Monday, August 3, 2009

National Pair Go Competition and Weiqi League Day 3

Went to watch the National Pair Go competition on Saturday. Mainly it was to support my friends (I didn't join because I couldn't find a partner...), but I thought it might be nice to take some photos of Pair Go competitions. In the end, Daniel, Munyi pair and Karen, Tony pair got into the first 2, and they will undergo another round of selection to decide who will go for the competition in Japan(if I'm not wrong... I was playing a game online when they were having the prize presentation...><). I'm so envious...

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Karen, Tony pair

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Two kids with different sizes pair

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Zhixiong, Cindy pair

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Father and daughter pair

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Yurika smiling during a game...

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Yurika, Alvin pair

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Guess who's hand~

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Damo, Kaixin pair

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Two cute little kids pair

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Daniel, Munyi pair


Sunday was league again... These few book-outs are all about the same. Saturday go SWA, and Sunday got league. Haiz... Really quite busy nowadays. Anyway, today's games were quite smooth. We managed to win all 3 today. Next next week will be tough. We'll be playing against the 2 most strongest teams in a row... Gotta train hard...

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Hwa Chong jacket. I also want!!

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Mile Gu with his signature tianyuan move.

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My team playing in the 2nd round

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Yizhuang, who used to be my junior

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Ke ai xiao bin against qi ju

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Clocks...

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Discussing a game

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Once again I'm going to spoil Chou Yang's reputation...

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Yurika smiling after a game...


PS Tried out different settings and different modes on my Canny. But somehow I still couldn't get the desired effect... What I don't understand is how come sometimes the shutter speed and the F-stop is the same but I get different brightness... Hmm, need to go and study more~

3 comments:

Spirits said...

Haha very good man. I see you compose photos way better now. Its good to know you got a clue now. Thats quite some improvement.

I think you got mixed up shutter and F-stop.

I won't go into the trouble of explaining F-stop and aperture all that shit in full detail. I don't know that much about it either. You can read wiki if you like.

1)Just imagine F-stop is an aperture toner, F2 brightest, F8 darkest. So as far as you have to concern, just adjust F-stop to control the lighting. (for now)

oh yeah, the smaller the f-stop(higher number say f-8, f-2 is bigger), the greater the depth of field.

I emphasize, just think of f-stop as light control for now.

2)Shutter is the speed of shutter closing and opening again.

Say, 1/1000 of a second. Thats bloody fast right? Because it closes so fast, so lesser light goes in. Hence faster the shutter, the darker the picture. So, shutter and f-stop are totally 2 different things.

At night, if having F-2 can't bring in enough light for the picture, you can toggle the shutter to be slower so more light goes in.

So the practical use of shutter is to either control light

and

capture movements. Say, 1/15 is pretty slow for the shutter. If a car zoom pass you, the shutter is too slow to freeze the car. Hence, you get a blur of the car (with maybe light streak)

So example, if you want to capture a bird flying off with wings blurred, you can try 1/25 pr 1/50.

So if you know the shutter speed, you can get different results then just freezing targets all together.

3)Flash ar... I'm still not so proficient at it. You can try to use aperture priority mode to see the settings then lower it accordingly to fix the flash for a picture.

More importantly, light can separate the background and foreground. say brighter infront, darker behind.

Gives more light spectrum.

create styles like chiaroscuro style at night.

For now, just try to use flash to compensate light. For example, if you want to capture a blur so you set shutter slow. Aperture don't allow you to go brighter anymore.

Then now, you can use flash to help.

4) For group photos, you can apply rules of third? like aligning the group to 1/3 horizontally? Or focus the most interesting person in the intersections of the thirds?

Sometime like that. haha

Unknown said...

Thanks man!

Actually what I meant was the settings of F-stop and shutter were exactly the same for two different photos, for eg 1 photo had f-6.5 and shutter 1/60 and another photo also had the same settings, but the brightness turned out to be different. I realised that when I used different modes such as AV and TV and Manual.

Anonymous said...

Different modes, im not sure but then... you can't go in swa then say the correct shutter and aperture is this this this then use that all the way.

The sources of light is different, like some people are directly under the florescent light. Or some people are crowding over and overshadow a certain area. (unless you are taking photo at the exact same spot all the way)