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[egnaro]

The chinese garden shot is scary... the 'painted skin' chinese movie can be shot here... :bsmilie:

haha... every festival (mid autunm) got it darken side... imagine everyone carry lantern happily walking ard and I spotted this eerie sence.

 

[ttiongch]

Two of my recent shots. Hope you like it.

 

[aryanto]

Two of my recent shots. Hope you like it.

Wow! I like the ant shot, very nice side ways instead of the regular shot from the top for ants, or sideways but on tree branch/leaves/wall.

Did you do this on steps?

 

[ttiongch]

Wow! I like the ant shot, very nice side ways instead of the regular shot from the top for ants, or sideways but on tree branch/leaves/wall.

Did you do this on steps?

Thanks ayanto! The ant was strolling along a small drain, it's a very low level shot that I need to use live-view mode for that.

Another shot of the ant, it was not happy and wanted to bite me.

 

[wrx_sti_22b]

Ai yo, ga na bite by the lethal looking mouth surely painful & will swell... scary... now ants gets so big...

 

[howeikwok]

Nice DOF on the ant shot. :thumbsup:

 

[aryanto]

Thanks ayanto! The ant was strolling along a small drain, it's a very low level shot that I need to use live-view mode for that.

Another shot of the ant, it was not happy and wanted to bite me.

hahaha this is one of the best angry ant shot! this should be tree ant right? the bigger version like almost 1 cm size one (leg inluded lah)

 

[ttiongch]

Ai yo, ga na bite by the lethal looking mouth surely painful & will swell... scary... now ants gets so big...

Yah, there were a lot of them crawling beside me when I was taking the pics. That time I was a bit worry, but I think they enjoyed to be my model, so none of them bite me.

Nice DOF on the ant shot. :thumbsup:

Thanks howeikwok, actually I was there to look for flying insects like dragonflies and butterflies. However, I failed to shoot them correctly as they were too fast, so end up shooting the easier target, the crawling ants. :embrass:

hahaha this is one of the best angry ant shot! this should be tree ant right? the bigger version like almost 1 cm size one (leg inluded lah)

Yes, they are the 1cm red tree ants, don't know why that day all were crawling on the drain.


Don't see this uncle tummy big big, his stroke was very powerful. The golf ball was driven off with the tee falling down at the same location.

 

[petaflopz]

Repost a shot I took sometime back...

 

[aryanto]

Repost a shot I took sometime back...

cool. are you on the car (or other moving vehicle) taking this shot?

 

[amore]

anyone knows wer is the nearest to bukit panjang dat do photo printing on a cd?

 

[sadwitch]

Some colours from the Royal Botanic Garden of Melbourne

 

[petaflopz]

cool. are you on the car (or other moving vehicle) taking this shot?

Nope... I was just standing by the road side with my camera waiting... =) This was taken last year at the Port Dickson International Triathlon.

 

[ttiongch]

Some colours from the Royal Botanic Garden of Melbourne

I like this, may I know what's your camera settings for this shot?

 

[sadwitch]

Hi hi thanks ttiongch here's the settings for the shot

P mode
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/640 sec
Aperture: f/5.0
AWB: R-3 G+1
Metering: Pattern

 

[ttiongch]

Hi hi thanks ttiongch here's the settings for the shot

P mode
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/640 sec
Aperture: f/5.0
AWB: R-3 G+1
Metering: Pattern

oh, I wonder why the DOF on your bee is much more than the DOF on my ant, which I used F/5.6 on the Sigma 105mm macro.

Forgot to ask you which lens you used for that shot?

 

[sadwitch]

Its the ZD50mm f2... i guess your DOF is short cos the sigma is a longer lens? if we're shooting from the same distance your sigma will naturally have shorter DOF due to the FL... i think. I was about 10-15cm away from the bee if i remember correctly.

I think the side profile of your little ant has nice dof cos it sits nicely parallel on the plane of focus whereas for the ant head shot, the body was perpendicular to the plane of focus which is only large enough to fit the head at that setting.

 

[ttiongch]

Its the ZD50mm f2... i guess your DOF is short cos the sigma is a longer lens? if we're shooting from the same distance your sigma will naturally have shorter DOF due to the FL... i think. I was about 10-15cm away from the bee if i remember correctly.

I think the side profile of your little ant has nice dof cos it sits nicely parallel on the plane of focus whereas for the ant head shot, the body was perpendicular to the plane of focus which is only large enough to fit the head at that setting.

Thanks for the pointers. I understand it now.
However, I still wonder why some non-4/3 users still commented that 4/3 DOF not thin enough.
Sometimes thin DOF might not be an advantage, I would prefer larger DOF in this case.

 

[dorts]

Thanks for the pointers. I understand it now.
However, I still wonder why some non-4/3 users still commented that 4/3 DOF not thin enough.
Sometimes thin DOF might not be an advantage, I would prefer larger DOF in this case.

Haha. So cute. :sweat:

The 4/3 DOF is good for macro. But for some portraits, you might have some difficultly. Besides, 4/3s doesn't really have fast lenses, like f/1.4 or something, besides the 25mm f/1.4 or Sigma 30mm

 

[ttiongch]

Haha. So cute. :sweat:

The 4/3 DOF is good for macro. But for some portraits, you might have some difficultly. Besides, 4/3s doesn't really have fast lenses, like f/1.4 or something, besides the 25mm f/1.4 or Sigma 30mm

Yah, can always get 3rd party F/1.4 lens if they want really thin DOF from 4/3.
This photo shows how thin the DOF can be achieve using 4/3 system with a F/1.4 lens. I focused on her right eye, but her left eye is already slightly out of focus.