The Photography Thread

[tkin]

^^ Thanks for the join, yeah, one of the perils of not having auto panoroma and manual white balance controls, all pics taken in full auto, so color came out different.

[sujoyp]

yaah...I take panorama with tripod its easy that way..

This one is blending 3 pics together with photoshop

[axes2t2]

Friend captured it I did the rest.



Was looking through some pages and some of the pics are really amazing.

[INS-ANI]

@sujyop I am glad u finally had success with water droplets.
regarding the panaroma shot, can you try to decrease the brightness to match the level of adjacent pics and then merge them.

[sujoyp]

Animesh I tried but the whole white balance is different...colors r just not matching

And regarding droplets...I am still not satisfied ...now I want various shapes..and still dont have perfect idea what to splash...maybe ice will do

[arian29]

HillTop by doomslyr, on Flickr

[sujoyp]

nice sceneric place arian29

but y didnt u go to the edge of the cliff to take the shot

[arian29]

Thanks.. actually we were late for the glacier treck so had to rush.. ;P someone even came in the path of my shot.. left corner.. didnt want to crop it

[sujoyp]

glacier treck wow

[kjuvale]

Nice pics by everyone. Sujoy: really nice droplet shot.

Right now I am in Innsbruck in Austria for conference and its really beautiful city surrounded by snowy mountains.


Innsbruck by digitman2006, on Flickr


Innsbruck by digitman2006, on Flickr

[sujoyp]

Thanks kapil

ur 2nd pic is good..very colorful

But 1st pic is looking curved...

[arian29]

Destination


DSC00651 by doomslyr, on Flickr

DSC00665 by doomslyr, on Flickr

DSCN1126 by doomslyr, on Flickr

IMG_0430 by doomslyr, on Flickr

[sujoyp]

nice shot arian29...where did u shoot them

some more splash pics

[a_medico]

Kapil, second pic is stunning.

[arian29]

@sujoy its Ilaka glacier, 8hrs treck from McLeod Gunj near Dharamsala.

How do u make the drop.. you do it or someone else ? Do u use timer ?

[sujoyp]

8 hrs treck...thats too much

I use a water container which we generally take for holidays...put on a higher place...and start the knob with drop by drop...soo its kind of automatic dropper

Nope timer is of no use...just manual focus ur cam on the spot where drop is falling and use flash use f8-f11...just do trial and error with timing and u will soon get the timing right

[dashing.sujay]

For taking those drops, you must have reduced shutter timing ? (don't kill me if there's no setting like that )

[sujoyp]

actually if u can shoot in direct sunlight u can use shutter speed of 1/1200-1/1600 but when shooting indoor u will not be able to give enough light to keep that shutter speed.

solution is use flash...but flash can not be used faster than 1/200 but we can freeze the drops with that

[dashing.sujay]

^Thanks. tomorrow is my photography day

[kjuvale]

@Sujoy and Medico: thanks for comments.
Sujoy: first pic is curve maybe because i took multiple shots from same position and then stitched them together.

today the weather was much better here are two more :


Innsbruck by digitman2006, on Flickr


Innsbruck by digitman2006, on Flickr

[toofan]

sujoy: nice experiments.
Kapil: good as always.
Arian: nice series, look for some interesting compos. i.e. placing the subject that the important areas in a frame.


Made some Indoor portraits, Posting for Critiques and suggestions.

D90+ 50mm 1.8 lens + Vivitar 285HV and Nissing Di 622 Mk II. Thanks

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_DSC4824 by toofan.v, on Flickr

[sujoyp]

@vimal nice portraits...its looking perfect... now start taking portrait professionally

3rd one is superb

[dashing.sujay]

^Ya 3rd one is good, but shouldn't the girl should smile?

[sujoyp]

bro dont u see models shows attitude while photoshoot and dont smile to all the pics

[dashing.sujay]

Yep but she doesn't appears to be a model

[sujoyp]

tried light photography

used 20 sec exposure...and wrote the whole word togather...its fun...will do more experiements with this

[dashing.sujay]

^thats very good sujoy, how did you do that? Is it clicked or photoshop made?

[sujoyp]

Its bit difficult then I thought actually
1. set a dark room
2. put ur DSLR on a tripod and set shutter speed = 20" (20 second)
3. take a torch in hand ....put camera at 10 sec self timer mode
4. click the cam button and run at the place
5. As soon as it click dance with the torch to write in the air do this before it make a click sound again
6. it takes time to save...do some PP like darken the image very much so that only u can see the light and no other object...remove all artifacts...and is done

[arian29]

nice shots @toofan.. @sujoy.. do u use nd filter ?
ill be going to haridwar n rishikesh in april and will carry the 50mm and the 18-55mm with me. i was wondering if a monopod would be handy? maybe while taking night shots ?

[sujoyp]

I dont have ND filter...coz good nd filter cost too much ....and anyways we dont have flowing water or sea near my city ...I wont require it.

I was thinking of getting circular polariser...or maybe graduated ND filter is more useful..

monopod is handy but can not replace tripod..u have to balance the monopod with ur hand anyways
go with tripod ...thats a better idea for night landscapes