Photograph of the day - Nature (Skyscapes)

This picture was taken from the top most floor of The Eiffel Tower (La Tour Eiffel) during my business trip to Paris a few years back. To be there was an experience in itself. The mercury had dropped just below zero degree celcius. Handling camera was a task itself due to strong and frosty wind. This was my fourth film role since when I had started learning photography using a film SLR. But, I was desperate to document the frames that I could visualize by eyes. So I clicked photos by setting exposure meticulously each time and at the same time not expecting too much from them. But to my surprise, the outcome was not bad at all!

I have added inclined blue tint to each one of the top corners. I felt it was necessary to reduce the monotonousness of skyline in those areas.

Photo taken on: November 11, 2001
Camera: Vivitar 3800N Film SLR with 28-70 mm lens
Exposure: Record not available at present, ISO200 film.

Photograph of the day - Nature

This photograph is one of the better photos I took just a couple of hours back near the volleyball courts in the campus.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/500 sec., f/7.1, ISO100

Photograph of the day - Nature

Wave from Bay of Bengal rushing towards shore of Kanyakumari

Camera: Sony DSC-H1
Exposure: 1/1000 sec., f/5, ISO100

Photograph of the day - Nature (Skyscapes)

Image no. 9810, shown here, was the last photograph that was clicked by my PowerShot on 9th September last year just a fraction of a second before a wave washed my camera away (with me too). I was trying to capture the sky with my friends in foreground from a very low angle. I even wanted to get a silhoutte effect. The camera was just an inch above water surface during those ten fifteen seconds. Before that I was successful in preventing washout from two waves and there was a gap of a few seconds. I was too engrossed in setting the frame that I did not notice another wave coming near to me. As a fallout of this accident, the camera stopped functioning although I could recover all the photos taken till then from the CF card. Changing CCD of a camera is seemingly simple task but it is only Tuesday of this week I have camera with me. :-)

You may notice in this picture, that image of my friends in foreground has not turned into a perfect silhoutte and doesn't have sharpness. This may be due to the incorrect focus.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/60 sec., f/4.9, ISO400

Photograph of the day - Nature (Skyscapes)

Morning sun peeping through coconut trees

Just when I was going to lebel this photograph as a silhoutte, I came across a few pages which tell nicely about this type of photography. One page tells explains the methodology reasonably well and the other page shows us many pictures.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/1600 sec., f/8, ISO100

Landing at Kamaraj Domestic Air Terminus Chennai

This video is taken at the end of the journey from Pune to Chennai on the way back from Maharashtra trip in April 2005. The video shows the landing of Jet Airways' A320 aircraft at Kamaraj International Airport Chennai from south end of airstrip after hovering for twenty minutes.

Photograph of the day - Nature (FLowers)

I visited Mahuli Mandir Walawal in Sindhudurga District of Maharashtra in April 2005. I happened to notice this flower lying on the floor in the hall in front of garbhagruha. When observed closely I felt that it can be captured in macro mode (explained earlier) and a nice 3D effect can be achieved by focussing the middle portion of the stem. The diffused light has added to the beauty of the flower by not illuminating the floor bright. As you may have guessed I have not used flash.

I learnt that the botanical name of this flower is Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis. It is also called as जास्वंदीचे फूल in Marathi and गुडहल in Hindi.

For more information visit
http://miclicks.blogspot.com/2006/08/hibiscus-rosa-sinensis.html

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/80 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200, Spot metering