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Friday, April 29, 2011
Fun with long exposures
ISO: 200 Aperture: 22 Shutter Speed: 15 seconds
Diwali, is one of the festivals (in addition to Holi) where you have good opportunity to capture colorful pictures. 15 seconds exposure on a tripod adds magic to the captured picture. Interestingly the sparkle lasted for 15 seconds so, I did not have to fire a trailing flash.
This picture was taken based on some tips provided by Jeff in his book Exposure Photo Workshop. I was thankful to the Ritz Camera Store guy of Phesantlane Mall, NH for making me buy a Quantary tripod when I purchased my first Canon SLR (film) (Rebel G) in 1998. This camera never let me down with the pictures it took, though Canon seems to have goofed up in mid film rewind feature of this camera (When you load a roll, the camera opens up roll and forces that you take only 36 or 24 exposures. As it takes pictures backwards, the mid film rewind is totally useless, unless you know how to put back the unexposed film into the canister).
Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Common Man
ISO: 200 Aperture: 4.5 Shutter Speed: 1/250
R K Laxman's common man, who never, ever spoke in the cartoon. Common man was a cartoon strip featured as "You said it" in The Times of India. I feel Laxman wanted to convey the reality in a subtle way - common man never speaks but (s)he is the one who gets impacted, be it onion prices or corruption in politics or even the mismanagement of river water - he is always there just listening The Common Man
As a part of an interesting project created by my younger daughter's kindergarten school, we need to treasure hunt a set of 7 pictures that are iconic to Pune which included the Common Man. What I realized while taking the picture is that though I read lot of interesting books on taking good pictures, as in current education system, there is a stark difference is theory and practical application. Maybe, the more I experiment, the better pictures I take and some day will write a book, adding to the agony of photographers.
ISO: 500 Aperture: 5.6 Shutter Speed: 1/60
A tiny spray of water on flowers before clicking them creates a different picture. I tried some of the techniques studied in various books mentioned in my About page. I placed this flower next to my south facing window after sprinkling some water on it on a late afternoon. Natural light is better for flowers and a diffused light is the best. The light from the window created a nice reflections on the water droplets. Maybe next time I'll try the one-third rule and not place the flower bang in the middle of the picture, but still I was pleased with the output.
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