Angel...

She is Ahaana, my colleague's daughter.

I had this opportunity to click her on our family day.

A Quiet Morning..

It's a long time since i uploaded a new pic here. Here is the sunrise over Mula River, Aundh captured during my early morning walk..

Pic details: Nikon D-40, 18-55 mm, f/5.6, ISO-200, 1/1600 sec taken at 18 mm with Manual exposure mode and little post processing in Lightroom..

flowers and...

Image details: ISO80, exposure time 1/1000 sec, focal length @9.8mm, aperture mode, location: Tapola, Mahabaleshwar.

Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya..

"asato ma sadgamaya
tamaso ma jyotirgamaya
mrityorma amrtam gamaya"

Lead me from the unreal to the real.
Lead me from darkness to light.
Lead me from death to immortality.

(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad — I.iii.28)

Picture Details: Nikon-D40, 18-55 mm lens, f/5.6, 1/30 sec, ISO-400 taken at 55 mm.

Grape vine

Pic details: ISO80, focal length @10.4mm, Exposure time @1/100 sec, Aperture priority mode,

Celebration time!

Rasmi lighting the candles for Sivaram's birthday!!

Picture Details: Nikon-D40, 18-55 mm, ISO-400, 1/100 sec and EV -1.3

Morning Blossom #4

It's been a long time since we ventured out of our room even during weekends. We had become lazy and swine flu out break has helped us become stagnant. Krishna has decided to break the shackles today on a cloudy morning and we went out for a walk into the fields behind our apartment. Its quite damp and even though the walk was not completely enjoyable, at least it helped us break the routine..

I tried capturing a macro of this beautiful flower during our walk and it came out decently..

Picture details: Nikon D-40, 18-55 mm lens, f/8, 1/250 sec, ISO-200 and shot at 55 mm focal length.

At Peace...

Photo details: Nikon-D40, 18-55 mm lens, @55mm, f/5.6, 1/125 sec, ISO-200, EV -0.7

rain drops #1

I was waiting for an opportunity to make this kind of shot since long. Finally, it happened on last Saturday, during our trip to Lonavala. How fresh and clean these drops look! May all our impurities and evil thoughts wash away with these rains! May the world spring with new life!

PS: special thanks to Sravan for letting me use his camera.

Dreamland!!

I was worried during our trip to lonavala that rain that's falling continuously might spoil my camera at any time. But i didn't expect it would make capturing this beautiful art like image possible. I couldn't believe even after seeing this picture many times that this came from a camera but not from the drawing board.

Image details: Nikon D40, 18-55 mm lens, taken at 46 mm, f/5.6 with exposure of 1/125 sec at ISO-200.

Wonderful sunset.!

I will never regret coming early from office from now on!! Why would i, after watching one of the most beautiful and colorful "Good Bye for the day"s given. These days are special because they represent the end of the summer and the beginning of monsoon. Truly, a joy to behold this moment and I'm fortunate. Nature is wonderful..!

Photo details: Nikon D40, 18-55 mm, f/8, 1/320 sec, ISO-200, and taken at 35 mm focal length with exposure value (EV) of -2.3

Morning blossom #3

I love weekends because i will get more time to explore the nature through the camera lens and also because i can spend more time in kitchen..!! Well, a routine start today but this little one had brighten up my lazy morning..So i thought i should take some more photos of this fair one. You can find them here

Photo details: Nikon D40, 18-55 mm lens, ISO-200, f/5.6, 1/320 sec and EV -0.7

Light scribbles!

PS: this picture was taken with an exposure time of 5sec, at low aperture! Sravan is the source of this idea! By the way, updated photo pages of mine, and Sravan's!

Hope

A candle in the dark, or a lighting match stick for that matter... a true symbol for hope! Though they may not last forever, they give the first quantum of energy needed to survive the darkness (grey periods in life)!

What's for lunch.?

Yummy tomatoes for lunch today..These things have become our weekend photographic subjects these days.

Picture details: Nikon D40, 18-55 mm lens, f/5.3, 1/30 sec, ISO-800 and taken at 42 mm focal length.

Metallic beauty..!

Metals attracted all kinds of living things using their shiny nature and are continuing to do so. Well, humans are a step ahead of other beings and fought wars for having ownership of these shiny things. I don't want to take any thing away from these things. Metals are truly beautiful when they are carved into artistic forms and simply pleases your eyes with their aesthetic beauty..

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to take a picture of one of those beautiful things, which belongs to a friend of mine..Girls love them, don't they? And why not?.. Hats off to the maker..!

Picture details: Nikon D40, 18-55 mm lens, f/5.6, 1/6 sec exposure time, ISO-800and taken at 55 mm focal length.

Night sky..!

Picture details: Nikon D40, 18-55 mm lens, f/4.2, 10 sec, ISO 200and taken at 26 mm focal length.

City at night.!

Since it has been a boring day, i wanted to try something different. So i went to our terrace after dinner for the first time to try few night shots to see how the snaps will be. Result is wonderful and is here to see. I tried using the tripod but since it is a windy night, most of the snaps came out blurred. Nevertheless i had been welcomed into the wonderful world of night photography. I'm lovin it...

