Photo – Supermoon

 

The night of March 19, 2011 was special in some ways, as the pretty moon came the closest to earth in 20 years. While a lot of people analysed and reanalysed what this meant and what repercussions this would have, a lot of photographers, amateur and professional alike, waited with bated breath for the celestial spectacle.

I sat up pretty late for the moon to get into position outside my window [my terrace was locked] and in a way, it was worth it. Got to see the moon in its splendour as well as experiment with shutter speeds and aperture sizes for the best exposure.

Here is one of my results:

 

Chandamama, just as we all know and love him :)

Mobile Photo - A sunset at Bandra

 

Mobile phone cameras are one of the biggest boons for photographers. It allows you to carry a camera everywhere you go. True, its not all great shakes like a real camera rig, but something is better than nothing.

Lately, with all the hype about the Apple iPad coming to India, the cool wallpaper displayed on the stock photos of the iPad is one of the reasons so many people fall for it. Just for the record, the photograph is called “Pyramid Lake – At night” and is photographed by Richard Misrach. You can read more of the story of the official iPad background image.

Its a beautiful picture and worthy of being a wallpaper.

When I walked on Bandra’s Bandstand Promenade recently, the sun had set about half an hour ago and the twilight created a beautiful picture. I was coming back from work and did not have my camera with me. But my mobile came to my rescue and I had my own wallpaper.

This is with a 3.2 Megapixel camera with autofocus [ I’m a poor guy :) ]. It might not be technically correct, but you can take good photos with a mobile camera.

Comments and feedback welcome.

Photo – A study in macro

 

One of the things that I always love doing with anything new, especially gadgets, is to figure out how to work the capabilities of that gadget. After reading the camera manual, I decided to test the settings.

 

This was taken in the afternoon, and as you must’ve guessed, this picture is underexposed. When I tried post processing, it was a rather harsh result. So I’ve left it at that.

As usual, please direct all comments and opinions here…. I’d love to learn.

Photo – A Kolkata Sunset

 

Its been some time since I’ve been writing this blog and a lot of readers pointed out that I had not posted a single photograph I clicked.

So without much ado, here’s my first photo on my site.

This was during a visit to Kolkata and a boat ride across the Hoogly river. The iconic Howrah bridge was downriver and I was hoping I’d get a good shot of it. However with poor lighting, it got extremely difficult to catch from the distance I was at. However the beautiful sunset near the Vidyasagar Setu made a much prettier picture.

As usual, comments and suggestions are welcome.