Fireworks - July 4th 2009 - one more

Click on the picture to see the real beauty!

Hello All,
Welcome again! I think I should get over more of my laziness in sharing what I am doing! Anyway this is one more shot which I took during the last July 4th celebration. I was sitting with a group of friends in the lawns of the nearby school watching the fireworks. I was holding the camera in my hand clicking away.. Since I was exposing it long enough, it came out wavy beautiful. Hope you like it!

Tech:
Canon XSI, 55-250mm at 96mm
f/5.0
1/6s
ISO: 800

Fireworks July 4th 2009, Cupertino, California

This is one photo that eluded me for months! Finally I could fish it out. I casually went to the July 4th fireworks when one of my friends invited me over to the nearby school grounds. Since there were many people with not enough space to even walk around, let alone setup a tripod. I sat on the ground and started clicking away. Some shots made the cut. This is what I really liked! Hope you like it too! Click on the image to enlarge it. When you enlarge it, scroll up and down quickly using the scroll wheel of your mouse while watching the picture for a special effect.

Tech: Canon XSI with 55-250 IS - Hand held
f/18.0
15.0 sec
ISO 800

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Months of silence

Hello All,
I apologize for the long silence and I promise this will not happen again. I was not well and now I am back. I was traveling a bit too. Meanwhile didn't I take any new photos? No way! I kept taking but didn't stretch myself too much. Now I will start posting those photos and discuss techniques. Hopefully it will be useful for you all.

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Love you all
Raghu

My favourite

Welcome back Again!!

Click on the picture to see the real beauty!

As usual I started off for my lunch time walk one day - my back pack adorning my back once again! As many of my colleagues were walking too, I was hesitating to pull out my camera. My office buddy said - 'Oh Come on Raghu click this one'. Waited for others to pass, then pulled out my camera. This was just a wild bush. I had to pace around for some minutes before settling for this angle. It was a cloudy day and that added to the beauty too.

I just fell in love with it the moment I saw it on the LCD. Many of my colleagues liked it and used it as their desktop background. I really liked the bokeh. Hope you like it too..

Tech details: Canon XSI

Nifty Fifty - 50mm at 1.8

1/640 sec

ISO: 100

Spring showers

Welcome Back!

To see spring showers you really need to get down! Looks like misty dew! As I was walking taking pictures of flowers, I noticed these flowers. But then there was a hitch. They were pale and didn't look quite beautiful as to keep. What do you do then? Just click them anyway. And use some picture editing software! Took a couple of pictures. This seemed to fit in well with what I had in mind.

It was an overcast day and that added to the beauty. All I did was saturate it a bit. Then it looked beautiful. Click on the picture to see the details. Hope you like it!

The tech details:

Canon XSI

Nifty-Fifty

f/1.8

1/800 sec

ISO 100

Used Picasa to saturate

Pine Cone

Welcome back!

Ever since I read the strange importance of Fibonacci numbers in Photography, I wanted to take a picture of a Pine Cone. Incidentally we had kept a pine cone at home since I found it beautiful never knowing the scientific reason behind it's beauty! Two spirals go upwards in two opposite directions. Both these spirals have different frequencies - one goes 8 rounds when the other goes 13 rounds.

After having decided to take a picture, I wanted to take it in angled natural light - because I wanted to capture the contours of it to the maximum effect. When one day the late evening sunshine entered our living room, I set it on the floor, set the camera on the floor took some shots. This was the best of the lot. Hope you like it.

Technical details -

Canon XSI

50mm prime

f/2.2

1/250sec

ISO: 100

California dry grass!!

Beginning of the dry summer of California!

As summer advances in California, the green grass ends up like this - scary particularly because of the frequent fires that break out. Very soon they will be mowing the whole place to avoid any danger of fire. But now it has it's own silky beauty you can see above! 

This was taken during a photo walk to a location called DISH on the Stanford University campus.  I had to sit down to get this angle in the hot sun light. But it was worth the effort because, in a week it would have all gone and also because it was picture perfect!

Tech:

Canon XSI

50mm

f/1.8

1/4000 sec

ISO: 100