car was at around 100km/h + uneven road, I would suggest you to take travel sickness pills if you cannot tahan.

Finally reach airport and balik kampung... And I had watch 3 movies on the Singapore Airline.

As usual, any comments on the pictures are welcomed

This post has been edited by TheVoIP: May 15 2007, 05:11 PM


Attached thumbnail(s)

Some things will never change in TheVoIP, always the Canon marketeer.

Thanks for sharing your pictures. There is a fair bit of vignetting on most of the pictures though.

This post has been edited by CompMac: May 15 2007, 11:16 AM

Small? FYI Its 824,292 kmē, more than double the area of Malaysia (329,847 kmē). Place looks neat though. Plan to visit Africa sometime when I have enough $$

It's a beautiful place even from simple shots

Good introduction about the Canon Lens and Technology...
And nice pics...

ok now this is something
interesting blue sky

not even a cloud.. wish we have this kinda condition here.

cannot
sky shot no more meaning already

After re-read my words, I guess you are right...

Ops... Where did you get all these information?

Anyway, from what I know is that the population is only close to 2 million, compare to Malaysia 27 Million. So I thought the country also 10 times smaller than Malaysia lo....

It is indeed beautiful, partly because it is simple.

Thanks for the compliments...

Me too. Even at noon, the weather is cool... and at nite till morning, really cold. You do not need air-con, except a small window kao liao.

Why no meaning ar?

No clouds, then sky pics not dynamic already..

Nice Pics VoIP. The Lens you suggested is the one you use eh? Seems very handy, but still way off my budget.....

I like the pic of the Church. And of the Ex-Navy man.

No clouds, but can add additional vignetting during raw conversion for more 'dynamic' feel lo....

I like the Church too, I am luckly that the lense is wide enought and can autofocus accurately enought + my reflects is fast enought for the right composition on the fly.

The lense is great... You should just extend your budget for the lense. And the lense will extend the technical limitation possiblities....

This post has been edited by TheVoIP: May 16 2007, 11:29 AM

these pictures are awesome !
Have you ever consider selling your pictures to those stock photography ?

hey, what cam u using voip? fantastic.

I AGREE!!! the pics are fantastic.... it jus gives u a feel that this pics come from a pro photog.....

yup i must say African sky is awesome.last time i went to cape town the sky was a dark blue tone gradient to light blue all day along without any clouds. cool place to take pictures!

Thanks for your compliments... But I do not think I am 'that good' la.... Me just snap snap snap nia...

I am using EOS 30D with EFS17-55 f2.8 IS USM. I could say most of the time, I am using my camera technical limitation where most other camera (including dSLR) cannot do. So I would have to thanks Canon for this excellent camera and high tech lense.

Example; I can shoot at 1/6 at f2.8 because of the excellent IS + f2.8.

Thus I can focus on simply snap rather than worry about technically can do or cannot do.

Yeah... Agree!

If possible, I would love to go Africa again, but purely for taking pictures! Want to organise a trip?

That's why they designed such lens for such function.. And then the user's creativity that will push it to the limit and its advantages..