Picture details: Nikon D40, 18-55 mm lens, f/5.6, 15sec, ISO 200 taken at 55 mm focal length

yummy yummy tomato

Photo details: Nikon-D40, f/5.6, 1/39sec, ISO400 and 18-55mm lens @82mm. Natural light coming from windows is used.

Early morning blossom..#2

Image details: Nikon D40 & 18-55 mm lens. 55mm, f/5.6, 1/20sec, ISO-200

Early morning blossom..!

I tried to get few macros this morning and here is one which has come decently..

Image details: Nikon D40 & 18-55 mm lens. 55mm, f/5.6, 1/160sec, ISO-200

Capturing light..

"What matters in photography is not how much your camera costs, but how skillfully it is used to create the image perceived in the imagination and in the mind."

- Chris Weston

Being able to capture correct amount of light is what makes a good photo and if one is able to get the composition right, it would result in a great picture.

I would like to share few points about the two basic parameters, which are useful in controlling the amount of light captured by the camera sensor. These two basic controls are aperture and shutter speed. It's very important to know the relation between these two parameters and the light captured. In the field of photography, light is measured with a unit called exposure value (EV). Let's know how to control EV by manipulating aperture and shutter speed.

Shutter speed: Shutter controls the duration of exposure i.e., the duration of time the sensor is exposed to light. It's measured in seconds and fractions of seconds whose range in a a typical camera is from 30 sec to 1/4000 sec. So reducing the shutter speed from 1/125 sec to 1/250 sec halves the exposure duration i.e, decreases the EV by one stop and vice versa.

Lens Aperture: Lens aperture controls the amount of light passing through to the sensor by increasing or decreasing the size of the pin hole created by the diaphragm in the lens. In this case, doubling the area of the pin hole doubles the quantity of light and hence increases the EV by 1 stop. This is referred to as f/stops or f/numbers (f->focal). To make it simple, f/4 indicates that the ratio of the lens focal length to the area of the pin hole is 4. i.e., aperture size is 1/4th of the focal length of the lens. So lower the f/number more is the aperture size and hence more light will pass through to the lens.

Reciprocity: If we double the quantity of the light passing through to the sensor (by increasing the lens aperture), then we must halve the duration of exposure (increase shutter speed) to maintain the same exposure value (EV).

Being said this, the most important thing is to plan for the perfect picture. Imagination and visualization are great assets to take some wonderful snaps. To be there at the right place and at the right moment takes something on your part but if you have patience and are able to get the composition right, you are surely on your way up the ladder..!


Image details: Gopal waiting for the perfect moment to capture the sunrise!!
Nikon D40 SLR, 18-55 mm lens @ 55 mm, f/8, 1/100 sec, ISO-200

Under the shower tree...

On this romantic summer morning,... when the shimmering moon and sparkling stars started disappearing... after the night long cold breezes are gone... when the Sun is about to shower his first rays of energy onto the world... when the world is getting ready for another blissful day... I am here, waiting for you... under the shower tree in its full blossom...

Photo details: SONY DSC-H50, @78mm, f/4.5, 1/100, ISO-80. location: near Baner-Pashan connecting road, Pune, on a warm Sunday morning.

Dancing in the breeze..!

"Besides the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze"

As we were waiting for the morning sun to rise and fill the world with light, these little things were dancing in the cool morning breeze coming over from the lake. A wonderful joy to behold them in the stillness and solitude of a fine summer morning. What joy must have been felt by the great poet William Wordsworth when he saw daffodils, which inspired him to make such a beautiful poem..

"In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon the inward eye,
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils."

Picture details: Nikon-D40 SLR, 18-55 mm lens, @ 55 mm, f/8, 1/125 sec & ISO-200

Thinking of you...

"In this world of long-forgotten letters... In these days of key-boards and monitors... In these times of aimless thoughts... In these thoughts of those fond memories... I thought of remembering you... I thought of writing... I thought of writing your name... I thought of filling your name all over the page... I though of filling your name all over my heart..."

PS: This shot was captured while one of our friends was writing her loved one's name all over a paper, while there was a glow on her face, mixed with happiness, joy and warmth of love!

Light..!

The most important thing in this universe is LIGHT. In fact it's because of light that every being lives. Apart from that, the beauty of light is that it makes the world around us colorful. It's the colorful nature that fills every heart with joy and inspiration. A combination of photographer's creativity and imagination with correct amount of light produces a master piece. This indeed is our goal to try and capture nature's eternal beauty and the moments that we come across in our journey called life.

Photo details: Nikon D40, Shutter speed - 1/250 sec, Aperture - f/4.5, ISO-200 at 18 mm focal length. Location -Pune

the journey begins!

Hi... welcome to our photography blog! We are two budding photographers, trying to explore world in our proximity, through our inner and camera lenses. Hope you will have good time here. We will be sharing some of our good outcomes of our day-to-day clicks! This blog is an attempt to learn and share techniques and ideas of photography!