spend >10 minutes to PP one MACRO picture .. :(

yes .. I always tell my friends, my picture have minimum PP especially macro pictures .. but I still spend 10 minutes on this picture …..

Boxer Mantis

 

actually the Post Processing (PP) only spend 1-2 minutes .. but to remove the sensor dusts spots… took ~12-13minutes …

dusts 1

 

dusts 3

 

see .. how much dusts spots I need to handle !!!

 

for me … dusts is something really killing .. especially for landscape and macro photography .. hope one day .. camera manufacturer can have better solution for us rather we sit infront of PC for >10 minutes !!!!

Canon, what should I do for my video clips !!!

... Speechless ...
I am speechless while I looking at my movie clips capture yesterday … all without any sound and check back few movies I capture after I got my camera from CANON SERVICE CENTER … all no sound … the mic is not function since I got back …. hmmmmmmmm my fault again .. never check all the functions after send to a so call SERVICE CENTER ….. pls check all the functions make sure it is working each time u send to the service center !!!!!!

I have ~8-10GB of them all with very cute action .. catching/eating cricket .. etc …
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… last sunrise for 2011 with limit focal length …

limit by focal length (this view should good with single frame ~70mm FF) .. as I borrow my 70200 to my gang and left with 150mm with 7d (crop body) … to make this view .. I have to create ~15 pictures to merge … and final output is ~120megapix picture ….

... last sunrise for 2011 with limit focal length ...

why GND and RGND ?

did a quick compare into single image .. for why we use GND and RGND

left … – no filter while foreground correct expose but the sky will look over

Center – with GND 1.2, the sky will be balance as reduce light go through on the top part but the horizontal level still look over due to the light source from there

right – the filter transit from center to top (darker at center) so managed to block more light at the horizontal level and maintain the details

there is no right and wrong in photography .. but using different filters will give you how your picture look like …..

and if you look for Lee Filter .. Singh-Ray … i may have some stock available

http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=398

is gear important or the picture ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewwk/6586588091/in/photostream/lightbox/

after years use my Canon 5d … follow me to countries, beaches, volcanoes , mountains, forest … etc … and finally it giving problem  … and need to go for full check up … I would say I have make full use of it by full test on salt water, poor environment (dirt, sands, cold, hot) … etc

I still ask myself a question .. “gear important or picture ?” and do you ask yourself too ? and my answer always the output so i have always put my 5d on risk .. 🙁
picture above was capture while we really close to the wave …. sometime I just go as close as 3-5 feet and as low as 5-10cm from the beach ground …..
and after get some shot from the strong wave
after get closer ....