*Chik Chak*

I took more pictures using my D90 yesterday...
Played around with more functions...

Still haven't got the chance to take pictures of people yet...
But tonight is Fellowship Night...
It's some event (not sure if you can call it an event) in my church where all the cell groups gather together for well... Fellowship~
So yeah~
Great opportunity for me to test out the D90 with human subjects~

I've also been asked by one of the church members to be the photographer for their daughter's birthday party...
But this is not confirmed yet...
Hopefully they "hire" me la~
(I'm not getting paid though... I'm just doing it for exposure...)

Anyway...
Without further delay...
Here are the pictures...
Enjoy~

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*note*
Pictures are all unedited unless specified...
Pictures have also been resized thus causing a drop in photo quality...
Original photos are much sharper...
Click to enlarge...
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Another example of the "Cross Screen" Effect...
I used 8-pointed stars this time...

I edited this image using the "Fish Eye" effect...
Here is what it the original picture looked like...
After editing the image above with the "Fish Eye" effect...
I decided to use the "Color Balance" function on the D90...
I gave the picture a stronger blue and this is what I came up with...Looks like as if it is floating on water~
This is one of my personal favorite~

These Bokeh shots were taken inside the Smart Tunnel...

Failed shot of KL Tower...

Times Square aka La-la Land~

Random pictures of a lamp post~
Picture of a fountain using a slow shutter speed...


I was checking out the "Repeating Flash" function...
Didn't understand how it works at first...
But after some experimenting...
Here is what I came up with...
What the "Repeating Flash" function does is this...
It repeatedly fires the flash for a set amount of times (the amount of times the flash fires can be set) when the shutter-release button is pressed...

Say for example this picture above...
It was taken with a shutter speed of 1.6" and the flash was set to fire 5 times...
As I pressed the shutter-release button...
I moved the camera in a circular motion thus capturing the objects at 5 different points...

But the amount of times you set the flash to fire may differ (not sure if this is the right word to use) depending on the shutter speed and the frequency of the flash (this can be adjusted also)...
Say for example if I use a shutter speed of 1/20 and the flash is set to repeat 10 times...
The time gap there may be too short for the flash to fire 10 times...
Then again this depends on the frequency of the flash that was set...

Hope I managed to explain that clearly...
It's much easier to explain it in person~
*hehe*

This was taken with the flash set to fire 3 times...


That's all I have today...
I'm hoping to get some good shots tonight~

Now I'm off to make some new Bokeh filters~

Ciaos~

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Quote of the day:
"There are no shadows that cannot be illuminated in photography..."
-August Sander-

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Level Up~!!

I have gone from this...A Fujifilm Finepix S602 Zoom...

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To this...A Nikon D90~!!!
My brand new DSLR baby!!!

As Sydney would say: Big ass camera with a big ass lens~
Bought this D90 kit from a warehouse sale around PJ...
The D90 kit came with alot of stuff...
Such as...

A travel kit...
A closer look inside the travel kit...
I use this to keep the battery charger and the lens/body/viewfinder cap...

A camera bag...
A closer look inside the camera bag...

A lens hood (right)...
The thing on the left is a UV filter...
I had to purchase that separately...

D90's user manual and driver installation...

Of course the D90 kit came with a camera lens as well...
The lens model is the AF-S DX Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 ED VR lens...

Other miscellaneous items include:
AV cable, USB cable, battery charger, viewfinder cap, camera strap...

It came with lots of free stuff too~
Such as a tripod (TR-69), mini photo frames, another camera bag, 3 pens, umbrella, 4GB SD card, a cap...

The joy of buying things at warehouse sales~
So much freebies~
Ahh~

For the price of RM4.1k...
I'd say it was a pretty good buy~
Original retail price was RM4.7k minus the freebies...

I only paid RM3k though...
My Dad paid the balance...
Thankiu Daddy!!

The D90 has so many functions wei!
I'm at a loss with what to do with it!
Need to slowly get used to the camera...

Here are some pictures that I took...

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*note*
The pictures are actually much sharper when I took them...
But since I had to resize them the quality has dropped...
But it's still quite good as compared to my s602 Zoom...
And the photos haven't been edited unless specified...
Click on them for larger view...
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This is called a zoom burst effect for those of you who don't know...

A personal favorite...

As you may have noticed...
I was playing around with the zoom burst effect alot...
This was one effect I couldn't create with the s602 Zoom...

I used the "Color Balance" function on my camera to edit this image after I took it...
It originally looked like this...
Pretty neat eh?
Considering it's all being done from within the D90 itself...

My old Bokeh filters still works on the D90...
But the result is only a small portion of the background can be seen...
This picture was taken in maximum zoom...
Looks like I'll have to redo all my filters!
But at least now I can cut out shapes as big as 3cm~

A personal favorite...

This picture was edited using the "Filter Effects" function...
This is called "Cross Screen" effect...
Here is what the picture looked like before...I can select the number of points (between 4, 6, or 8) the "stars" may have...
I can also change the length and angle of the points...
This is one of my favorite functions of the D90...

A personal favorite...*note to self and others*
Try not to do these kind of shots too often...
Looking directly into the sun is NOT good for the camera's lens and definitely NOT good for the eyes...
Best is to wear sunglasses when taking these kind of shots...
But still don't do it too often...
Playing around with depth of field...
Notice the difference in the point of focus?

Another example of the "Cross Screen" effect...
Here is what it looked like before...

That's all the pictures I have for now...
I actually still have more...
But I'm saving it for my next post~

Ciaos~

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*note*
As you may have noticed...
I've changed the watermarking...
This is to prevent pictures that I work so hard to take from being used without giving me credit...
And nothing you can say or do is gonna make me remove it~
*heh heh*
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Quote of the day:
"The limitations in your photography are in yourself... For what we see is what we are..."
-Ernst Haas-

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