News - Publish @WWF-MALAYSIA 2011 Calendar ...

For 2010, I had few work published at few commercial photography magazines either from local or oversea... but this is my 1st time have my work publish in Calendar and it is for WWF-Malaysia. As part of the nature lover, I feel sad that feel of my usual MACRO ground had been destroy for development ......
e.g.
http://liewwk-macro.blogspot.com/2010/06/news-another-sad-news.html

Wild life need our help to protect them, WWF-Malaysia is one of the most active society that running conservation projects such as saving endangered species, protect forests, river, sea and etc .....

WWF-Malaysia 2011 Calendar

 












  The Frog

this picture show while my last trip @BELUM Rainforest
http://liewwk-macro.blogspot.com/2009/10/2009-oct-23-25-belum-rainforest-outing.html

and the day before I went this outing, I got new that my work had published into an education book @Netherlands (previous post @
http://liewwk-macro.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-macro-pictures-are-published.html )

a missed out picture ...

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 ..



hope you all enjoy this ..

How I shoot Macro - Natural Light or Flash ???

I am using full flash, fill flash and natural light for my macro work. and how I differentiate and decide which one to use (some how this related how I get my BG as discuss in http://liewwk-macro.blogspot.com/2009/02/macro-pp2-how-i-control-background.html...ok let discuss

always follow rules below

1. Natural Light is my 1st priority
- if environment light is good
- environment allow me to use monopod (for 1" - 1/30) and tripod (>1")
- wind (this is main killer for my NL)... I will discuss how I over come this in future post
- bug is not move or move slow

Why ?
- NL will bring more BG color compare to other
- will not scare the bugs away

sample of fill flash
i. sample one to compare


ii. this is how I get the clean BG





2. Fill Flash
- what this mean using manual flash (small normally I refer to 1/32-1/128) to fill in the minor under exp
- if environment light is good
- environment allow me to use monopod (for 1" - 1/30) and tripod (>1")
- wind (this is main killer for my NL)... I will discuss how I over come this in future post
- bug is not move or move slow
(same as above and why I need fill ?)
- there are occasion, I still use flash but all above requirements meet where I should use NL instead .. why ?
i. shadow ..a sample I got for this
- a sample of shadow I refer

with fill flash


NL



ii. some bug (dark color)tend to have too much shadow while shooting NL so I will fill the light onto it's body to resolve the shadow concern



this dark blue beetle is a good sample but too bad I failed to capture it without flash

iii. fill flash object tend to be more saturate in color. this is not really my good reason as I can easily add saturation @RAW-->Jpeg

a same sample across 3 methods I discuss



3. Full flash, some time I mean using TTL , eTTL ... and this don't matter what FEC [flash exposure compensation](hmmm this is CANON term and not really sure what other call ... ) ... as long as we let the body decide what do use mean it is call Full for me ...

- this is good to freeze the moment where include wind, handshake, bug move ...
- need small aperture for more DOF so slower Shutter speed
- tend to more sharp ? (not really but then as more DOF and avoid those movement so picture definite look sharper)
- lost BG , just like below


anything else ? may be I missed out something you want to know .. always drop me a message so I will reply you

How I shoot Macro - Different Approach

I am thinking to get different MACRO/Close-up shooting approach ... and here is one new - wide angle to shoot the object with it's environment... but this is only apply for big object ... so far I managed to get 2 types of suitable model (horned frog & Stick insect)


for standard macro


what I trying to get now




What do you see ? prefer standard macro or the new one ?

so now ... I need my 24mm in my beg while macro outing ...

New Found - Horn Frog !!!

my first time seeing wild Horn Frog and this was from my Cibodas trip

it is so quiet and beautiful and think I should do more frog shooting. This was using Ultra wide angle and other closeup , macro will share in my flickr later