Hello.

I've owned a Canon IXUS 65 compact camera for about 9 months (which I hardly use), and god knows why, I suddenly bought a Canon 400D for myself

So yeah, my gallery will consist of pictures from my Canon 400D which I just bought today.

I'm totally new to photography, let alone DSLR, so please give face when bashing ok?

Since it's my first entry, I can only post one picture. No time to play with it yet




Anyway, I'll be going to Perhentian Island tomorrow, hopefully I can get back with some DECENT and PRESENTABLE shots!

This post has been edited by blinky: Jul 20 2007, 10:16 AM

u better do mate...haha

oh crap. i guess you didn't know how we like to bash people who post lens cap and mugs huh?

c'mon, you just spend on a few k bucks item - just go around snapping better shots before posting here la.

look. i bought my 350D a while back and it was more than a month i think, before i started a gallery here and even so my 1st post were with decent pictures already - not lens cap.

lens cap pictures waste time loading, viewing. no skill needed. compacts also can do.

Relaxlah guys, as mentioned, he just started photography like me as well. Well since TS mentioned that he will go to perhentian, guess we better make judgement once he posted pics from his trip.

Remember, this is a good chance to practice and take good landscape and scenery shots! Not to mention girls in bikinis if u met one.

hey, look, at least it is a canon lens cap..i had seen too much of nikon cap

avoid dark background as ur lens cap is black in color

i did took some photos of my lens cap ... luckily i didnt post up .. if not..

not nice to load a thread to see lens cap. well maybe that's just me.

The sofa looks old and aged, prefer to shoot on a brand new Celini cow leather sofa. My 2 cents.

Lao!! dreaded lens cap picture...bash bash...

mentioning noob in something always to avoid kena bash one...lol
especially here in photography thread...

no la where got. we nice nice people. just that lens cap and mugs are waste of time.

i admit i like to see effort put into making pictures. even like choice of angle and background.sorry la if i sound mean. heck i'm not even the sifu here. me just beginner also.

I wonder what happens when I start a gallery here. and I need to learn how to tag them with my name.

=.=

shinchan got my respect! ehehehe h
he critiqued in a professional way! pointed out the flaw in that shot!

and do clean the cap b4 shooting, the 2 specks of dust are eye-catching

ya, memang not nice...at least take keroro or gundam for testing out....

Hello guys.

I just got back from Perhentian.

Anyway, I'll just upload one photo for now as I'm in the office, no time to upload many.

Will do so when I am home

hu hu. didn't realize i was bashing blinky - some more he's on my blogroll i think. haha. who cares nmind, i hate lens cap shots anyway.

but the picture of the jetty is nice!!

No worries. I take criticisms well

Thank you for the comment.

woot, same camera~!
jetty pic on auto mode?

Not really.

I think I was either in AV mode or M mode, don't quite remember. I did not use Auto mode during the whole trip.

Few more shots from Perhentian Island, my FIRST outing with my FIRST DSLR.













Comments and critics welcomed

ok...ex 400D user wanna comments...lol

1. picture nice already..everything just blue...but senget

2. nice nice...blue skies...

3. lol...abit blur? or just me?

4. should fit all of them in the frame...shouldnt cut their hands and head like that

5. lao...what is this...got rubbish somemore

6. dark

pic 5 should've focused on the girl and let the sand be oof. imo

Pic no 2 is commendable, although ur angle abit senget otherwise it will be a fantastic pic.

Pic no 3 will be better if u take it as a wide angle shot.

only pic #2 is nice IMO best among the lot BY FAR. too bad it's slightly off cos if it was symmetrical then it'll be great.

#1 decent, lop-sided.
#3 normal
#4 could be better
#5 focus on the bright part, not the dark part.
#6 normal

1st pic would be nice but it felt like it's not wide enough.

time to get EFs 10-22mm

Thank you, will try to improve on that

Erm, actually I wanted to capture the texture of the sand, guess I failed

I held the camera for 2 days straight, which is why my hand senget already

Thanks for your comments, hope I'll have improvements in time to come.

Hahah wallet still bleeding, been spending too much already. Let me recover first

Trying the Macro





Comments please

This post has been edited by blinky: Jul 4 2007, 11:26 PM

Are you using manual focus or auto?
looks a little off to me =P

Autofocus.

My last 2 pictures from Perhentian Island

Comments are most welcomed

your locks pictures composition is good, but i think its underexposed...

Interesting composition but like beck said..they look underexposed.

The Sony Ericsson shots seems very dark. I expected the silver to look shinier compared to the black background. Wait..is there even such a word as shinier?

Thanks guys for the comment, will try to improve.

Here's one shot.

if this was a promo advert shots for a certain company (by the logo on teh side of the car), then its a great shot. but if its a shot of the car itself, should use smaller aperture setting, f2.8 maybe, at least, a big portion of the toy car will see clearly...

in my honoust opinion lah.. i'm newbie as well...

and another thing, ur other pics, like the island, the colors really like not canon usual colors. i think ur camera setting is off a bit...
or i think u r using picture style?

This post has been edited by beckzaidan: Jul 12 2007, 02:10 PM

Er, I'm using kit lens, I don't think I can go down to 2.8, the max was 3.5

Erm those pictures went through post-processing, I like my pictures to be of a little contrasting Canon 400D colors are washed out so I suppose post-processing is a must

my bad... told u, i'm a newbie as well... thought u were using f1.8... that measn u crop a lot of ur picture...

Not really a lot, but when I'm taking a picture I'll first visualise which part I will want to crop out and make space to compromise it

New pictures!!!



My first attempt with Light Graffiti!





Comments and critiques welcomed!

Light graffiti! nice! what flash light did you use? btw, did you tweak ur in camera image processor settings? the contrast on some pictures seem to be very high and there's some blooming and black crush. Some pictures are overexposed, they really, literally, hurt my eyes

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Jul 20 2007, 12:24 PM

2nd pic is nice.. good experiment.. keep it coming..

I used the led light from my phone

No, those contrasted pictures were done during post-processing. I guess I prefer darker and more contrasting pictures, personal taste I suppose

Thanks for the comment and maybe I'll try a different way next time.

Thank you, will try to use light graffiti to draw some pictures tonight, hope I can do it within 30 seconds

try laser pointer for instance?
then u can get different color already
also use bulb mode, but remember to be in a pitch black environment


This post has been edited by aba9785: Jul 21 2007, 12:03 PM