1st time using DSLR

Went to the Lake Gardens in KL for a trial shoot (virgin trip for my camera). I guess it wasn't meant to be. First off, I forgot to charge my battery. Well, actually I thought it was fully charged but it wasn't. hehe.. And then, the day turned cloudy. Really not good as almost all the photos we took were either very dull or over exposed coz the sun came out with a vengence a couple hours into the trip. After that, it even started drizzling! Talk about bad luck on a beginner's photoshoot trip.

Some stuff I learnt from this trip:

1) taking photos using aperture priority is a definite no no when the sun is too glaringly bright (especially when you don't really know what you're doing...)

2) manual focus is good for macro shots, for really tiny teeny thingies like this bug, for kit lens at least (you get to make the most of the macro shot with MF compared to AF) - like the following was taken with MF

3) For not so tiny thingies, AF is good.

4) if only i had a macro lens.. (and if only the dragonfly would coorperate and face me instead of the lake).. see what i mean by bad luck??

5) Joie was absolutely right! hehe.. this is definitely different. I think I spent that 3 plus hours trying to take photos (the operative word here being "trying") but unfortunately most of them turned out disastrous.

6) and believe it or not, the following I found in the Herb Garden. And here I thought it was just a flower...

7) lastly, the power of editing.. from a totally overexposed washed out photo..

to... something totally un-washed-out-and-un-overexposed..
That's all folks! hehehe