Happy Deepavali!!!

This panorama shot was shot by my brother from our terrace on the 3rd floor. The shot is actually shot at 18mm wide angle. I cropped the unwanted sky on the top and some part of the ground to create this panorama effect.

On this Darkest Night of November let us all rekindle our lives with the Magic of Love, Joy of Compassion and Warmth of Togetherness and reignite our Passion for Peace, Growth and Success... Wish you all Happiness, Prosperity and most important Contentment on this Deepavali.

Saakshaath by the window

Finally after more than a month took out my camera yesterday. Took this snap of Saakshaath standing next to window. The natural light coming from the window gave a very moody lighting. Edited this snap using GIMP and converted it into a black and white snap. Applied a filter called Old Photograph and this is the result.

Photography Workshop - Second Assignment on field.

Sunday, 21st March 2010... Bright sunny morning and hardly any clouds in sight... The morning fog just evaporated due to the harsh sunlight. Sudhir called everyone for a huddle. "The Sun is out bright and this is causing some harsh shadows too..." he said, "... Your second assignment is to use this situation such that, the subject is in the bright sunlight and use the shadows to make your backgrounds dark... if possible black." We all dispersed trying to find a subject which is close to the shadows and is in bright sunlight. After 10 minutes of searching the landscape, I found a small tree with white flowers and this is what I got...


Some of the white flowers were in sunlight and the dark leaves and the shade under the tree provided me the required dark background. The flower is just about a centimeter wide, white petals with bright yellow Anthers... Now if you are wondering I'm not a botanist... I had to lookup Wikipedia for the term... LOL... I did some minor adjustments to the RAW file tweaking the exposure and cropping the photograph to get rid of other distracting elements in the photograph and to improve the composition of the picture by offsetting the flower from dead center. This was the first time I used Nikon's Capture NX 2 (Trial Version). I kind of like what I see. Hope you like it too...