Confessions of an amateur photographer

Ok, so here go my first few attempts at photography.

This is one of the tricks I have been wanting to do for years :) . It is easy to achieve in an SLR by simply increasing the aperture time. But in my cam (Nikon 120), I achieved it by setting the camera for night mode photography. The aperture does open for a longer duration, however precise control over it is something I still miss.







I used the Digital Macro mode available in my camera for this image, which thus renders an enlarged and clear image of the center drop while keeping the background out of focus.
 The Macro mode opens a whole new world of photography subjects to be explored, some of which can be seen below.

Rose thorns. Notice the joints of the thorns with the stem.

This is one of my favorites. The subject was a dead bug, I found in the garden. Notice its broken eye and sticky hair on its limbs and thorax.

A group of ants. Some of their feet aren't clearly visible because they were moving.






                                                                                                        

This pic was taken after the rain.
The water drops add freshness to the image and the flower bud gives composure and balance to the colors blah blah blah.
The conclusion is that it is a good image and is currently my wallpaper :)

Nature photography:

You can see a beak and an eye of a bird poking out of its nest. I don't know which type of bird it is, but it worked very hard to build itself a nice, green nest on one of the mango trees.

A beautiful rose.
Nothing to say here.

A nice silhouette.
A crow perched on a transmission line.

reminds me of a wallpaper that used to come with Windows-98.
But this one is more vibrant and is shot by me!

Icon of CS1.6. You can easily see each pixel on the laptop screen showing different colours by varying the RGB values.





So, these were some of my pics from my still new camera. Hope u like them.

The summer of 2010

Exactly 3 months ago, I gave my BTP presentation; and thus ended a 4 year journey called college.

Never had I enjoyed, procrastinated, fooled around, partied, bunked, slept (in short "lived") as much as in these last four years. And as the realization of its end dawned upon, a nostalgic feeling started sinking in.

The next week was all about no dues forms, assi ghat, godowlia and lanka :)

I reached home on May 15th with a hard-disk full of tv series and some games.

Now as you all know, the first few days at home are like time spent in heaven. And then comes the boredom :(

So, I started with Lost, smallville, himym and justice league (the series aired on CN). Took a month to complete. I also had to go to a family wedding by the end of the month for a week. Spent some quality time  there.

So, the first month was spent easy.

Oh, FYI my joining is on 16th Aug. So, I had 3 months this summer to spend at home.

Most of the material on my hard disk was watched and the FIFA worldcup was going to start. I started reading a bit about football, but let's face it; the football fever subsided faster than it had attacked me.

I never followed football before, couldn't stay up late at night and had problem remembering most  of the players' names.

Meanwhile I had applied for a BSNL broadband connection, before the worldcup.

The telephone was installed 2 weeks after the worldcup :( and the modem took another full week :((

By then, I started getting newsletter and emails from the company, giving light homework and recommending books to study. I didn't download any book.

I got my hands on a cool DIY book, which had instructions for projects I had been wanting to do for months, like FM transmitter bug, remote control of laptop by bluetooth etc...

I started looking for electronic components in Dhanbad but I couldn't find most of my requirements.

So from the small inventory of electronic components I did manage to get, I built myself a cool astable-multivibrator, a pic of which I am shamelessly pasting here. ( this ugly no-use circuit cost me 200 bucks)

home made circuit.

Meanwhile, I was also getting interested in bash programming, java midlets, android platform and website designing. I also read some tutorials and made mobile apps. Now I was determined to buy an android phone some day. Sometimes you have a "this is gonna be BIG" feeling and want to go with the flow. I spent quite some time researching android phones currently available in the market.
You can get an idea from here. I rounded up on samsung-spica, but it seems samsung has stopped its production. Can't find it anywhere in Dhanbad as of now. Will search for it in mumbai :)
As of now, I received a cool gift from my parents, a brand new Canon Ixus 120IS :)

google for its specs, nice cam btw. I am currently busy fiddling with its features and settings.

I will be posting photos taken from my new cam in a few days. So stay tuned.