Saturday, August 27, 2016

Long way to go for Perfection!!!

Heading there for sure at my own pace.
Well some more star trail photos. This time they are more visible and accurate. The below photo was taken to get the visibility of the sky.


The next two photographs are the real attempts at star trail photography. I am also inserting the videos of the star movement that was captured in the photos.

Video Photo

Saturday, August 20, 2016

I am back!!!

Hi all,

Apologies as I have been very irregular at updating the blog and sharing new photos and tips. As there is lot of info about photography around us, there was lack of motivation on my part.
So here's some more photos and tips.
  • Silhouette:This photographs was taken at Raigad fort. I have a Canon 550D (Rebel T2i). After using the camea for 4-5 years I have understood one thing that to get noise-less photos I can not increase my ISO more than 800. This photograph has similar settings. ISO was 800 and shutterspeed of 1/30th so that I could capture the stillness of the clouds (You will come to know regarding the moving clouds in further reading) and also the silhouette of the temple. The sky colours were amazing.


  • Bokeh Background:
    This effect can be achieved if  there is a long distance between the foreground and background of your photo. In the below image you can see the flower is in focus and the background is totally out of focus (bokeh). These kind of effect gives a very good depth of field and your subject pops out in the photo. I am using 18-270 mm Tamron lens. I clicked the photo with a zoom of approx 180mm and aperture of 3.5 due to which I got this effect. Higher the aperture (numerically) of the camera lower the depth of field you will achieve. Actually in reference to aperture lower the number of the aperture higher amount of light is captured by the camera.

  • Motion in still image:
    The heading is a bit confusing but the photo will explain it. If you see the photo you could feel that it was clicked while I was moving. The road in the centre of the photo is still and in focus but you can see the motion blur around the edges of the photo. To get this effect you need to have a long exposure to get the movement. I was in the moving gypsy. The shutter-speed i used for this photo was approx 1/20 and the ISO was 800.

  • Moving clouds:
    This photo is similar to the previous one but the only difference is that the above photo was taken during day time and the below photo is taken during the night at approx 9.00 9.30 p.m.
    To minimise the noise in the photo I kept the ISO to 400. The aperture was 3.5 and the shutter-speed was 20 seconds (tripod use was mandatory)