Life Is What You Want It To Be

WDL Checkpt (Exposureshot)

Went out to play with Exposure shot the other day, pretty late in the night.

I live a small distance to the Woodlands Checkpoint.
I know I’ll be able to shoot some nice exposure shot of the Linkway. And so I did.

Shooting with my Tommy! (Nikon D3000)

Experimented, so heres to share the experience.

Having learnt to play with the manual settings through the Tiger Tower during the recent Sentosa Spring Fest shoot, I had a good time.

Aperture!

Control Photo: P 1/5 F5.6 ISOHi1 55MM (Photo at site, using program mode)

Test 1: M 20 F13 ISOHi1 55MM

Test 2: M 2O F22 ISOHi1 55MM

Test 3: M 20 F36 ISOHi1 55MM

so hmm… Note to self: Aperture must increase…

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Exposure compensation!

Control Photo: M 20 F36 ISOHi1 55MM

Test 1: M 20 F36 ISOHi1 55MM EXPOSURE -1.0

Test 2: M 20 F36 ISOHi1 55MM EXPOSURE +0.7

Dont see much difference… probably the spot light coming from the items on the right hand side becoming sharper?

and I tried again.

Control Photo: M 20 F36 ISO400 55MM

Test 1: M 20 F36 ISO400 55MM EXPOSURE +1.0

Test 2: M 20 F36 ISO400 55MM EXPOSURE -1.0

Still not happy, try again~

Control Photo: M 20 F36 ISO400 55MM

Test 1: M 20 F36 ISO400 55MM EXPOSURE -1.0

Test 2: M 20 F36 ISO400 55MM EXPOSURE -2.0

Test 3: M 20 F36 ISO400 55MM EXPOSURE +1.0

Do you see anything? *scratch head…

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ISO!

Test 1: M 20 F36 ISOHi1 55MM

Test 2: M 20 F36 ISO1600 55MM

Test 3: M 20 F36 ISO800 55MM

M 20 F36 ISO400 55MM

Test 4: M 20 F36 ISO200 55MM

Test 5: M 20 F36 ISO100 55MM

Through shooting candlelight during my malacca trip I always thought that night shots must be high ISO. But hey… guess not really.
ISO400 apparently looks the best.
What we need is a steady hand, or tripod in this case.

Then I became curious, I wondered if Aperture and ISO would have an influence on each other?

Control Photo: M 20 F36 ISO400 55MM

Test 1: M 20 F10 ISO400 55MM

Test 2: M 20 F20 ISO400 55MM

Test 3: M 20 F29 ISO400 55MM

Test 4: M 20 F36 ISO400 55MM

Apparently with ISOHi1, F36 looks good,
but ISO400, F20, F29 looks better than F36 (in my opinion)
hmm…

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Then suddenly I heard track sound, very noisy, I was like “Could it be the train?” o_O?
It is It is!!! (P 1/3 F5.3 ISO1600 40MM)

Its on the right side of the causeway.

oki oki, lets throw away all that analytical stuff and just enjoy the sight shall we?

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

P/S: Please share your thoughts by leaving comments. Especially that Exposure Compensation part… Hmm…