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19Dec/095

Pokemon Photoshoot at the Royal Botanic Gardens

I try to attend photoshoots whenever I can and because I'm involved with a few different groups, the subject matter is quite different at times. When a meet is arranged on the Animania Forums it usually results in a quite a strange gathering. Normal meetings for shoots are strange enough, but when you're walking around Circular Quay with Pikachu in tow, things definitely take a turn for the weirder.

This was also my first trial run of the Sanho/Hyperdrive Colorspace UDMA. In short, the device worked well although it has a few quirks, but I'll post up a review at a later date with the details.

Harsh lighting this time around and being at the Botanic Gardens, it's a good chance for me to familiarise myself with some of the hot spots to take photos from for later sessions. There are quite a few things I need to improve upon, but I've only noticed them whilst in post production. I didn't bring my flash cord, so off camera flash was not possible, but even then I only have two hands. A pity because there are a number of shots I would have loved to experiment with. I haven't made up my mind as to whether I like the vignetting on my 10-20mm. It's not bad at 20mm, but anything less than that and I'm hesitant to run with it.

Anyway, photos! I think I need to be a little less lazy when I'm shooting for fun as I didn't get all that many frames and hence not that many keepers. I could get better and improve my "hit" rate, but that requires shooting more which is exactly what I should be doing in the first place!

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  1. Everyone looks so happy :D
    Stupid shadow on the 8th picutre :S

  2. naws thanks for lurking around muki :D it was nice to meet you…i really fail DX

  3. i know!~…damn and that could have been a good photo toos…T_T

  4. Hey awesome photos! It was nice meeting you! :D

  5. Muki-san!

    Yeah, yesterday was a total test of creative lighting and important “learning experiences” of over/underexposure.

    I have learned two main lessons from this exercise:
    1.) Zap myself if I ever take another shot in open daylight using ISO 1600;
    2.) F/7 good. F/4 better. F/20 BAD.

    Thankfully Aperture is such a post-processing workhorse. I saved a few pictures.

    - G


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