Pre-event : Kallang Street/Candid Shoot
Date:16th May 2009
Meet Up time: 2pm
Meet Up Location: Kallang MRT
Organiser: fedodedo

Details for the day are as follows:

1) Meet up at 2pm Kallang MRT station

2) Street/Candid shoot around the following areas:
a) Kallang used car centre
b) Old People’s Association Building
c) Skiing action at Kallang Basin
d) National Stadium

3) Leave Kallang Area by 4pm to have early dinner

4) Be at Flyer by 5pm to have the best spo

5) Main Event will be starting at 7pm.

Namelist
(Pls indicate if you are joining us at Flyer only):

1. Fedodedo
2. Haslan
3. Fatah
4. netjackalsg (meeting at flyer)
5. Ardaan
6. Chooi Mei
7. Vpsk01 (very last minute)
8. RyanG (Join up at flyer only. Is flash allowed?)
9. sleepytiti (TBC)
10. just2ofus (TBC)
11. toughtrees (TBC)
12. draken413o (TBC)

TO: WESTCOAST BEACH
FOR: SUNSET.
WHEN: 25TH APRIL 2009
TIME: 1500HRS – TILL LATE
MEET: CLEMENTI AT 1450. (can sms me if you wanna meet me somewhere in the east)

NOTE: Can go makan first after we meet? i always get hungry usually during outings la..

Coming:

1. AFFAN with Friend
   
2. LUCAS AKA JUST_TWO_OF_US
3. FAIZAL (tbc)

if you guys interested, do let me know. btw. i will be coming as well on sunday…

No commitments to anything else now, married to photography liao. hurhurhurhur…

Place: Marina Barrage
When: This Sunday, 26th April 2009
Time and place to meet: 5pm at Marina Bay MRT
What to bring: Things for sunset and strobing (Flash photography), so bring the necessary.

Namelist:

1. Fedodedo
2. Emotic
3. Fatah
4. Haslan
5. Ardaan
6. Chooi Mei
7. Affan
   

likely to go:

1. liebreglach (give us a call when you heading there?)
2. dev & daughter (TBC/must get daughter’s nod)

anyone else wanna join?? so-call-CHIEF going liao!! of course, we can plan for another outing after this outing.

anyone else wanna join?? Please contact fedodedo via PM on the clubsnap forums.

of course, we can plan for another outing after this outing.

EQUIPMENT: YOURSELF, CAMERA, TRIPOD, CLOTH, TOOTHBUSH, TOWEL ETC…

Update (2009-04-15):

CHALET No : R09 Costa Sands PASIR RIS
Reservation No : R035B9C0

Friday

2-3pm: Bro Cakka will Check-In (Plse contact Cakka if u r early).

6pm: Will go shoot Sunset nearby (Place TBC).

7.30pm: Back to chalet

8pm: Learning + Party Till Late (Free n Easy)

Saturday (Plan A) If able to wake up early after partying!!!

6am: Check-Out & Head to Changi for Sunrise.

8am: Breakfast @ Changi Village Market & eat Nasi Lemak n Wan Tan Mee.

9am: Head to Palau Ubin SSS n Cycle

12.30pm: Lunchtime!

2pm: Back to Changi; walkabout n discovers the secret within its vicinity (Changi Prison, Museum, Broadwalk, Old Changi Hospital etc…).

Evening: Chill out @ Charlie’s n eat Fish N Chip + Cold Cold Beer.

Saturday (Plan B) For hangover!!!

11am: Check-Out & Head to Changi Village.

12pm: Lunch @ Changi Village Market & eat Nasi Lemak n Wan Tan Mee.

1.30pm: Walkabout n discovers the secret within its vicinity (Changi Prison, Museum, Broadwalk, Old Changi Hospital etc…).

Evening: Chill out @ Charlie’s & eat Fish N Chip + Cold Cold Beer.

Update (2009-04-14):

• I will check in by abt 2-3pm to ‘lepak’ and perhaps work on my RAW.
• I will bring one bottle of Vodka & one Black Label.
• if someone got transport, we dropby NTUC/Supermarket for soft drinks and other stuff.
• Since we will be shooting late evening, maybe better to eat out and only have late light BBQ back in Chalet, but heavy booze.

My suggestion on Activity;
1) Sunset at either Changi Boardwalk (someone need to guide to location), Punggol end or we can do late evening shoot at Old Changi Hospital.
2) after dinner (if we do have) we go back chalet, freshen up and contnue with night shots of ppl/kids. Or we can have C&C session and booze. Bring your Notebook or at least a Card Reader.

Still open for suggestions.

Update (2009-04-13) :

Bros, managed only to get 1 night at Costa Sands Pasir Ris Chalet. Fully booked for the weekend so we only have Fri/Sat (17/18) and must check out by 1030hrs on Sat.

Its a Duplex (Double Storey) to cater for our sis. Booking Confirmed.

http://www.costasands.com.sg/web/exploreAndPlan/

anyone have alternatives for Sat? or we coukld resume our SSS on Sat, Ubin perhaps after lunch at Changi Village than evening we return Changi to booze at Charlie’s.

for this Friday, we plan to shoot Sunset, location TBC (Punngol or Pasir Ris) Relax & Booze at chalet, maybe night shots of the ppl/kids around chalet. Next day …… we discuss after booze as experienced has tought us that need to booze in order to plan.

