gears doesnt make a photog..=)
the most important component is ur eyes! =P
18-200?
be informed that it is soft at above 180mm zoom...
other than that...it's versatile...shoot-anything zoom...
get nikkor if u can...
if cant...sigma is an ok alternative...

cantik!

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here's some pix with grunge effects. my first attempts from stock color photos.

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Added on February 15, 2008, 2:09 pmalright. now is the time for serious photoshop touch ups. i just learned this technique. i hope i can get better results soon. anyway here they are.



my friends during the party. one of the few shots i managed to salvage from the night



that's my foot. found some cool looking patch of dirt there. and snapped this one real quick. the clouds were moving fast.



this is one of my friend salvaged from the recent parkour training album.

that's for now. more later.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Feb 15 2008, 02:09 PM

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

this is already considered art and design. what plugin did u use to get that dave hill effect? lucis art?

yeppers. can't do much without it. but still, its a lotta work tho. those were my first attempts. happy they turned out well. i find that it works really well when there's some funky lighting involved. same goes for them hdr images.

i like the effect...
lucis art?
u got it free?
i cant seem to find the free ones...help me..

eh...wait there's a parkour community here in Malaysia????where are you guys at?really interested in photographing parkour.do tell me ya!

This post has been edited by zadan: Feb 16 2008, 09:18 AM

very nice pic la.. great skill in PS! admire u!

should u just get the plugin, i'm sure u'll be amazed.

btol tak amir?

well the lucisart plugin can only do so much. the ones i did were layers upon layers of adjustments, ranging from simple curves and level adjustments, dodging and burning, replacing color, light blending adjustments and a lotta other stuff really. haha!! trust me, its not easy. lol

however, it seems to work really really well when u use it on photos with nice lighting. imma post one below as an example.

my average ps file size trying to get this effect is around 170 megs. im not sure if there's a faster and easier way to do it. xandman, check ur pm.

anyways, :D:D here are a couple of night shots i managed to take last night.





and a coupla more lucis stuff



my cat i got this from lucis pretty straightforward. i think its the lighting.



this one was hard. not a good photo to start with. the 3 subjects on the left didn't have much light on them. and a very bland background. but i wanted to see what i could with this photo. below is the before photo



mostly dodge and burn, and when i tried to push further with lucis, the image started breaking up XD sooo yeah. don't just rely on the plugin when u try to do this. and thats it for tonight. thanks for the comments.

oh!! and yesh, there is a parkour community here. its pretty active around my area. some 30 odd dudes i think. mostly in bangi and putrajaya.

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Feb 17 2008, 11:49 PM

bro. your friends looks familiar to me? are they from subang?



This post has been edited by dgrebel: Feb 18 2008, 01:49 PM

nice cat and light photo very nice indeed.so you guys have a website or sumthing on the parkour group?what skill those guys at?advance?

Went to putrajaya after midnight last night with my friend and took a lotta photos. will post em later since i gotta sort em out first.
anyway, here are a few shots from the night before. and nope, not hdr. damn bright that putrajaya. XD



















lol, facebook penyekkan my panorama XD



i think so yeah. they're actually friends of my friend. well actually one of em is her boyfriend.



there is a forum board. tho not very active. pkmy.tk.
i can say that we're pretty ok.

not HDR? then wut? lucisart?

the pics came out pretty much like that from cam, the colors and the lighting. had full moon some more. and it just so happens that my d40 is a bit soft when shooting at low shutter speeds. so it adds to that kind of painting like look. and ive gotta say, the metering on this cam is wicked. all of this on aperture priority and using the AE lock method. i went with a friend who owns a 400D. the metering on my nikon is much much better.
so anyway, i adjusted the highlight, shadow and midtone contrasts and upped the saturations a bit since i always shoot in adobe RGB.

alrity!~ more night shots of putrajaya.





partner in crime. lol

















and thats me and my friend. ive gots more but i dunno how to add more posts lol

i'll post these on flickr soon. for the a bigger picture. i've exceeded my quota already

This post has been edited by ' or 1=1 --: Feb 21 2008, 02:20 PM

your photos are nice.. but some unimportant details can be cropped out..

I really really like this one. Maybe because of the contrasty colors between the road and the buildings. The perspective as well is very nice.

thanks and yea, my composition is not very good. that's why i don't shoot portraits. tak pandai XD tgh practice on my cats lol

thanks

kau dah add aku kat flickr ke blom?