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#21 Old photo New interpretation: Food for thought?
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EPM1 | Olympus 14-42mm II R

As colourful as the capsicums are, how tasty they are depends on the chef who cooks them.
As good as the new cameras are, how pretty the photos depends on the person who wields them.

Argh.. so must control my urge for the EPM2...

 

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#22 Old Photo New Interpretation: Taiwan Beer
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EPM1 | 14-42mm II R

One of the old photos almost 2 years back when I still barely know how to operate a ILC and zero knowledge on cropping and post processing. With a slightly better knowledge on basic PP now compared to then, I will be recomposing, as well as learning to apply basic post processing on them to recreate the exact feel that I wanted back then. This is the edited version.

Spoiler: By the way, its not beer inside the glass, just plain green tea.

 

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#23 Old Photo New Interpretation: Chaaaaaaarge!
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EPM1 | 14-42mm II R

I think I can consider this as my first birding shot of a bird in motion. A duck is a bird, isn't it?
Ha, I know... bad pic, bad joke.

 

[keithwee]

#22 Old Photo New Interpretation: Chaaaaaaarge!
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EPM1 | 14-42mm II R

I think I can consider this as my first birding shot of a bird in motion. A duck is a bird, isn't it?
Ha, I know... bad pic, bad joke.

hahaha , how did u manage to get this shot? It looks like a duck running amok on the streets of SG.

 

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hahaha , how did u manage to get this shot? It looks like a duck running amok on the streets of SG.

Hi keithwee, thanks for dropping by!
How to get this shot? hmmm.. get down low and set to highest fps? (ha..just joking)
Actually it was feeding time for the ducks in a Taiwan ranch, and so the ducks were literally charging towards us for their meals.

 

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#24 Never bring kids out for a photo walk
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EM5 | 12-50mm

"Pa, why are you always shooting at pretty girls?"

 

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#25 Drink, Bag, Women, Bicycle
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EM5 | 12-50mm

Papa's reply (Never bring kids out for a photo walk)
"Where got? See, there is a bicycle in the picture. I am aiming at it. I just misfired."

 

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#26 Butterfly Dream
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EM5 | Panasonic 20mm

Just making the best of a OOF shot of a full winged butterfly in flight.
Sometimes, things appeared that they are so near, yet are so far...

 

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#27 Common Origin
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EM5 | M.Zuiko 12-40mm PRO

coming out the same place...
going back the same way...

 

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#28 A first take of my own city
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EM5 | 12-40mm PRO | PS stitched

I have never formally taken a night time landscape before, let alone my own city coastal view.
It is really a different feeling between seeing other people's work and capturing that image by yourself personally.

I am sure there are a lot of technical flaws within it, but at the moment this is the best I can do until I read up in depth about landscape photography.

 

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#29 Colourful Gateway
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EM5 | M.Zuiko 12-40mm PRO | PS Stitched

It is a NG take. Only saw the technically serious error after almost close to end of the post processing.:sweat:
Take it with a pinch of salt, can you spot the obvious abnormality in the photograph?

 

[Dura77]

#29 Colourful Gateway
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EM5 | M.Zuiko 12-40mm PRO | PS Stitched

Love the range of colours! But the foreground on the right seems a little too green though, and the blown out art science museum :bsmilie:

 

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Love the range of colours! But the foreground on the right seems a little too green though, and the blown out art science museum :bsmilie:

Dura77, thanks for the encouragement! Means a lot coming from a landscape lover. They are really my first attempts at landscape and long exposure.:bsmilie:

You are right on both accounts, but I wish they are only blunders that I have made. haha. There is one more silly blunder that if you have discovered it, you would have said "How come I did not notice that earlier?"... It made the other blunders seem less of an error. Wanna have another guess?

 

[Dura77]

Dura77, thanks for the encouragement! Means a lot coming from a landscape lover. They are really my first attempts at landscape and long exposure.:bsmilie:

You are right on both accounts, but I wish they are only blunders that I have made. haha. There is one more silly blunder that if you have discovered it, you would have said "How come I did not notice that earlier?"... It made the other blunders seem less of an error. Wanna have another guess?

Ah the foreground stitching error! haha :bsmilie: It's a common error though, especially with close foreground elements

 

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:thumbsup: Keen eyes! :bsmilie:
Anyway, I will just leave it here as it is as a reminder for myself to be more observant in foreground stitching.
Thanks for the comments on the stitching, colour and exposure, learn something about landscape.

 

[wonglp]

:thumbsup: Keen eyes! :bsmilie:
Anyway, I will just leave it here as it is as a reminder for myself to be more observant in foreground stitching.
Thanks for the comments on the stitching, colour and exposure, learn something about landscape.

Stitching error is common when not using a panoramic head, which rotates the camera around it's nodal point/no parallax error point. A point where light reverses and go into camera sensor, it;s normally somewhere in centre of lens. Meaning you will have to rotate around somewhere in the centre axis at a point inside the lens. With Olympus camera the centre of the tripod hole is off centre (except EM10). Hope that helps a bit in understanding panoramic photography. The further away object, the lesser chance of parallax error.

Just watch out a bit on exposure and try choosing a better (earlier blue hour) timing. Black skies aren't that interesting unless there's much moving clouds in your long exposure. Nice attempt and have fun

 

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Stitching error is common when not using a panoramic head, which rotates the camera around it's nodal point/no parallax error point. A point where light reverses and go into camera sensor, it;s normally somewhere in centre of lens. Meaning you will have to rotate around somewhere in the centre axis at a point inside the lens. With Olympus camera the centre of the tripod hole is off centre (except EM10). Hope that helps a bit in understanding panoramic photography. The further away object, the lesser chance of parallax error.

Just watch out a bit on exposure and try choosing a better (earlier blue hour) timing. Black skies aren't that interesting unless there's much moving clouds in your long exposure. Nice attempt and have fun

wonglp, thanks for the visit and the detailed explanation! A very enlightening post :light: Now I understand why due to the distance the previous photo did not have this issue while the second one did. Ya, really helps to understand panoramic photography from the technical perspective.

Ha, so you noticed the black skies as well. Will take note of that and the use of moving clouds in the future. Was trying to make the best of a night off from family commitment to squeeze in the two scenes near MBS in that 4 hours. :bsmilie: But definitely will try again, very addictive.

 

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#30 Damselfly
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EM5 | M.Zuiko 14-42mm EZ

When we were younger, we used to catch them by the tail with our hands...
Now older and tagging a little junior, we catch them head-on on our cams...

 

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#31 Simple shot of a Frangipani
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EM5 | M.Zuiko 14-42mm EZ

Sometimes, simplicity is the key in life. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

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#32 Thick
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EM5 | M.Zuiko 14-42mm EZ

Some like it "Gao", and many like it thick..
I just like my drink to be plain chinese tea..