Juicy Couture Product Shot

My friend called in a favour to shoot her Juicy collection as she wanted to post some pictures of her blog. The pictures have been lying in my hard drive doing nothing, so though I would just post them up.

If you add all those boxes together you can afford a brand new full frame DSLR and get a new lense and maybe add in an extra polarize filter as well while you're add it.


Oh socks, yes these are worth just as much as a good second hand 50mm f1.8 lense. Shishhh who would buy such expensive socks, oh ya she did.

Simple and straight to the point packaging probably the best way to sell products these days. Same goes of Apple.

The Juicy freak caught in action, and for you other freaks check her blog out here http://thejuicyheiress.blogspot.com/

PHOTOgraphic Digital Photo Guide 2009

The premiere issue of Petersen’s PHOTOgraphic Digital Photo Guide is devoted to mastering exposure, with fast-paced instruction on highlight control, fill-flash, metering modes, A and other techniques for getting great results under all lighting conditions.

So whether your specialty is portraiture, sports, nature, wildlife or travel photography, this is a must have for all those interested in photography.

Download link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/200651243/Digital_Photography_Guide_2009.rar

Understanding Camera Sensor Sizes for DSLRs

It has become a trend in today's modern society to own a DSLR (Digital Single Lense Reflex) camera and everyone raves on how many mega pixels they have on their latest camera, however more mega pixel doesn't necessarily mean better photos. One characteristice of digital cameras that many people ignore or are unaware of is the sensor sizes.

standard 35mm film

In the days of taking photographs using film it was fairly straight forward, the standard for consumer and prosumer cameras were the 35mm film. Which is basically the film that we used to load in our cameras before taking pictures at a birtday partys.


Today film has been replaced with digital sensors either a CMOS or CCD sensors. Now to make things are more complicated, these sensors come in different sizes and mega pixels. The reason being to either keep the price down or to have the camera smaller in size.

Overview

Lets have a look at the diagram above which we can now fully visualize the difference in sensor sizes of our cameras. To make it easier for everyone to relate to the diagram, we shall list the some of the cameras available in the market today and what sensor size do they have.

Full Frame Cameras 35mm equivalant

- Nikon D3, D3x, D700
- Canon 5D, 5D mark II
- Canon 1Ds, 1Ds Mark II, 1Ds Mark III
- Sony Alpha 900

APS-H (1.3x Crop)

• Canon 1D, 1D mark II, 1D Mark III

APS-C (1.5x Crop)

• Nikon D40, D40x, D60, D5000, D80, D90, D200, D300
• Sony A320, A230, A350, A300, A200, A700, A100
• Pentex K20D, K200D, K-7, K10D

APS-C (1.6x Crop)

• Canon EOS 1000D, 40D, 50D, 300D, 450D, 400D, 500D

Four Thirds System (2.0x Crop)

• Olyumpus range of cameras

1/2.5"

• This is just one of the sizes of used for compact cameras (point and shoot)

Crop Factor & Focal Length Multiplication
According to the diagram above we have listed down the crop factors of the different categories of sensors. Now to show the effects of crop factors we can look at the picture below

Full frame angle

Essentially crop factor describes the sensor's width ratio in reference to a full frame 35mm sensor. It is important to know and understand the crop factor of ones cameras as it effects the angel of a lense that you are using. This will now be a bit technical, bare with me here.

Lets say Leena just bought a Nikon D5000( 1.5x crop sensor) and attached a 50mm f1.8 lense to the camera. This means she is using the lense on a 1.5x crop factor lense which will produce the same field of view as a 1.5x50 = 75mm lense on a full frame sensor.

Remember the calculation for the next time you wish you invest in a new lense or camera. It might be confusing at first but once you talk to people or ask around things will be clearer.

Final Thoughts

The sensor size will also effect the quality of the picture, as smaller sensors tend to have more noise or grain. Just try taking a picture with 2 different cameras with the same mega pixels but different sensor size, you will notice that the camera with a larger sensor has less noise. Another way just use your camera phone and compare it to a DSLR or even a compact camera. This concludes the basic understanding of camera sensors sizes, hope it will be helpful.

If you want to learn more click on the links below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_size
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35_mm_equivalent_focal_length

Retro Pop - Oshin

Just wanted to share a cool Photoshop action from a very talented photographer know as Lara Jade. Anyway I used her action with some of my own tweaking to achieve this result. Model in picture was Oshin.

You can download this action from the following link: Retro pop

Model Shoot - Stephanie

This was the outcome of my first photo shoot with Stepahine,both of us were noobs in terms of being a model and a photographer. Photos were converted into black & whites in photoshop and given some dodge and burn.

Stephanie in a traditional Japanese outfit called the Yukata.

Random Landspace Shoots

Here are some random photos which I've taken over the past one year.

This picture was taken at on the PLUS highway, somwhere near Bukit Merah. Picture taken in southern Sweden, nearby a small town called Angelholm. Bad weather doest mean bad pictures.

Another picture from Sweden, where an old bicycle was dumped in the grass on the side of the small and winding country road.

Model Shoot - Kim lynn

These photos were taken quite a while ago. One of my first few photo shoots and had a blast working with Kim. Shoot using Nikon D80 and Nikkor 50mm f1.8

Nikon D300s leaked photos and videos

Rumours has been circulationg the internet of Nikon's latest semi-pro camera the Nikon D300s. We can now almost confirm that the company will realease the updated version of the D300 very soon. As seen in this video the manual for the D300s is already leaked along with photos from the LCD screen.

The biggest difference that we can expect in comparison with its predecessor would be ability to record HD videos, built in microphone and dual SD and CF slots. I do believe it will have the same capability as the D90, recording videos at 720p.

The first post

My first post, Instead of saying "Hello World" I've decided to post a photo which I took in Putrajaya at sunset.
Click for full view.