Thanks no1 & anvancy.

The blurred effect was not possible as the image was taken using a P&S unless I do it on Photoshop.

Two shots
1. A lighted up shack at a wedding. Purposefully went out of focus. Maybe over did it
2. A nightshot of port blair

No work in office. So another one
Ross Island

Thanks man. This indeed gives stronger appeal to water droplet.

Thanks. I use Nikon D80.

Dude my shots aren't really macros. I've used the maximum focal length available to me on my 18-135mm Nikkor lens. I call them 'Macro like'. Just place the camera at the closest distance from which lens can focus. Usually it is 1 ft. These are leaves of some plant. The first is in my home, placed in window. And the other I shot at fort Tikona. Did not use any spray. It was raining.

Here's another Micro-like water droplet on a leaf-

Will keep this point in mind, and PP is something i am not very good at.

The tree image seems to develope a strong character after the PP.

Noted Sir jee.

I agree One hundred percent with Anvancy. But the work does not seems to be easy ...

Dude, so nice to see u back. I checked the URL (even now as well) . i have been trying hard but never ever able to get such results... Any guidance for that??

Here is one entry for P220-

That was sometime before I put that post... I did check out my photos on other systems after that and figured out that my laptop's lcd is not getting calibrated properly.. Maybe due to some light spillover during the calibration process..

One of the things that we need to do as photographers is to try and get the best photos that our equipment will allow.. You can always do the blur in photoshop, but if you are interested, you can use one or more of the following in camera methods to get blurred backgrounds:

1. Use the camera in manual or aperture priority mode and get the lowest possible aperture on the lens
2. Use the longest focal length on the lens (i.e. maximum zoom)
3. Shoot closer to the subject
4. Increase distance between the subject and the background

Well a few general guidelines for getting good landscape photographs:
a. Check out great landscape photos for inspiration - with the net, you can get to see hundreds of great landscape photos
b. Read about what pros do to get the kind of results they do - Remember that in most cases, it is not about the equipment..
c. Understand how your scene is lit.. The trick to many great landscape photographs is to be at the right place at the right time.. You need to know how the position of the sun and the season affects how the scene is lit..
d. Find some clouds or else try and cut off the sky..
e. Learn about how graduated neutral density filters work and try to either implement them in photoshop with a RAW workflow or use the physical filters.. You can also do a pseudo HDR by stitching 2 exposures to simulate a grad ND filter - there are various articles on the net on how to simulate grad nd filters with digital cameras - depending on your camera, different possiblities would need to be considered..
f. Try and shoot landscapes in B&W.. You can learn a lot by shooting in B&W.. Some scenes which do not look very good when taken in colour can appear great in B&W

Great shot, and you also show excellent panning technique..

-- no1lives4ever

One from my end



Comments & critiques are most welcome.

@shadowfax-The image looks too dark.

@speed_pujari-Great one there but would have loved to see the complete bike in the frame.

Tried capturing the pensive mood of sky..



Wanted it to PP it but, just cant stop to myself from posting it.

^ ^Nice work there for a macro like image!

@mg which place is this... Is this the same place where tons of hindi films have been shot??

As for the photo, i feel that you could have perhaps used a bit less of sharpening during post processing..

-- no1lives4ever

Really! I don't think so... The vingetting is CG. I purposely used it to have more concentration on drop.

@Jukebox: Thanks buddy.

The choice of word from my side was incorrect.I should have written dark and not too dark.

I too liked the concentration on the drop but there should have been more light on the subject(Completely my take)

One more week and I will reveal it on a new thread.

Will keep this in mind for future.I just wanted to make it as real as possible.