Saturday, May 22, 2010

A Macro Beginning!!!

Its a nice cloudy+a bit rainy+a bit sunny Saturday. Its the first time I'm bringing out my DSLR for a test run. Met up with Hao and ah P, who are also a D90 owner, for our lunch at S11,AMK. Then there we set off to our macro destination, Macritchie Reservoir.

Snap snap here, click click there. As a noob, each click seems to be a waste of battery as the pictures doesn't seems to be sharp. After taken so many pictures, the quality doesn't seems to satisfy me anyway. ah P with all his small small and useful gadgets & Hao with his 12+ zoom lens seems to be getting somewhere while I'm still struggling around.

At first, I thought maybe around 2-3hours we will be out of there but about 3 hours later, we were just about 2.2km down the trail and the time was almost 4.30pm. The trails were muddy and slippery, which make our pace slower. We still have about 9.8km to go. OMG, I'm already almost drained and felt quite hungry. No mood to take any more photos. So we decided not to complete the trail. We walked all the way to Venus Dr and took a taxi back to the starting point. Oh, it was damn tiring. Back to AMK to have our dinner and after that back to our home sweet home.

Although it is tired, but after viewing of the photos taken, felt that everything is worth it. Haha... Below are some photos taken from this trip which I'm quite satisfy with it...

8 comments:

Unknown said...

Wow! Step into macro shooting...Very nice shoot!

What's micro len been used? 85mm/F3.5G?? Or used 18-105mm shoot?

Just little advice lar, define the picture control by increase sharpern and saturation level if you wanna photo taken look "live", default (SD) is a bit low... Used low aperture (smaller value) to create low depth of field to live out the target. "WB" is good to used to bring out different feel of picture.

Don't too trust picture quality shown at LCD, it fool your eyes sometimes; check the exposure level from histogram. Try used "bracketing" function to get different exposure combination so that you known which one is better.

This weekend at SG or not? I plan to do night shooting at Eyes of SG ler... together?

KeViN said...

wahhh...seems like pro har...i just started la...man man lai..still improving lo...using 105mm 2.8f

this weekend i outstation working la...sienz...

u also play dslr?if u r, then next time we out together la..

Unknown said...

Micro Nikkor 105mm F2.8? That one almost 3k (Rm) wor...
Really rich man you~~

But 105mm F2.8 is designed for FX (film SLR) wor, is it suitable to fit in DX (D90 below model)? Got dark corner on picture when shoot in big aperture (2.8F etc)?
105mm used in D90, so the actual distance will be 105mm x 1.5 = 157.5mm~

Yup, but i'm D5000 owner no D90. No rich as you. XD

Too bad you away this weekend, i already packed my tripod and eager for nigh shoot at Sg this weekend.

Allow me to join you for next outing lar... the time we can talk talk photography lar~

Used RAW file while shooting n time, quality much better than JPEG~

KeViN said...

nah...u think i that rich mer...i very kiam siap de.the 105mm 2.8f AI only cost me SGD$300. I go pasar malam "tao jia huan jia"..haha..but 105mm only half the actual size..need to add extension tube. still waiting for my extension tube ler..bought from itnernet but tak datang datang ler..sienz

all my lenses i bought second hand de lo..no need to buy new 1 la..lang fei..all i go slash the price until i shiok only buy..haha

my job now postpone maybe to sunday..but sat mayb got another job...u sat only go take photo?wish to join ler...take my bazooka out for the first night shooting..haha...ur gf following?

Unknown said...

Really? Haha... whr can get cheaper and quality 2nd hand lens? Let me knw pls~~ URL pls~~~~~

Hahaha... landscape night shooting why need to bring your bazooka oh?? Wide angle len more suitable lar~~
Hahaha, btw, wat bazooka you own?

I plan to buy Tokina 12-24mm F4 Dx Pro2 soon... addicted in wide angle recently!! How much for 2nd hand? No much money to buy Nikkor wide angle len...2 expensive~~

Friday night you free? Then we go friday night lor~~ Me very shui pian de... any day also can... Don't think she will follow... night time got lot mosquito.. ^^

Portrait shoot only bring her~ kekee...

KeViN said...

i got a 20mm 2.8f ai. bought for 260. buy cheap cheap de..c if im interested anot first..haha...my big bazooka r, sigma 150mm. good for macro and even works as a telelens also...
normally i buy from clubsnap.com
tamron i think i saw b4 ler...should be quite expensive...SGD$400 - SGD$600..if im not wrong for second hand.

Unknown said...

Wow!! Really nice your equipments~ all fix lens plus big aperture some more... fix len quality is much better thn zoom len~ image taken very good~ just difficult on shooting...need to move there move here for better angle view :D

I'm own two lens which are 18-55mm(kit len) and 35mm F1.8G... Arrh!! Wish have more money to burn in len collection...

Sigh, should buy D90 the time... Now limitted on len selections~ only can focus on AF support lens... No so good used MF in portrait shooting... landscape and object still okay as they are no moving :P

KeViN said...

eh i saw the tamron up for sale...SGD$600. grab it if u wan...haha...D5000 cannot go for manual lens?manual lens cheaper, so i play wit it first lo..haha