tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324324142012-01-04T13:37:31.844-08:00Capturing Dreams One Shot At A TimeKevin T. Nguyen-Tuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02417525909402934879noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32432414.post-62187343354219106442012-01-04T13:37:00.000-08:002012-01-04T13:37:31.855-08:00

I recently came across a blog posted by someone on facebook. It was a letter received by a photographer from one of their long time customer. After reading it once, it forced me to read it several more time. While the letter is simple, it deliver an strong impact message. It really touched me and was very emotional for me to read. As a photographer and also had lost someone very dear to me to

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Nikon folks had the upper hand against other camera for many years with their Creative Lighting Systems (CLS). Using a nikon compatible body or flash to control other flahes through CLS and still be able to do iTTL is an awesome feature. That feature works great indoor or outdoor where there are direct light of sight. While limited, it did offer something other camera did not have and not needing

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Last weekend, Southern California had some lovely weathers. It finally cooled off a bit from the previous weeks. While the weather was cooled off, the couple I had the pleasure to take picture of was still going hot and strong. We had a wonderful time! Thank you to Adrian and Jennice for having me take these pictures! You both were wonderful this past weekend! See complete set @ http://

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Alaska / Canada Border - Skagway Excursion Last week, we went on our 2nd cruise, 1st Alaska Cruise on the Golden Princess cruise ship. Being this my first Alaskan Cruise, not to mention many years since my last cruise, the experience was very positive. I highly recommend anyone to go to Alaska, either by Cruise or Land, there a lot of great nature to see, fresh air to breathe, and valuable

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Last week, we decided to take a stroll at Disney California Adventure (DCA). I had been a couple of years since I've been back here and haven't see the new World of Colors. For those who have not heard, a few years ago, The Walt Disney Company announced they will invest another one billion dollars to renovate the theme park and bright new life to it. Since then, many fan sites have been trying to

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In Southern California, we are spoiled. The average temp usually hover around 65 - 75 degree through out the year, even during Christmas. But elsewhere around in the United States, as the snow starts to melt, Spring is in the air. and flowers are everywhere! This past Good Friday, my wife and I took a short stroll at Huntington Library to relax and enjoy the wonderful weather. Sadly it wasn't a

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The people at Eye Fi recently announced a new product. A product that would make every Apple iPad and Google Android Tablet users extremely happy. The release of Eye Fi Direct Mode! As the people at Eye Fi put it in their News Press announcement, "Great Images and Instant Gratification With Eye Fi Direct Mode Solution.." For the past year, we were able to achieve pictures from camera to tablet

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When I was young and loved to watch the Smurf, I usually like to see Mother Nature and Father Time do their magic. Now these days, I sometime wish Father Time would slow down. I can not believe it is almost one year to from a very special and fun wedding shoot I participated last year with Joan Day (Matt & Kimberly Wedding - May 15th, 2010). Fast forward almost one year from then, I am honored

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Last year, November 2010, I had wrote up a quick blog on how to tether from Nikon D300s to the Apple iPad using EyeFi card (see blog link). The finding was an awesome first step for professional photographers and hobbyist a like. We no longer have to carry a large heavy laptop and long USB cable or expensive WIFI attachment for our camera. We can just carry a simple Apple iPad, take the picture

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As a hobbyist photographer, I like to always browse for new toys at any places that sell camera gears or bring my camera with me on a stroll. You'll never know when you will hit that "Kodak Moment". Over the years, people I meet on the street, at a party, at an event, or even at home from families and friends ask me questions around photography and camera. So I decided to capture the common three

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One of my favorite past time hobby is to look at what other photographers are doing with their pictures, styles, and techniques. Anything I could learn and help me improve my pictures is a plus to me. While browsing at other great photographer's images, I often come across their unique stamp on the image. I've search far and wide on how it is done. Today, I would like to share with everyone two

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Earlier today, I came across an update on Facebook from Lightroom group titled "Have you ever held down the alt key while sharpening?.." As a Lightroom user, I love their noise reduction feature and sharpening tool. This trick makes it so much better! Check out the video below or from the source website (LINK)      

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What do you do when you flip through every channels only to listen to the news giving update to blizzard, snow storm, flood, and cold weather? This is when I say to myself, it's good to be living in Southern California. This past weekend, in the middle of January 2011, we had beautiful weather. Only to be helped by a recent Santa Ana high pressure system to clear the air, the weekend was lovely.

