Wednesday, November 24, 2010

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...

pictures from my trip to Chennai in September 2010. Taken from the aircraft with a Panasonic FS62.
The aircraft is almost making for the break in the clouds!


pictures from my trip to Chennai in September 2010. Taken from the aircraft with a Panasonic FS62.
The same picture converted to B&W by Adobe Lightroom and Nik Silver Efex Pro.
Almost frightening in appearance..

Blue sky @ 35,000 ft
Blue sky @ 35,000 ft

 En route to Chennai... little tufts of clouds
 En route to Chennai... little tufts of clouds

Saturday, November 13, 2010

'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.


'Whatcha doing'? Ringo in November 2010

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

Saturday, November 6, 2010

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.

D300 :  More experiments


The same shot converted to B&W!

D300 :  More experiments

I personally like the B&W better.


D300

Friday, November 5, 2010

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!