Okay, we discussed just now and decided to hold a chalet next Friday. The thing is, i got confused with the programme… Too much going to the moon just now. But to my understanding, friday evening would be a sunset phototaking at changi beach… Followed by makan makan/drink session at night(BBQ, happy hour) and then the next morning, we have a morning sunrise phototaking session… So maybe at night, we can go site exploration, etc etc….

Maybe we are going to pulau ubin on saturday afternoon.. Not too sure.. If going to pulau ubin, i wanna drag ryan along..

1. Cakka
2. Lucas
3. Rocfreaks
4. sleepytiti
5. Fatah
6. MeiYin aka toughtrees
7. Aozora
8. Firdaus aka emotic & company (8+ / 9+)
9. Haslansalam (8.30pm)
10. Ardaan
11. Choo Mee
12. Netjackal (after 10 and before 6)
13. De3pster & company
14. dev2k8 ( Fri 9.30 )
15. William & someone (Friday after 9 pm ++)
16. Faizal (joining for sunrise)

Venue: HORT PARK

Time: 1600HRS ( PS: this is to avoid harsh afternoon sunlight. Not good for taking flowers…)

DURATION: 4 HRS (TILL 2000HRS)

EQUIPMENT: YOURSELF, CAMERA, TRIPOD (Wanna try night shoot of harbourfront?)

Attendees:

1. Rocfreaks Aka Md Affan 1000D
   
2. Just2ofus Aka Lucas 450D
   
3. Fatah (possible on the 12th)
4. sleepytiti
   
5. Kelvin aka Netjackalsg
6. Vin (97681989)[not on the 5th]
7. RyanG 450D (Contact info. received)
8. toughtrees 1000D newbie(will be late for 30min) XD
9. aozora
   
10. fedodedo aka faizal aka darkside aka nikon-user-join-canon-outing
    
11. xinsurf 1000D newbie (TBC)
12. dev2k8
    
13. wadever (nikon d90 user) (TBC)
14. Cakkarudie (TBC)(Directly to Hort Park)
15. Hardeep aka de3pster

(Update 2009-04-13) : It was a fun outing. Thanks to all those who came as well as those who had to leave early. For those of you who have group photos in your cameras .. send them to me via this url http://drop.io/club1000d.

So with that in mind I thought of creating a blog that will act as a more permanent home for the group. It will also act as a super-sticky thread that we can keep information at. Please don’t get me wrong, we are not creating the blog as a replacement for the Clubsnap forum threads. It is meant as a complementary to the discussions there.

I am definately looking for people to contribute to this blog. This includes articles, tips, useful information etc. At the moment, I think only emotic and me have admin rights but if you are interested in adding articles, you can either send me the information to post or better yet, create a user and I can add you as an editor or contributor. If you know the wordpress platform and want to contribute to making the blog better, let me know as well.

Hopefully, we can have enough information here that other non-club newbies can come here to find useful information that helped us started with photography.

Finally, I would like to give credit to haslan for his work on the logo header that you see on the blog (as well as the t-shirt) in addition to their feedback as I was creating the site.

Thanks!

Image attributions:

by kazeeee

Hi guys, after receiving feedback from fellow 1000Dians… We have decided to fix the tshirt at $15. Please place your order soonest possible. Thanks

for those of u who have seen me, u all do ur own judgement on your size. My size is like mahathir, double sleepytiti and william, 1 an a half more than fatah and 3 times emotic.

All payment can be made to Assistant Chief Rockfreaks & ‘on tight schedule’ Chief Mahathir during weekend unofficial outings or O.T.O.T

Feel free to post your comments about the design.

Update: The t-shirt is available for order for $15. Please see the original post on Clubsnap for details.

Macro shots for me need to fulfill 2 conditions. The subject is very small. The subject appears almost in actual size on your frame/sensor. Some people technically classify macro as shots where the subject is taken at 1:1 magnification or more. So what does 1:1 magnification mean?

Let’s assume you are using a film SLR .. your ’sensor’ is your film which is 35mm = 3.5cm (1000D sensor is 1.6x smaller than that hence you will hear people say we have a cropped camera). Let’s use a ruler as a subject. If you see the pic below .. you see that from left to right I managed to get 14cm into the frame 14cm/3.5cm = 4. Hence we managed to get 1:4 magnification or the image ON the frame/sensor/film is 1/4 the size of the actual thing.

Now I went in closer and got 7cm coverage and now I have 1:2 magnification.

Finally I went in even closer and got side-to-side 3.5cm that means 1:1 magnification.

Technically the 1000D is a cropped sensor so the sensor is 22.2mm wide .. so the following shot is closer to being 1:1.

Macro lenses usually are capable of at least 1:1 magnification. They allow you to do that by having optics that allow you to still focus when the subject is relatively (relative to the focal length of the lens) near.

Think of the Raynox DCR-250 as a very good magnifying glass. It increases the magnification and allows you to take fantastic shots especially if it is combined with a macro lens. It is the same thing if you reverse the 50mm lens in front of your lens. You get a +20 diopter. I believe the DCR-250 is a +8 diopter.

“Macro Photography on Wikipedia”

Clubsnap post is here

Wikipedia article about catchlights is here

Images Attribution:

• by ~MelissaE~