Rainbow

"Rainbow, everyone come and look at it, it's so beautiful ..."shouted the kids who live in the same mansion when I was preparing my dinner. Quickly I grabbed my camera and run for it. Ya, it was the most beautiful rainbow that I had seen before. Since the sun was setting, the rainbow with the red sky made up a good combination. Anyway,my camera failed to focus in auto-focus mode, i tried manual focus but still failed to have a sharp focus on the rainbow even though I set the focus length to infinity. After a few shot, I gave up and enjoy the scene with my bare eyes until it disappear from the sky with the sun.

Insect Photography II : Mating

I took this photos at the garden at the back of my mansion. At first I was trying to shoot on a butterfly but it didn't stay still and keep on flying and I couldn't even have one shoot on it. Anyway, I accidentally jumped into this loving couple and definitely I won't miss the chance because you hardly can have them staying still for this long period.

I mentioned in my last post about having problem to shoot insect in a short distance. So what I did was to take a clear photo at the best distance and then cropped the main object so that the insect appear bigger in the photo.

The original photo

After cropping, the object become more significant.

Insect Photography

I like to shoot on insect. But I usually cannot get a good one because I don't have a macro lenses. Is really hard to focus on them in such a short distance using a normal lenses. So what I can do is not to shoot them in detail but try to include other element like flower. Hope that I can save up enough money to get myself a macro lenses. Is so expensive when I check on the Nikkor lenses catalog.

Anyway I faced one problem when I am using my D40 which only have 3 focus point, I can focus sharply on one object but like the photos below when I want to focus on the mantis and the bee at the same time, I always get one in focus and other out of focus.How can I focus on two object when they are separate by a distance?Do you have any idea how can I overcome this problem? Is it changing the aperture is the only solution? Or there is other trick?

Don't come over or I will chop you in to pieces!!

Don't run away you "chicken"

A little green spidey

Shock!!

I found out about Shutterstock, a service where you submit photo to it and get paid when your photo is downloaded when I read through a photographer Andy Lim's blog-Travel & Landscape Photography." Ya, I took great photo also, by joining this program maybe I can earn some pocket money." I told myself. But the truth is cruel. I'm a new member and my account is still under review.In oder to gain a normal account status, I have to receive approval on at least 7 of my first 10 photos submitted to the website. Not a difficult task, I think. But the result was shocking. All the photo I submitted were rejected and worst, my account was suspended for 30 days!!
They list down the reason why my photos has been rejected in the e-mail:
3110084 Rejected:









3110085 Rejected: Composition--Limited commercial value due to framing, cropping, and/or composition.






3110086 Rejected: Lighting Problems--Purple fringe, blown highlights or lenses flare.







3110087 Rejected:













3110088 Rejected: Noise--Noise, film grain, over-sharpening, or artifacts at full size.







3110089 Rejected: Noise--Noise, film grain, over-sharpening, or artifacts at full size.







3110090 Rejected:













3110091 Rejected:









3110092 Rejected: Poor Lighting--Poor or uneven lighting, or shadows. White balance may be incorrect.






3110093 Rejected: Focus--Your image is not in focus or focus is not located where we feel it works best.







Not even one of my photo was approved!?!?
I'm shock. But I won't give up. I'm still new in photography. Practice and more practice, I believe someday I can become a professional photographer also.

Smile

I am flipping over my photo album and I found this photo. I always find that smiling face of a child is the most charming thing in the world. We the adults alway tend to forget how to smile, smile from the heart, smile without worry. So, don't forget your smile everyday!Actually, this photo is not that good, you can still find some noise or a little bit blur when you view it at full size, kind of sensitive about this when my photos was rejected due to this problems (will write more about this in the coming post...). Anyway practice make perfect right?I won't give up easily!!!

Green Maple

When all the attention are focus on the sakura, the maple tree seem to be forgotten. Spring is not their time to perform, they should wait...wait until their leaves turn red. But the green color from the new born leaves still make a good entry in this photo.

Mysterious Eye

Have been helping my senior taking some shots for her graduation ceremony. I like this one, looks artistic, and mysterious. The kind of photo that I haven't take before. Hopes you like it.

红蜻蜓

当音乐从电台传来
“
飞呀飞呀
看那红色蜻蜓飞在蓝色天空
游戏在风中不断追逐他的梦
。。。
当烦恼愈来愈多
玻璃弹珠愈来愈少
我知道我已慢慢地长大了
红色的蜻蜓曾几何时
也在我岁月慢慢不见了
。。。
”
童年的歌谣，童年的记忆。
好怀念。
把握着它，别让成长带走心中的红蜻蜓。