So it's been almost two months since my last posting. Since then, I've been tied up with weddings (3 in one week), and vacation in Alberta, Canada. Surely some experiences have been gained.
Whenever I attend weddings, I love taking photos. But at the same time, I feel intimidated by the photographers that are actually hired for the event - I don't want to get in their way. On the other hand, a photo op is a photo op, so I click away. There's just something about shooting the moment of an event - capturing people's very expression that exemplifies what's happening, without using words to describe what is going on, that really gets to me. Although weddings can somewhat be slow - where you know what is going to happen, there are the tiniest minute things that can be captured.
As I look back to my photographs, I wonder which is my area of specialty; is it portraitures or landscape. I really enjoyed shooting the Canadian Rockies. For this trip, I used a Canon 24-105, L series. This is a wide-zoom lens, which was perfect for the occasion (heavy, albeit). I kept most of my shots at f4.5... except for shooting waterfalls, which I tried to go as high as f11. Honestly, I didn't see much of a huge difference.
Usually, I shoot with my EF18-55. Already, you can see that some of the details shot from the 24-105 softened up. Honestly, I haven't decided how I feel about that. I like sharp details. Further, when I picked up the 24-105, I was comparing it to the 28 135. I found several websites that were good at comparing the difference:
http://www.tawbaware.com/canon_lens_test.htm
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/24vs28.shtml
Shooting flowers and plants is a lot of fun:
http://picasaweb.google.com/vienne.cheung/PlantsAndAnimalsAlbertaCanada
I am so tempted to go back and figure out what each plant name is - However after searching for a good 45 min, I realized this task is rather hard! Maybe I'm not searching right...
My latest work
http://picasaweb.google.com/vienne.cheung/CanadianRockiesAlbertaCanada
http://picasaweb.google.com/vienne.cheung/MountainsLakesAndRiversAlbertaCanada
http://picasaweb.google.com/vienne.cheung/TheCityEdmontonCalgary
