An HDR fisheye view to Palm Meadows community under cloudy skies of dying monsoon season. About 500m in each direction, India.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Saturday morning outside the Palm Meadows gates
Sat down outside the Palm Meadows (community where we live) gates to capture a little taste of India. The contrast between life inside the gated community and what goes on outside is truly striking - smells, sounds and sights are totally different. While I definitely like the real India it's also nice to be able to escape from it when there's just too much of everything to digest. Some of the "models" that noticed me taking pictures were less than amused by the photo shoot, but most people just smiled.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Mysore photos without a clever title
A slide set of photos from our trip to Mysore this weekend. More explanations to follow when I'm a bit less tired. Zzzzzzz.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Fly me to the moon, let me sing among the stars
My DSLR photography 101 continues with trying to get a good picture of the moon. I've been taking quite a few moon shots this week with the 70-300mm lens and this is the best one yet, shot from our upstairs balcony with the camera on a monopod.
The moon is surprisingly bright so that even hand-held shots come out allright. This was shot at shutter speed 1/320s, focal length 300mm, aperture 1/8, ISO 200.
The moon is surprisingly bright so that even hand-held shots come out allright. This was shot at shutter speed 1/320s, focal length 300mm, aperture 1/8, ISO 200.
Our house, in the middle of our street
Got a Samyang (although my lens says Rokinon) 8mm F/3.5 fisheye lens delivered yesterday. I got it from USA through Indian eBay, which offers a sort of overlay on US eBay to order stuff to India. The prices shown are in rupees with taxes, customs, shipping and everything and payment can be made straight from on-line banking. It seems to work amazingly well considering how many things here really don't.
Got home before dark and took my first photo with the lens. The result is quite heavily photoshopped as there was just no way to get the lighting correct with such a big viewing angle (almost 180 degrees horizontally). While I was getting the sky show some colour I decided to go really overboard with the rest of the picture too. It looks like a HDR image, but it's really all from one exposure. I did try exposure bracketing and HDR software, but the surface texture of the house and the palm trees swaying in the wind made this a ghosty, noisy mess.
The picture somehow reminds me of Charlie and the Chocolate factory, in a good-ish way.
Got home before dark and took my first photo with the lens. The result is quite heavily photoshopped as there was just no way to get the lighting correct with such a big viewing angle (almost 180 degrees horizontally). While I was getting the sky show some colour I decided to go really overboard with the rest of the picture too. It looks like a HDR image, but it's really all from one exposure. I did try exposure bracketing and HDR software, but the surface texture of the house and the palm trees swaying in the wind made this a ghosty, noisy mess.
The picture somehow reminds me of Charlie and the Chocolate factory, in a good-ish way.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Eye of the tiger
Visited Bannerghatta Zoo today with the family and carrying the new 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM zoom lens that came yesterday (Indian Ebay)., While on many photos I made silly rookie errors some came out pretty amazing (to me, at least). This one I like the best by far.
Here is a white Bengali tiger disturbed by the safari bus full of pretty loud Indians and us of course. Tech details: ISO 125 (auto), aperture 7.1, shutter speed 1/250, focal length 150mm. Having a good camera to the zoo makes the whole thing that much more interesting. The Tripadvisor reviews on the zoo were a bit of a mixed bag but at least I really had a blast with all the photo opportunities.
The whole album is visible at http://www.flickr.com/photos/kindadopey/sets/72157624598828147/.
Here is a white Bengali tiger disturbed by the safari bus full of pretty loud Indians and us of course. Tech details: ISO 125 (auto), aperture 7.1, shutter speed 1/250, focal length 150mm. Having a good camera to the zoo makes the whole thing that much more interesting. The Tripadvisor reviews on the zoo were a bit of a mixed bag but at least I really had a blast with all the photo opportunities.
The whole album is visible at http://www.flickr.com/photos/kindadopey/sets/72157624598828147/.
Something Finnish winter and Indian summer have in common
Winter cycling in Finland is a major drag due to the sharp stones spread across the roads and bike paths. Flat tyres are a constant nuisance. Mountain biking in India surprisingly has the same drawback - there are very sharp needles on some plants and trees and once you run over fallen ones punctures tend to result.
The ride I was on was quite fast that for me after almost a year off the saddle so the stops to fix punctures were welcome breaks to get my breath and legs back.
The ride I was on was quite fast that for me after almost a year off the saddle so the stops to fix punctures were welcome breaks to get my breath and legs back.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Crosstown traffic
So hard to get through to you
Crosstown traffic
I don't need to run over you
Crosstown traffic
All you do is slow me down
And I'm tryin' to get on the other side of town...
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Me and the farmer
The papaya tree in our yard is soon ready for fruity harvest. For a Finn (or at least for me), having fruits grow near where you live is a pretty special thing. A couple of the papayas we'll soon be eating are properly huge too.
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