Chang's Photographic Blog

Sekinchan

2011-05-15T12:10:00.002+08:00

Exotic Make-Up

2011-04-14T17:48:00.001+08:00

Eyelash Make-Up

2011-04-14T17:42:00.000+08:00

Bridal Make-Up

2011-04-14T17:38:00.001+08:00

Exam Week during Chinese New Year

2011-02-09T06:03:00.000+08:00

Exam week is such a pain in the ass.

Exam week during Chinese New Year just double the pain. >_<

Isn't She Beautiful? =)

2010-11-22T14:56:00.000+08:00

Pardon the image quality and the noise as this was taken using my iPhone. =P

Photoshoot

2010-11-14T18:03:00.000+08:00

Bridal Show

2010-10-25T11:58:00.000+08:00

Random

2010-10-07T11:07:00.006+08:00

My New Toy.

2010-08-10T18:01:00.004+08:00

Bought Something Interesting Today

2010-07-26T01:51:00.002+08:00

Been wanting to buy this thing for quite some time already but haven't met anyone who sell it around my place, only those selling it online outside the country. Then that day saw someone selling it in a forum. So excited. Today i finally called the seller and went to cod with him.

Just let the photo do the talking. ^^

Ants Harvesting Dead Dragonfly

2010-06-30T00:20:00.002+08:00

Giant Fly

2010-06-30T00:15:00.002+08:00

Obsessed With Macro Photography Lately

2010-06-27T04:15:00.002+08:00

Just to clarify that i did not kill them to feed my hunger for macro photography. I found them dead just on the floor.

(Cont.) Portrait Of An Ant In A Perspective You've Never Seen Before

2010-06-26T22:48:00.001+08:00

Portrait Of An Ant In A Perspective You've Never Seen Before

2010-06-26T19:46:00.002+08:00

A Larger Crop for the previous Macro Shot

2010-06-25T21:12:00.002+08:00

More Macro Shots

2010-06-25T16:01:00.004+08:00

It is really tough shooting macro of the ants using the reversing lens method. I'm using my EF 50mm f/1.4 lens reverse mount it onto my EF 24-105mm f/4L IS lens... The toughest part is that the ants wont lay still for u to shoot so its all about speed n accuracy. You have no idea how many shots i've taken just to get these 3 usable photos...

Some Macro Shots...

2010-06-25T00:09:00.002+08:00

The Lens Cap

My Watch

Rusty Paper Clip

Photoshoot using a white shoot-thru umbrella...

2010-06-11T13:59:00.003+08:00

During the semester break, i bought a normal white umbrella and used it as a diffuser for my 430 EX2 flashlight. Asked one of my brother to pose for me in his bedroom, and another one to hold the umbrella for me. Quite happy with the outcome of the photos.

Edit: made some colour correction to the photos so that the face does not looks so green.

Some old photos...

2010-06-11T13:50:00.002+08:00

Dug out a few photos from my hard drive a few weeks back...

and i found out a few interesting and meaningful photos of our formal Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad.

Qreez

2010-05-11T23:32:00.001+08:00

Kerry & Qreez (alphabetical order =P)

2010-05-10T00:03:00.000+08:00

Canon EOS 40D still have its Magic

2010-05-03T00:00:00.004+08:00

Canon EOS 40D was announced on 20th of August in 2007 and up until today its already been 3 years. During this 3 years time, Canon had came out 2 DSLRs which have newer technology and better performance if compared to the 40D on the same line. These cameras are the 50D and the 7D. Obviously, the 50D and the 7D have more mega pixel count and a better high-iso-performance than the 40D without any doubts. But, for those who are having a bit of financial problem to upgrade from your 40D maybe because you're still a student and the decision is not on you or whatever reason, don't be sad.

This post is me here trying to encourage those who are still "stuck" with your "old" 40D and have lost interest in taking out the camera to explore and make new photos due to you are not using the newest technology or you believe that your camera is out-dated. I'm here going to show you that the 3-years-old 40D can still do some magic.

The very main reason for most photographers out there wanted to upgrade their current DSLR to the newer model or the successor of their current DSLR is the high-iso-performance and the amount of noise generated in high-iso photos. So, here I'll show you how well the 40D can perform under very high iso like 3200, 6400 and 12800. Since the iso in the 40D can only go to 3200 max, in order to get iso-6400 n iso-12800, i underexposed the photo 1-stop and 2-stops then push it up back using photoshop. For the noise reduction part, i'm using Noise Ninja to remove the noise. I've never use other noise reduction software so i cant compare but i can say that Noise Ninja did quite a pretty good job in removing the noise and preserving the details of the photos.

For the photos, i shoot all in jpeg with standard noise reduction in the camera settings. The lens i'm using is the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 lens. The testing area is my desk. The lightning condition of my desk is a ceiling light and the light from my laptop screen. The photos below are 50% crop (the bigger photos) and a 100% crop (the smaller photos on the top right ).

That's all I wanted to say up until now. I believe that the photos will speak for themselves. Enjoy!

iso-3200 Out-Of-Camera

iso-3200 with Noise Ninja

iso-6400 Out-Of-Camera

iso-6400 with Noise Ninja

iso-12800 Out-Of-Camera

iso-12800 with Noise Ninja

Please comment...

2010-04-29T00:50:00.002+08:00