My First Outing for Model Photoshooting Session

"Kejar! Kejar! Ko back up aku!" - thats the sentences used by Meor asking me to back him up in Dota game. :P. We were playing Dota in the office right after we ended our shift on new year eve. While enjoying myself, I got a sms from a friend of mine - told me that Photoskool is organizing a model photoshoot session in KL - Lost in the Big Bad City.

Without thinking twice, I replied yes and asked him to book a place for me. I was so excited because it is my first official outdoor model shooting.

Outputs of the day:











The weather on that day was not good - dark and raining. As I said in previous post, I was scared to use high ISO - to avoid noise - but it costs me blur pictures. :(. I tot outdoor photoshoot is the easiest to get right exposure (I did not even use my flash!) but it was wrong. Most of them are blur because of slow shutter speed to compensate with low light environment.

I hope I wouldn't repeat the same next time. In this post, I want to give a little bit tips on how to shoot in low light condition:
1. Use wide aperture lens, e.g. 50mm f1.4, 50mm 1.8, 85mm 1.4, etc. Normally, high aperture lens is fixed focal length (as known as prime lens) - You can't zoom in or out but it produces pin sharp pictures.
2. Use slow shutter speed but make sure your hand steady enough to hold camera for 1/20 seconds without moving a bit. If picture blur, make it a little bit faster (1/40 or 1/60 should be good).
3. Pump ISO if above setting produce blur or dark image. Do not worry of noise.

If you are new to photography, try to play around with the above tips. You will get the idea. I am less than 1 year old in photography but I was practicing a lot. My old Sony A300 served me 10k of shutter count for 2 months plus, Canon 40D served around the same for 3 months plus and now, my Sony A700 is serving me about 11k for 5 months. :). Look at the improvement of shutter count over time.

If you don't know, camera shutter has life time of 100k - not all cameras but most of them - also it is subjective. Some of them still strong serving their owner even it more than 100k of shutter count. So don't think about your shutter count. Just shoot as much as you can and enjoy it.

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