Photo 365: Day 63 – Window Blinds
As I was having my dinner this evening, I saw the westward sunlight creeping through the window blinds. Shot the light/blinds using 50mm prime and later modified the color/tone using PS actions.
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Photo 365: Day 58 – Decorated Horse
My wife has been wanting me to take the picture of this decorated horse for quite some time and thought I should give it a try this noon. Used 50mm prime to capture this in natural lighting. To bring out the golden artwork, seated this on a black board and exposed for 1/3s.
Photo 365: Day 57 – Is it Spring yet?
That is a picture of my Fire Cracker plant ready for spring or nice weather so that it could be me moved out.
Currently I have Fire Cracker plant along with Curry leaves plant, and Arabian Jasmine plant in the basement. Though they have survived so far this winter, I could definitely see that these plants are under stress. As seen from the plant leaves, they are deprived of chlorophyll due to insufficient sun light.
I bet, if there were to talk they would grumble “Is it Spring yet?” 😉
Photo 365: Day 55 – Artificial Floral Arrangement
Ah its one of those days…didn’t get to decide on what would be the subject for today’s photo post until the last moment (its 9:15 PM already). I try to take most of the pictures with natural lighting and I know my choices for today’s post with natural lighting is next to 0.
We have these cute artificial floral arrangement on out mantel and thought I should try with this and see how it turns out. Had to take out my trusty SB-600 flash to capture this as I was taking this against a black background and I know if I am to expose this for long exposure, shadows will ruin the picture. I think it turned out OK 😉
Photo 365: Day 52 – 8 seconds
Had a chance to experiment/play with light this afternoon. As I am pushing myself to make use of my Nikon 50mm prime lens (besides using it for portraits), this afternoon I tried my hands on taking picture of my alarm clock in natural lighting.
We got this electrical, backlight alarm clock that has seconds hand. For my light experiment, I exposed my camera for 8 seconds exposure and you can see the trails of seconds hand. As you could see just by counting the trails, this was indeed exposed for 8seconds.
Also, try my next capture of the same set-up with different composition and 6 seconds exposure.
Photo 365: Day 49 – Bokeh
Here is my attempt to capture “bokeh” of eggs. Used Nikon 50mm prime @f1.8 to get the above capture.
I may post more bokeh captures in the days to come 😉
Photo 365: Day 38 – Cool sunglasses
This week’s theme will be Valentine’s day 😉
Here is a photo capture of my kids cool looking sunglasses.
Used Nikon 50mm prime to capture these in natural light.
Photo 365: Day 34 – Kiddos watching TV
Here are my kiddos watching Berenstain Bears on PBS. They love the show. In fact, its a good show for the kids.
Used Nikon 50mm prime to capture in RAW and later changed it to sepia effect in Picasa.
Photo 365: Day 29 – Breakfast Cereal
That’s breakfast cereals in our pantry. I had something else in mind for today’s post, but got the idea to picture the cereals at the 11th hour 🙂
We love cereal at our home – its cheap and tastes good. Got Milk?
From left to right:
Bob’s thick cut oats – these are the best that I’ve tasted. Tastes great both in Bircher Muesli and as porridge. Also great for home made granola.
Kix – that’s my daughters snack.
Mini wheat – not really a healthy kind but when you got that sugar craving, can’t beat mini wheat and cold milk.
Cheerios – that’s my kiddos snack.
Wheetabix – Got introduced to Wheetabix by a friend who came from the UK. Tastes great with cold milk and a hint of sugar.
Steel cut oats – one of my other favorites. Takes a little bit of time to make porridge out of this, but its worth waiting.
Photo 365: Day 23 – Split Coconut
We had this coconut sitting in our counter top for more that a week now ready to be opened/slit. I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t spoiled when I had this split open this noon – typically we tend to split coconut as soon as we get it from the store 🙂
I bought a couple of cheapo project clamp lights from Homedepot store and used it to lit the coconuts. I used my 50mm prime to capture this in full manual mode.
I thought it came out good.