Sleepy Head

This shot was taken in D2XMode1 with Pre-set WB taken off the white sheets. Due to the cramped conditions I was using my favourite Nikon 50mm F1.4 AFD lens. Another of my favourite High Key shot.

Kranji War Memorial

My first visit to the Kranji War Memorial. Its quite a tranquil and deserted place, and also beautiful in a serene and dignified manner. I went there in a hurry as the weather was scorching hot and I had to get to another place in awhile. Here are some of the snapshots I took.

I was surprised this was also the resting place of Singapore's 2nd President, Benjamin Henry Sheares, as can be seen from the picture below.

D700 Picture Control D2XMode1

After figuring out that the main reason for the weird skin tones I tend to get was due to the inaccurate Auto White Balance, I decided to do a shoot based purely on manual White Balance settings where I keyed in manually the colour temperature in Kelvins. Auto White Balance seems to be rather inaccurate quite frequently and darker skin asians tend to have too much of a reddish hue, not so much a problem with fairer skin though. I took some trial pictures in Picture Control D2X Mode 1 with my Nikon 85mm F1.8 AF-D as usual, to see how skin tones fair. I would say that it does look less reddish indeed. Whether that is desirable would be up to individuals but to me the pictures do look more neutral in my humble opinion.