Chinese International Photography Competition

Award Placement:

1. One Grand Award (US$5,000 or equivalent value of equipment/travel service)
2. The following awards are offered for each category (News and Global Events, Society and Humanity, Nature and Landscapes):
• One Gold Award (US$2,000 or equivalent value of equipment/travel service)；
• Two Silver Award (US$1,000 or equivalent value of equipment/travel service)；
• Three Bronze Award (US$500 or equivalent value of equipment/travel service)；
• Ten Honorable Mentions awards.
Act now and read more from the official website:
http://photo.ntdtv.com/en/index.html

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2010

Digital art

Nowadays, it is so easy to manipulate digital images. The only limitation would be our own skill, technique, tools and our visual ability.
This photo was taken at Brighton Beach in Miri after the sun had set. It was quite dark and exposure was quite long. I have digitally altered this photo, making it more colourful. I welcome your comment.

Louis Pang is coming to Miri

Louis Pang, the renowned photographer from Sabah is coming to Miri to give photography courses. Check out his web site:

http://www.inspireplus.tv

How hires is hires

How much detail can a 39MP record? Ok, below is a photo taken at 39MP taken on a 50mm lens, F4.8.
You will see a tiny dot at the place where the sun is. It is actually a oil platform in Miri.
I cropped the above photo and now you can see a bigger "dot" showing the oil platform. Click on the image above to see a 1:1 image. That oil platform is quite a distance from where I stand. Anyone knows the actual distance?

Herbert and Ubong Wedding

This is the first time I used my digital Hasselblad H3D to take wedding photos indoor/outdoor and group photos. I have to say that I am very happy with the result and the colour was very natural.
I found that Hasselblad is definitely not easy to use but once I got used to it and understand the camera, I found that it is quite a joy to use especially when I see the result.

How to shoot Macro

1. Use Macro lens where possible
2. Mount camera on geared rail and tripod
3. Use cable shutter release
4. Locate subject and compose
5. Avoid distracting backgrounds
6. For fine focusing use manual focusing
7. Use ring or twin flash

Camera Settings for Macro

Program modes - Av or M

Aperture - f4 to f16

ISO - 100

Exposure compensation: 0

Focusing mode - AFS or M

Focusing point - manual focus

SHutter mode - single frame

Metering mode - average

Shoot in RAW

The above are recommendations.

Portrait

Enjoy... Please leave your comment, if any.