tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41622217579040072382024-03-13T08:37:40.512-06:00Reflections...Photography by Suresh LakkarajuSuresh Lakkarajuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262322955922000403noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162221757904007238.post-44792289478184546952014-03-21T13:47:00.000-06:002014-03-21T13:48:30.733-06:00Neon Lights Photography<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">When its dark one more category for a photographer to
explore would be Neon Lights. The bright shining colors of neon lights most
commonly seen along commercial corridors of big cities attract several
customers. Display of Neon lights can be in form of Text or Graphics. Huge
electronic digital display boards with multiple graphics are most common in
modern world in boosting the economy. Photographers need to use low ISO,
adjusting apertures depending on colors and distance, allowing shutter speeds
from few to several seconds and finally taking the Images just after sunset or
with contrast backgrounds mostly in dark. Manual exposure would give good
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Few pictures I took on Neon Lights are shown here.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999;">These Three pictures show the Neon Signs of commercial
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<i><span style="color: #999999;">This picture shows the Neon lights indoors of a commercial
Game center. Neon paints and lights exhibit a different environment. It is a
struggle to capture true colors in a closed environment for neon lights.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999;">These Three pictures show the reflecting Neon signatures
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<i><span style="color: #999999;">This picture shows the bright radiance of neon lights when
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<i><span style="color: #999999;">This last picture shows the beautiful colors painted on a
glass to show a pattern of Neon signature in olden days when there was no
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Suresh Lakkarajuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262322955922000403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162221757904007238.post-87462914825226072332013-12-21T11:42:00.000-07:002013-12-21T19:05:29.406-07:00Snow Photography<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">Taking pictures in Winter with special emphasis on Snow is interesting topic. Many photographers try taking snow pictures
during dusk or in early hours to get magical moments captured. Applying techniques to capture the Snowfall is another story. Reflecting light of snow will cause hindrance in balancing the
white light. If careful exposure mode/settings are
not applied, the resulting pictures might be different showing snow
in blue or grey colors. Using tripods and hood over lenses are always suggested while taking Snow pictures. Slow shutter speeds/rapid fire techniques (specially to capture snowfall)
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<span style="color: #999999; text-align: left;"><i>These two pictures show the same area in an urban setting. I clicked the above picture just before light snowfall and another after heavy snowfall (at different
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<i><span style="color: #999999; text-align: left;">This picture shows good amount of snow powder on ground </span><span style="color: #999999; text-align: left;">reflecting bright light in sunlight with
foliage covered with snow in background. I took this picture with focal length
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<span style="color: #999999; text-align: left;"><i>Finally, what is a snowfall when there is no fun? I took this picture of my second son Deepesh, who goes crazy in snow rolling, hiding and playing in snow building caves and digging holes.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">Another area to experiment and enjoy in photography is
taking pictures at night. This is totally in contrast to taking pictures during
daylight. You have the potentials of daylight, perception of colors and you
have many options to change settings in camera and click your desired pictures.
At night you have less lighting, each location is different due to presence of
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<span style="color: #ffe599;">A photographer needs to be cautious and careful in using
settings while taking pictures at night. Generally many photographers use long
exposures and don't use flash while taking pictures at night. Exposures ranging
from f/8 to f/16 give nice results. Using Tripods will prevent shaking and
using self-timers or remote triggers will help to get best results. Several
latest DSLR's now have nice features to click night time pictures in Auto mode
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<i><span style="color: #999999;">I took this picture from Skydeck, Chicago showing part of
city at night time. Got satisfied results with ISO at 1600 and applying white
balance in Auto mode. Focal length was set to 18mm.</span></i></div>
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trails of moving objects. Reflective lights within the cross-walk bridge and
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it got complete dark. The reflective colors in sky are vibrant and the land
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moon was in nice radiance. People were celebrating under lights in shed and
vegetation was fully grown in backdrop. ISO setting was at 1600 and f-stop was
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">It’s quite common to see the fall color pictures took by
several photographers around the globe. Spring time photography follows the
similar path with special care aiming towards flowers and budding flora.
Surprisingly we see very few photos of spring season though several
photographers try to click the buds, leaves and flowers which start blooming at
spring. Most photographers try capturing these budding moments using their
Macro lenses to get one on one magnification and colors. It is best to capture
these cool, soft and vibrant colors of spring during dawn or dusk to capture
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">I tried to capture some pictures of spring colors with my
little known knowledge and techniques using my gadgets of photography. Mostly
these colors of flora are seen in <st1:state>Colorado</st1:state>
and I guess there might be several different eye pleasing colors seen in other
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Few pictures I took on Spring Colors are shown here:</span></div>
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<i>This is one picture to show the spring setting with neighborhood
and vegetation. Notice different shades of green, white and red trees with
spring flowers and <st1:place>Rocky Mountains</st1:place> in backdrop with
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<i>This is one more picture showing different shades of Spring
Colors in close proximity within neighborhood. Can anyone imagine shades of
Purple to dark green within one home?</i></div>
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<i>These are few photos showing Purple flowers of Oklahoma
Redbud tree. The Oklahoma Redbud is one of the first trees to flower in early spring, blooming petite purple-pink flowers in large clusters.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Pink/Red shades of Profusion Crabapple tree. This tree is with
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<i>Few pictures showing Lavendar color flowers during spring. Veronicas/Fringes, Moss Phlox and Speedwell plants with spikes and clustered flowers are common and widely seen as ornamental bush plants in neighborhoods.</i></div>
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<i>These pictures show Lynwood Gold Forsythia flowers during spring. Contrast Yellow color with nicely bloomed flowers completely on stems gives a beautiful and dramatic appearance during spring.</i><br />
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<i>These are few pictures showing different spring flowers and a Tulip. Tulips are first plants to bloom during spring.</i></div>
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<i>Spring is also seen with budding leaves and glowing foliage
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<i>Mix of White flowers with Red spring leaves of plum/pear
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">This is an Interesting topic in photography. It creates lots
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vertical or horizontal frames. We come across several structures, buildings and
monuments spread across globe, both ancient and modern during our visits to
tourist centers and we try to capture them into our cameras using the best
techniques we know. Encompassing these huge structures into single frames using
different types of lenses and options available in cameras is somewhat
technical and challenging. Taking pictures of tall structures from ground to
show their heights or taking shots of landscapes from summit showing the depths
of land features like valley, beaches, rivers etc. goes into <b><i>Vertical
Photography</i></b>. Normally we turn the camera sideways to cover the topic
and take Vertical Pictures. Usually the camera lens is designed to cover
Horizontal frames and hence we hold the camera here in normal position. Experts
also call taking pictures from high altitude by placing camera airborne (Aerial
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<i>This picture shows the Vertical Structures of modern times
the Office Complex at Denver Downtown built and covered with Blue Glass. Looks
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I tried to cover the vertical details of Loretto Chapel of <st1:state><st1:place>New
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This picture is good example to cover vertical structure at
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base to top showing 11 tiers one above each and at top covering 11 spikes of
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This is another picture of modern architecture showing
vertical structure. Mostly Uniform pattern is adopted in modern construction
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Nice example for Vertical Photography showing several
sections of structure. Here the camera position is placed horizontally to cover
the details of Vertical structure taking shot from base which is unconventional
in vertical photography. Ancient structure seen in this picture is Hawa Mahal
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This is a tricky shot I took at Taj Mahal, <st1:country-region><st1:place>India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
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<i>This picture shows the ceiling of a monument which I took
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<i>Do you call this Vertical photography since I covered tall
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<i>I took this picture at New York Rockefeller Center. Tall structure of GE building (70 floors & 870 ft. tall) was captured using simple point and shoot camera of 6 mp at dusk from base to top. Good example for vertical photography.</i></div>
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<i>One more picture of tall structure from ground to sky view of CN tower in Toronto, Canada. This structure is 1815 ft. tall and it took some time for me to cover entire structure to capture in one frame using point and shoot camera with only sky as backdrop.</i></div>
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<i>I took these two pictures from flight. Since we are talking
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<i>In this picture you can see details of river with <st1:place>Islands</st1:place>,
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">One more interesting area to explore and earn expertise in photography is Object Photography. This is easy and difficult at the same time to click several objects we see around us at home and outdoors. It depends on the object you intend to click, the situation the object is and most importantly the amount of lighting falling on the object. Objects can vary from pin (small) to plane (big) from ground to air and living to non-living.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Another field which is to experiment and have fun in photography is taking photos of <b><i>Holiday Lights</i></b> decorated within the city neighborhoods. Taking pictures of holiday lights till few years back was difficult because of the film cameras which were not that sensitive to lights and darkness. It was difficult to capture an image in low-light and at night. Now, things have become easy due to increasing technology in DSLR’s which solved the problems of low light photography. Today, many DSLRs can be set to ISO speeds of 1600, 3200 and even higher settings with little noise.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Wonderful decoration of lights at Littleton Downtown.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Simple and Elegant...</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><u><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Right Lights...Bright Lights...White Lights...</i></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Lovely presentation with colorful lights and themes.</i></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Beyond Expressions...Lovely Decoration and Excellent Arrangements..</i></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Colorful De-Lights</i></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Gigantic Decoration...Compare with the size of a street light and bus in background.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Nice to drive through street full of De-Lights...</i></div><br />
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</u></span></b></div></div>Suresh Lakkarajuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262322955922000403noreply@blogger.com0