Halloween 2010

Sujaya was dressed up as a Ballerina Dancer. 


She was wearing a white tee, with a pink tights and a Tu-tu, that I made. 


I found an interesting page in the internet which gave a step-by-step procedure of how to make a tutu, which I thought, I would try for the Halloween costume for Sujaya.

To my surprise it turned out well, and I was glad that I could be crafty too. So was my husband. Apart from the happiness, the satisfaction of dressing up our baby doll, with a handmade special costume, was bigger. 

Here are some pictures that I took on the Halloween day, of my daughter - Sujaya.

The pictures are taken with my new EF 50 mm f/1.8. I am still getting a hang of it, particularly with an excited toddler, as what she is in the pictures as the subject.

I told : "God Bless this child for looking at the camera and SMILING". Seriously, she wanted to get off and run around to see her new tutu swirl with her. She would not sit still in once place. 

She was getting off the setup in this shot.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

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Pumpkin Patch

Our trip to the Pumpkin Patch -  first ever trip for my husband, my daughter and myself.
It was fun. My daughter was anxious about the pumpkins, and I was anxious about the colors that I would manage to click and my husband was tired of driving in the traffic, which we didnot expect.
That evening, the sky was overcast, not much of sun, not the kind of evening that I wanted to capture the colors, but since we planned the visit all of a sudden, I had to bear with it.
After 2+ ours of journey we arrived there.Sujaya and my husband enjoyed it their own way. Sujaya carried, sat on, jumped on, slided, held over her head, hugged, ran between, hopped and did what ever she could do with the pumpkins.
To me, first of all, it was very crowded - which I did not expect, and I dint have a clue as how to go about it. And I dint know how to capture the fun with the crowd in it, till the end.
But I got some decent pictures at every possible lonely place.

















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Hands on Macro

My first ever attempt on macro shots.
It is with the Reverse Ring Converter that I fixed to the regular kit lens - EF 18-55 mm.
It really does wonders - it was completely amazing to see through a so-called macro lens. But it was not that easy to find the subject or the focus, or even to keep the focus intact till I clicked the frame. NO. A very small, minor shake made tremendous blur and out-of-focus crappy shots.
After several crappy shots, I got a few decent ones. The fall colors.





The leaf with a bit of natural light behind it, made this shot, letting me "see through" it, its network.





Those are not natural shots, though they are real leaves in natural light. Confusing right?
California, Bay Area, is not so popular for fall foliage and the nearest location to see fall foliage would be Oregon or San Diego, which is no where in our agenda, right now.
So I collected a handful of leaves of yellow and red, and set them on a plant pot filled with soil only, placed them in a place with good amount of light- not direct though, and clicked them. I dint get the exact steady hands that I wanted -so, I set them on a table and here it goes. I got a few better ones.
Just that day I had also received my new EF 50 mm F/1.8 , so thought would play with it too. And here is one good shot from it.


Wish to capture the beauty of fall Al Naturale, some day with my third eye.

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