Well, everyday is an obstacle for me to perfect my shots with my Canon 400D. Previously, I’ve grasps enough of outdoor scene. This time, it is in a place that I hate most. I’ve never like taking pictures in a restaurant as they are using yellow lights which makes your picture yellowish and it seems like everyone is down with jaundice. So, lots of trial and error again this time.
Back to the event, my Nephew, Alex who is residing in Singapore was down in KL from KK with his Wife-To-Be, Lily, after a successful ‘negotiation’ with his future Parents-in-law. Eventually we met up with him for a dinner with Hubby’s other siblings. Well, this is my first time meeting her too.
While waiting for the rest to arrive, this is a shot of my eldest bil. I think he can’t make up his mind of what to order.
When I showed him this pic, he can’t remember himself engaging in that posture. lol.
The honorable guests arrived shortly. The moment they walk in, Lily had that glow in her eyes that catches my attention. From there, I whipped out my camera and started snapping secretly.
I have to say, she is really photogenic. Makes my life easier too. haha… She felt very awkward when I keep on aiming the camera at her. Ah well, I told myself to tone down as not make her feel uneasy.
As for food, since CNY is just around the corner, we had Low Yee Sang. Woohoo!
While I was thinking how much exposure/shutter speed to set my cam, suddenly all of them started digging in.
A little of havoc there but I still managed to cheat thru screen. haha…
The happy faces of toasting.
What did I mean by ‘cheat-thru-screen’. In low lights, I set the ISO to 1600 to get a brighter result without using the flash. But anything with high ISO, the picture will turn out grainy. Obviously if you resized them, you can’t see the noise at all. So, this type of picture is not suitable to be printed out. So sad isn’t it.
Well, another trial and error here.
Since I’m using 50mm F1.8 lens, I should have increase the aperture to F4.5 to avoid the blurring image on the left. Well, at least I learn a new thing today.
After all the makan-makan and some socialising with………. (what do you call my nephew’s wife ah?) ………… LILY, she got all excited with the pictures I shot. Ahem! Of course kembang la. This is her comment, “Wow! Never in my life someone captured my photographs this way.”
She then actually started posing for me.
I can’t help myself to scrapbooking again. What a lovely couple they are.
I get Alex to do monkey face at the background. See what he did?
Potong stim. That is not money face la. That is like Mr Bean!
We ended the dinner with CNY dessert. The ‘Nien Kau’ coated with grated coconut.
This is the way how I usually eat them! Now I can’t wait for Chinese New Year to come.
Some people called it ‘the chinese bubble gum’. lol
On the way out from the restaurant, I can’t help myself with one last shot of the ang-ang decoration.
Chinese New Year coming liao lor. Tong, tong, chiang…. tong, tong, chiang…..
p/s: My eye getting an eyesore from the jaundice. Ouch!