More with the Panasonic G1

Some more pictures with the Panasonic G1.

It was Christmas and by the time I landed home from office (it was a working day here in the KSA), the sun was setting with a lovely glow.

Sunset!

Sunset again.. with the sun slightly lower in the horizon

We had already planned to go out for dinner to a small but famous restaurant called "Baasha", famous for its pizzas.

Roast chicken with the Panasonic G1. Flash off. Shot in ambient light.

f4  1/20 s  400 ASA

Pizzas - Egg n Cheese & Chicken, Cheese and Olives

f4  1/15 s  400 ASA

Meat Bread - Meat and Meat Pizza

f4  1/15 s  400 ASA

The Pizza Chef!

f4  1/20 s  400 ASA

Shawarmas - no.. we were full and left that for another day . .

f4  1/20 s  400 ASA

Panasonic G1 | 14-45 mm kit lens

A portrait . . .

Taken yesterday evening with the Panasonic G1.

1600 ASA | 1/15 sec | f5.6 handheld. B&W Dynamic mode set in camera.

Panasonic G1 | 14-45 mm kit lens

Panasonic G1 - first few shots

The Panasonic G1 with the 14-45 mm arrived a couple of days ago.. delayed by a brief detour to Kuwait and the Christmas shipping delays. Anyway, it arrived just before Christmas as Amazon.com promised.

The first few shots . . . 

 

Sunset in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia

 

Breaking the rules! No rule of thirds..

 

Rule of thirds!

Looks less dramatic than the earlier shot.

Afterglow

Shot from my kitchen window. It was too cold up on the roof!

Panasonic G1 | Panasonic 14-45 mm

Early Morning !

Early morning in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The thin strip of light at the lower part of the frame is the sea glistening in the early morning sun.

Taken with a Panasonic FS62.

Random Calcutta - still more experiments with the D300

Still experimenting. Some more off-beat pictures taken in Calcutta during early November 2010.

Taken with a Nikon D300 and Nikon 18-70 mm zoom.

Burnt out warehouse on Strand Road. Parts of the roof have collapsed.

Howrah Bridge. 

Converted to B&W via Lightroom.

Howrah bridge again... choc-a-bloc with traffic

                                                                                                   A sradh ceremony

St. Teresa's church in Moulali, Central Calcutta

Jagadharti Puja

Simla Street, North Calcutta

Flight through the clouds

Some pictures from my trip to Chennai in September 2010. Taken from the aircraft with a Panasonic FS62.

Sometime during the flight, I was fiddling with the camera to see the pictures. An air-hostess came up to me and asked me whether I was taking pictures. I said no and was in two minds to tell her that air-hostesses on Jet used to be much better (looking) prior to the cost-cutting days...

The aircraft is almost making for the break in the clouds!

The same picture converted to B&W by Adobe Lightroom and Nik Silver Efex Pro.

Almost frightening in appearance..

Blue sky @ 35,000 ft

 En route to Chennai... little tufts of clouds

'Whatcha doing'?

Ringo in November 2010. Quizzically looking at me trying to take a photo of him.

In fact, I was shooting some flowers and it was quite warm in the sun. Ringo was waiting for me to go down to the cooler comfort of our apartment downstairs.

Shot with a Nikon D300 with a Tamron 70-300 AF at 300 mm f5.6 and 1/90s.

D300 : More experiments

Still trying out the Nikon D300's capabilities.

The shot has been taken with the Nikon 50mm f1.4 AFD @ f2.8.

The same shot converted to B&W!

I personally like the B&W better.


D300

Experiments with the Nikon D300

Finally got hold of the Nikon D300 this afternoon.

Some set-up is still required. The picture settings are set to neutral. Tried it out with a variety of lenses and some crazy shots.

a pigeon on a roof

Nikon D300;   Tamron AF 70-300 DI @ 190 mm;   200 ASA;   f4.8;   1/350s

 pink hibiscus

Nikon D300;   Nikon 50 mm AFD;   200 ASA;   f1.4;   1/250s

Backlit with the evening sun. Loved the bokeh!

Pink hisbiscus

Nikon D300;   Tamron AF 70-300 DI @ 190 mm;  560 ASA;   f4.8;   1/180s

The spots on the flower are natural!

Ringo - September 2010

His Naughty-ness - Ringo, on the sofa at my residence in Calcutta.  The sofas - he considers - to be his private preserve.  It is rather difficult to photograph him sitting still as he keeps on gallivanting around the house. 

On the larger sofa this time round.

Asleep in the dining room after his morning walk

Fully charged up and sitting on the bed, playing with my son

Panasonic FS62 compact

Calcutta - a set of random images

A set of pictures taken at random in Calcutta during the last two weeks. There is no thread nor are the pictures connected in any way  . . .  except for the fact that the common theme is Calcutta.

New Town .. taken when coming home from the airport. Have been hearing lately that this is to be named Jyoti Basu Nagar. 

Isn't it rather apt? 

Built on fertile multi-crop land and handed to developers - throwing aside the idea of the land ceiling act - who are building condos that sell for close to a crore. A real case of neo-liberalization?

Next to the Race Course. A green Calcutta?

Park Street on a Sunday

Esplanade. In front of the new Police Memorial.

Taken during a brief lull from the rains. The Esplanade Mansions under an azure blue sky.

A heritage building on Park Street

Devilled Crabs at Mocambo

The skies over Calcutta on Sunday last

Panasonic FS62

Zenia

Another series of pictures taken in Calcutta during late March - early April 2010 with the Nikon D200 and Tamron 70-300 mm on macro mode.

These are Zenias from our terrace garden.

Nikon D200; Tamron 70-300 mm AF Macro

Thursday outings . . .

Just a collection of pictures from my escapades on Thursdays (being an off-day) to nearby locations.

Pictures shot on a Panasonic FS-62 compact.

At the private beach of the Intercontinental, Jubail

Late evening on the beach

Inside the TexMex Restaurant of the Intercontinental

1/2 pounder burger @ the Intercontinental

Waiting at a signal in Al-Khobar

@ 160 kmph on Dammam-Khobar Highway. It is 12.15 AM and being a Thursday night, there is still a lot of traffic