White Balance Setting

How to adjust the right white balance setting? I always use AWB but the below few shots I experimented with other setting but I am not sure if it was set correctly.

Indoor
Shot #1 - Using "Shade" setting


Shot #2 - Using AWB


Which shot supposed to be the correct WB?

Shot #3 - Using "Shade" setting


Shot #4 - Using AWB

Again, which shot supposed to be the correct WB?

Flower – under a semi-transparent roof. Which one of the below is more natural and nicer?

Shot #5 - Using "Shade" setting

Shot #6 - Edited the WB using Photoshop. The above was the original shot using “shade” setting.

Comments are greatly appreciated.

KL Butterfly Park, a quiet & peaceful place for photography

I bought a zoom lense (50mm-250mm) and need to find a location to test it and so the chosen location was KL Butterfly Park. After paying my RM8 entrance ticket plus RM1 camera fee, it just like entered into another world…..a world of fairy tales….

It was so fascinating to see so many butterflies flying above, around and below you. This place is so green, cooling and refreshing….shaded area with trees, flowers and water ponds. Without any delay, I grab my camera and began chasing butterflies :)

The afternoon sun was not strong, so have to bump up the ISO…

This is the first one I hunted while having its lunch on a tiny pink flower ~ it looks like a Chocolate Tiger species

Spotted another one, not sure what species is this…


Another white lass


This species is “Common Nawab” enjoying pineapple




Another one on the pineapple


The Banded Swallowtail, so it is called. Spotted it on the ground, drinking water I guess…

Species: looks like the Common Bluebottle

Species: looks like The Great Mormon. It was hidden beneath leaves, so it was quite hard to take this shot

Species: The Yellow Grassy Tiger. It was quite far away and had to zoom using 250mm. A bit blurred, this is the best shot I had of it.

Looks like the Striped Blue Crow species. No idea why it was called Blue Crow, as it doesn’t have any blue color on it nor looks similar to a crow.

Un-identified butterfly species

Other than butterflies, there were insects and bugs….

Species: The Palm King

Can you spot it? Another un-identified butterfly species….

The Chocolate Tiger

Red dragonfly. I guess it was having nap as it was very still and on the same spot for very long time.

Black and yellow butterfly

Species: The Great Eggfly

A nice little spot in the park for visitors to rest.

Species: The Cruiser

How did I identify all the names? Well, I browsed Chin’s Butterfly Gallery's website to get their names.....

More and more butterflies….

Just some other random shots after tired of butterflies

I like this particularly, not the butterfly, but the shadow effect

Another beauty...

Little spidey working tirelessly….

After spending approximately 4.5 hours in KL Butterfly Park, it was about time to go home…nevertheless, this won’t be the last visit, it was only the beginning :)

~2009~

Putrajaya Photo Outing

Putrajaya is not only well known as a tourist attraction but also a good photography spot for photo bug like us. Putrajaya is built and designed as the administrative centre of Malaysia with nice buildings, gardens and bridges for fantastic photo shooting.

One fine Saturday we decided to go to Putrajaya for photography. Going into Putrajaya is easy, but once we are in Putrajaya we were lost. Signages are everywhere, but not sure if it is because we are too dumb to read the road signs or because of the misleading signs that lead us to “merry-go round’.

After some joyride, we finally decided to just follow the building landmarks instead……..ah, alas….we spotted a sign pointing to “Putrajaya Lake Club” and quickly made a turn in. It happened there was a wedding ceremony at the club on that day (meaning most of the parking lots were taken off). Soon after squeezing our car in a spot, we marched into the club and hunt for great view. We found a good spot at a tower to shoot the Perdana Putra and Putra Mosque.

Tower at Putrajaya Lake Club. We climbed to the 2nd level to get some good shots


Perdana Putra, Prime Minister's Office




Magnificent Putra Mosque

After about over an hour here, we headed to Taman Botani (Botanical Garden). This was not difficult to find as it is indicated on the road sign.

Taman Botani ~ great building architecture and carving

Palm trees against blue sky

We were in Putrajaya for almost 3 hours. My camera already ran out of battery and so we had to leave. We will definitely come back again for more shootings.