Eric Kong's City, Land, Night & Sea-scapes

yup im from Singapore!

This was my latest attempt using my 70-200mm this time;

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70-200? can you give me your own opinion on this SIGMA lens? how long have you been using?

as usual! you never fail to share your nice shots with us! thank!

yes yes! how do you feel about using 70-200 on sunsets?

my personal vote is #1..

cool cool! my vote is also #1!

thank for sharing!

thank for sharing more! i can see that you are full of experience with shooting sunsets now. please give us your opinions as well!

i love shooting sunset but i still think something is always missing or i left out some technical aspect of the photography from the shots.

oh! i believe you will be talking about the sharpness, i think your composition is good but it is just the sharpness and also, there is no foreground subject in your shots. Am I right?

JayCam: haha... you've answered my doubts here!

crazycam78 & FotoTods: sigma 70-200 can never match the canon's L lens that's for sure. i bought it since the beginning of this year and i find that it has a weakness with its sharpness, unless of course you use it with flash.

anyway since we're talking about lens now, i hope to get opinion from you guys. i plan to sell off my 70-200 and get a Tamron 70-300mm f3.5-5.6 lens and maybe a wide angle lens like tokina 12-24? wat do you guys think?

i think you should keep your SIGMA 70-200 and get tokina 12-24, yes, i have seen good reviews on tokina lens like 12-24. you should try it yourself!

yes i agreed, why not you try out the lens yourself in the shop before you decide? see which one you need most right? i can't tell you what you need most except for yourself. but do go check out the reviews for these 2 lenses before you have your hands on, at least you will know what you are looking for.

ya agreed, go read up the reviews and try the lens with your camera in the shop and then take your time to decide.

try first and you will know, never try and you will never know.

thanx for the feedback and i'll surely lookup at the reviews. i have to sell my sigma before i can buy and i can't buy tokina w/o selling this sigma.

but i have seen close-up shots taken using the tamron 70-300 lens and i have to say it is awesome compared to my current sigma's.

reason why i got the sigma was i thought i needed it for wedding event and night reception but i came to my sense that, why need a f2.8 lens when you are going to use flash during the night?

my initial telephoto lens was to get a tamron 70-200 f2.8 but the camera shop owner told me that sigma's better cos no focusing problem with its HSM feature. no doubt, i have to admit that sigma's HSM is good where it can easily lock focus compare to tamron. but then end result, the tamron photo is sharper.

yea, TAMRON at f2.8 is indeed sharp, with the additional advantage over other lens that it can shoot at low light with f2.8.

same for me here, if get to choose between SIGMA and TAMRON, I would choose TAMRON.

well now, you have to do some research for yourself first before doing any decision.

This is the 4th attempt on long exposure;

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for the first 4 photos, these are way much better with the long exposure. besides long exposure, is there anything else you did? any heavy pp done?

i love the sky colors for the first 4 photos too!

ok, for these photos right? what is lacking is a foreground subject. you need a main subject to be in the foreground to enhance the depth of your photos. maybe you can try!

just any subject, tree trunks, rocks, etc..

follow your own judgment! follow what yourself tells you!

yes, maybe your photos are lacking a foreground subject.

Beautiful!

Another sunset attempt on top from a hill;

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my gf said this shot of the cloud looks like a bear and rabbit behind it. really good imagination she has there!

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Where is this place that you did your shots?

Magnificent view ya? Nice and i like!