Varandha Ghat

This is a 0.5 second exposure at f10 and ISO100. These shots are best taken with ND filters which cut down the light so that longer exposures are possible during daylight. This is taken without filters. I had to wait for cloud cover to make the scene really dark so that i could use at least a half second exposure.

You're the fuel!

Tried out a friend's Tokina 12-24mm f4 lens. Here is the result.

Go-Kart Panning

Went to Balewadi this weekend to shoot Volkswagen Polo Cup 2010. The event included go-karting and volkswagen Polo racing.

Tried to do panning shots.

Shutter priority mode at 1/50th sec (i think) and Burst mode.

I think i managed to lock on to the subject pretty well.

I wish the background was a little further away, I would have got a nicer blur. That combined with motion would have looked uber-awesome.

But the world doesnt dance to your tunes, does it?

Star trails at Temghar

Did my very first real startrails shoot with my buddies Kiran, Vikas and sumeet at Temghar. We had a blast.

120 frames with 30sec exposure of each frame shot continuously.

Strobist info: Yn460 mark 2 at 1/2 power popped through green gel from behind the car. The light on the mountains behind is the light of a passing car (lucky :P)

Nayana

Did a small trial shoot with a friend and fellow photographer, Nayana (Blue Ripples on flickr).

It was a sunday morning and there was a nice backlight at a spot where we decided to shoot, good for highlighting the hair (she has lovely hair).

I decided to go monochrome right in the camera itself, just for fun, no reason.

Focal length chosen was 100mm, Iso 100, aperture f5.6.

I was standing at a distance of 12 ft from her, which gave me a dof of approx 0.9ft, which was sufficient enough to get her completely in focus zone.

Took a few shots, here is one of them:

Raya

A simple portrait of my dear friend Raya.

Strobist info: Vivitar 285HV at 1/4 through softbox at camera left fired by rf-602 triggers.

Temghar Dam

Love what you do...

...Do what you love.

This is my Blackberry Curve 8320.

Strobist info: One YN-460 Mark 2 at 1/4 power through softbox, high up and pointing down, at camera left, triggered using RF602 triggers. Reflectors on right.

View On Black

Here is the setup for the shot:

As you can see, the mobile (rested against the 40D battery charger :P) is kept on a glass which, in turn, is kept on a black cloth. The strobe is fired through a softbox at an angle such that it is out of the 'family of angles' to avoid harsh reflections seen by the camera. The angle also gives a 3-D effect to the buttons and the rest of the body. The reflectors are added for fill. They are also placed in such a way that their reflection in the screen of the mobile are not seen by the camera . The softbox gives a diffused directional light and so there is no spill on the background. The f7.1 used is good enough to provide sufficient DOF. F7.1 and 1/250th kill the ambient light,if any, in the room. The combination of F7.1 and 1/4th power of the strobe gave the exposure for the mobile as required by me.

Hope you guys liked it!

Ramdara Temple

Summer Time

Bhaje Caves, Malavali

Dehu

Narsobachi wadi

TriAum

TriAum performed live at Tilak Smarak Mandir and i got an opportunity to shoot them again.

Here are a few selected images of the same shoot.

Portrait: White umbrella and softbox

Strobist info: 1 vivitar 285HV 1/4 power with white shoot through umbrella, camera left and above. 1 vivitar 285HV 1/16 power camera right for fill. Triggered using rf602. Model: Pranjali.