That's the ugly side of going on tour. Because tour guides will rush the hell of their groups from one place to another but dump them at souvenir shops for hours because they get commission from the sales the shop made...

That's very true.
Countless of souvenir, herbs, tea shops for hours.
Visited 2 shopping plaza for 3 times EACH for excuses like dinner, go toilet before long journey, waiting for nearby park to open, and to stop by for toilet again, which lasted 1 and half hour. OMG.

Let's not forget that they arrange pretty decent hotels which located at ulu places so you get no access to normal shops, to make sure you won't find out their so called recommended shops are overpriced and most importantly they don't receive any commission from you.


My last trip to zoo negara.
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i like the first shot. may u ask what compact camera are you using? k, its canon A710

This post has been edited by d(@@)b: Oct 29 2007, 09:36 PM

I love that elepahnt shot man! Good work.. but some picture have high contrast

Nice shots you have in your gallery. I like the macro shot of your tarantulas
Your PS skill is good too!
I also happen to have the same camera as you but disappointing photography skill
Maybe 1 day I have the courage to open a gallery for the sifu here to C&C
Keep up the good work!

your first shot is the best but sadly..other pic kindda give bit of noise into the scene ..good try anyway

Yeah, it was so hard to get it pose for me.
Hands are everywhere trying to feed the fella and sometimes it got some water coming out from the trunk.
I wish I can freeze it and get closer to the trunk and blur the background more.

Thanks, glad that you like them.
I don't have any skills at all to talk about, just that I try to shoot as many as I can and learn from that.
You can post your shots here if you dont mind.

The noise is deteriorated by the resizing program but most of the shots are far distance zoom except the first one and fifth one.

This post has been edited by V3i HoN6: Oct 31 2007, 02:41 PM

Wah Hong. I didn;t know you had an interest in photography. Hey, LIke that this coming CNY, We go Penang Hill and Ferringhi again lar.... Not forgetting the city area....

Some of you pics have good compositions. The camera may be limited in functions and settings to give the pictures that extra impact a DSLR Can but I can see you have the idea already. Get the best out of the camera and spend less time in the digital darkroom a.k.a PS. But good job with the pics and keep them coming.

p:s I like the elephant pic......

like me 2.. = =

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Added on October 31, 2007, 1:16 pmzoo negara photos...

1. Pics are too flat, try reduce the aperture like f4 or f5..
2. I think its bit noisy rite?...hi ISO?...

but i think the real thing that cause the photo bcome like that is the way u post process it, did u increase the shadow area in curve?...dont increase too much cos u will make the dark parts become very noisy, try do it when u shot that time.. the curve also make u lost some details and the color i guess cos its bit dull..

just my 2 cents.. still learning too.. ^.^

P/s : try shot the side with light falls on not shadow fall on, most of ur shots the shadow is in front so it makes the object darker...

hope this helps...if dont then let me know.. XD

This post has been edited by NonBlooD: Oct 31 2007, 01:16 PM

How could I not after seeing everyone's masterpiece.
But I was initially buy it for shooting macro of my T but end up it wasn't really shoouitable in indoor condition.
I couldn't get the whole T on focus with the max f8.0 and moreover it will certainly go underexposed.
The flash in so close distance is too harsh and it will create a stupid dark corner at the bottom right because of the protuding lense barrel blocking it. Increase the shutter will blur the subject and my tripod couldn't bend to the right distance and right angle. Aihhh.. I'm like dont know how to proceed. I'm thinking of a way to shoot again with the help of external light source and reflection.

I'd love to go Penang Hill and Batu Ferringhi for a try especially if you are there to guide me.
No idea how to shoot at people, building, and the city area fast moving environment.
I personally think that is the hardest part but I don't mind following you around and see the result as an experience and inspiration.
If you have got the time we can try our luck at pantai keracut waiting for turtle to come ashore.

I'm sorry but can you elaborate more on how you see that it is flat or non-flat.
Very interested to learn about this.

And yes, I increase the shadow area using photoshop and obviously I failed since everyone noticed the noise.
Will keep trying on different side of light and shadow. Thanks for the useful remind
I have a bad habit of avoiding light because my photoshop experience tell me I can fix the under area but not the over area, which I really shouldn't.

flat as in the color blend into the back ground...if u having this exposure problem, try over expose your photo +1 or +2 then later go into computer reduce it cos if its under expose n when u increase it all noise come out...i try to do 1 editing on my fav photo from u.. nice shots and angle...very good for compac cam.. ^.^

P/s : hope u dun mind i edit it without permission.. wanna test test...



This post has been edited by NonBlooD: Oct 31 2007, 06:28 PM

Oh.... I didn;t know at f8 you won't get the whole spidey in focus? Last time when I used the POwershot S3 it seemed ok at least for me. Though the flash for sure won't work unless you find a way to bounce it off white card and diffuse it. Alternatively use a table lamp as your light source.

Pantai Keracut is the Ranger patrolled beach right? Yea, it would be nice to go there but Im guessing it has to be either in the wee hours of the morning or an overnight thing. We can plan that no biggie, but since last trip we went to Ferringhi and the fact that I missed the chance to go up Penang Hill... this time really got to go. Oh and that huge dam after the butterfly farm. There's waterfalls there right? We should go there.....

Show me, please.
You are doing me great favor.
And if you or any taikor dont mind, show me how you would crop no.13 in my beijing pics.


ADDED: Hey, how you do that?
I mean how the color become like...... blend or blur or dont know how to describe it.
More of a dreamland feel, like a layer of fog.

Maybe I wasn't try it hard enough.
We will see how we can work out that time.
For waterfalls, we can try the one in Bukit Hijau, nearer to Kulim and cleaner.
I like it there instead of Penang one with teh tarik color.

This post has been edited by V3i HoN6: Oct 31 2007, 07:16 PM

color : selective color, play untill u get a right color then safe it cos ur lens/cam dont really produce correct color...the blur is gussian blur..

Thanks nonblood and I like your Wat Pho shots. Show us more please.

Here some update. My exercise trip to Taman Pertanian with my college mates. We rented a bicycle each but only gone through roughly half of the places.

1. Pony's breakfast


3. Wanna try something other than the usual close out macro shots. Satisfied with how it turned out despite it is not very noticeable and normal looking compare to other flamboyant blossoms.


4. Inside the four season house.


5. Could have find a better background, but it was too late when I got the idea.


6. A view from the tower. really nice view but I just dont know how to present it in better way. I will go back for more shots of this.


7. This is copy pasta from inspired by ryan_c, note the caption. I really admire his works.


8. Another shot inspired by ryan_c, my first try out on B&W.


9. I purposely blur it during that time because I'm knew what I'm gonna do with it.

quite nice shots there
only thing i would comment about is the last pic. The top left part is blown.

only pic #5 and #8 are interesting

Yeah, that part is the bright sky contrary to the tree.

Thanks.
Will try to think more to get my composition more interesting.
And I like your pictures in your blog too.
Where are you? seems like wester country.