keep trying on HDR. zz

Tupah Recreational Forest, Kedah

UiTM Kedah

Shadowestrasia :3

Playing with HDR. ntah jadi ke tak nih. haha

Pantai Cahaya Bulan (click to enlarge)

UiTM Kedah (click to enlarge)

Masjid Bandar Al-Muktafi Bilah Shah (click to enlarge)

Kolej Malinja UiTM Kedah (click to enlarge)

yg ni takyah letak caption pn dah tao dah kan. haha. (click to enlarge)

Soul Keeper ~

your soul is mine, miahaha

playing with artistic effect.

Plastic Wrap Effect.

*just click the picture for the best view ;)

First HDR Experiment

Color Splash Photoshop Tuto

1. Take any graphic you want; the simpler, the better.

2. Go to the Layers tab, right click, and choose Duplicate Layer

(You'll get a message asking what you want to name the layer and where you want it. Just press OK to go with the default.)

3. Go to the Image Section in the top area, select Adjustments, then Desaturate.

4. Now, here's what my graphic looks like so far:

                                                          

GOOD LUCK !! :)

Photography Tips For Begginers #copypaste

You should know there is a pretty standard list of useful tips. Here what we think that every beginner should learn as basics and every advanced photographer at least should keep in mind.


Choose a subject or message of your photo.
If there is no clear real subject, nothing of graphical interest and no mood to convey, it is probably not an interesting photo.

Avoid things that should not be in the photo.

Especially if they detract from the central message. Don’t only know what to include, but also what to exclude. Find a simple background and look for balance.

Don’t be afraid to zoom in or get very close.

The most common mistake is that photos are taken from too far away and that there is just too much environment that doesn’t add to the message. Filling the image with the subject underlines what the intended subject is, and removes cluttered background. It achieves simplicity.


 

Don’t automatically center your subjects.

Beginning photographers massively center their main subjects on their photos. This is not illogical because the photographer aims at the subject with the camera viewer. If you rather place the subject outside the center it will often result in a more dynamic composition. Experiment with that. A popular guideline is the rule of thirds. Imagine the frame divided into thirds, both vertically and horizontally, like a tic-tac-toe board. Then place the subject on or near one of the lines or intersections. This is called the rule of thirds, or the ‘golden mean’. However don’t follow this rule slavishly. Remember that the eyes are most important for people and animals. When zooming in and the head fills the image, the rule of thirds applies to the position of the eyes.







Be sure to hold your camera level.
It will break the strength of your photo if the horizon appears with an apparent angle. Sometimes photo opportunities appear in a split second, and you have just no time to control the angle of your camera. When at home your photo appears to be tilted, no problem. With imaging tools it’s easy to level the photo afterwards. However this gives a small loss in image quality. So practice your reflex to hold your camera level in the first place.

Eyes are exceptionally important.

They tell the story. When photographing people and animals everything else can be hidden or cropped out: the mouth, the nose, the hair. But the eyes must be visible.  In addition, the eyes have to be tack sharp. Unsharpness of the eyes will hurt the attraction to the eyes, and with that the quality of the photo. If the eyes are not sharp, the photo doesn’t look sharp.
  

Watch the distance with flash.
Don’t bother using flash over 30 feet away. Most non professional flashes just completely don’t function at this distance or greater. Flash works best with nearby subjects. When taking a scenery of a bridge at some distance, flash won’t help. Instead of flash, use longer exposure times and a tripod or, if necessary, a higher ISO setting. When photographing multiple people with flash, be aware that persons that are close will be illuminated by the flash much more than persons further away. So if you want all of them as prominent, have all at the same close distance from your camera. 






As a rule make use the full range of luminosity: from completely dark (black) to completely white. This makes photos dynamic and vivid. On the other side don’t over expose with digital camera’s. The information of over exposed parts of the image will be lost definitively and can’t even be recovered by imaging tools. Under exposing is also unfortunate. Image tools can light up the darks and make the tonal visible, however with some or even considerable noise. Directly after taking a photograph, reading the histogram can be helpful. If the histogram is pegged against the right end, the photo is over exposed. When pegged against the left hand, it is under exposed. But adjusting the settings of the camera to capture the whole full range of luminosity without over or under exposing can be quite a struggle. Just be sure not to overexpose. Adjusting levels afterwards with an imaging tool will be the rescue.  


Make a selection of your photos.
Select only the best of your pictures to show to others and leave the rest in the drawer. Showing someone every picture you have taken dilutes the effect of the best pictures and gets very boring.  The bad ones harm the attention that the best ones deserve. Make a critical selection of your photos, keep the very best. This will enhance your the overall quality of the album enormously. This advice is not just for beginners, although old hands will probably have learned the hard way already.






The tree growing out of the subject’s shoulder or head is a classic photographic syndrome. As you position yourself for the photo look out for power poles, lamp posts and other objects behind the subject that can ruin your photo. When it happens, reposition yourself or the subject. Also avoid objects in the background that visually merge with the subject because they have the same color. Let the subject be free-standing.