Friday, July 29, 2011

超广角镜 (Ultra-wide Lens)



自从购买了佳能的超广角镜后,已经在不同地方试用了它的性能。

和微距摄影完全相反,广角镜让摄影者将景色从前到后都清楚地摄入相机里,因此非常适合一望无际的辽阔景色。

在此分享几张近期拍摄的作品,也可当着是我摄影学习路程中的一些纪录。

前两张是于新山金海湾日落之后的景色,后两张则是住家附近公园黄昏时分的醉人景象。只要时间相差区区三十分钟,拍出来的景象效果就会非常不同。

时常在杂志上,网上和友人的作品中欣赏到一些摄人心魂的优美摄影作品,是我学习摄影的一大动力。。。



The fun of playing with a DSLR camera is the wide choices of lenses available for different effects and results.

After playing with the macro lens for sometime, where close-up details of photogenic bugs and flowers not usually noticeable with our naked eyes could be presented for our viewing pleasure, coupled with the nicely blurred background achieved with wide aperture setting and the short focal length, an ultra-wide angle lens provides a totally opposite and fresh perspective with its all clear and wide view of the scene in front of the photographer.

I love macro photography where I can spend the whole morning in my neighborhood garden capturing subjects ranging from bugs, plants, to dews and corroded nails etc., but a new ultra-wide angle lens makes me yearning to go out to places where I can capture landscape shots with a much wider angle of view. I guess I will end up travelling to more places with this lens.

I wish to share a few recent photographs taken with my Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens. The first two are the blue hour shots taken at Danga Bay, Johor Bahru, while the last two are the golden hour shots taken at a public park near my residence.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

单反镜头 (DSLR Lenses)


四眼的我,自从爱上单反相机后不到两年时间,竟然前后为相机物色了四副镜头。单反相机好玩的原因之一是不同的镜头能拍出不同的效果,让摄影者沉醉其中。

Ever since I bought my first DSLR camera, in less than two years, I have added four lenses so far. I think one of the main advantages of DSLR camera is its ability to use different types of lenses for different photographic needs.

佳能 EF 100mm f/2.8L 微距镜头除了能拍微距,也能拍摄人像。

Canon EF 100mm f.2.8L macro lens is my favorite for macro photography, but is equally wonderful for portrait.



佳能 EF 50mm f/1.8 II 镜头是轻巧及经济实用的标准镜头,除了人像,也适合拍摄静物。

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II standard lens is a lightweight and cheap lens but yield superb image quality. I like to use it for portrait and still object photography.


佳能 EF-S 10-22mm F/3.5-4.5超广角变焦镜头能拍出视觉有异于标准镜头效果,相当有趣。

Canon EF-S 10-22mm F/3.5-4.5 ultra-wide lens is a crazy lens for landscape as well as to produce images with exaggerated perspective. Everything looks longer and wider with this lens.


Sigma 18-250mm 13.8倍变焦镜头让拥有者一镜走天涯,拍出来的品质也不赖。

Sigma 18-250mm lens has a generous zoom range of 13.8 times. This is a good general purpose walk-around lens.

若经济情况允许,我希望能在未来添加一枝长镜头。

As long as I can afford, I wish to add a super-telephoto lens in the future.

Life's Sayings

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life, it goes on. (Robert Frost)

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. (Winston Churchill)