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Post by USM on Jan 16, 2011 16:38:51 GMT 8
Hi kelvin, Thanks for the comments. I have dun have much miniatures, just a few only. BTW, how are the pictures? I use P on my camera to take these pictures. Jon, the pictures are sharp but you need to work on composition/framing as well as white balance.
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Post by jonathan on Jan 17, 2011 8:45:05 GMT 8
Hi Kelvin,
Can you explain to me how these can be done? I'm not sure on this type of issue. Really sorry about that.
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Post by USM on Jan 17, 2011 12:13:35 GMT 8
Hi Kelvin, Can you explain to me how these can be done? I'm not sure on this type of issue. Really sorry about that. Let talk about white balance first. All your photos seem to have an orange cast. Are you using tungsten lighting in your room? If yes, then you have to set tungsten under your white balance. You will see the difference. Next, composition/framing. Your photos need to tell/convey a message to the viewers on what do you want to tell. Do not cluster too much things into a photo. This is messy and the viewers do not know what do you want to tell. Remember a photo tells a thousand words. Secondly, watch out for background and foreign objects which may spoil the photo. For example, You have included a distracting right object. On top of that, do not cut off certain parts of the body like your pet photo. The tail and lower legs are chopped off. Alternatively, you can do a close up of the face/head which you will not include the legs and tail.
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Post by jonathan on Jan 17, 2011 20:17:57 GMT 8
Hi Kelvin, Here are the recent pictures that I take. Hope that I get the hints that you have told me correctly.
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Post by USM on Jan 17, 2011 22:51:50 GMT 8
Looked ok to me but the format of the photo looked weird to me. Are you using 3:2 or 4:3? White balance is totally out. Can you see the greenish cast? In addition, shadows are quite harsh. You have to use an external flash to diffuse the shadows. Lastly, the wordings are out of focus. [/quote] The color of the flowers is saturated and stand out from the background. However, you need to do a close up of it. It will have a greater impact on close-up.
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Post by jonathan on Jan 18, 2011 13:05:18 GMT 8
Hi Kelvin,
May I know which external flash to purchase? As I'm new to this type of stuff. For the dog picture, I just crop the area and reduce the photo size to 800.
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Post by USM on Jan 18, 2011 14:37:58 GMT 8
Hi Kelvin, May I know which external flash to purchase? As I'm new to this type of stuff. For the dog picture, I just crop the area and reduce the photo size to 800. You can consider 430EX mk II since you are using EOS 550D. However, if you foresee that you will be doing al ot event coverage, etc, then a 580EX mk II will be better. Currently, 580EX mk II is the top end speedlite from Canon. As for the cropping, it would be better do crop 600 x 400 or 800 x 600 for web viewing.
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Post by jonathan on Apr 14, 2011 9:12:17 GMT 8
Hi Kelvin, Sorry for replying you so late. I just back from US after my working trip over there. The bad thing is that I forgot to bring my camera over, leave it with my wife when she sent me to airport.
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Post by USM on Apr 14, 2011 17:12:23 GMT 8
Hi Kelvin, Sorry for replying you so late. I just back from US after my working trip over there. The bad thing is that I forgot to bring my camera over, leave it with my wife when she sent me to airport. Oh my god! Anyway, there will be another chance to shoot in overseas, so don't fret over it.
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Post by jonathan on Apr 15, 2011 14:04:17 GMT 8
Hope so. Not every time got the chance to go overseas.
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Post by USM on Apr 15, 2011 16:52:14 GMT 8
Hope so. Not every time got the chance to go overseas. Quite true, especially to far away country like USA.
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