1. last friday 15 Jan 2010 from 3am -6pm then went for a Canon - Photomalaysia.com talk for videography + 1dm4 2. on next morning ~730am, we went to Sekinchan, Selangor, Malaysia for paddyy field shooting and was plan this for long as would like to see the brown + blue contrast color instead of common green + blue (but then I still want to shoot that) ... 3. we left Sekinchan ~4pm and drive toward to Pantai Jeram where ~1 hour drive from Sekinchan. and leave the place ~8pm then arrive house ~11pm
and I am leaving Malaysia to Singapore early of the morning next day ....
I would say .. WOW .. but my body just can't follow my brain .. so I comment myself 20++ brain but 40++ body :D
but with 2 pictures (many of them but simply choose 2 to fast process out) ... I am happy with the tired outing ....
am in Singapore , a beautiful city but just feel difficult to get my camera to shoot as not sure how to present city ... (think i need more effort on this) ... may be you all should tell me how I improve .. I will post few pictures from my few days trip here...
I am doing archiving again ... as my HDD running low again .. and found this beautiful frog ... and found this picture ... think I still have too many pictures to be process ... and hope I just won;t missed out too much worth share picture to you all ..
was driving ~42KM from my in law house (~40KM from Kuala Lumpur) to a beach no people swim, no plant around, only few birds flying around, bad mug smell, a "weird" photographer (as my claim, where got ppl drive so far for a beetle only) and the only good thing here is the tiger beetle (this yet to found from other location but here got thousand of them) .. then the photographer got dirty & dirty... and camera are full of sand ... and this is how it look like
and this is really hot day, they are not really in mood of mating (only found few pair doing it and capture 2-3 pictures of mating) but most of them standing using this pose ... think is the way they relief heat ....
this is another tiny spider ~5-7mm in size and very shy and found on tree body ... it will hide from us if we keep chase it (where hole on the skin tree it can find) but then it will come out from the hole ~3-4 min ...
this is a tiny spider (look like jumping spider to me) , it move non stop (for 2 times I met it ...) think they born to be moving around ...
but it is like other spider look at our gear while get close and this is the time we get the eye contact ... but for this I am trying to get another angle of closeup ...
normally robberfly always good model for macro shooter as
1. they stay still 2. can easily get closer 3. even they fly off, will come back to same spot or nearer 4. a lot of details
below are few e.g.
but last week, I met a robberfly shy, sensitive, and it's dark body make it be a tough model for me ... luckily it still like common robberfly ... it will even fly off but then it will be flying back to nearby .... so I can have few chances to test what is the best way to shoot this "giant robberfly" (it is ~30-35mm in size, so far it is bigger I met)
i. for 1st shot it .. I don;t to missed the chance to get a record shot where I handheld set the SS to max and using full flash ... and a harsh result is out ... expect
ii. then it flew off after my strong flash, then I know it allow me get closer so decide to use tripod .. and give a try of Natural Light (without flash) but result out is like terrible shadow on it's body (no details at all ... ) - the file was corrupted and not able to share this
- flash setting "Manual" 1/64-1/32 and the result just like the Natural light, it give bad shadow on it's body
iv. I am confuse and not sure how to overcome this so decide to use stronger fill flash (1/2-1/4) but the result still
- flash setting "Manual" 1/2-1/4
I would say, these are bad ... harsh, bad shadow (even I can recover it by using PP) but not really sure how .. and what is the best way to shoot this "best" MACRO model .....
so after rest for a while a Nescafe, roti Bakar... and spend few more minutes with the Wasp lay egg
v. so I want to try another new "fill flash" method - I use TTL FEC -1 - then instead of faster shutter speed I use the slower shutter speed where it should give correct exposure (just like shooting with Natural Light) - the output some how is best among all methods I tried ....
not sure is this a better method of fill flash or not using TTL instead Manual but it WORK on this monster ... and it proven (I have many shots after I know this method is working) .....
another new found for my collection .. think this is quite rare as only 1st time saw it after ~22mth doing macro .. and thanks Choong @http://odonata-malaysia.blogspot.com/ for the ID ...
