Visual Abyss

Didn't come out as sharp as I wanted, maybe due to evening lighting conditions. Although my love with my new DSLR is increasing with every pic. Shot at Bear Mountain, NY

Its been really gloomy past few days. Sun was playing seek and hide with us, but today sun shined in all its glory. I wasn't expecting it to do so with weatherman predicting showers for today, so I slept longer. Only to wake up and find a perfectly lit bedroom with sun rays shining thorugh the window. Just couldn't help myself capturing the moment that I have seen many times but its worth to record for a bit longer. You may never know when you get to see this again.

This is from my old prosumer camera, which in its time was top of the line (but way down in features now). It has an ultra sharp leica lens with 20x zoom. Tpicture displayes all the colors of autumn in one place. Highlands (where I live) has quite a few majestic trees lined up next to the swimming pool. Fortunatley for me, all these trees are at different stages of coloring, you can find green to yellow to orange to deep red next to each other. I just stripped out a band from the original picture.

Trying my hands at selective coloring. The pic looked good in color as well, but selective coloring really makes the maple leaf stand out (click to see the larger version). The autumn is over here and winters have kicked in, such a sight is quite common these days. I am thinking of one more of such a pic, probably of a tree with red leaves on the road, with selective coloring. I wonder how would that look.

There is something that leaf and I have in common, I guess it makes this pic hold a different sort of value for me.

I guess I expressed my intentions before, to click potraits. How is this for a begining? Just could not keep myself away from clicking yet another nature inspired picture. It was very sunny the day I clicked this pic and wasn't carrying a UV filter, else I guess the wings would have come out better. Though the red color of this dragon fly is blending well with the wooden background.

These pics are again from my hiking trip to bear Moutain, NY. I was just trying my hands in against the sun photography, its interesting to see how different foregrounds and camera settings can affect the details captured in the picture. Note none of the pictures are digitally enhanced. They are right off the cam (not because I would have published them that way, but because I was too lazy to make the changes :) ).
Both the pictures above and below are from the same location, but different frames and different timings. The one below is when the sun was almost about to set, making the whole sky orange. Even with the DSLR the objects in shadow have come out a bit grainy, wonder how can i correct them.

Its amazing what you can get out of a seemingly simple photograph. Today was somewhat of a gloomy day, Clouds hovering over whole day. This is was one of the rare moments of the day when sun shined. My room was looking quite beautiful (even after me trying so hard to keep it looking like a bachelor pad) , I could not resist taking out my cam and capturing few random shots.

This picture appeals me, however I am not sure how to put the appeal into words. would someone like to help me out?

This is one of my favorite objects for a quick and awesome looking picture.. The Moon. Nobody can doubt its beauty. Last time when i tried capturing it, it was with my prosumer camera with 10X optical zoom, I tried capturing it with 48X digital zoom and with little bit of post processing even that looked stunning.

This time its with my new DSLR with 200mm zoom lens. Apart from cropping the picture, its untouched from when it came out of the cam. Pretty nice capture aint it.

Fly high in the sky. Mid of American summer on coney island beach, time to relax and chill out in cool ocean breeze. Seems humans were not the only ones enjoying, I'd say if this kite had any view of its own it would resonate with what i said.

Autumn has begun, hot summer ends with a promise of new life. With autumn the trees shed the old leafs and wait for winter. For a shutterbug there cannot be a better time, with so many trees changing colors to bright red leafs lying on the road creating a red carpet of sorts.

I always wanted to experience the American fall, and always wanted to capture all its glory as best as I can. I did make an effort and here is a sample of it for you.

These are again from my recent hiking trip to bear mountain. The bright red leaf with Grey road behind it is adding the perfect contrast and bringing out the colors. While i was clicking this picture my friends were mocking me and saying stop wasting your clicks on a road, i said just give me a sec and see when the pic comes up. I think I did just fine here.


The shot of colorful leafs with sun shining behind them and bear mountain a showing up bit hazy is bringing a feeling of freshness (I can say only for myself). But there is something about nature that attracts me. I personally like to click nature than people.

Although I am slowly ans steadily making a transition, and broadening my skills. Lets see how it goes.

Today I turn my blog into a photo blog. I feel its a nice place to share my thoughts and clicks and I've not been using it much anyways.

Here is one to start with, this is from my recent hiking trip to skyline drive, just off the border of NJ and NY. I've always been fond of capturing the sky, although the shot was taken in full color, the black and white effect is really making the sky stand out, specially the sun light from the left on clouds and water. The land on the horizon, turn into black is adding contrast.

Me and my buddy with a bottle of corona each in our hands just sat quietly, looking at the scene listening to the moving water and sharing the same thought.. 'damn, this place is awesome'.

However, I have a confession to make. I recently bought a new DSLR (nikon D5000), few of my friends will bash me for this, but I've been really lazy and not studying enough to use this beast. This camera can do wonders to the scene if used correctly. And instead of doing justice to the power of this cam, i just set it to 'AUTO' and started clicking. Even on auto it does the job probably i am not capable of achieving right now, but over time I plan to surpass it (somehow :D).