Effect of Circular Polarizing Filter

Gauthama, my NHS friend and photographic freak like me recently purchased Circular Polarizing Filter (CPL). We both were experimenting the effect CPL. We were amazed to see the difference. The basic purpose of CPL is to avoid and cut off unwanted and reflected light.. See the differences yourself.

 

 

In above two pictures first one is without CPL and second one is with CPL. You can see that unwanted  reflection from floor is cut off. (Please bare with me, pics are under-exposed)

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In above 2 samples, you can observe the same difference. The unwanted reflected light from spec is avoided in second snap. Another similar sample below..

 

I am planning to buy a CPL next week.. :D

Light Painting, its so fun...

Are you seen painting. Ofc yes, who would have not seen. But I am asking about Painting on Air/Space? Yes!! I am not joking. The following photo is an example. This was taken in our room with full darkness and my thimmi is writing a loving heart in air and I captured this with my cam.. The concept is called as Light painting.

 

Aperture: F/3.8, Shutter: 8 sec, Focal length: 18 mm

 

One more example with same exposure values:

 

Get more technical information: http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/slow-shutter-shoot-out-3-slow-shutter-speed-techniques/

Capturing Spider

Oh! man it is so very difficult to capture the spider and its web. Auto Focus does not work on web, because of its tiny nature. Background is again very important as the wen threads can be very thin. This morning while walking in the park I noticed few webs which attracted me. I cut short my walking and went back home to get my camera to shoot them. Here are some trials. Please comment.

 

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Trip to Chikmagalur

Event:

It was Dhruva's marriage on 22nd Aug 2008, Friday. He had invited almost all high school friends. We decided to attend his marriage.

Plan:

Initially MS, Srinand, Pasha, Harisha, Teju, Gautham and myself had plans to travel to Chikmagalur in 2 cars. But gradually Pasha, Harisha and Srinand dropped for various reasons. Finally MS, Gautham, Teju and myself decided to travel in my car and Srividya G and Sidda came in their car. We got up very early at 4 AM and started at around 5 AM from from MS place.

Trip:

It was very dark when we started and lot of traffic in Tumkur. Narrow road, less lighting and High beam from oncoming lorries made the driving very difficult after taking left from Tumkur road. We stopped Kamat Upachar for break fast and I drove till Hassan and then MS took over. The last stretch was driven by Gautham. We reached the marriage hall at around 10 AM. It was just before Muhurtham. Had break fast again at the marriage and took some rest.

 

Photography:

Gautham and I went for some good photography around the place. There was a lake near by and found some fauna for our cameras. You can watch all photos here ->

 

I loved this insect --

So sweet girl

And this boy was very quite

 

Gautham, MS and myself

 

Return Journey: 

Started back from there by around 5 PM and reached Bangalore by 11 PM. We felt air was little less in tyre but never found any place for air. So we drove very slow discussing on various topics. Stopped at a dabha near Nelamangala for dinner.

 

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Lalbhag Flower Show

My friend Gautham, a.k.a Tamma (NHS Class Mate), invited me to Lalbhag flower show yesterday for capturing some snaps. He has also newly bought a DSLR Canon EOD 400D (Digital Rebel XTi). But the timings did not match and he went in the morning and I went in the afternoon. Have a look at few of my snaps..

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