Hi Wacky,
Great effort and thanks for sharing your review. :thumbsup: If you don't mind, a few humble inputs:
- as mentioned by bro ntheni, do watch out for the exposure as some look under-exposed. It's great to have nice bokeh but too thin a DOF doesn't really work, it can't portray the subject properly. As to what f. no to shoot really depends on many factors (like how close are you to the subject, how much of the subject do you intend to present, the size, the background and so on), the best way is to shoot in multiple (of different f) and choose the best. The low lighting does sometime limit the use of small apertures, you can do stacking of photos taking from diff focus point.
- (most) prime lenses have advantage over the kit lenses (usually sharper) so even if you don't shoot at its largest aperture, it's ok. I do shoot with 30mm & 50mm f1.4 for food but I seldom use anything larger than f3.2.
right... i'd try experimenting with smaller aperture next time... especially if i am taking photos from a steep angle -- which typically is my preference cos i find that taking photos too much from the top down is rather boring... :embrass:
- white balance; I see most of your photos are taken in auto WB and some are very off. This can be easily corrected in post processing. I do understand it's best to have it right straight out of cam but if it doesn't, no harm correcting it. Apart from making your shots right, you can also make them better (adding contrast, vibrancy, cropping, cloning and so on). You can improve your photography skill and believe me, post-processing will not hinder you in anyway. Do not shy away from pp.
actual not all are auto WB... those taken indoors i use the WB correction feature (the one where u are supposed to snap a piece of white paper to adjust WB... so i always carry a piece of white paper around... lol...) from the camera to adjust WB... those taken outdoors or with plenty of natural light shining in from the windows (like the RWS malaysian food street) i use auto WB...
as for post processing... i guess it wouldn't hinder in picking up photography skills... but then i still want to avoid post-processing because by leaving the trail of old photos behind in the thread... say a year down the road... i could compare the new photos from the old and see how much i have improved as far as photography skills are concerned... and also perhaps see if there are certain limitations that my current equipment can't easily overcome w/o post processing...
so if i had done post processing now... it won't be so straight forward to do the comparison then and see how much differences are there...
(ok ok... u can also say i'm coming out with alot of excuses to be lazy and avoid doing post processing... )
- the composition; you can work on it too. There are many good read on food photography online, you can google for it.
hmm ok....
Finally, there maybe some harsh comments along the way but please take them with a pinch of salt and keep shooting (and sharing). You will only get better
Cheers....
dun worry... no comments are harsh as long as they are constructive... and it's not like comments that goes "your photo sux..." which doesn't offer any explanations why they sux nor any suggestions on how to improve.... nor comments that are simply down-right sarcastic where by out of the blue telling me not to comment on things that ppl don't like to hear (sorry this part is a rant as i've had bad experience in some other forum so i think i'd rather post less there now) ... so any constructive comments are great comments...!! so feel free to keep critical comments coming...
ahh...now I can see when I use my office com Can't see from my lappy last night
i see... weird... maybe u can try tonight see if u can view the pics... the only reason i like imageshack is that the duration the photos are maintained on the server is virtually forever.... so i dun have to worry so much about the photos being deleted after several months... :sweat:
regards,
wacky