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Kashi
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| | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 1:07 am: | 
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kay sundar pink colour aahe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just cute..
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Mawla,
Prashant..colours are as seen in picture..neither white no yellow.. and no improvement in photoshop at all..
I did not mean you used PS or any other application, just wanted to know.
if i set my camera on fully manual mode...does camera metering helps?
Manual mode is just that, you set everything manually. Modern cameras have some way of indicating if it is over or under. However a manual mode user already knows (should know) if he want to over-or-under expose and by how much.
I prefer incident metering most of the time and use a handheld meter which doubles up as a spot meter so my preferd mode of use is manual, it is fast. There are other ways too.
In the same light, an external meter and camera meter should give the same EV/exposure setting metered off a grey card. They are calibrated to read off a subject of average reflectance like a grey card. Try this: put your camera in manual mode with no compensation. Meter off the grey card, and it should not indicate any 'wrong exposure' blinks (each has his own way of showing this, canon-nikon etc). Now meter off a black shirt or dark object and then white wall. It starts warning you. All your camera does is it gives a reading for subject with average reflectance (18% grey). And now you know why your snow was either over exposed or was dull grey.
You should check how much your camera meter is OFF. Most of the D70s under expose, D80 over expose and Rebel/5D is in between. Pentax 645Nii which I had for some time had the best metering, always spot on and matching with external spot meter. But then all these equipment give us is a starting point and you have to work on it. Check this image out, no equipment will give the right exposure for a situation like this, it is the person using it who has to work on it.
The people who joined the workshop last weekend were surprised to know how easy it can be to avoid a lot of work on the computer if you are careful in the field. Most of them were using GREEN-BUTTON mode and the images were always a hit or miss.
BTW, we were waiting for you to join but you did not come . I will update the page tonight.
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Mawla
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| | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 7:07 am: |
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Arati...lovely pink colour..object is is little out of focus.
Prashant it is very useful info...looks like Now I am in sync with exposure.
For following picture, I use halogen lamps with tungstone WB, I took exposure by seting camera in Auto mode and gray card. I add 1 stop and got EV and set the F16 and use same EV. color looks exactly as the flower, I am happy with the result..shot completed and in 15 mins its on MB, no work in photoshop except crop and frame. Please critiq this one..need to improve skills.
Let me try this in different object, light condition and different focal length and will ask more question.
Some time you arrange workshop in Australia will surely join ;)
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For following picture, I use halogen lamps with tungstone WB, I took exposure by seting camera in Auto mode and gray card. I add 1 stop and got EV and set the F16 and use same EV. color looks exactly as the flower, I am happy with the result..shot completed and in 15 mins its on MB, no work in photoshop except crop and frame. Please critiq this one..need to improve skills.
This is exactly what I meant. If you take care and not use your camera as a 'machine gun' then you get it right when you click the shutter.
Looks nice to me.
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OK, here are the image made during the workshop.
link1
link2
Let me know if you find any error at the pages. Only one is made with Shen-Hao, all others with D80(which I returned)
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Mawla
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| | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 4:42 pm: |
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PK Beautiful pictures...
How do you expose landscape with varaity of colours/ tones and waterfalls with lots of black stone or bright sky.
Do you use ND filters for waterfalls, I don't see clouds behind trees overexposed.
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Prasadp77
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| | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 4:43 am: |
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I suggest to make a seperate BB for discussing Photography so that all these discussions remains in one place.
Prashant, Mawla, NikonLover, anybody??
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Dhumketu
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| | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 9:14 am: |
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Prashant,
What I suggest is to take this photo as a case study and let us know what you took as a midtone. Was there any compensation? if so, any reason?
Also did you check how much difference was there in incident metering compared to reflective? Obvisouly on which area.
This can give us some insight.
To others,
What do you all say?
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Hi Anand,
I will for sure try to write something similar asap. Will let you all know.
Diwalila kuthe trek?
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Dhumketu
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| | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 12:42 pm: |
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ok. thanx..
bahutek ratangad te harishandragd karin ...
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Incident metering reads the intensity of light falling on the subject. It can be used by placing it near the subject and pointing it toward the camera. The exposure is based on the light reaching the subject irrespective of the reflectance or color of that subject.
Reflected metering reads the intensity of light reflecting off of the subject. This scheme can easily go wrong because of variances in tonality, color, contrast, background brightness, surface textures and shape.
If you are using Spot meter (type of reflective meter), take a few readings around and then you have do your own averaging and must estimate the reflectance of the target and adjust the reading accordingly.
MawLa,
Nice exposure. Though it kinda looks all staged (black velvet). Nice and sharp details. Good DOF.
