From the monthly archives:

March 2009

How To: Capture Magnificent Night Photographs

March 31, 2009

Night photography is very interesting and unique. A building could appear normal and boring at day, yet look majestic during the night. Cityscape usually look best captured at night with all the lights from the building subtly brighten the sky above. Funnily, the first time i tried night photography was with MPC last year as [...]

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7 Reason to Use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

March 30, 2009

Some of you might wonder what Lightroom is? The short answer is “another image processing software from Adobe beside Photoshop and Elements”. The long answer would be “a freaking awesome software to help you process hundreds of photos in short amount of time by maximizing your work flow while utilizing presets and databases.” It might [...]

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How To: Basics of Photography in 15 Minutes

March 29, 2009

Last week i hosted a photography workshop for my club (Monash Photography Club). It was intended for the beginner as around 60% of our club member regard themselves as beginner in photography. The workshop was attended by around 50 students, which exceeds all our expectation. We even run out of pizza!
I received lots of positive [...]

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Sovereign Hill, Ballarat Photo Trip

March 28, 2009

Here are some pics i took from sovereign hill trip yesterday. Just let me know if you want to know how i post process them.
I took 600-ish pictures from that day trip, only got around 98 of the ones i like. So lesson of the day, shoot as many as you can, pick out later [...]

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How To: Fantastic Mysterious Effect Using Lightroom “300″ Preset

March 26, 2009
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By far, this is my favorite preset since i begin to use lightroom, it gives such impressive and emotional effect that everybody who have seen my pics like it. Here is some example of the result:
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You can get the preset from mikelao’s website here
For those of u who doesnt [...]

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