A Visit to Musical Fountain @ Sentosa 17 Mar

[eagletay]

Just heard Musical Fountain is closing down for IR site.... so just drop to take some shots if my skill permits as a newbie...

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During this trip, I faced some 'technical' or skill problems.
1. I like the exposure of merlion in picture 06 and the color of fountain in picture 07, within the same picture. What should I do on the setting of SLR, in order to capture it....?

2. After the show, attempted to shoot the merlion. But it is too dark to auto-focus for SLR, and too dark to manual focus throught viewfinder..... What should I do?

After viewing, sure got from lots of critique from the non-newbie.... load your weapon and shoot... But help to answer the two questions posted...

Thanks.....

[eagletay]

is it so bad...that no word can descriped???

[sigg]

Originally Posted by eagletay During this trip, I faced some 'technical' or skill problems. 1. I like the exposure of merlion in picture 06 and the color of fountain in picture 07, within the same picture. What should I do on the setting of SLR, in order to capture it....?

I think not so easy if you want to have the same exposure for the foreground and background. If you expose long enough, you may get like the picture in 06. If you expose shorter, the background may be under exposed as per your other pic.

Originally Posted by eagletay 2. After the show, attempted to shoot the merlion. But it is too dark to auto-focus for SLR, and too dark to manual focus throught viewfinder..... What should I do? Thanks.....

I do not know what is your intention to shoot the merlion in the dark. Does it pose as a unique subject? Put to manual and expose very long, i think that will do

Dont know if it will help.

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[blazer_workz]

Originally Posted by eagletay During this trip, I faced some 'technical' or skill problems. 1. I like the exposure of merlion in picture 06 and the color of fountain in picture 07, within the same picture. What should I do on the setting of SLR, in order to capture it....? 2. After the show, attempted to shoot the merlion. But it is too dark to auto-focus for SLR, and too dark to manual focus throught viewfinder..... What should I do? After viewing, sure got from lots of critique from the non-newbie.... load your weapon and shoot... But help to answer the two questions posted... Thanks.....

Good coverage..

1. If u r using tripod..try shooting a clean image of the merlion and the stage..then use HDR to merge the clean image with the ones u find under expose one..

2. can just focus to infinity if its hard to focus..

[eagletay]

Thanks for the advise....I will try out on the HDR

[centurion_sg]

For the focusing, you can do an estimate by looking at the lens window. Manually turn till near to or at infinity and stop the lens down for greater DOF. Alternatively focus on something brighter and about same distance and shift the camera to the intended subject.

Originally Posted by eagletay During this trip, I faced some 'technical' or skill problems. 1. I like the exposure of merlion in picture 06 and the color of fountain in picture 07, within the same picture. What should I do on the setting of SLR, in order to capture it....? 2. After the show, attempted to shoot the merlion. But it is too dark to auto-focus for SLR, and too dark to manual focus throught viewfinder..... What should I do? After viewing, sure got from lots of critique from the non-newbie.... load your weapon and shoot... But help to answer the two questions posted... Thanks.....

[eagletay]

Centurion_sg,