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cpuer

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I also just been to tai O, but never managed to shoot nice pano like yours :(

Here's one unimaginative photo:
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zhehao

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Bro nice pano.
Thanks for sharing! It must be hard finding stability on the boat!

For me i usually do less than 5 min of PP. Common things for me include stitching panos, resizing, cropping, cloning out dust spots, contrast, white balance, sharpening.

Sometimes the shot is just what i need.

This came out from the click. Just resizing and sharpening
My Eau de Verveine, a present from my wifey
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Here is a pano taken hand held ( tilted ) , while on a boat. I tried to use the viewfinder grid to best level the horizon while taking the 4 shots that made up the pano.

Tai-O in Hong Kong in evening
- Stitching, contrast, saturation, cropping, resizing, sharpening
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zhehao

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Nice exposures you got there xxrenxx.

I will be going HK this saturday. Probably going up victoria park at night and will try shoot long exposures. But i dont have a tripod with me and don't have the budget to go for manfrotto + ball head. Do you guys think the free tripod given by canon will do just about what a tripod suppose to do? Or can forget about bring tht tripod with me to hk?
 

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share something which i did for my company's charity event =P
I'm shoot for fun, not professional.

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Nice exposures you got there xxrenxx.

I will be going HK this saturday. Probably going up victoria park at night and will try shoot long exposures. But i dont have a tripod with me and don't have the budget to go for manfrotto + ball head. Do you guys think the free tripod given by canon will do just about what a tripod suppose to do? Or can forget about bring tht tripod with me to hk?

Missed ur post. U r probably back from HK already. If it is stabe enough for the weight of ur setup. u might need something heavy to bear down on the center column if any to further stabilise it. ( i duno how the free canon tripod looks like tho .. )

Here is a long exposure of the Victoria harbor the last i was there last yr. Some simple thoughts to share for folks who are starting out the exciting journey of photography :
- Tripod - stabilise the shot for long exposure shooting
- ISO 100 - i chose the base ISO for cleaner shots
- Shutter speed - 60 sec ( this is after the metering and decided on the appropriate shutter speed to give the exposure I want
- f16 - for the deeper depth of field as well as to increase the shutter speed

The intent of the longer exposure in this case was to
- achieve a proper exposure
- motion blur, and in this case a lighted craft that streaked across as intended

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Would like to share some of my night shot taken with Nikon D5000 kit len

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Above setting
ISO 200
2secs
F8
Tripod

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ISO Lo.1
30 secs
F18
-1EV
Tripod
Blackcard to block the building for 25 secs


I welcome all comments =D
 
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zhehao

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@Ryan Tan
Thanks for your reply bro.
Yup i am back from HK already. Will attach some photos below. HK weather condition still as bad as ever. :S

@Ahtim
Hi there! Just some comments which i think you can use to improve. I think the first photo, if you can crop the top sky away, that would be great cause there seem to be too much sky to me.

For the second photo, Donno if it is the photo compressed quality but it seems a little no sharp. I think probably try not to stop down too much as i heard sharpness will decrease when you start shopping down from f16 onwards. Also i think if you can crop away the bottom right corner of your photo, it would be better! A bit distracting at the bottom right.

Just my 2cents bro! :) Keep shooting :s13:

Some of my shots from my HK trip:
Lamma Island
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Victoria Peak (My first attempt there. I think i made a wrong move. I only had 10 minutes to take this shot as i was with a tour group. I saw this view outside the toilet so snap it. But i din't know i could go further up more to get a much better view. :S The haze there was terrible too)
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A shot taken from inside my room.
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The hotel i stayed at.
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Performers at Disney Land
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Ahtim78 how many cups of kopi u used to snap the shots :eek:

Sharing another Peak shot from Hong Kong some time last yr. I actually went HK many yrs back and i thought entry up the Peak was free..

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Tripod smack against the railing to get more stability and to prevent the railings from getting into my frame, my wife helped to "cover" one side of the tripod leg to prevent the crowd from kicking the legs. It is a composite of 3 shots taken stitched, slightly longer exposure, single frame processed from raw, no HDR / multiple exposure .

You might want to go a little earlier say around sunset to book a spot. I missed the sunset as it was pretty shrouded, and i am not even sure if it is a good sunset spot though.

There was a caucasian who used 2x D700 one with a 24-70, and another that looks like the new 70-200mm VRII machining gunning hundreds of shots away handheld in the night. The D700's ISO capability must be pretty good =:p

A little more photos here

Ryan
 
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