Test 

Took my first "product" shot with some equiptment in my room. The setup is as follows: 1 ikea halogen desk lamp, 1 piece tissue, 2 pieces old poster (white back), 1 aluminium foil and my 3 years+ 2MP Canon A40!!. Used a warm white balance on the Canon A40 and macro mode to capture this shot. It turned out okay to me. Any comments on how to do it properly is greatly appreciated!

Took a shot of the sky on my way to Star Wars sneak preview. F22 on the 50mm 1.8D produced quite a nice "star burst" effect. 

50mm 1.8D Nikkor Test shot. This lens is amazingly sharp even wide open. (the sharpest in my noob collection) slight blooming occurs at the edges when there is too much light at 1.8 This picture is 100% crop of the original with no processing. (50mm, F1.8, ISO 200). Click for original size

No need to overexpose to compensate when using a circular polariser. Light meter already compensated for it. Lesson learnt after a set of over exposed pictures!

When shooting in bulb mode, wait for the fireworks to fully settles before releasing shutter. To catch more prominent trails.  

Used panning technique to get clear subject and blurred background. Shutter speed of 1/25 is low enough for a background blur.  

To use standard flourescent white balance for night shots. Telephoto (~200+mm) 

Experiments with long exposure zoom. Picture is alittle dark for my liking. Should overexpose by 1/3 stop and start changing focal length less than 10 seconds before shutter closes. 

city shot. Disable contrast enhancement in camera to increase the dynamic range so as to distinguish buildings from backdrop. 18mm F22, 30 seconds 

waited for red traffic light on the junction and took the photo with exposure of 30 seconds.

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