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Earlier this year, I had attend a seminar from Jerry Ghionis and his inspiration lead me to explore a lighting technique I used at one of Frank Wisneski Photography Class, Lighting On Location. The technique involve controlling the light source to give you the drama effects you would like in a picture. With that, in researching for lighting equipment, I had asked several photography users group

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Android Version - http://blog.knguyentu.com/2011/03/motorola-xoom-eyefi-nikon-d300s-android.html A few months ago I came across an article on fstopper.com trying to demo a pretty cool feature. A feature many have asked since the release of the Apple iPad. Can I tether images from my camera to the iPad? Not until recently (past 4 months) you could. With the help of a SD card from Eye-Fi, a

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Similar to last year, this year we decided to do a quick little trip up the scenic California Coast via the famous Pacific Coast Highway (PCH - 1) route. If you live in California, you know that no matter when during the year, this route always have magnificent scenery. If you enjoy the tourist part of the route, then Southern California would be for you. I enjoy the scenic part, which

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I came across this website a few months ago from a photographer I had taken studio classes with. Would love to share this information with every. This site is pretty awesome when it comes to technique on studio photography. Point your browser to: http://www.studioxil.com

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To most of us, Memorial Day is a day off from work, school, or just a day away from our usual routine. What is Memorial Day and why do we have it? According to Wikipedia, "Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 31 in 2010). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. soldiers who died while in the military service.[1] First enacted

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FR_FLH_2745, originally uploaded by smilepak.Recently I tried out a few things I picked up from Jerry Ghionis seminar I had attended a couple of months ago. According to Jerry, he looks for the light. How can he bend it, shape it, and have give life to his photograph. In this picture, I've tried similar technique. First, we look for a light source. At the location we were at, there was a single

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I had the opportunity to join Joan Day in taking picture of her nephew wedding on May 15th, 2010. It was a great experience and definitely enjoy the day. Here are sneak peek of the wedding. More images of Matthew and Kimberly (CLICK HERE) 

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FR_FLH_2668 Originally uploaded by smilepakRecent fun shot using Nikon D200 w/ Nikon 105mm F2.8 VR of a perfectly clean and shinny Harley Motorcycle. Still waiting for my D300s to be returned from Nikon Service department :(

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FR_Grey_FLH_2641 Originally uploaded by smilepakNikon D200 Off Camera Flash SB800 through Soft Box 1/50 Shutter Speed F4 Aperture ISO 400 Nikon 105mm F2.8 VR Lens

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Eyes Of The TigerOriginally uploaded by smilepakThis was a recent shot of Laura Shodire from a glamour photography session I attended. She has some amazing dead on eyes and outstanding to work with. The shot was done using my new Nikon 105mm VR f2.8 Macro Lens. This has to be one of the better lens to use for portrait. See some of the review of it at these websites. If you notice the analysis

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Sample Shot Using Nikkor 105VR F2.8Originally uploaded by smilepakJust received my new Nikkor 105 VR F2.8 Macro lens. There are plenty of review out there so I won't get into too much detail on it other than, this is an AWESOME lens. A bit slow to focus in low light condition though.

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I recently attended a seminar at the Marriott Hotel by Los Angeles International Airport featuring Jerry Ghionis, a well know and award winning Wedding Photographer. I've been taking pictures as a hobbyist for the many years and there are two photographers in which I view as being absolute best in their field. That being Joe McNally and Jerry Ghionis. No disrespect to other such as Scott Kelby,

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Every year around this time, a 50 acre piece of land open themselves up to the general public to to visit their colorful hillside terrain. The place is called "The Flower Field" and they are located just minutes north of San Diego, California.Many years ago when I was young, I remember seeing this colorful hillside from the 5 freeway clearly as I travel down to San Diego for the weekend with my

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These days, I noticed a trend in people pictures. Back in the days, having a lens giving you vignetting was a bad thing and people demand to have it fixed to replaced. These days, people purposely add them to their picture as a form of style to enhance the subject. What is Vignetting? According to Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vignetting), is a reduction of an image brightness or

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After using the BlackRapid R-Strap (http://www.blackrapid.com/) for a few months, I decided to try something different. The BlackRapid R-Strap allows you to hang your camera to the side of your body diagonal strap technique. With that, you would be able to quickly bring up your camera for shooting in a quick fashion. However, due to the strap, your motion is really very limited and position on

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In one of my outing with Tri-Community Photography School's group, we trek out to a pretty nifty place. I have to give created to Frank Wise (http://frankwisephotography.blogspot.com/), he finds the coolest place to take picture. Really outside the box location!!! The weather was beautiful and sunny due to having a series of rain the day before. Due to that, the basin area had a good flow of

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Over the weekend, I joined Faded & Blurred on another one of their photo walk. This time it was at the Getty's Center Museum. The weather was beautiful and only just stopped raining 3 hours prior to us being there. So the sky was clear for us to see miles away. We could clearly see downtown Los Angeles and even Catalina Island!! Here are some pictures from the walk. I hope you enjoy them.

