Learning Photography

I found this collection of articles on photography.

http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/articles.htm

Replacing two separate lenses with a superzoom...

I have been playing around the thought of replacing my two lenses with one super zoom. And then with a next step, move into specialized lenses for special situations.

Read more about that here...

http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00OaLR

New leaves

New leaves, originally uploaded by s_raghu20.

It is not honestly my shot, since it was taken by my better half. :)

It was another sunny afternoon, and the new spring leaves still dominate our surroundings. She took it not far from other other locations that inspired my shots.

I did some cropping and post processing to the original shot, and I think it has come out very nicely. I really like it... already considering for my wallpaper...

Remarks ?

Violets

Violets, originally uploaded by s_raghu20.

While walking to my gym, I found this small bunch of violet flowers (dont know the exact name.. :( ) blossoming in the middle of dry leaves at the bottom of a tree.

Couldnt resist shooting since it gave me an interesting contrast. It was pretty sunny too, so the sunlight also played a role there.

Afterwards I sat down on my laptop to touch the saturation a bit before posting here.

Remarks ?

Saxophone player

Since it was a shot from a normal Minolta SLR, the digital version is a scanned copy given to my by the photo developing shop. I found it very interesting to see what digital alterations have done to the original scanned image. Specially the color balance, saturations.. And some cropping too...

Remarks pls...

Nice evening shot...

Found this while surfing DPreview galleries, absolutely magnificent shot...couldnt resist posting...

New Leaves

New Leaves, originally uploaded by s_raghu20.

Spring is on the way, and my collection of rose plants are showing signs of new leaves...

Took this one on a sunny afternoon at my place.. second one from the set..

Spring's on the way

Spring's on the way, originally uploaded by s_raghu20.

Spring is on the way, and my collection of rose plants are showing signs of new leaves...

Took this one on a sunny afternoon at my place.

Remarks ?

A content Musician

I find the contentment in the instrument player phenomenal. A review request I posted on Photo.net, people suggested that an angled view would have been better. Though I respect the views, since it was an spontaneous shot, I did not really got a chance to shoot another one.

Landscape...

Cute landscape...

Shamelessly referred from gak

Fantastic eye shot

Absolutely fantastic shot of the eye of a Giraffe.... by n2soaring

Giraffe family meal

Giraffe family meal, originally uploaded by j_wijnands.

Isnt that a cute shot...

I would have loved it even more if the shot would somehow gave view of the giraffe's height... :)

Red hot tulip...

I am not convinced about the level of redness this particular flower should have, but I still like the shot somewhere.
To me, it feels like the flower is of color fire-red... comments ?

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A gentleman (Matt Simpson) suggested on dpreview that I could have processed the image as posted here, with which I absolutely agree. Reduced noise and cropping have brought the image in much more prominence.

Light rays from behind the clouds...

Found this in my old image collection (which I am reviewing these days). Immediately liked it and thought of sharing... I have to admit, its not the cleanest images, a situation shared by many of my old Minolta photographs.

Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog

Found this interesting blog, quite a lot of interesting stuff and links to even more stuff..

http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/

Plugins, comments, comparisons...

Walking Trail...

Forest_Wanderweg, originally uploaded by s_raghu20.

Is it only me, or someone else also sees a column of light descending from skies into the far away end-point of the walking trail. Doesnt it look like the people are walking into oblivion...

Tiny Purple beus...

Small yet beautiful...

Colors of autumn...

I specially like the different shades of green and red intermixed yet visibly present.

5.5 Terapixel camera

Found this somewhere on internet...

http://www.vronline.net/?p=35

Drying leaves in an abyss

Drying Flower in an abyss, originally uploaded by s_raghu20.

One of my rare attempts at close-up photography. found this by the sidewalk when I was going to the gym.

I dont have any sort of special macro lens (as George asked me the moment I asked him about Macro photography). Just the normal kit lens from my EOS 350D kit.

I hope its worth looking at.

Feel free to comment.. pls..