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Hi magicdust! The lady was sitting at the steps of School of The Arts (SOTA), and I shot this from the 6th floor of Cathay building with a 300mm lens.

Something from today:

Dangerous curves ahead
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Oh yes, for anyone intending to get photography books, Kinokuniya's summer sale ends this weekend....

Welcome and thank you too, LovelyJemChee! If you are looking to get plugins for Photoshop, Lightroom or Aperture, I would highly recommend the Nik Software bundle. Go for the education/student bundle as it costs SGD350 instead of SGD700. I purchased mine at Riceball in Funan Centre.

The...

Some of the more useful stuff I've learnt from the flash books:

1) Try to minimize using flash head-on if you can help it
2) If using fill flash in bright daylight, you will require high speed sync as your shutter speeds will go faster than 1/250sec.
3) High speed sync flash...

Thought I'd help provide a list of titles for anyone who is getting started into photography and wants to read up more.

Getting started:

- The Digital Photography Book, volumes 1-3 by Scott Kelby.
- The Photographer's Eye by Michael Freeman.
- Perfect...

Dovespaniel and w3nqian, great photos!

Xavier David.

dovespaniel: Nice shots!

Hi magicdust! The LCD screen will play tricks with your eyes most of the time.

What were you usually shooting that ends up blur?

As for shooting waves, I'm assuming you're going with slow shutter speed to get the movement blur of the waves? You can try setting your ISO...

Woke up to the heavenly scent of my mum's freshly baked crumbelicious banana walnut cake!
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27) A Tiger and its prey.
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24) Another Leopard Lacewing (Cethosia Cyane) that looks different from the more colourful ones in earlier posts.


25) A Cruiser (Vindula dejone erotella) getting friendly with me.


26) A Cruiser (Vindula dejone erotella) resting on a leaf and basking in the sun....

Some more shots from the butterfly series:

20) The Plain Tiger (Danaus chrysippus) at the buffet spread.


21) The Plain Tiger resting on a reed.


22) The Plain Tiger pouncing on its prey.


23) One of my NG shots, but thought...