Wedding Pictures

Completed editing of my first Wedding Project.
I guess the style is a more coffee table book type of editing.
Composition was still the biggest challenge, but I guess those come with experience =)

Enjoy















Comment if any, are welcome =)

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Tooth Relic Temple

One of my projects which I had edited a while back.
All of them were taken using 3 shots EV brackets and combined with photmatix and fine tuned with photoshop.

As I was doing this project. I encountered this problem with Photomatix.
Maybe I do not understand the software well, or the 3 shots exposure pictures were not correct. Because, when I combined them together. I got an area of dark exposure compared to the rest. So to solve ths problem, I had to edit those areas in photoshop using levels in order to lighten the troubled areas. That is something that I got to find out soon.

Anyway here are some hightlights.







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Dry Box

I have decided.
I should get a dry box. Singapore Humidity is about 80-90% which is ideal for fungus growth. Right now it is not an issue because i am still actively playing around with my cammie. But sooner or later, with new bodies or new lens, I would need to store some away for a while. So might as well protect my investments by investing in a 40-50L dry box.

http://www.tkfoto.com.sg

They have pretty reasonable and cheap dry boxes. So time to get one.

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Canon EOS 5D MKII

Brother in Law forwarded this link to me...

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2008/09/20/something-very-interesting-is-comingboth-to-this-blog-and-to-our-industry/#more-1085

which then propelled me to go to the canon site to check out the EOS 5D MKII,
it is really really tempting. Retailing about 3.5kUSD

http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/eos5dm2/index.html

I WANT TO UPGRADE...hahha
I must say, this is an addictive and expensive hobby.
There is never enough lens to have........


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Bum Boat

I just love textures..

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Weddings..

Had the opportunity to be the extra wedding photographer for a good friend.
Below is a preview of one of the picture I have taken.

The bride, the groom and bridemaid was heading down the steps of this old apartment off serangoon road. I didn't like the orginal shot so I added some texture to the picture for more effect. ( A good source for textures and brushes can be found at http://browse.deviantart.com/# )

Before

After


Another 2 essential tools for a photographer wannabe...

1)A Good CPU for fast processing
2)A harddrive ( A huge huge one)

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Exhibtion

Took some pictures at the exhibition hall at the entrance of the Esplanade.
Feel a little more confident with indoor shooting these days.

Been trying different settings. But the one which works for me now usually is using Tv priority especially when I am shooting without a tripod. This works also if you shooting moving objects. Setting I used these days, Tv 1/45 ISO AUTO/400 AWB/Custom WB. The lens does makes the biggest difference. If you got a lens with aperture from 1.4-3.5 this setting usually works well.

Anyway, the lighting at the exhibition was pretty good. It has daylight and some spotlights illuminating the subject. So there was no major issue.

My favorite Picture



My flickr has the rest of the pictures.

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Painting

Just done editing pictures which I took a week back. I still have a few photo projects that I had not edit. So that means i am really getting behind editing pictures. I just took another 400+ pictures this morning and afternoon. I was the spare photographer for Jay's and Chloe's Wedding. It was a little less stressful since I am not expected to churn out good pictures. ( I had a disclaimer when I took this project) Anyway i am relatively happy with most of the pictures. Although I think I could have done a little better and more careful when checking the shots once they have been taken.


These few favourite pictures were taken in the evening with slightly cloudy skies. I was using A-Dep mode with my 55-250mm EFS Lens with polariser.





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Owner of a new Fish Eye Len

Got my Zenitar 16mm Fish Eye Len.

I am reasonably satisfied with the lens. Good lens at reasonable price!

Pictures below are taken by Eric using the Lens.

This is one I took of Mister. A little hard to take a closer shot because he gets a little scared and would runaway...WUSS!

(more pictures to come....)
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Henderson Bridge Revisted

Finished with post processing of my Henderson Bridge Project.

I headed down to henderson again but this time in the day with melvin and eric.


The sky was slight hazy and cloudy. Occasionally we do get some sun but it is only for a fleeting moment.






Another good reason to take 3 shots exposure and combine them using HDR method and of cos with some post processing. One reason I think 3shots exposure is good because it capture the full tonal range. You get the clear blue sky without overexposuring the background. As you can see above, the one on the left is taken with polariser, ISO100, Monopod, F5.2 using my 55-250mm, Auto White Balance and Auto Bracket. The one on the right taken with the same set up using Av mode with 3 set exposure and combined together using Photomatix.

These are some of my favourite pictures

The "Dragon Body"
The "Photographer"
Vintage revisted
B&W Waves
Textures

To infinity and Beyond
The photographer photographed

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Chinese Opera Show

Done editing my Opera Show Pictures...
Anyway the picture turn out really well. Not much editing was actually neccessary.
The lighting that night was pretty good. It helps because the stage itself was pretty well lit.
For the pictures, I was using mainly Manual Setting. I had aperture set about F8-11 and shutter speed 1/30-45. It was appear to capture most of the image without overexposing them as well as preventing motion blurz.
These are some of my favourite pictures, the rest are at my flickr




For this picture,I needed to do some editing. I wanted the stage to be captured together with the audience. However, if I were to capture the audience I would risk overexposing the stage, but I were to capture the stage, I would be underexposing the audience. So I took 2 shots and i merge them together.


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Texturing....

Had a crack at some texturing on the pictures which I took yesterday.
I must say I am really quite happy with the final results.
Finally understood Layer masks. I have actually been using them without knowing what they are. Just following steps which I have read to achieve the effects I wanted.
Still new to most functions of photoshop but I am slowly getting use to it.
Maybe I should finish the tutorial that which I said I will complete.
Anyway I had 3 project lie up.
1) Post Processing of Wayang show
2) Picture taking of the southerm Ridge
3) Taking pictures of textures for blending
These are the few textured pictures which I had done. Enjoy

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Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 Super Wide Lens...

Still waiting for this lens which I wanted......still out of stock for the moment.
Reviews for this lens is pretty good for its size. So decided to dig up so dough to get this one. =)

Currently, no other projects on hand.
Just some basic editing of pictures that I had taken.

Bought a 1TB harddisk and upgraded my RAM to 2GB. Thus solving my harddisk space problem and the slow PS processing problem.

Anyway, after working for a while, finally decide to record some basic actions. Thus solving the same thing over and over again.

Basically, if you do not have the action windown at your tool panel, just go to window and check "Actions" To record an action, you can make your own folder then then click on the small folder icon to record new action. The just go through PS as you would normal do and stop when you are ready. So next time when you need to same feel layers and steps, just go to actions and play. All actions will be automated....that save you a few seconds I guess. =)

A few useful shortcuts for PS which I uses the most

CTRL +/- Zoom in/Zoom out
Space and mouse Move cursor
[ Brush Size Decrease
] Brush Size Increase
CTRL J Copy Selection and New layer

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