Saturday, May 5, 2007

Sunset at Long Last

Les suggested we go shoot sunset at Pulau Betong beach, just beside the Kem Bina Negara. Upon announcement in the forums, goldwings, cslor and dvvt9591 decided to come along.

Today was one of those rare occasions where I bothered to take my tripod out.

Somehow the session become a long exposure shootout instead.

I also got a lesson from dvvt9591 on why ND filters are a nice to have and Les giving us a black card tutorial to replace a costly graduated ND filter.

After that we proceeded to have dinner in Balik Pulau town. Along the way, I managed to take a shot of the wet market, soon to be demolished.


Upon reaching home, I was alerted to the fact that some of my photos contained sensor dust specks by Ifer. Horrified, I did a quick sensor dust check and found that the resulting image looks like a Sun with its sunspots.

Enhanced false color image of dust on sensor before cleaning.

A quick blow or two, from the Giotto Rocket Blower resolved the issue, with a few minor specks remaining. I suppose one of these days the Nikon Service Center will hear from me.