Time For Change~

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/2500 seconds @ f/22, ISO 100

Yo~
'Sup people!
As you may have noticed...
This blog's entire layout has been redesigned~
Whoohooo!!!
Credits goes to my brother, Jaryl, for helping me design it and coming up with all the HTML coding and whatnot~

Have added a few stuff to this blog of mine...
Firstly...
It's now a 3 column layout instead of 2...
Second...
At the end of each post there will be a link that can let you view the full whole post...
I've asked my bro to add that in to avoid having such long posts being displayed...
Clicking on the link will take you to another page where the full post will be displayed...
(link is titled: "Click here to read the rest of this post")

It's still not really finished yet...
Still need to get my co-writer to do up his column on the right...
So Juchiro...
If you are reading this get it done ba~

Here are some photo's that I've been taking...

The following 6 photos were taken when I went with Richard to KL for a photography outing...

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/30 seconds @ f/3.5, ISO 1600

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/200 seconds @ f/3.5, ISO 100

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/640 seconds @ f/3.5, ISO 100

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/40 seconds @ f/5.0, ISO 100

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/10 seconds @ f/4.2, ISO 1600

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 3.3 seconds @ f/22, ISO 1600

The next 4 photos were taken at Lake Gardens...

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/400 seconds @ f/5.3, ISO 200

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/250 seconds @ f/5.3, ISO 200

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/60 seconds @ f/5.0, ISO 200

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/6 seconds @ f/22, ISO 100

This photo was taken at Skybar, Traders Hotel...
Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1.4 seconds @ f/3.8, ISO 1250

The rest of the photos here were taken at my college's campus...

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/4000 seconds @ f/3.8, ISO 100

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/4000 seconds @ f/5.0, ISO 500

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/640 seconds @ f/3.5, ISO 100

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/60 seconds @ f/3.5, ISO 400

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/3200 seconds @ f/4.2, ISO 200

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/3200 seconds @ f/3.5, ISO 200

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/40 seconds @ f/5.6, ISO 400

Well...
That's all I have~
I'll try to get the layout done as soon as possible...
Ciaos!!

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Quote of the day:
"Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame... When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts..."
-Gary Winogrand-

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Photos From A Camera (no.2)

Yesterday while waiting for my dad to come pick me up from Parkson...
I decided to work on my panning shot technique...

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/60 seconds @ f/5.6, ISO 100


Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/60 seconds @ f/5.6, ISO 100

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/60 seconds @ f/5.6, ISO 100

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/60 seconds @ f/5.6, ISO 100

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/25 seconds @ f/9, ISO 100

This is probably the best panning shot I took today~ (below)
Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/30 seconds @ f/9, ISO 100

This shot was done using a multiple exposure of two different shots...
Wasn't what I quite had in mind but it works~
Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/30 seconds @ f/9, ISO 100

The rest of the pictures here are all random shots that I took earlier yesterday...

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/30 seconds @ f/5.6, ISO 640
Editing done in Photoshop CS4 and Picasa3

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/60 seconds @ f/5.6, ISO 100

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/10 seconds @ f/4.2, ISO 640
Editing done in Photoshop CS4

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/10 seconds @ f/5.6, ISO 640

Nikon D90 with AF-S Nikkor 18-105mm VR lens, 1/8 seconds @ f/5.3, ISO 640
Editing done in Picasa3

I've got one photoshoot with my cousin coming up...
She is going to be my model~
But I have to wait for her to come back from India first...
I still have yet to arrange a date/day for the photoshoot...
Anyone wanna join us?? =]

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Quote of the day:
"Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it... Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur..."
-Alfred Eisenstaedt-

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Panaroma Tutorial

Finally got my new PC with good software's, and finally came back to upload some stuff.
Here's one I was doing for my friends assignment, panaroma. So I decided to try it. Here's how I did it.

I have Photostitch from Canon, but you still can buy the software.

Run it.

Then open the images.

After you've opened it,

arrange it, i did it by switching, means 12345 becomes 54321.

54321...
Now, let's start merging some pictures. Click on start.
And Photostitch will automatically merge it for you. But... doesn't look that proportional isn't it?

Click on display seams, so you can edit the seems between pictures.

It'll show a few yellow boxes.

Click on one to go to the editing window. Shown below.

By default, Photostitch would just specify one overlapping area. What you need to do to enhance the proportion of your picture is to specify important details and let Photostitch deal with the 'lining up'.

Here's an example. I want the tower to be correctly merged with the other picture, so i select it, and drag it to the other picture.
A few more would be good. I did three times more than this example below.
As you can see, its now straightened.
Do the same for the rest of the images, you'll end up with something like this.
As you can notice here, there are some mismatched merges, keep specifying overlaying areas, and specify the important areas only.
Once you're happy with it... (for me, after 15 tries....) save it.
Open it up in Photoshop. Use your brush tool, set to soft hardness, hold alt to bring up the colour extraction tool, there are going to be a few merge lines visible, so go to the side of the line, extract the colour beside it, and cover the line. Do this repeatedly as you go along the line. so the horizontal colours are similar. Making it seemed like you erased the line.
Then to further enhance the picture, I went to curves, and adjusted it. Check youtube for tutorials on this part.
Darkened the shadows, and boosted the highlights.
Then I went to vibrance adjustment.
Bring up the vibrance, but be careful not too much, if not it'll look oversaturated and unreal.Next I went to Shadow/Highlights adjustments. This helps boost the range even more.

This is defualt.
This is my settings.

And lastly.. the all important, copyright :P mcm yes.
And here is the final thing. Super huge... my first panaroma. Try it yourself!
Pictures of this post are taken with Canon 500D with 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. Images copied and edited in Picasa3.
Software used : Canon Photostitch 3.1 , Adobe Photoshop CS4, Picasa 3.

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