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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