My Hanoi Trip - HDR and panaroma

Play with HDR and panaroma stitch from my Hanoi trip photos. HDR is
using 5 pics of 0.5 bracket. Only the Hoan Kim Library and St Joseph's
Cathedral has good result. The trick is: these two images captured
without turn on DRO in Sony A700. The rest of the images DRO has made
enhancements and Photomatix unable boost the dynamic range further. By
the way all these are shot hand held without tripod.

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Hungry Ghost Festival (Poh Toh)

Few weeks ago there is a Poh Toh festival
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Festival) near my living place. I
was reluctant to take photograph and afraid capture paranormal
activities. However the event seems to be okay to me, just like any
Chinese funeral kind of praying. Many people came around to witness
the praying and I believe it does bring prosperity. They were rushing
to collect the offerings after the prayers. Another highlight would be
fire stunt by the worship master.

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A blind date with Olympus PEN ep-1 (more photos)

All photos are from PEN ep1 without any digital post processing. Hope
you like it (I mean the camera too :P)

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