{ LOTUSfairy } A Practice A Photo A Day ..whenever I can..

[LOTUSfairy]

24 Jan 2009
Taking macro pics with macro lens is certainly aint an easy task..
Waking and touch down at Sentosa Flowers wee early in the morning so as to avoid crowd, the same..every year..:bsmilie:
by 11am, I already "pump-che" and my friend still shooting a "bee" with his Ricoh super macro camera, and very patiently..:bsmilie:
I cannot find the flowers i like...so take a few practice shots..:sweat:

here's one of them:

yes the bee head blur again..:sweatsm:

 

[LOTUSfairy]

:heart: 26 Jan 2009 Happy Lunar New Year:heart:

Hope and Happiness

 

[Falcon]

:heart: 26 Jan 2009 Happy Lunar New Year:heart:

Hope and Happiness

Nice shot. Happy new year to you.

 

[LOTUSfairy]

Nice shot. Happy new year to you.

Hi Falcon, Happy Lunar New Year to you too
wishing u good health, good wealth, good luck, good harmony and good good photography skils.......in years to come...:lovegrin:

:heart:

 

[LOTUSfairy]

27 Jan 2009

Armed with my erhem 50mm/f1/8, hopped over to Sentosa again and braved the crowd and practice again. I din do too well, but I managed a lucky fun shot :bsmilie:

 

[LOTUSfairy]

28 Jan 2009
Taken at Tonle Sap, Siem Reap during crossing bridges..
Confined to my seat (scared to fall into water) on a speedboat really bumpy and sunny/hot hot hot
Tired and distracted most oft time, whenever i see subject, either i missed it or din focus in time...ie..i am not fast enough..: sweat:

 

[redtealongan]

28 Jan 2009
Taken at Tonle Sap, Siem Reap during crossing bridges..
Confined to my seat (scared to fall into water) on a speedboat really bumpy and sunny/hot hot hot
Tired and distracted most oft time, whenever i see subject, either i missed it or din focus in time...ie..i am not fast enough..: sweat:

That's a pretty good shot considering you were on a speedboat..!!

 

[LOTUSfairy]

That's a pretty good shot considering you were on a speedboat..!!

hi hi redtealongan, Lucky lucky me..;p

 

[LOTUSfairy]

31 Jan 2009

A Journey that braved the Bitter Cold Weather​

I was still shivering in the warmth of the vehicle and then I saw him on horseback, slowly braving thru the terrain of high mountains at Sichuan (about 4,000m) at such bitter cold weather. I quickly stuck my head out and took a quick pic of the horseman.
Deep in my heart, I salute him...

 

[Manda]

Love the horse back photo!

 

[LOTUSfairy]

Love the horse back photo!

thank you thank you..one of my personal fav too...:lovegrin:
sharing is caring...:embrass:

 

[LOTUSfairy]

1 Feb 2009

Chanced upon an opporunity to take pics at a concert.

I managed to hold my gears firmly and breathe breathe breathe (hot hot hot, outdoor).
Juggled and darting away from screaming fans who banged/stepped on me.
Avoid swinging camera phones who hung high above the fans' heads thus blocking my view...
I got a couple of satisfactory shots of Daughtry and the pics were sent to his record company for their keeping liao..:bsmilie:

This is one of my fav....

 

[Leong23]

Nice to meet you yesterday. Just follow your heart and practice more, 2009 will be a fruitful year for you.

 

[LOTUSfairy]

Nice to meet you yesterday. Just follow your heart and practice more, 2009 will be a fruitful year for you.

Yes yes i will..thank you thank you for your encouragement...i will jiayu !! :heart:

 

[LOTUSfairy]

3 Feb 2009

After 5 months with my 1st DSLR D80 and a 18-200mm/F3.5-5.6 lens, I tagged along a great kakis to try to capture the essence of the dance performances.

Lights were dim, stage flashed like mad, I was struggling to understand when lights in when lights out. Pretty discouraged by underexposed blur blur pics...My buddy kaki showed me great pictures he took...there I was encouraged to try again.....

One of my fav shot of that night...a erhemm blur shot..so i called it MOTION..:embrass:

 

[Yapster]

3 Feb 2009

After 5 months with my 1st DSLR D80 and a 18-200mm/F3.5-5.6 lens, I tagged along a great kakis to try to capture the essence of the dance performances.

Lights were dim, stage flashed like mad, I was struggling to understand when lights in when lights out. Pretty discouraged by underexposed blur blur pics...My buddy kaki showed me great pictures he took...there I was encouraged to try again.....

One of my fav shot of that night...a erhemm blur shot..so i called it MOTION..:embrass:

Hmm, title suits the shot pretty ok.
Say, how about try a black and white or sephia tone PP? This way, can remove the noise which is pretty distracting.
Then tweak the contrast, tone, highlights and shadow.
If noise still persist, burn or clone (using available black area)


And ya, keep practising, look around at others' shot in the genre you prefer to try out and i am sure you will improve.

 

[LOTUSfairy]

Hmm, title suits the shot pretty ok.
Say, how about try a black and white or sephia tone PP? This way, can remove the noise which is pretty distracting.
Then tweak the contrast, tone, highlights and shadow.
If noise still persist, burn or clone (using available black area)


And ya, keep practising, look around at others' shot in the genre you prefer to try out and i am sure you will improve.

...thank you for your kind advise.. i wil try again..:lovegrin::heart:

 

[redtealongan]

3 Feb 2009

One of my fav shot of that night...a erhemm blur shot..so i called it MOTION..:embrass:

It looks like a painting, interesting and nice.. The noise is great here, in fact i feel it adds to the art. We do not always have to produce a squeaky clean image!

 

[LOTUSfairy]

It looks like a painting, interesting and nice.. The noise is great here, in fact i feel it adds to the art. We do not always have to produce a squeaky clean image!

thank you..:heart: :lovegrin:

 

[LOTUSfairy]

With my limit photoshop skill, just learnt (trial and error) last month...
here's my conversion to B/W..:sweat: