Week - 20 - Seagull

Week 19 - Waves of flowers

I went to California this weekend to see my friends. We went to Lake Tahoe, Reno, Yosemite and SFO. We had a really nice time.

Week 18 - Vanishing point

I returned my Tamron 24-135 lens and bought a Sigma 17-70mm lens and 50mm f/1.8 lens. The sigma lens seems to be much lighter than Tamron. I liked its wide angle capabilities too.

Week 17 - Pile of pier

Taken at George's island, Boston. My friend and his wife paid me a visit last weekend. We roamed around Boston. I took a lot of photos of them in my new SLR.
They got a lot of good photos of them and I was able to experiment my new camera and lens :-)

Week 16 - Solitary

Finally I bought a DSLR camera, Canon Rebel XTi (400D). It was not difficult to decide the SLR, but I had a tough time selecting the lens. I wanted a good walk around lens, but did not want the kit lens (18-55mm). Some of the lenses I considered are Canon 28-135, Tamron 24-135mm, canon 17-85 mm and Sigma 18-125mm. Finally I selected Tamron 24-135mm because I liked its focal range, its reivews were okay and it had macro capability. However, the initial tests with this lens disappointed me. The lens was too soft at f/3.5. The lens had to be stopped down to f/5.6 to f/8.0 to get sharp pictures. (But no lens is sharpest at its lowest aperture). I will be losing a lot of light if I have to shoot at f/8.0 always. So I might return this lens and get Sigma 17-70mm.



Other lenses I am planning to buy are Canon 50 f/1.8mm and Sigma 105mm f/2.8 macro.

Week 15 - Weatherproof

Week 14 - Top of Prudential

This photo was taken from the 50th floor of the tallest building in Boston, the Prudential building. The view from there was awesome.

Posed in this photo are my roommates and a roommate's friend. I am glad that I am improving my skills to make people pose for my photos.

Edit: Here is a panorama taken from the top of that building. Three photo were merged into a single one. Since the camera was hand held (not in a tripod), the merge is not perfect. I initially tried to merge the photos using photoshop and found it to be difficult. But the canon's photostich software did that job very nicely.

Week 13 - Heaven

Week 12 - Pursuit in rain

Week 11 - Daisy

ഓര്‍മ്മതന്‍ വാസന്ത നന്ദനത്തോപ്പില്‍,
ഒരു പുഷ്പം മാത്രം,
ഒരു പുഷ്പം മാത്രം,
ഡെയ്‌സി....

Week 10 - Trumpet player

Taken at St.Patrick's day parade in Boston.

Week 9 - Montage of Orchids

Different species of Orchids. Taken at a flower show.

Week 8 - Symmetry

The river was frozen because of the cold weather.

Week 7 - Broken

Simple photo, but it was difficult to setup the background. (The background is actually a kitchen pan). I could have taken a better shot, but the egg slowly moved away from the initial place where it was broken and finally fell on the floor carpet :-( Then I had a tough time cleaning the carpet.

Week 6 - Marbles

How creative you can be with a few marbles and a light sourcce is limited only by the limit of your imagination.

Week 5 - Grim

The future looks grim.

Week 4 - Rejuvenation

I got an old rose and was thinking for about a week on how to take a good photo with it. First I tried with a white background. Then tried a black background. Black seemed to be much better. The sprayed water provided a good effect. But the real trick in this photo is the lighting. The reflections on the water drops have provided a very nice effect. The water drops and background take the attention slightly away from the rose. Nevertheless, this is one of the best photos I have ever taken.

Week 3

A panned shot of a skater.

Week 2

Week 1 (Even)

My first post in 2007. This is an apartment complex near my apartment. The sun was at a good position and provided a nice harsh light.