Some portrait of my gf I took today:

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Lighting:

-Key light
My keylight is a Vivitar 285HV hooked to a RF wireless receiver manual power @ 1/16 shooting through a 38" white umbrella.

-Hair light
This is done with my SB-600 manual power @ 1/2 (perhaps some minor compensation too...can't remember), bounced with a 40" silver umbrella. My battery charger koyak already, can't used my second wireless receiver...had to run a wire from the hotshoe->pc adapter to my D200 pc terminal...lots of cables hanging here and there.

-Fill light
60W tungsten lamp bounced with a 40" silver umbrella there's really not much juice here, going to pick up 2 halogen lamp tomorrow....one for background, another for the fill light.

Lighting is flatter than what I'd like, but due to lacking in equipments, I had to use the hair light as the background light. The relatively short subject to background distance also caused all the creases to show up. Waiting for my HUGE black backdrop to arrive and a few more gar chang, particularly my sekonic L-358 light meter. Some high key and low key shots in the coming future. Thanks for viewing.

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Aug 12 2007, 10:02 PM

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#2 Rayleen - GF


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i deliberately added the noise lol

yes, Jaymee (i mis-spelled her name ) can pose very kau and her shots are all very "posey" and "grand".

NP with the noise, not everybody appreaciate them, I initially converted it to B&W, which already looks good, but I decided to add some noise to simulate film grain. I thought the pose, apparel, and her look matches perfectly with the presentation. i'll post the original up later.

I'll be posting another shot of Jaymee shortly...my gf want to me convert it now for some reasons...

no lar your comments are greatly appreciated. i'll post up the original tomolo, I need to post process the pictures to eliminate her tan lines....and also to remove some backdrop flaws

Here's the one I was converting:


this one taken with my 80-200mm f2.8. The whole concept about this pictures is the "ears"

edit: oh btw, all these taken with 2 flahses only...I'm not very satisfied with some of the pictures i havent posted up...mainly because there's not enough backlight coverage to "iron out" the backdrop, especially when 3 dimension is involved (floor and wall). I need to get 2 more flahses after i sell off my Wii

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Aug 5 2007, 01:10 PM

yup, that's why i bising bising not enough flash I'm gonna get 2 more shortly.

I have a reflector, but i like flash better. 4 flash should be suffice for me to create any effect I wanted


This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Aug 6 2007, 10:10 PM

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This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Aug 7 2007, 10:31 AM

Found a macro heaven today...lots of bees, grasshopper, some birds, dogs, plants, but no poserfly (dragonfly)





This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Aug 12 2007, 10:10 PM

lol you think shooting bee is like shooting poserfly ar? Most of the time you'd only get to shoot their ass when they dig into flowers to harvest

Anyhow, I do have a "headshot" of a bee, a different variant though. But it's not a 1:1 close-like-hell-headshot.

105mm alternative? there aren't many out there....tamron 90mm, tokina 100mm, sigma 105mm, and nikkor 105mm AF-d. All of these extends which i hate left only the sigma 150mm and 105mm vr that has af-s/hsm, and doesnt extend.

rent sigma? I dun see many places selling this lens in Msia...let alone renting

here's another one in a slightly different pose:

there's a few more bee shots....but very sleepy....will post up later.

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*gigantic wasp, but extremely good at hiding...didn't manage to get anything else

did you read the comment under my avatar?

dun get the sigma 105mm ler....most people i know who bought the 105mm drooling over the 150mm only. Take a leap, forget about the stepping stone besides, 1 ft from focal plane with the lens fully extended to get 1:1 + lens hood = 1-2" away from the hood? impossible to shoot 1:1 with vicious bugs ler Im gonna get a 1.4TC with to use with my lenses when i get the chance...150mm is still kinda short for some bugs...it's good to keep a farther distance so that u dun need to use flash and ur shadow won't block the subject

Yeah bokeh l33tness...I just joined bokeh wh0res group in flickr. Those shots all taken at around f5.6 i think, @ 2.8...bokeh lagi kau...but subject has to be small. The lens is not heavy at all...merely 900g....ok it's nothing like the 50mm kind of weight...but I'm quite used to heavy weight lens, this lens is relatively light. Did i mention that all these shots are taken handheld?

Shashinki selling this lens @ RM2600, and the 105mm vr @ RM2700 man...damn kau expensive....

Luke, u passed landscape liao lar....go grab a telemacro for good...works as a portrait sumore even if u dun appreciate it, ur gf would heheheh

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Aug 13 2007, 09:49 AM

The only reason why I'd even bother getting something like the micro 60mm 2.8/sigma 50mm macro is for convenience sake of havign the macro capability only. The lens is so short, lens diameter so small, and as a result, bokeh only so so. Not to mention having macro lens at these focal length kinda reduced the speed benefit of these lenses...havign to mess with the focus swicth is a pain.

Shashinki is overpriced ler, if you do source properly..u prolly can get it at a little more than 2k...maybe not possible in msia...try SG? I got mine for RM1.8k + RM60 for 7 year mack warranty....new with usa warranty. And lucky for me, this sample is damn good (i know ppl like to say this about their sample all the time but it's true in this case ), AF is very accurate, but sigma AF can be funky sometimes, and it doesnt like some filters.

Macro with olympus is gonna be a pain oso, prolly have to go old skool MF + tripod or something. All the shots i made was done with AF (i discovered a combo settings to AF with great accuracy) I think they are around 1:2...af with 1:1 magnification can die....hunt like hell

Switch to Nikon before u invest more in oly

The oly 3af points make it very susah to macro with AF, thus...old skool manual lor. I find manual very very very difficult with these insects that move alot. MF no need AF points though compo also alot easier.

Yup, USD500+ only...I could have gotten it RM100 cheaper but I'd been waiting forever for that dealer to get the stock in...this is having a shortage in NA.

Yeah I knew u had a d70s...i just didn't know when u switched to oly FF ar? I'm actually kinda interested in the 5D + 85mm 1.4 zeiss planar + f mount adapter

The 5D is really expensive for what it offers, but nikon has nothing to offer in the FF market...so canon "play all" lor

Yes, carl zeiss the 85mm 1.4 is extremely sharp...can make use of the full resolution on 5D.

I like olympus' build quality. I had a 5060wz, that thing feels like REAL magnesium alloy, solid like rock, heavy, and feels like metal. The D200...even though it's said to be magnesium allow...it feels like plastic

I bought mine from digitalfotoclub.com