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Mar
15
Posted by Truphotos.
The white balance setting is used to achieve accurate colour reproduction, or to remove unnatural looking colour casts from your photographs. Most of the time, the “Auto” white balance takes care of most situations, but in tricky lighting…
Mar
8
Posted by Truphotos.
I’m back from my trip to Northern Thailand! We went to Chiang Mai and went north from there into the mountains, visiting places such as Mae Hong Son, Khun Yuam, Mae Sai and Chiang Rai.
Photos will be up as soon as I am done sorting and editing. There will also be some articles on the trip. Keep a lookout for them!
Mar
6
Posted by Truphotos.
The benefits and drawbacks of shooting in RAW format as compared to JPG are:
RAW format has a higher dynamic range which allows you to recover lost highlights and shadows in post processing
White balance, sharpness, contrast, colour saturation etc can be adjusted and can be reverted back to their original settings without compromising image quality. Any changes made to JPG are permanent.
Chromatic aberrations (colour fringing) can be corrected when the RAW file is converted to JPG
Easier to keep the RAW file …
Mar
2
Posted by Truphotos.
The function of Active D-Lighting that is built into many Nikon camera bodies is to help achieve photos with a more uniform image contrast. This is especially helpful in situations where your foreground is dark and background bright. Focusing on a dark foreground will mean that the background (for eg. skies) will be overexposed. Similarly, exposing for the sky will result in an overly dark foreground. This is where Active D-Lighting comes in useful.
Feb
27
Posted by Truphotos.
Finally, my trip to Thailand is here! We will be travelling from 28 Feb to 5 Mar. Some of the places that we will be visiting include Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Mae Hong son, Mae Salong, Mae Sai, the Golden Triangle, some local villages and primary schools. Sounds like there will be tonnes of photo opportunities.
Equipment that I will be bringing:
Feb
25
Posted by Truphotos.
highway buses are a viable and cheaper option than trains if you plan to travel longer distances.
Feb
21
Posted by Truphotos.
The Tokyo free ticket, also know as the Tokyo free kippu, is a one day pass and can be purchased at the ticketing machines of most train stations. Two tickets will be issued,…
Feb
17
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One way to cut down on your transportation costs is to make full use of promotions offered by each train company. With the correct planning and usage, transportation can be much cheaper than buying individual tickets on separate occasions…
Feb
14
Posted by Truphotos.
Wishing everyone a very Happy Chinese New Year 2010!! Hoping that this year will also be a blessed and healthy one for you.
Feb
10
Posted by Truphotos.
Many people are less interested to go backpacking, except for the more adventurous type, mainly due to two reasons: the high commodity prices in Japan, and the presence of a language barrier.
