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anq.com.my Website
07/04/2012 – 18:35
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Lightroom 4 Organization Technique
04/04/2012 – 07:22
After a full 2 years of using Lightroom I have settled with a very comfortable organization and workflow. There are limitless way of working with Lightroom and depending on your level of knowledge of the software and computer in general your workflow may differs. But like I said when you use the application more you would have settle into a stride and your own way of working. I have been following Eric Scouten blog at http://ericscouten.com and I am pretty much agreed with all the tips that he had given in the blog posts. Last night I read his latest input on Lightroom organization and workflow using Lightroom 4. Yes I agree with what he said that some how we need to organize our system but I am not really agree with how he did it. If you want to read his article you can visit it here http://ericscouten.com/2012/03/lightroom-technique-how-i-organize-my-catalog-and-why-2012-edition/.
I am coming up with my own way of handling the workflow, come back again to view my workflow with Lightroom 4.
Help! Lightroom Screw Up My Photos!
26/03/2012 – 01:04
If you reach this blog post, you probably scratching you head into baldness, baffling about what had happened to your RAW photos after you imported them into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (Lightroom). First and fore most, there is nothing wrong with you RAW photos or Lightroom. You may have set preset to be applied during import which could be a problem but more importantly Lightroom doesn’t know how to render your RAW files. When lightroom first read your RAW files it will display the JPEG preview of that photo in the filmstrip. In the meantime, Lightroom will keep on reading the RAW information and begin to map the data. Lightroom will ignore all camera setting information in the file except the White Balance information. So, picture style, in camera sharpening, saturation or any other setting you selected in you camera will not be rendered. Once Lightroom is done reading the file, it will reproduce the JPEG preview as it sees it. After a bout a few second it will show the new JPEG preview to you. At this point of time you will notice suddenly your RAW image has changed and it may not be to your liking. If you also take JPEG format in camera, you will notice that Lightroom doesn’t change these images. Lightroom render JPEG image as it is. Unless you apply a preset to them. read more
Moonlit Night Air Papan
17/03/2012 – 18:19
The idea of taking slow shutter photography was taught to me by my mentor Azizi. After that I pretty much venture in any possible slow shutter photography ever existed and now that I am much wiser than I was. I started to know what work and what not. Many people associate the kind of photography with a lot of gears especially filter. After a while I started to acquire the knowledge and technique that don’t require those gears. You can get away with Natural Density Filters by taking photo after the sun goes down or at night. This shot was taken under a bright moonlit beach of Air Papan, Mersing. One thing that you must have though is a tripod.
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Adobe Lightroom 4 Issues
17/03/2012 – 13:45
Adobe has openly published a list of issues and problems that some users are facing with their Lightroom 4 release. The announcement was to tell their users that they are aware of the problems and currently working for solutions and fixes. Read more here https://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2012/03/lightroom-4-hot-issues.html
Canon EOS 7D Tips
06/03/2012 – 21:21
Canon EOS 7D
Canon EOS 7D is considered the one of the most advance low cost EOS camera out there. It will remain so for quiet some time in the future until the come out with the replacement camera. Newer and higher end EOS cameras have been based on 7D Innovations and there are very little weakness found on this camera except for the fact that it has cropped sensor. I have been using this camera since it was first out in the market and for a few years now I started to build a list of tips that many of 7D users can try with their units.
I have seen some people sold their 7D because they are not satisfied with the performance of their units. I also saw people sold and bought back after they figured out what they did wrong in their first term usage of their 7Ds and many found renewed faith with their camera and had became their workhorse ever since.
I will keep adding more pages to this post until I get all of my tips out. Keep checking for new pages. Thanks.
Table Of Content
1. High Speed .9 Frame Per Second Mode – Page 2
2. Autofocus Selection – Page 3
3. Metering Mode Selection – Page 4
4. 7D Buttons Unfold – Page 5
5. Autoexposure and Autofocus Lock – Page 6
Rules of Composition
02/03/2012 – 21:20
The rules of composition existed a very very long time ago. Even before Da Vinci time. But, Leonardo whose depiction of the perfect men and women are bound by these rules, ratio and numbers really think that beauty and mathematics do correlate. Since Maths can be taught and learned so does composition and art. So next time you take a photo just remember with a little bit of rearranging your subject to follow certain rule can give a lift to your photographs. Is it really possible? All these rules can really make a boring shot a great shot. I say just give it a try. It doesn’t hurt you a bit. I know there are people who don’t really like to follow these rules and said that it only make their photos more or less the same with others. Well the key to making a shot is not only the way you follow certain rules but also in the way you break them.
That is interesting. Why learn the rules if you will break them? The answer lies within the secret of the Parthenon. We created art for us to see. Human. Thus we need to understand human nature. With visual arts the human nature that most important is vision or visual. We see with our eyes and our eyes have limitations as well as strength. The eyes only capture light and their details but the brain would process and interpret what we see. If you would like to know the secret of the Parthenon just watch the video below. But let me highlight to you. More often than not our eyes and brain would be deceived by the optical illusion. This make us see straight lines as curved or different height in different viewing angles. To correct these optical illusion the builder of the Parthenon purposely curved the straight lines within the Parthenon and visually we will see a straight lines. This is an example of knowing the rules and applying the knowledge to successfully break the rule.
So, Keep your faith with the rules and be creative on breaking it and presenting it in your own way. And you will capture a masterpiece such as the Parthenon.
On Teaching or Being A Teacher
02/03/2012 – 19:54
Teaching is not just about giving information or instructions. A teacher needs to instill knowledge as well as nurture good qualities. A good teacher often challenges his students to surpass himself in any way possible. And a great teacher is measured not by his own greatness but the greatness of his pupils.
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