Long Exposures Gear – Big stop ND

Even on day light ? At bright condition how we can get silky feel on sea/lake/river etc ….so normally we will use a big stop of ND and in the market have few well known

1.  B+W/Schneider 10 stops filter (nd1000x) (10 stops)

2. Lee Filter Big Stopper (10 stops)

3. Hoya400 (9 stops)

At daylight (Malaysia), even with smallest aperture & lowest ISO … we still will get something 1/400-1/100… e.g. even with 1/100 we will never get the silky effect

slow shutter at Dungun

and this was shoot early morning where already bright enough to fail you to make silky wave…by using the “Lee filter – Big Stopper” I shoot with exif below

# Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 116/1 second ===> 116 second
# Lens F-Number / F-Stop = 11/1 ===> ƒ/11
# ISO Speed Ratings = 200
# Original Date/Time = 2010:12:18 07:26:43

 

or with sun still on the horizon, I still able to make the shutter to 20s to create the silky as exif below sharing

... difficult to reach ...

5dm2 + 1635@18mm + Lee Big Stopper + Lee .9s GND
# Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 20/1 second ===> 20 second
# Lens F-Number / F-Stop = 9/1 ===> ƒ/9
# ISO Speed Ratings = 100

 

previous share on this super ND with some compare among Big Stopper vs Schneider

http://liewwk-macro.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-gear-10-stops-nd-filters-b-w-nd100.html

 

and for those interest on Schneider – nd1000x (which give you 10 stops) and I have few on my hand brand new and few free to click link below

http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=386

2d1n Long Exposure & Stars Tour + mini Workshop [16-17 April 2011]

Long Exposure from Dungun

 

When

16-17 April 2011

Where

Muar – Batu Pahat

 

I will have a mini workshop for long exposure so I decide to make one South (Muar – Batu Pahat, Johor) …

this is not a full Workshop but I will share some tips

1.     what tools
- filter explanation 
- which filter to use

2.     how to shoot Long Exposure
–      how do we calculate the exposure time
–       some experience what setting
–       what’s best exposure for different effect
3.     what accessories require for Long Exposure
4.     Post Processing tips (my Long Exposure and Star PP workflow)
5.     How I shoot Stars

this trip will limit to 4-6 participants and now 2 have been fill …..

*** update 23 March 2011 , 4 seat had been fill …..

*** update 28 March 2011, 6 seats had been fill … and this is close now !!!

RM499 will include

1. travel from KL
2. accommodation (we will have quick rest after sunset) (3 stars hotel 2 share 1room)
3. monitor calibration, if you bring yours notebook along

*** this is not a basic class, will assume participant already know basic of DSLR, A-mode, M-mode, exposure, Aperture, ISO, Bulb-mode (will share how to calculate for right exposure)

Contact me for different fee, if you arrange yours own transport …

liewwk@liewwkphoto.com or Contact me

... a cold Startrails ...
... the Dawn full with Stars ...

some of my Nightscape/Stars collections

Me and my gang was crazy with nightscape with stars since last year but too bad year end is not a good season for stars photography due to weather … so we stop for months and now we are back with full actions where we are thinking, dreaming of stars every moment .. and we also try to plan as much as possible stars chasing outing 😀

some of my stars pictures

1. my very 1st “plan” star shooting

… Galaxias | the milky way …

2. star trail from USA

… a cold Startrails …

– still time elapse for the stars movent

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewwk/4598121297/

3. while waiting for the sunrise

… another waiting moment …

 

4. waiting for sunrise also

… the Star still Shines …

 

5. my 1st Milky way

… the Milky way …

 

6. … the Dawn full with Stars …

… the Dawn full with Stars …

More Nightscape and Stars pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewwk/sets/72157625783040852/

and have share how I shoot stars

 

 

Mosque collection | liewwk

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. If you ever travel to Malaysia, Mosque build up are different and most of them are beautiful .. I love to see their beautiful architectural characteristics and most of them are build near lake and sea ..I am yet to have many good collection but think is good enough to start share my collection so far

1. Masjid Tengku Tengah Zaharah atau Masjid Terapung @Kuala Terengganu

 

 

2. Masjid Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin or Masjid Besi @Putrajaya

Masjid Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin

 

Masjid Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin or Masjid Besi

 

3. Masjid DQ @Kuala Kubu Bahru

Masjid DQ

4. Masjid Likas @Kota Kinabalu

Masjid Likas

 

5. Masjid As-Salam@Puchong, Selangor

… Masjid As-Salam …
… Masjid As-Salam …

 

6. Masjid Wilayah Persekutuan 

 

I have some other Mosque but yet to have good result to share .. so I will continue capture the beauty of other beautiful Mosque in future

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Where to get Lee Filters/Haida Filters  | Malaysia


Spotted Litter Frog

a new collection for me, the night frogging trip was fun … we spent 2-3 hours to have few interesting found ….

