What is “Digital Crop Factor”?

Sep 24, 2011 Photography, Tutorials
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On Digital SLR’s, when mounted with a lens of given focal length, you would have noticed a considerable change in the Field Of View, when compared to a film camera. This is nothing but the “Crop Factor”. The field of view (also field of vision, abbreviated FOV) is the (angular or linear or areal) extent [...]

How many Megapixels? – Megapixel Multiplier Rule

Sep 24, 2011 Photography, Tutorials
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When you are out to buy a Digital Camera (a point and shoot or an SLR: Single Lens Reflex) It’s normal that the salesman will do his usual up-sell. They would make you believe that if your camera has more megapixels then that’s the one for you. Well, they are just doing their job and [...]

Flora at Lalbaugh Botanical Garden

Oct 30, 2006 Photography
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This weekend I was at Lalbaugh, the largest Botanical garden in Bangalore. A slight drizzle and heavy over casted sky followed me everywhere. Here are a few shots I managed to take.

Kebabs

Oct 25, 2006 India, Photography
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Feasting after fasting Varieties of kebabs and other snacks prepared during ID

Pottery

Oct 14, 2006 Photography
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Pot making at Pottery Town, Bangalore

Anatomical 18% gray card

Oct 04, 2006 Photography, Tutorials
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Any SLR user (advanced) who shoots in M mode must have surely come across the term “18% gray”. So what exactly is this 18% gray and how does it affect exposure? Mostly all cameras have an in-built light meter, which are calibrated for 18% gray i.e. the reference point for a camera’s light-meter to determine [...]

Avoiding Camera Shake

Oct 03, 2006 Photography, Tutorials
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If you are an ardent shooter using a SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera then am sure you would have experienced some shots with camera shake, even though it’s not dark. You would experience this quite often if you shooting in M (manual) mode. Well there is a reason behind this and this is often referred [...]

Thai food

Oct 01, 2006 Bangkok, food, Photography, Thailand, Travel
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22nd Sep 2006 There isn’t much I’ve done since morning. I had an early breakfast and sat at the Internet cafe for more than an hour to update my friends and to see if my job is still there . I slowly checked out of my hotel (check out time is 12:noon) I walked down [...]

Wat Po, Wat Arun & Khao San Road

Sep 28, 2006 Bangkok, Photography, Thailand, Travel
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19 Sep 2006 After catching up with enough sleep I got out of the guesthouse (K.T Guesthouse, Sutthisarn Road, Inthamara soi 14, Single: 560 Baht Double: 690Baht A/C,Hot Shower no T.V, Has a pool too)

Skies and Clouds

Sep 12, 2006 Photography, Uncategorized
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I have this undescribable liking for clouds and skies. I don’t know why but it influences me a lot sometimes reflecting my own emotions. An Artwork from the artist above conveying his moods and emotions with the clouds as if sky is his canvas and the wind and sunlight the brushes. Be it cumulus, stratus, [...]