Category: Photography

AtoZ Challenge: PH – E: Exposure Bracketing

E for Exposure Bracketing

This is the raw material for the slightly advanced HDR (High Dynamic Ratio) photos. Suppose, in a landscape, if  we correctly expose the sky, the foreground is dark, and if we meter the foreground correctly, the sky is washed away. Instead, we take a series of photos exposing the various parts correctly, then we combine them in photo-editing software, and we have a composite photo, where everything is exposed correctly. Be careful though, aperture, focus and white balance must not change during the series. In some cameras, its an inbuilt function, others vary the shutter speed.

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Optimum exposure minus 1 stop

 

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Optimum exposure

 

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Optimum exposure plus 1 stop

 

 

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Resulting HDR photo

This is a part of the April AtoZ Challenge. A, B, C, D, E are done. Rest to follow. Follow me and have fun.

Cheers!!

 

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Blood Moon and some more…

Hi there,

If you followed the news, yesterday, i.e 4th of April, 2015, there was a lunar eclipse. The eastern part of India, the 7 sister states and the Andaman Islands, they got the view of  the complete penumbra to penumbra eclipse, but where I reside, it was more of a glimpse of the umbra and then the waning penumbra. Nevertheless, I perched myself up on the tallest rooftop I could find in the vicinity, and waited. The scheduled time for moon-rise was approx 1800 hrs, I was there from 1645h. No way was I going to miss that 🙂
Reaching early had a benefit. I set up my tripod, and got ready with plenty of time still left. And I managed some sunset cloudscapes too.

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Once the sun set, the scanning of the horizon began, and finally, around 1845h, the generally pearly white, but temporarily red orb came into view. I shot many photos, but later found just this one to my liking of the blood moon.

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Later, I continued with the shots of the eclipse for some more time. And then by 1900h, I came back. Then later at night, I shot a few more with the clouds passing over. Despite the noise in the photos, somehow, they seemed very soothing and peaceful.

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I would like to try some more moon photos, but with a lens with a bit more reach. Till then, am satisfied with these. Happy shooting.

Cheers!!

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AtoZ Challenge: PH – D: Depth Of Field

D for Depth of Field (DOF)

DOF is significant in deciding if a photo is amazing or little off! As the name suggests, DOF is the part of the photo, which is in sharp focus. Its not a single point, but rather a span, a vertical plane. The depth varies directly with aperture. Smaller F number, smaller DOF. If you want a portrait, a smaller DOF is suitable, and in a landscape, for having both foreground and background in focus, a large DOF i.e a large F number. Having a large DOF helps, if you miss pinpoint focus. More, here.

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This is a part of the April AtoZ Challenge. Letters A, B, C, D done. Follow me, for rest of the series is coming up next.

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Blurred away…

Often, we leave out the photos which have blurs in them, unintentionally. But, sometimes, the blurred photos also look pretty, and just keep them. Here is such a photo.

I was attempting long exposure zoom bursts, but then, I ended with these.

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Check out some more Blur photos here 🙂

Happy shooting!
Cheers!!

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AtoZ Challenge: PH – C: Composition

C for Composition

In photography, composition means placement of subjects in a manner that makes the photo speak up. The common techniques being –
1. Rule of Thirds: Dividing the entire frame in 3×3 boxes, we keep the important subjects lined on the lines or the intersections. More, here!

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  1. Leading Lines: Lines, single or parallel, straight or curved, which lead the view of the observer from one part of the photo to the next.

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  1. Leaving space: The subject should have some space to look, ride, fly, etc. into, within the frame.

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  1. Break the rules, and shoot the way that makes you feel content!

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This is part of April AtoZ Challenge. A, B, C done! 23 more to go. Follow me!

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AtoZ Challenge: PH – B: Bokeh

B for Bokeh

Japanese origin word for blur in the background of a photo. Used widely as an aesthetics tool in the photograph to give it a dreamy smooth out-of-focus background. With decrease of the Aperture number, the bokeh effect becomes more distinct and profound. The shapes formed in the bokeh of light sources, varies on the number of blades within the lens. Bokeh can be used creatively by use of filters to produce specific shapes in the photo.

Some Bokeh shots here. For information on aperture, check here. And for the use of filters, check here.

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This is part of April AtoZ Challenge. A , B  done, 24 more to go! Follow me.

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AtoZ Challenge: PH – A: Aperture

A for Aperture.

Aperture is the slit through which light reaches the sensor of the camera. It is part of the lens and is represented by F Number. Bigger the F number, smaller the aperture and lesser light enters the camera. Increasing the F number is known as “stepping down” the aperture. The two effects of changing the aperture are, changing the amount of light that enters through, and the amount of the picture that remains in sharp focus. With smaller aperture values, more area is blurred. Often, lens have a sharp sweet spot, based on the aperture.

More, here!

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This is part of April AtoZ Challenge. Follow me, there are another 25 letters more to go!

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Leads and Lines

Hi there,

I was researching on composition techniques of leading lines. And that’s when, felt like putting some leads and lines together, and the product, is Pencils!

Hope you like it.

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A Fleeting instant..

When they gave the word, Ephemeral, in the weekly challenge, I will be honest, I had to check the dictionary first. Once enlightened, I feel, a fleeting instant, is an example, and hence, heres my take on a fleeting instant.

It may be just a tick of second hand, or maybe an entire lifetime too!

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Whats your take???

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April AtoZ Challenge : PH

Hi there,

I remember doing a 5 day black and white challenge, but that was in my pre-blogging days, maybe someday I ll post them too. Anyway, this time, I have signed up for the April AtoZ Challenge, and well, its going to be a bit tricky I feel. Mostly because finding 26 different, doable photo topics is a difficult thing. For example, the letter “X” … the only photographic instrument i can think of, with X, is a X Ray machine…but I ll come up with something I guess!

Something that I wanted to say, right before I begin, this series may contain previous works too. Some might repeat as already featured in other previous posts, but I ll try to keep things interesting and put up different photos for sure. The posts will normally deal with the different photo lingos and I ll try my best to keep them as simple, short and crisp as I can, actually, I ll try to keep my content to less than 100 words…that should keep things interesting 🙂

Do come over during April 2015, and find the new posts, everyday, for the next whole month.

April

 

Cheers!!

 

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Fresh…and pretty!

Hi there,

When in a bit of doubt, about what to shoot, or just taking a bit of time off, and yet, you dont want the stats bar to be a dead flat line….shoot for the weekly photo challenge. This week, its fresh!

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The black background, was almost naturally achieved by using the cellphone’s flash on the flowers to light it up. And then, a little bit of tweaking always helps.

Check out my posts on a recent trip I took….it got snow covered mountains, and steam engines too 😛

Happy shooting!

Cheers!!

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Wall…with a few big pores!

Walls! Maybe one of the most common things we build apart from relationships. The way I see it, with every new relationship, we build a new wall of a kind. Physical, emotional, but a wall, a barrier, a fence, nevertheless.

Lets break free from the fences and leap towards the other side…the grass is greener on the other side, right? Lets go find out 🙂

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The fence and the “other side”

 

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