Photography is my new hobby. Not really sure when / why / how I got attracted into this, but its proving worthwhile.
This is my first good photo, even though its doesn't look how I wanted it to look, but yes that how the traffic is here. Its not that easy to get a even pattern with those light trails. I had taken this from atop a 11 storied building for my company competition, and the theme was "Time", guess what I did win the competition in vain.
Info (Time): 44mm, f5.3, 4 s, ISO 400, Tripod mounted.
Think I can be happy to call it a good attempt for a beginner, but later it looks over exposed and I feel I should have used a little faster shutter speed than the 4sec that I used for this. The main problem with DSLR's is, its really difficult to get the impact of your photo in the 2.7" or 3" display that you have, the photo looks totally different when you veiw it in a regular full size display.
The next one is also another attempt to make an entry to our monthly photo contest with the theme "Love". This is the first photo that I had taken with my new Nikkor 55-200mm VR lens. I was waiting for a while for the pigoens to turn around and face me, but they never did that, so I finally settled down for this shot.
Its really amazing to see what PhotoShop or simply post processing can do to a picture. Its actually less than half the effort to take the photo, its the post processing which gives a different dimension to the image and helps you to give it a theme. The next photo is a very good example of what processing can do to an image. When I took this photo in the 2010 Republic Day parade in Chennai, I didn't get the feel its a catchy one, but after processing it is certainly.
Youtube is a very good place to start learning photography. There are a lot of nice tutorials and thats where I learnt how to shoot water droplets. Sometimes you need to stop thinking too much and just be simple to get the setup for your photo. For this photo it was just a waste plastic cover, a cloth clip and tray of water is all I needed to create my array of water droplets coming down at a constant interval so that I can get my shot in time.
Info (Droplet): 90mm, f/22, 1/125 s, ISO 1600, -1 EV, Centre weighted metering.
One of the basic requirements for photography is the combination of patience and interest. This is a very slow process and if its not your full time profession then the learning curve is high. Many good photographs are made when you are at the right place at the right time and with the right gadget.
The tiny little display on the camera often gives a wrong perception. The pictures always look different on a bigger scale. That's something I learnt the hard way, many a times the photo looks absolutely perfect in the camera screen but when I copy it to my system it looks awful. Its not possible even for the pro's / experts to get the best shot easily, taking as many shots as possible does the trick.
Cheers :-)
Keep Shooting..!!!
