Indoor shoots F30 - CNY

A few photos taken during Chinese New Year here. All are indoors inside a shopping center.

All are taken with F30, w/o PP. Please feel free to comment.

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Cheers,
Chris

Very impressive.
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Rube
http://www.flickr.com/photos/71881102@N00/

Hi Chris,

This is a very enjoyable series, filled with holiday atmosphere. You have very good control of your F30 exposures.

You did not PP these pictures? Really amazing.

BTW, I had seen your New Zealand trip pictures, you took excellent pics.

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Best Regards,

Danny



My Albums
http://photobucket.com/albums/a44/yeeonly

I agree, these are beautifully done. Excellent work.
Did you use a tripod/monopod?
gus
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A guy with a camera walks into a bar...

rube39 said:

Very impressive.
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Rube
http://www.flickr.com/photos/71881102@N00/

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Many Thanks.. hope you enjoy them.

Chris

danny_only said:

Hi Chris,

This is a very enjoyable series, filled with holiday atmosphere.
You have very good control of your F30 exposures.

You did not PP these pictures? Really amazing.

BTW, I had seen your New Zealand trip pictures, you took excellent
pics.

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Best Regards,

Danny



My Albums
http://photobucket.com/albums/a44/yeeonly

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Danny,

Thanks for your encouraging words.. No PP (btw, do you have any recommendation ?). I should practise more, like you, in order to capture more impressive motions. one comment on F30 is the long image saving/deletion time, which is crucial for catching moving objects..

And thx for viewing my NZ photos - i like the place much..

Chris

igilligan said:

I agree, these are beautifully done. Excellent work.
Did you use a tripod/monopod?
gus
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A guy with a camera walks into a bar...

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Thanks for your comments.

No.. no tripod/monopod.. just happened to come across the show.. i think i should always bring one.

Chris

Intriguing pictures!

Which mode(s) did you use, in particular on the last two pictures? It would seem as if those might have benefited from more ISO (they are ISO 400) to freeze the action some more?

Other, to my eye comparable, pictures are all higher ISO (1600), thus have frozen action?

cchris said:

Danny,

Thanks for your encouraging words.. No PP (btw, do you have any
recommendation ?). I should practise more, like you, in order to
capture more impressive motions. one comment on F30 is the long
image saving/deletion time, which is crucial for catching moving
objects..

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I am not a PP expert, I am using Photo Elements 4.0 (I brought it in June or July of 2006 for about US$80, should be a version by now) a very basic but easy to use photo editing, before that I used freeware (Irfanview - good for quick browsing of multiple pictures, still using it to rotate pictures while browsing) or photo editing software which come with hardware.

I find Photo Elements 4.0 very easy to use, my basic work flow with F30 pictures is to add contrast (one click), play with lightening shadows and darkening highlights (two slide bar operation), resize (select size for web upload) and sharpen the image with the default sharpening filter (3 clicks). So you can see my PP skill is very primitive.

If budget is not a concern, Photo Shop is the best, a lot of plug in to play with, but to me the features are overwhelming. I am a Problem Driven Learning guy and imperfectionist, unless I was deeply troubled by a problem, otherwise, I would not look for a solution. For example, only after I took some pictures of SU27 (Zhuhoi air show) in a hazy day, then I started to learn Local Contrast Enhancement, hopefully it could remove the haze? Before these terms scared me

The F30 is slow, too much in camera Noise Reduction, I guess. No perfect camera yet. I do wise it can be faster.

keep posting your wonderful picture, I like your composition style (the NZ pictures are really nice)

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Best Regards,

Danny



My Albums
http://photobucket.com/albums/a44/yeeonly

daffy2 said:

Intriguing pictures!

Which mode(s) did you use, in particular on the last two pictures?
It would seem as if those might have benefited from more ISO (they
are ISO 400) to freeze the action some more?

Other, to my eye comparable, pictures are all higher ISO (1600),
thus have frozen action?

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Thanks for your kind words..

You're right ! I used shutter prioirty for the last 2 pictures, with flash fired, at 1SO400.

For most of the rest in same series, I used the natural light + flash mode (i.e. one w/o flash, another with flash) hence higher ISO (1600) applied. Seems i have no control on the ISO under this mode..

Many Thanks Danny.. I'll try them to see the difference. ...Chris