Now that things are going good, and I'm actually starting to understand lenses, I've started shooting stuff other than flowers and at times other than before sunrise, (wat was described in the previous post's comment page as 'graduate') though i hardly dare go beyond the first hour and half of the sun.
Mistakes keep happening and I end up deleting more than three times the number of photos i keep. And some can be frustating- because while they look mind boggling on the LCD, they move the photographer to tears when viewed on a larger screen.
And by now, I need to learn to take multiple shots of the same object rather than look at the pic on the display on the first try, smile and move my tripod to something else.
The first photo I'm putting up today is one that blows my mind off on the small screen but then the object is completely out of focus, when actually seen big. But I swear to the spirits of all amateur photographers before me, I'll take that photo again, and this time, I'll bring it out good.
This is the one I'm talking about
And ya, anyway,
here are the better ones...
(That's my first shot at shooting a person... and ya, that's also my buddy Sam, who lost his background to a shutter speed of 100 while I left the flash on)
(I feared the sun's rays till yesterday. today, I started loving the morning rays, and the shadows it brings with it)
(How I maintained the focus for this one, I have no idea)
(This one's in front of our P.G block... Incidentally, I saw it for the first time when I shot it, in all my three years and a half in Loyola)
(Someone told me this one's got no story, but wat the hell.. I like it)
(This is one from that family you saw up there. Honestly, I'm publicising my neighborhood)
(My day's favorite, taken just before I packed my tripod for the day. Taken from one of the most cared for gardens in my neighborhood)
Next post: do I even need to say it?
The wanna be photographer's struck gold!
More than a century and half's passed ever since Joseph Nicephore Niepce (I missed two accents aiguilles in there) invented the photographic camera in 1827. Thousands have mastered the art since and there are a couple of billion cameras in the world today. And you thought, in all these years those wanna-be photographers were extinct.
Unfortunately, they are not . These closet photosophers come to the surface once in a while with a borrowed camera and lots of inspiration. They take pictures of commonday things expecting great photographs; look at their own pictures; frown; shake their heads and delete them. Then after three million and thirty seven tries and half that number of wasted dry cells, they finally get a photo they can look at, smile, come back to their world and go home for dinner. And then they sit on Photoshop and apply pretty weird effects thanx to which the picture finally looks tolerable to the human eye. And unfortunatelyfor you, I am one of them.
I always had a fascination for still photography, which i did not pursue thanx to Nikon and Cannon who price those digi SLRs at above 50,000.
When I finally decided to start some serious shooting, there were two forces behind it. One was Scott Kelby whose book on photography has been very enlightenig and whose poor sense of humor matches mine. (By the way if u ARE Scott Kelby, ignore that last sentence, you have an amazingly rib tickling collection of jokes. If, you are not, then ignore the last sentence, I was lying)
The second's ma friend who drove me to the edge of the cliff above the sea of jealousy (yeah, I am a retired poet) by bragging about her photography lessons every fifteen seconds. (Not bragging actually, t was just narration, at times, enlightening and eventually, motivating).
(And not exactly every fifteen seconds either)
So, I borrowed a Digi SLR from ma fren who is also my Junior (And who has still photography as a part of his course. Why do all good things happen to batches after yours?), a tripod from another close friend and hopefully a lens from another in the recent future (read tomorrow)
And just a day before I started, I took another Digi, which was not SLR and which belonged to another close friend of mine and shot some pics for practice.
And here I am posting those pics. Firstly, because they show how bad my sense of photography is; secondly,they are gros so that might make you want to visit my blog again. And thirdly, when I put up other photos in future, you'll know how much I have improved (and by God's grace, that might even happen)
(That was one hell of a cobra they killed near an undisclosed location, just in case animal rights activists are viewing this. Notice the shallow depth of field, with the background out of focus.
(If you are a genuine photographer, I know u must be saying "This guy can't use lenses for nuts) 
(I think this one's a pretty nice view of one of the most useful corners in my house. And just in case you want to know how good I am at manipulating photos with softwares, try this: http://www.orkut.com/AlbumZoom.aspx?uid=12446339638028837856&pid=11)
"The joy of photography lies in making look beautiful what people would say "Gros!"
-Me
And for those who regularly vistit ma blog (That's a sizeable 0.000007% of the world's population, unless you are a forst timer, which would make it 0.0000076), I know i promised to post Chakeela's photo. Sorry to dissapoint you, I promise that will happen soon).
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