I finally attended the Nikon D5000 Workshop yesterday evening (after anticipating this for more than one week)!
It is not a photography class, but rather a get-to-know-your-D5000 workshop. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Steven Yee. Overall, his class was very informative and he is one funny guy hehe. I must say that I understand my camera better now :-) For a start, I really did not know that there is a distance limit to a camera’s built-in flash and D-zai is capable of illuminating up to the focal length of 18mm. Now I know why do people buy flashes. *blushes*
On a side note, I felt a bit funny when I first stepped into the class. It was like… eh, I’m a student again! Hehe, it was fun though. Almost everyone there was new to the hobby and the D5000 was our very first DSLR. The funniest moment was when Steven lauded, “Ladies and gentlemen, now get your cameras out and remove your lenses”. Everyone did exactly just that; opened our bags, carried our babies out and detached our lenses. Steven then switched on the fluorescent light above him and instructed us to see through our lenses. He taught us how to check for unusual objects on our lenses, such as fungus.
Here are some shots taken during the class. They are shots taken randomly when requested by the instructor, hence, not much preparation and composition involved.
Some great shots hung in the classroom. Of all the pictures, I particularly liked the one in the center bottom position, the one with monks as the subject. There is light shining behind the monk who is standing in the middle.
“Ladies and gentlemen, set your ISO at 200 and focus on me!” (starts flapping his arms)
“Now, set your ISO at 1600 and focus on me!” (okay, this one didn’t turn out good). Steven wanted to show us that you can achieve better quality by tuning your ISO when shooting moving objects. The higher the ISO, the faster the shutter speed.
ISO 1600, f/5.3, 1/15 sec