[thanks Andy Paul for the invite and ID]
[thanks Hurnain, Khatijah from MNS for the guide]
[thanks Maureen for always a good eye to find something for us]

this frog is interesting … it try very hard to leave us one of the do) by crawling instead jumping 😀 it is so funny … and it is simply beautiful

Spotted Litter Frog
Spotted Litter Frog
Spotted Litter Frog

the orange/reddish eye attract me most beside the

 

 

how spotted Litter Frgo crawling

 

 

 

Ant-Mimic Spider fight for a “girl”

I witness a ant-mimic male guide or seem protect the female .. I was observe it (~10-15min) hope for something interesting happen among the male A (with tag) and female

but suddenly another male (Male B) turn up and try to fight with the male (it happen so fast (<1-2s) and they end up at this position …

after the Male A got kill, male B look at the female for a while outside the web … but the female just run away …. (even before I can try to give her a close up shot)

Ant-mimic spider fight for female

some of my Ant-mimic spider collection

http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=326

 

and was with my update lighting setup

http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=102

New Collection – the Ant-mimic Jumping spider

I was there (drive ~20km) for a robberfly which I met one day before (and I don;t have my macro gears with me)…

but accidentally found this Ant-mimic for me .. never see this type … and not only new found but I witness an amazing moment … the both male fight for something !!!!!… (will share the other picture to show what it fight for later … need to little stack work on that)

... Ant-mimic jumping spider ...

and the moment they fight …

... fight for ? | Ant-mimic jumping spider ...

not a most beautiful ant-mimic that I saw before but this is a beautiful one too …

few types of Ant-mimic collection

1. An ant mimic spider of the genus myrmarachne that mimic Tetraponera rufonigra ant

Ant-mimic - Male myrmarachne

2. … Ant-mimic crab | Amyciaea lineatipes having prey …

Amyciaea lineatipes

3. Ant-mimic jumping spider | 蟻蛛 (male)

Ant-mimic jumping spider | 蟻蛛 (male)

4. very common black myrmarachne

myrmarachne

Spider collection by liewwk

Spiders COllection

 

 

How I shoot Macro – Extension Tubes Magnification

I am not sure how could I missed out this topic in my old and new blog …let me add this back to my share…

#### from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension_tube

An extension tube is an accessory for cameras with interchangeable lenses, used primarily for macro photography. The tube contains no optical elements; its sole purpose is to move the lens farther from the image plane. The farther away the lens is, the closer the focus, the greater the magnification, and also the greater the loss of light (requiring a longer exposure time). Lenses classically focus closer than infinity by moving all optical elements farther from the film or sensor; an extension tube simply imposes this movement.

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other word, it allow us to shoot object closer (so it is bigger) but it do lost infinity focus (mean cannot shoot far) and some light lost ….

the magnification again simple can get by shooting the ruler to see what magnification you have e.g.

if you have crop body 40d, which mean yours sensor size should be 35mm/1.6=21.8mm

at 1:1 your wide of single frame short should occupy by 21.8mm object ……. so add on with ET if your shot is 10.9mm mean u get

21.8/10.9 = 2x magnification 😀

or we can use formula

X/focal length = magnification

Y = X + ET (in mm added)

e.g.

100mm L

X/100 = 1

so X=100

if we add on 12mm + 20mm Kenko ET s0 we will get Y=X + ET = 100+32=132mm

so new magnification should be 132/100 = 1.32x

… there is another thing we may concern is the MFD (minimum focus distance)

1) M = b/a
2) 1/a + 1/b = 1/f
3) MFD = a + b

where
M: Magnification
a: lens-to-subject distance
b: lens-to-film/sensor distance
f: focal length

 

a Beautiful forest gecko | Marbled Forest Gecko

I am happy that invited by Andy, Paul , Hurnain, Khatijah for this night outing for reptiles … we were happy with 1 snake, 3 frogs, 1 tortise few macro model for ~2 hours walk in the jungle …

among all find, I am impress with this beautiful forest Gecko (Marbled Slender-toed Gecko or cyrtodactylus quadrivirgatus) .. it is so beautiful but too bad it leave us after few captures by me and Andy … sorry Hurnain 😀

... forest gecko | Marbled Slender-toed Gecko ...

not really have many reptiles and Gecko in my collection .. but I would love to do more in future …

Gecko series

 

Stars and Bug chasing Outing on 24-25 March 2011…

weather look good now (most of the night are clear) .. so I would like to go for quick stars chase & macro

Genting Highland – Bukit Tinggi
24 March
~1130pm – should be meet up in the mid night ~11pm

25 March
~ 2am – start look for star
~ 6am – change location for sunrise
~ 8-9am – breakfast near Gohtong Jaya
~ 10am-3pm – MACRO @Bukit Tinggi

so if you want to learn shoot star and MACRO, I am there to sharing some of my experiences to you all

1. stars

2. sunrise

... the gap is just too small ...

3. MACRO

have been long never meet a "Rhino"