My Wicked Firefly

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Frogs and Bird

70-300 DO IS,5D Mk II,Stone frog,Kuala Lumpur Bird Park

Lens : Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM
Settings : Pattern, 135mm 1/125s@f/5.0, ISO1600 (Auto)
Body : 5DmkII
Comments : An impromtu walk in Bird Park resulted in this photo. I like it, for the shallow DOF, the contrast between the bright side on the left and the darker shadows on the right. The bird (pidgeon) was there for a while, lined up quite nicely with the two stone frogs.

Original RAW (sRaw1) file converted using LR. Exposure +.19; subtle fillight added and Contrast reduced from +25(default) to +18. The original was a tad darker and the contrast a little too high. I think the pattern metering was fooled by the nearest frog. Metering was left to the Canon's own devices, with priority given to the focus point selected on the nearest frog and as the Canon rendered the frog a middle gray even though it was sunlit.


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Photography has been a passion of mine for a very long time. I still remember back there, I found an old 110 format camera in one of the drawers at home, so I went and load that one up with some color 110 film, had a bit of fun shooting it. Back then, processing film was expensive, and nope, my allowance didn't cover that at all. But I remember, the resulting photos were very 'LOMOish'. Guess that's my first LOMO ... In my high skool days, I picked up a second hand Olympus Trip 35, with its quicky guestimate focusing system. Colors from it were kind 'yellow' tinged cause by its lens that was kind of 'moldy'. Moldy or not, I shot a lot of skool band pics!! I ended up with an compact automatic when started Uni ... and I finally lost it on a trip to India. Left it on the plane. Got my first SLR back in 2001 I think, a brand new Nikon FM10. That's when the journey of serious photography started. And today, and today, after many years, and 'graduating' from the G5 ... to the G7 to the 400D and 40D ... and finally 5D Mark II, Hehehehe ... ... I still am plodding away, trying to create my own art.