Still Shooting with the newly learned technique

Taking pictures has been an up and down experience. We bought a new camera, got ourselves exciting, went to take pictures of the leaves, chairs in the park, then the street, old men, street lamp. Then we stop taking pictures until we find another new camera, we then went through the same again. More leaves, more chairs, more street, more old men, more street lamp.

Not that I am against getting new gear for the fun of fondling a new toy, we have to try shooting something new all the times. The internet is flooded with review on equipments. Of course, bloggers have to make money, so they write something that is constantly renewed i.e. gears (this matches the need of camera companies keep coming up with new cameras with a twist here and there), many blogs contain pretty useless reviews if we consider a len sharp enough to recognize the image properly is good enough, we don't need any more reviews.

A few blogs ago, I said I learned a lot from Overgaard's blog, still experiencing it everyday to polish the new technique.

This is a twist to shoot night shots with different white balance, instead of using auto white balance or day light, I used tungsten. The camera added more blue than normal, thus creating interesting bluish violet color on the window frame. The look is very new to me so I consider this to be interesting.

this pictures was taken without a tripod handheld at less than 1/8 second. You can see the buildings are sharp and from the light streak created by the moving car you can roughly guess how slow is the shutter speed. The lamp showed a nice beautify star sign in the middle. The trick is just learned from Overgaard. I learn more in two of his blogs than many other blogs. He also has good teaching on lightroom3 which I am trying to learn how to use.