Visual Abyss

I am usually more excited by nature and its elements and never really forayed into the world of portraits. But now with such a beautiful face to click who can resist the temptation. Hence, presenting my first real portrait. Used my 50mm prime (and no flash, just white light of 40watt tube light) to get the crispness and clarity to the portrait and basic touch up to flare up the colors a bit.

Let me know if you like it and of course comments are always welcome.

Sometimes you should let a shot be as is. No words.

Its seldom that you find a shot which is just perfect right out of the cam. No touchup required no flaring up of colors no sharpening, nothing. And if that shot is of a pink rose with rain drops on it right after a cool shower you should consider yourself awesomly lucky.

In case you are wondering, that would be me today :).

As they say you always save the best for last. Here is some moments of mom and kid playing with each other. First is mom's closeup, second is kids and third is the best :)

I hope the crow didn't read the title, but these models make my day. After following the cats for few minutes Mr. crow obliged me with a photo op, together with full sound. Stills yet cant capture the sounds, i guess that would be the good part in this case :)

The cat god bestows his best again. 3 new entrants to my backyard, all three are brandnew, super active and chirpy kittens. The best is they are awesome models, evident from the ever inquisitve eyes peeking at the lesn of my cam. I am not complaining ... ever :).

Took out my super expensive camera kit and swished off the dirt from it today. I dont easily get the time to pursue my passion of photography (dont excatly know the reason why), so today was a lucky day.

Clicked a few pics here and there. Its really amazing to see how simple looking things around you when viewed from a slightly different angle come out to be very different.

Every time I start clicking, I have a theme in my mind. This time it was selective coloring. My previous two posts 'lonely' and 'together' were examples of it. But apart from the theme I usually take one more away from the ordinary for one single purpose, which is to find my new desktop wallpaper. I usually make it a point that my dektop always has something of my own on, like the pic you see next to this text.

Freez frame, captured these rain drop as they were falling. Managed to make time stay still :)

You can always find a cat or two resting in my backyard, trying to beat the heat. I made good use of this opportunity and shot this cat, who made me lucky by looking right into the lens.

Rest is photoshop :)

This is one of the earliest pics I shot with my DSLR while testing its features. I'd say the test came out pretty neat; this pic was taken in evening (low) light on auto settings. The Cameras light sensors did play a critical role in capturing the flower's true colors even in low light.

I personally love the depth of field in this pic, however sunflowers are somewhat malnourished else there would have been a different feel to this shot.

Pleasure of cooking.. not for me, I am quite content with clicking pictures of great looking (and tasting) food dishes prepared by my friends (in this case). The chicken kababs look delicious, though frankly I haven't done much in this pic, its all D5000. I got to enjoy the wonderful prepration, atleast you can share its good looks.

A pink rose flower, looks so lovely. I clicked this pic and became curious on what type of rose is this, to my surpise this is a indegineous breed from right here in Maharashtra, India.

Remeber the childhood days of playing in rain or a pool, this shot reminded me of just that. Summer has started to raise its head, evident from the acts of these birds.

Love the way the other two birds are trying to save themselve from sudden shower from the one in the middle.

Was just playing around with my cam in my front yard when I caught this little fellow hopping around. Too hard to resist this unusually calm squirrel.