Prashant,
Very nice images.
Dhumketu,
Harishchandra-gad trek..kokan-kada ...nice!! nostalgia! Its been a while! Enjoy!!
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Vishal_b
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| | Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 9:09 am: |
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Excellent photographs!
Mawla and Prashant, great photography... as usual!
Wish you all a very happy and a joyous Diwali!
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Nalini
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| | Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 9:21 am: |
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भाग्या, हे बघ व्हॅटिकन.
St. Peter's Basilica
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Nalini
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| | Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 9:23 am: |
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कळस
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Nalini
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| | Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 9:25 am: |
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धुकेमय व्हॅटिकन आणि रोम
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Nalini
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| | Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 9:35 am: |
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The Pieta sculpted by Michelangelo
आणखी फोटो ईथे रोम १ रोम २
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Bee
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| | Friday, October 20, 2006 - 12:46 am: |
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नलिनी, एकंदरीत किती देश फ़िरलीस? कसे वाटले रोम?
मिकेल ऐंजेलोचे शिल्पचित्र कितीही वेळा बघितले तरी डोळ्यांची तहाण भागत नाही. मी Florence मधील, होते नव्हते सर्व शिल्पचित्र बघितले ह्या शिल्पकाराचे. त्यांचे ते स्वर्गाचे दार पाहिले आहेस का तू.. किती सुंदर आहे ते.. तो घुमटही छान आहे त्याच्यासमोरचा आणि जे नमुने उभे केले आहे जे खरे नाहीत तेही किती सुंदर वाटतात बघायला. पण Florence खूप जुने जुने शहर आहे. तिथला तो पुल आहे तिथे सोने एकदम छान २४ कॅरेटचे मिळते आणि नक्षीकामही छान केलेले असते.
खूप खूप पुर्वी.. म्हणजे साधारणतः १००० वर्षांपुर्वी फ़्लोरेंसला प्रचंड महत्त्व होतं.
फ़्लोरेन्सपासून पिसा खूप जवळ आहे. मी आगगाडीनी गेलो होतो तेंव्हा मला बरोबर ४५ मिनिटे लागली होती. पण इतका काही खास नाही वाटला मला पिसा.. म्हणजे चांगला आहे पण जगातील 7 wonders पैकी एक आहे त्यामानाने असे काही खास वाटले नाही.
फ़्लोरेन्स एकदम छोटे शहर आहे पण तिथे सर्व काही संग्रहालयाच्या आत कोंडून ठेवलेले आहे आणि प्रत्येक संग्रहालय फ़िरायला एक दोन दिवस तरी लागतातच. म्हणजे जर तुम्हाला आस्वाद घ्यायचा असेल तर नक्कीच. होते असे की आपण संग्रहालयामधे जातो आणि आधी कॅमेरा बाहेर काढतो. सगळा उत्साह आणि वेळ छायाचित्र काढण्यात जातो. माझ्यासोबत एक गुबगुबीत आणि पांढरे शुभ्र केस झालेली अमेरिकन आजी होती. ती छान ऐटीत शिल्पचित्र बघत होती. म्हणाली मला आता काहीच कामधंदे नाहीत. मी देशोदेशी फ़िरते आणि प्रत्येक ठिकाणचा मनमुराद आस्वाद घेते तेंव्हा दुसरी वाट धरते. तसा वेळ हाताशी हवा खरच :-)
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Prasik
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| | Friday, October 20, 2006 - 5:35 pm: |
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Season of diwali
For this, is a special time when family
And friends get together,for fun.
Wishing laughter and fun to cheer your days,
In this festive season of diwali and always!!!!!!!!
1cHappy Deepavali 1d
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Mawla
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| | Friday, October 20, 2006 - 9:29 pm: |
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NL and Vishal thannks for wonderful comments..
Vishal and prasik nice greeting...
Nalini KALAS is very nice on beautiful Blue sky
Bee good to see informative post..
Here is the portrait of my daughter, she was very patient throught my learning session. This is my very first try of low key portriats. Experts please suggest improvments...suggest any sites for this kind of portraits..I couldn't find much on net.
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Mrinmayee
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| | Friday, October 20, 2006 - 9:54 pm: |
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मावळा, मला फोटोग्राफीतलं काहीही कळंत नाही. पण गोजीरवाणा चेहेरा ओळखता येतो! तुमची कन्या खूप गोड आहे!
black & white फोटो तर फारच बढीया!. (म्हणूनच Ansel Adams चे फोटो पण फार आवडतात. )तुमचा erskine falls पण खूप आवडला.
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