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You've certainly got the photography part down pat IMO--way beyond me.

Only a technical observation--the photo titled, "A typical public estate in the old days", seems noisy for an ISO800 shot--is that intentional, or is it a side effect of PP?

Bart
 
Bart, I took that pic last night when I's in a bus, nothing have been done to make the grains. Seems the noise came from underexposure. Any idea?
 
Great shots, very nice framing!

Another thing about that shot "A typical public estate in the old days", if I'm correct the aperture was manually set to f/5 at 8mm zoom, which could also have been 2.8, enabling you to shot it at a lower ISO (400) or faster shutter (1/20).
 
Pieter,

You are right. It's all of a sudden that the building caught my eyes and simply don't have time to check the DC setting before i pressed the shutter. The pic would be better if I choose a faster aperture.
 
Gordon, your shots are excellent! Your compositions and framing are spot on.

My favourites include:

'The guy waiting to play African drum'
  • Excellent framing.
'Taken in a Bar'
  • The exposure is very warm and the shadows are very nice.
'A Statue in a Bar'
  • same as above
'Pico'
  • How cute! What a character :o)
Thanks for sharing,

Ian
 
Well, it's better than not getting the shot at all. But the shot should have been okay anyway at ISO800..

I also saw that you often use an extremely low exposure bias, -1 2/3 or -1. But then the pictures don't come out underexposed, or did you PP that?
 
Only other thing I can think of is the method of downsizing--how did you downsize? If you simply subsample a photo, it makes the noise look worse (and, from a mathematical standpoint, it actually does make the noise worse relative to the picture content). It's better to use a filtering type of downsizing like bicubic, bspline, moving average, bilinear, lanczos, etc...

Bart
 
Hi Pieter, I do not doubt the metering of F30, but just that sometimes the scene I take have high contrast and the pix don't come out as the way I want them to be. So I have to step down the exposure by one or around step. However, I may still need some tuning in PP.
 
Wow, don't recognize there are so many ways of downsizing pix. Do they all available in PP or which should I use to best retain the pic quality?
 
Ian, thanks for your complement. It's always a good experience to have a candid (in fact more than that) DC at hand to take whatever you find interesting. :)

Pico is a funny but shy cat that stays with me. A good companion I would say.
 
Hi Gordon,

I have viewed about 50% of your gallery. Very Nice Pictures. I will revisit it again. It was a very enjoyable experience viewing your excellent pictures.

I like the sad look of the dog.



BTW, was it dangerous to take the picture of the guy with a machine gun?

Keep posting your beautiful pictures. The B/W Paris is another great series.

BR,

Danny
 
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