Jacquelin Ajuni | Photography

Sony A200 | 1/100 sec | f6.3 / 150 mm / ISO 1600 | Flash: Not Fired

It’s always difficult to capture the feel of the moment in the right lighting and angle. What more if the event is at night or indoors! The constant change of lighting means that sometimes your pictures will turn out overexposed and vice versa, and with your subject moving all the time, you will want to use a high shutter speed to freeze the moment.

Sony A200 | 1/100 sec | f6.3 / 160 mm / ISO 1600 | Flash: Not Fired

And so, during the Kota Kinabalu Jazz Festival last month, I was once again faced with the above obstacle. But luckily my Sony Alpha A200 already has built-in image stabilizer into the body, so using ISO of 1600 and just a “normal” lens is good enough. I only fiddled with the shutter speed dial on my Manual Mode setting throughout the night.

Went out to the garden to take photos of my mom’s orchids today, and man, was the weather hot or what?! I can feel my skin being burned by the scorching hot sun as I took the photos!

To those of you who are pissed at the overly hot sun as well, here is a photo for your eyes to cool down on; one of the photos that I took today.

Instead of the conventional front and straight phototaking of flowers, I wanted to try a different angle by taking it from behind instead. What do you guys think?

Sony A200 | 1/40 sec | f10 / 110 mm / ISO 200 | Flash: Not Fired

~~~~~~

HDR! HDR! HDR!

I did a few HDR photos out of the above photo and more!

The before photo is the one above, and the after.. the HDR photo:

Ooh!

Here is another one!

Before:

And the after.. the HDR photo:

I’m so hooked on making HDR images now!

Saw this giant lizard crawling around near the pool area at Rasa Ria Resort. It’s big, I tell ya! Eeeeek!

Sony A200 | 1/125 sec | f5.6 / 135 mm / ISO 100 | Flash: Not Fired