There is a bunch of pictures that I have taken - all from my eeny tiny Patio.
On those evenings when Sujaya decides to be on her own I get a good half hour to play with my toy! :)
Some pictures from my playing!
That was an attempted macro. But it turned not so well with reverse ring. So went ahead with RAW, 55-250mm and cropped it super tight to fit the frame, like I wanted. And a bit of editing to fix the color. Cropping a file when it is in RAW does not reduce the picture size later and a RAW file is more comfortable and flexible for editing.
Some super tight macros of some bugs on the plants. It is quite boring to take the pictures of the flowers all the time. But sure this one was so creepy, that I did not care to edit these pictures.
This little guy was in such nice mood to pose for me and also gave me some time to experiment with the lenses. First I started with macro. It did not turn out well since it was also hiding inbetween the flowers. Then went on with the the kit lens and the 55-250mm (with all the time, the file format being constant at RAW), and was not happy. So kept juggling and finally settled with the 55-250mm lens, ISO 200 since it was an overcast day and shutter speed = half of the ISO that is 100.
The dreamy effect in this picture is with: the subject isolated, the background being atleast 3-5 feet far off, and with my ever so favorite 50 mm prime lens with f stop at 1.8.
Setting the subject atleast 10 feet away from the background in case of bigger subjects and 4 feet away in case of smaller subjects like the above helps in yielding a beautiful dreamy bokeh replacing a harsh, distorted and distracting bokeh.
This shot of the water drops on the leaf was one of the easiest shots that I took in quite a while now. I borrowed Sujaya's spray bottle for a second, sprayed on the lily leaf. The setup was done. Loaded the 55-250mm lens, ISO 400 (one can clearly see some grains) and shutter speed 30, since aperture was 5.6, the picture was done. Crop it tight, up the colors and tweek the contrast, editing is done too.
My next item on the "to try" list is different lightings. I am now trying to play with different lightings (natural) for quite sometime now. Let me try to make my next post all about lightings when I get to try it and when a few of my experiments turn out well.
On those evenings when Sujaya decides to be on her own I get a good half hour to play with my toy! :)
Some pictures from my playing!
That was an attempted macro. But it turned not so well with reverse ring. So went ahead with RAW, 55-250mm and cropped it super tight to fit the frame, like I wanted. And a bit of editing to fix the color. Cropping a file when it is in RAW does not reduce the picture size later and a RAW file is more comfortable and flexible for editing.
Some super tight macros of some bugs on the plants. It is quite boring to take the pictures of the flowers all the time. But sure this one was so creepy, that I did not care to edit these pictures.
This little guy was in such nice mood to pose for me and also gave me some time to experiment with the lenses. First I started with macro. It did not turn out well since it was also hiding inbetween the flowers. Then went on with the the kit lens and the 55-250mm (with all the time, the file format being constant at RAW), and was not happy. So kept juggling and finally settled with the 55-250mm lens, ISO 200 since it was an overcast day and shutter speed = half of the ISO that is 100.
The dreamy effect in this picture is with: the subject isolated, the background being atleast 3-5 feet far off, and with my ever so favorite 50 mm prime lens with f stop at 1.8.
Setting the subject atleast 10 feet away from the background in case of bigger subjects and 4 feet away in case of smaller subjects like the above helps in yielding a beautiful dreamy bokeh replacing a harsh, distorted and distracting bokeh.
This shot of the water drops on the leaf was one of the easiest shots that I took in quite a while now. I borrowed Sujaya's spray bottle for a second, sprayed on the lily leaf. The setup was done. Loaded the 55-250mm lens, ISO 400 (one can clearly see some grains) and shutter speed 30, since aperture was 5.6, the picture was done. Crop it tight, up the colors and tweek the contrast, editing is done too.
My next item on the "to try" list is different lightings. I am now trying to play with different lightings (natural) for quite sometime now. Let me try to make my next post all about lightings when I get to try it and when a few of my experiments turn out well.
loved it nithya.. frm the bugs to the write up!
ReplyDeleteThank you Michelle :)
ReplyDeleteNice pics Nitya
ReplyDeleteThanks Bindu! :)
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