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Postby Onyx on Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:21 pm

Breaking in my new site. (Thanks Neeper for letting us in on a great hosting deal and helping me out with the FTP and setting up).

Big images (993x660), I'll spare the dial uppers and disinterested. Clicky:

http://kayimages.com/xinfa.jpg
http://kayimages.com/giantb1.jpg
http://kayimages.com/giantb2.jpg
http://kayimages.com/giantb3.jpg
http://kayimages.com/giantb4.jpg
http://kayimages.com/giantb5.jpg
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Postby BBJ on Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:49 pm

Hey Onyx, Nice shots and yeh here i was thinking i was the bigest Budha around here.LOL As that 2 is a nick name, but yeh mate very good shots good to see you are getting around over there and seeing the sites.
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:17 pm

Nice collection there Onyx - #3 and #4 appear to be a bit dark, are you seeing the same darkness to the images on your monitor :?:
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Postby MCWB on Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:28 pm

Nice as always Chi. :) It's hard to convey its impact in photos though. What did you think of it? Impressive, is it not? Spectacular stuff, as is the setting. I think we took the same ferry too! :P
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Postby Onyx on Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:47 pm

Thanks for the comments guys.

Here's some macro type shots from the weekend. I'm especially proud of these cos it came out of the camera well exposed and rendered - no blown whites on the white flower and superbly sharp details. I am yet to find any fault with this 18-70 lens. :)
http://kayimages.com/lotus.jpg (100% crop)
http://kayimages.com/flw.jpg (100% crop)
http://kayimages.com/flwd.jpg (extreme closeup)

Chris - blame my newly "calibrated" monitor on the darkness. They're supposed to be black, so I metered and compensated accordingly... But anyhow, I'm finding my Spyder calibrated display to have an ugly purple tint to the supposedly black darker shadows - maybe I'll give another go at the calibration.

Lantau is a gorgeous island - so far removed from the big city life of Hong Kong. I'm surprised to hear other ferry passengers talk of hiking trails and the like. I must return there! :)

I stumbled upon a fashion show on the w'end too. I'll process them pics and paste them up to give you guys a gawk at the eye candy.
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Postby christiand on Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:49 pm

Hi Onyx,

did you have a feed in the monastery ?

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Postby MCWB on Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:53 pm

Onyx wrote:I stumbled upon a fashion show on the w'end too. I'll process them pics and paste them up to give you guys a gawk at the eye candy.

Does that mean you found an asian female you found attractive? ;) :D

Oh and Christian: the feed in the monastery was almost enough to turn me into a meatetarian. :lol:
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Postby Glen on Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:57 pm

Chi great shots especially your macro, they are very nice. What lens did you use, the kit lens?



Can the last question, Chi after Chris' post reread yours and saw it was the kit. Beautiful.
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Postby sirhc55 on Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:02 am

Chi - the macro type shots are great and you are right the kit lens is a superb lens in its own right :D
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Postby PiroStitch on Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:35 am

Love the macro of the lotus, though I'm biased as the lotus has a lot of meaning to me :)

My friend showed me similar photos of giant buddha statues from his trip to Thailand.
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Postby rathalian on Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:26 am

Nice pics - we just got back from 2 weeks in HKong (where I got my D70) I went a bit nuts and took 1200 shots in 4 days mostly experimenting but a lot in auto so I wouldnt stuff them up too much.

I have a great one of a 'symbol' painting in a MacDonalds that I am debating whether to put up. No one locally seemed to know what it meant but it sure as hell looked like something 'out there' ;)

We went up to the big buddha as well. Did you have the vegetarian lunch ? It was great even for a meat eater !

Did you take the dodgy buses up to the buddha (I swear old men on bikes past us going up the hill LOL).

If I do train some more students in Hong Kong again I will be hitting the camera stores for lenses as I didn't know enough last time round..
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Postby Onyx on Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:09 pm

Thanks guys. Yeah the flower macros were the best pics from my weekend I think. The landscape type pics documenting my travels were crap due to the hazy and every grey skies... And pperator error ruined much of the Seibu fashion show pics (yet to come).

No I didn't eat at the monastery - I went to Tai O (local fishing village) for a seafood feast afterwards. ;) LOL the dodgy busses, with all them hills on the island I would imagine it's a lucrative business maintaining those busses!

rathalian - HKSupplies is always welcoming of D70users wanting camera bits. :) But for retail, Wing Shing in Mongkok has the best prices and service IMO. Forget Stanley St in Central as recommended in nearly all shopping guides - that's a place for sucker tourists (selection ain't all that great either).
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Postby Neeper on Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:58 pm

Nice pictures Chi!! Man the pictures sure loaded up very fast. I really have to visit Asia one day. I like your domain name, you'll have to explain how you came up with it. I still like http://www.lostinhkphotography.com better :wink:
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