Wow!! Heat is still high here. haha...

Darthbaboon: From your photo comparison.. It's significantly it's the exposure compensation on your D40x is not enough. Or maybe... the sensor of your D40X is not good?better check with it.. haha.. Your exposure compensation of the picture is 0 which is normal, but sometimes metering white colour stuffs, needs exposure compensation bumped up to +1 so you can see it's white enough. and 1/8 shutter speed is too slow for handheld unless u are using a VR lense. =) SO i guess these are the elements which made your DSLR picture looked bad.

This post has been edited by derek87: Jan 21 2008, 03:25 AM

Translation for you.

He said: " Hey pro, how are you? Long time no see, are you free for yamca? "

haha...

1) For me, post-processing is a need in photography. I know there are a lot of photogs in lowyat do not agree with me, but it really helps u a lot when you want you want to bring out all the elements of a picture. Most of commercial photography nowadays are all PPed. So i think learning PP is an additional knowledge in photography. Both PP and photographing skills are important to me. That's what i think.

2) I would recommend photos to be taken in RAW mode. Your pictures can be easily saved when u realize you want/have to do the followings. adjust colour, exposure, brightness, contrast and create a HDR image from it, etc... It takes up more memory capacity in your card, but saves your pictures. So you decide. =)

Question for me: As i was told by someone in the forum, and i always try my best to follow that rule. That rule, is... 1/the focal length of the lens. which means, if you are taking a photo with 50mm, it's advisable to use 1/50 shutter speed or faster shutter speed, not slower than 1/50. It also depends on how steady how you hold your camera. Hope my tip helps. =)

For me, in the world of photography, it doesnt really matter how you get the photo, whether u PPed or none PPed, with skills or with luck. The main goal to use the camera is to have satisfaction of what you get from the camera. And of cause, sometimes u need to compare your pictures with others, and have c & cs in order to set your goals higher. When someone "WoWs" at your picture, you feel great and satisfied, and i bet this is definitely a great feeling for everyone here in photography.

This post has been edited by derek87: Jan 21 2008, 03:41 PM

Yes.. rules are meant to be broken.. just like the rules of third.. some pictures can actually turn out quite nice without implementing that rule. =)

yeap... that is what i mentioned in my earlier post, to bring out the elements of a photo. but for some people, they just hate pp who pp.. i guess what they want is originality.

Haha.. im always happy in both ways, pped pictures, or non pp.. if it's good, then i'll love it and be satisfy.

haha... no one will ever realize and take that as pp Rad . When your camera settings' are all 0, the colour of the picture really do sucks...

Haha.. that's so true.

Btw, Rad, i really admire your works too.. haha... any chance that we can have TT sometimes in the future?

Ooh.. that's good news then... hmmm... im having my exams now till 30th of Jan, then going back to hometown on the 3rd of feb for 2 weeks. Can meet up before i go back then, or else i can only arrange once im back from hometown.