Entries from June 2008
June 29, 2008
Gloomy skies are bad for photography but it doesn’t mean it has to be white-washed just so to make the sky appear clear.
At the time this photograph is taken, I haven’t yet known how to use the AE lock (exposure lock) function of my camera. It’s a useful trick if you want to take pictures of the sky as the eyes see it… with all the details intact without being white-washed as is the case when I took the picture below.
All Things Photography has a detailed explanation of what AE lock is about.
Certain point-and-shoot camera models, like the one I’m using — an old Canon Powershoot G6 — have AE lock function in them. This is another things to consider when buying a point-and-shoot camera — it’s good to have an AE lock function in them so that you can have more freedom to compose your shot.
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June 26, 2008
… doing levitation tricks as I was heading to my car which I had parked just under the trees.
It disappeared among the trees, behind the lamp post, among the branches and into the moonless sky, making no sound, no threatening grin and didn’t even look at me … a lone lost ghost who meant no harm.
But then it could just be optical illusion.
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June 24, 2008
I ain’t afraid of this, says the crow. My state, Sabah on Borneo Island — I no longer live there — is one of the states in Malaysia with vast landscape that is a pleasure to shoot.
On one particular stretch of road — some 190km of it — from the state capital of Kota Kinabalu up north to Kudat, you can have a leisure drive over the weekend but don’t forget your camera and make sure you have freshly-charged battery inside.
If you look hard enough for photographic opportunity, I can assure you by the time you reach Kudat, the northern-most town of Sabah, you will have fill up your memory card capacity with vivid pictures of places, people and natural surroundings. And old huts… with some ghostly ones that you’d think zombies lived there.
It’s only that sometimes, the weather will just conspire with the gods to deny you the blue sky. Or worse…
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June 18, 2008
This is taken some months back just to test the capability of my newly-acquired macro lens.
I’ve no prior experience about macro lens for point-and-shoot camera and after playing sometime with it, I’ve now come to believe that the shop owner had given me a raw deal.
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June 17, 2008
People don’t understand sometime why there is a need to take photos of other objects other than human being. Can you believe that?
I wish I couldn’t but you would be surprise to know that there are many people out there who would look at you quizzically when they see you trying to take photos of something not usually taken by most people, the kind of looks that say, “are you crazy or something?”
I don’t understand really. I’ve even had people smirking at me when they saw me trying to compose pictures of flowers at awkward angles.
I mean, what’s wrong with these people? Why, in my country at least, those who take photos of the surroundings but don’t look like tourists, are being looked upon lowly as though they are social outcasts?
What is wrong with you people? Are you normal or something?
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June 14, 2008
June 11, 2008
Hmm… I wonder how real photographers will approach these orchids. From which angle they will take their shots and which part of the orchids will be made the central piece of the frame?
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June 9, 2008
Nature photographers, I believe, should know a thing or two about nature. The more they know about flora and fauna species, the better. It’s like taking the photograph of a person and be able to tell his or her name.
I don’t know what type of plant this is but here it is anyway.
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June 7, 2008
I like taking pictures of flower. Over the years I’ve taken thousands of flower photos and probably thousands more in the future.
Just when I thought I’ve seen all flower shots, I came across this entry over at Digital Photography School. It’s aptly titled “41 Delicious Flower Photographs”. Darn! How I hate them for the superb shots!
I will definitely remember most of the shots there the next time I take my camera to shoot flowers even though, with my point-and-shoot camera, there is no way I can shoot half as good as they.
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June 5, 2008
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