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!