hi all...
am quite new to clubsnap... i guess i shall do a little self intro (again) in my own thread...
well my #1 hobby is actually FOOD... and NOT photography.... i love hunting for good food all over the world... and I interested to eat anything as long as it's GOOD..!
well i only started picking up photography some time last yr after getting influenced by makan kakis..... initially i was using compact zoom (using nikon S4..) then... but in the end i was disappointed most of the time when taking food photos indoors... cos typically there isn't sufficient light to take clear pictures w/o flash... and with flash the pictures are clear but doesn't look nice... and when i looked at my fren with DSLR can take clear and bright photos even indoors... i decided to get a better camera...
however as i dun want to carry a bulky DSLR around (afterall photography is not really my first hobby) ... i know that with DSLR i wouldn't bring it out often and it'll just remain a white elephant... so i decided to go for mirrorless camera and got an Olympus E-PL2 last year... so whenever i go for makan outings.. i'd bring my camera and snap away at the photos... and i found myself enjoying taking food photos cos it enhances the overall makan experience and having the photos leaves good memories behind... hence started my secondary hobby of food photography...
for a while i loved the camera as i could take clear photos w/o flash even in not so bright environment... however i find myself wanting for more as i find myself still struggling with blur photos sometimes... and being "street food photography" means that i don't always have the luxury of time to take my own sweet time snapping photos at food... especially when i am with a crowd of hungry ppl all waiting for me to finish my photographing... so in the end i don't always get clear and nice shots of all the dishes... so i wanted to better and faster lens... hence i came to clubsnap to look for 2nd hand lens... and bought the pany 20mm F1.7...
also another thing about "street food photography" ... there are other factors that makes it challenging to take nice food photos besides the performance of the camera... like angle... choice of background/surroundings etc... so i shall post some of my photos and hope the experts here can give comments and suggestions...
also... i am a lazy person so the photos i post are all straight from the camera WITHOUT EDITING... i don't bother to do any photoshop... but besides being lazy... my philosophy is also that my purpose is to improve PHOTOGRAPHING skills... and NOT PHOTOSHOP skills (besides.. if over-shopped can make the food look a bit artificial too...)... and also over time i can then compare past photos and present photos and see how much i've improved as far as photography goes... besides... i'm a technical person and have done photoshop before i'm sure i could quickly pick up photoshop skills if necessary... however as this is just as hobby and not commercial photography i won't bother to edit my photos... i won't even put watermark so if anyone wants to kapo my photos for some other use by all means... i see it as my honour that someone likes my photos enough to want to kapo... but still if you do kapo them it's still nice if you could acknowledge the source...
okay enough of the long intro and boring story... i shall start posting my photos...
regards,
wacky
am quite new to clubsnap... i guess i shall do a little self intro (again) in my own thread...
well my #1 hobby is actually FOOD... and NOT photography.... i love hunting for good food all over the world... and I interested to eat anything as long as it's GOOD..!
well i only started picking up photography some time last yr after getting influenced by makan kakis..... initially i was using compact zoom (using nikon S4..) then... but in the end i was disappointed most of the time when taking food photos indoors... cos typically there isn't sufficient light to take clear pictures w/o flash... and with flash the pictures are clear but doesn't look nice... and when i looked at my fren with DSLR can take clear and bright photos even indoors... i decided to get a better camera...
however as i dun want to carry a bulky DSLR around (afterall photography is not really my first hobby) ... i know that with DSLR i wouldn't bring it out often and it'll just remain a white elephant... so i decided to go for mirrorless camera and got an Olympus E-PL2 last year... so whenever i go for makan outings.. i'd bring my camera and snap away at the photos... and i found myself enjoying taking food photos cos it enhances the overall makan experience and having the photos leaves good memories behind... hence started my secondary hobby of food photography...
for a while i loved the camera as i could take clear photos w/o flash even in not so bright environment... however i find myself wanting for more as i find myself still struggling with blur photos sometimes... and being "street food photography" means that i don't always have the luxury of time to take my own sweet time snapping photos at food... especially when i am with a crowd of hungry ppl all waiting for me to finish my photographing... so in the end i don't always get clear and nice shots of all the dishes... so i wanted to better and faster lens... hence i came to clubsnap to look for 2nd hand lens... and bought the pany 20mm F1.7...
also another thing about "street food photography" ... there are other factors that makes it challenging to take nice food photos besides the performance of the camera... like angle... choice of background/surroundings etc... so i shall post some of my photos and hope the experts here can give comments and suggestions...
also... i am a lazy person so the photos i post are all straight from the camera WITHOUT EDITING... i don't bother to do any photoshop... but besides being lazy... my philosophy is also that my purpose is to improve PHOTOGRAPHING skills... and NOT PHOTOSHOP skills (besides.. if over-shopped can make the food look a bit artificial too...)... and also over time i can then compare past photos and present photos and see how much i've improved as far as photography goes... besides... i'm a technical person and have done photoshop before i'm sure i could quickly pick up photoshop skills if necessary... however as this is just as hobby and not commercial photography i won't bother to edit my photos... i won't even put watermark so if anyone wants to kapo my photos for some other use by all means... i see it as my honour that someone likes my photos enough to want to kapo... but still if you do kapo them it's still nice if you could acknowledge the source...
okay enough of the long intro and boring story... i shall start posting my photos...
regards,
wacky
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