my shot of the day..

after the rainy friday, i went to throw the trash and brought my canon 450d

after 20 shots and so i liked this pic so much... what do you think?

lens..lens...lens...

After snapping some pictures using the kit lens of 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 of the fire ants, i was wishing my telephoto lens to arrive. Yet it has not arrived... but last night i was able to Accidently bid on an extender for my kit lens, it is a wide angle + panoramic lens for a sum of BN$100++ made by Bowen lens. hopefully i'll post more macro shots :) here are the shots of the fire ants..





yep after reaching the limit of 200 pictures in my flickr, i've upgraded it to a Pro account, so expect more of my pictures in my flickr account. despite my macbook hard drive is getting full reaching a free memory of 60gig out of 250gig from my pictures so i'll be putting my pictures in my flickr account.

experimenting with panoramic pictures... and some results

i've been experimenting with some panoramic pictures which is one or more pictures merged together to get a much wider view (hence panoramic).

items you need:
of course a camera,
a tripod (or a steady base)
for digital camera, photoshop.
for film camera a scanner and photoshop.( or tape and sharp knife or cutter when printed)
a good scene.

i was actually interested in scene pictures when i discovered the ideas of "stitching" my uncle gantong said. or in other meaning, merging two or more picture to get one really great pic. Here are some examples of pictures i've taken.



first i took this picture on the right. remember this is on a tripod and all manual settings such as manual focus and camera must be set to manual aperture and shutter speed.



then i took this second shot taking note the island on the left as my marking mark.


uploaded it to my macbook and opened photoshop.

opened the two pictures equally and put the second pic window on top of the first pic window estimating the island as marked.

then i open file>automate>photomerge

then the pictures are merged, however we can manually merge it if the file is not recognisable.

then i crop and edited the burnt sides with photoshop plus the watermark. the outcome is the picture below.




hope you can try it out :)

some shots picked from the sailing outing.

yes, still experimenting with my new Canon 450d... yep got to get more lens, despite waiting for my coming 70-210mm Samigon lens coming soon. will post the pictures here.

soon i'll be more into potraits and wedding pictures, so if i'm serious on that level, i'll be buying myself a pro account on my flickr. anyways enjoy my shots!!!

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