During my long holiday last week, I took almost 3000 pictures, where I’m thankful enough to have backup battery and two lenses but also learned that I need a flashgun such as 430EX or 580EX, a more all-round lens such 28-200mm, backup memories as well and wish to have IS lens in my camera bag, seriously, at 300mm, a mere shake will affect the picture quality. Faster shutter speed won’t help much if the weather is cloudy and non existence of flashgun. My subject was flora and fauna, just around my dad house.
For flower part, it was easy. Flower won’t go away not matter how close and what you do to it. But it’s challenging as my wife said, it’s boring as it’s common subject. I tend to agree too. Anyway, here’s some of the fauna collections I captured. Please tell me whether you found it interesting or boring.
This is “pokok sepit udang” or Heliconia Psittacorum, captured behind my neighbor house. I was watching my little brother bathing his hamsters, I turned around and found this tree, alone, far from the background which I think should result in nice background. Change to Aperture Priority mode, set the aperture to 4.5 and shoot. I like the result although a bit blurry.
This alamanda is among the majority flowers planted by my mom. Nothing really special, i just like the water on it.
Was talking with my uncle, about how important political connection in business, huh. Actually I was bird hunting that time, it’s after the rain. While speaking with my uncle, I shoot this picture.
Back to KL, still in mood of shooting, bring out my gears and shoot this picture. This is the first, I shot about 10 more to get sharper result but like the first better. It was very cloudy, this was shot at 259mm F/5.6 macro mode on.
Although all pictures has been resized, or edited in some cases or heavily edited in other post, I make it a point to retain the EXIF data in all pictures I upload, especially on Flickr. You can download the pictures to view the EXIF data. I think this is enough for now, I’m still learning, hopefully will achieve greater results in the future. Lastly, I would like to share fauna picture, or flora & fauna more likely, a butterfly on the flower. Originally I would like to post both in this post, but it will make this post ‘heavy’, next time I’ll post fauna pictures 
or perhaps pictures of awek >:)
There are quite a number of butterfly type around my dad house. I found this one flying from flower to flower, sucking whatever it want to suck, obviously it is a sucker hehehe. As it flies around, I too, forced to follow and try to get the best angle to shoot. This is one of it, I think /-)
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