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FYI for anyone interested in attending his Seminar.  To register: http://www.jerryghionisinla.com/   Check out his video to see some of his work: https://www.theicesociety.com/   Other interview video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBxTLxFgCSg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAGjDpjr5EQ

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Newspress: http://press.nikonusa.com/2010/02/nikon_releases_two_highly_anti.php Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24mm f1.4G ED Prime Wide-angle Perspective—Ultra-fast f/1.4 Aperture Natural wide angle of view, with extreme light gathering capability, delivers extraordinary performance, meeting a broad range of challenging assignments. Nano Crystal Coat Further reduces ghosting and internal flare across a

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I was browsing a few forums over the weekend and noticed many people asked how to look at the raw file (Nikon NEF) in Windows 7. I would like to share that with you. At Microsoft Photorgraphy website (http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/downloads/codecs.aspx), there are links to various major camera manufacture's support site listing a program you can download and install. For Nikon, go to: http:

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A week ago I recently participated in a pretty neat photo walk with a group from Faded and Blurred (http://fadedandblurred.com/photo-walks) at Descanso Gardens. This happens to be my first group photo walk I've ever done. It was pretty exciting opportunity to see many other photographers, most of which do it as a profession and other as a hobby. If anyone interested in joining the photo walk,

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Easy, they were both taken by me over the same weekend! The Equipment: Nikon D300s Nikon 17-55mm f2.8 Nikkor Lens A few key techniques used for post processing: HDR method used on some to enhance the contrast and tone of the image. This was greatly helpful in hard condition where the bright sun light tends to over power the shadow area.  Fireworks are done using Burst Mode with D300s on a

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Summer 2009 is nearly over, but at the last moment we decided to go on a road trip up and down the California coastline using Pacific Coast Highway. It was outstanding timing as I just received my new Nikon D300s camera. This road trip, I will bring both my old trusty D200 and the new D300s. On the D200, I have the Nikon 70-200 f2.8 VR mounted on. On the D300s, I have the Nikon 17-55mm f2.8 ED

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Huntington Library 2009 Posted using ShareThis

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Fortunately having relative in town, I've taken the opportunity to take them to a few of the places in California. A few shots taken recently from San Diego Wild Animal Park, San Diego SeaWorld, and Huntington Library in Pasadena California. Let me know what you think... San Diego Wild Animal Park: http://photographybykevin.zenfolio.com/p20529217/ San Diego SeaWorld: http://

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Nikon recently added another dSLR to their consumer line of currently the D40 series and D80 series. http://press.nikonusa.com/2008/01/new_nikon_d60_digital_slr_came.php Some enhancement added to this will make it attractive to the average consumers, such as sharing the small, lighweight form factor of the D40 series but boasting on the new 10.2 MP CCD sensor. The package will be couped with

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In the same newspress that shock the photography world today that annouced a full frame camera for Nikon, they also annouced the little brother of it and the successor to the D200. Nikon has done an excellent job on surprising people and keeping them suspended. For months, people been speculating on what is the next camera for Nikon going to be. Various of fake mock up surfaces the internet. Now

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Today is a good day for all Nikonians! After months of speculation, rumors, and worrying about Nikon future, today Nikon has answer with a new powerful Nikon D3 using the popular CMOS sensor. Pictures from Ken Rockwell site Several reviews and sneak preview of this could be found at these popular site. Rob GalBrath (CLICK HERE) DPReview (CLICK HERE) Ken Rockwell (CLICK HERE)

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A few weeks before going to Disneyland, I was pondering which lens to bring along. I needed something light and flexible. The Tamron 28-75 2.8 Di lens I have is great, but often time indoor shots require a flash, which is a pain to have on the camera while walking around Disneyland. After reading a lot of great reponses from people at dpreview.com forums, I decided to pick one up. For under

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Mention in my previous post on the 80-200 2.8 AF-D, I was curious on the performance of the 70-200 2.8 VR and decided to try it out. I went back to Samy's Camera and exchange my one week old 80-200 2.8 AF-D for the sparkling new 70-200 2.8 VR lens by Nikon, Nikkor lens as some would refer it by. There are plenty of reviews on it out there, you can google or check out one of these on it: Ken

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The lastest addition to my setup recently purchased is the Nikkor 80-200mm ED 2.8 AF-D lens. While I drool to get the 70-200mm 2.8 VR AF-S lens, the price is way out of my range. The 80-200mm is about 1/2 the price. The lens is a bit shorter than the latest generation 70-200 2.8 VR. It is solid strudy construction with a tripod collar ring. If you are planning to use it in a small camera,

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A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to work with RAW format a little more while I was up in San Jose, CA. During my visit, we stopped by Santana Row, a very nice shopping area. Website: http://www.santanarow.com/shopping/ Here is a shot I took from there. The original shot was done in color using RAW format. I used Nikon Capture NX to enhance the contrast of it and crop it. I then workflow it

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A few weeks ago, I attended a wedding of one of my friend. It was a very interesting wedding and I have to say, one of the more fun one I've been to. I had taken two separated pictures and did a little photoshop masking (merging of photo) for the fun of it and see how it would come out. Let me know what you think. The larger picture could be found on my website at http://

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In the past year, I've had my share of traveling around U.S. for work and personal purposes. In a conversation with my wife over the weekend and some people recently, it occurred to me how uneven our tipping standard is today. How much is too much or too little for tipping service? Why are we using different scale standard to give tip.If you go to an average restaurant with average services, the

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Whoo Hooo! I finally created my first blog! I think, if myspace.com don't count. Just created this as another outlet for my websiteshttp://www.knguyentu.comhttp://www.photographybykevin.nethttp://www.smilepak.comOf course they all point to the same domain, but heck after being on the internet for over 10 years, I accumulated a few more than that.Who knows, I might have something to say one of

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