Blessings from God’s messenger

| F-Stop – f/5.6 | Exposure time – 1/800 sec. | ISO – 100| Focal Length – 250 mm |


Shot this in Kumbh Mela at Allahabad

Teaching us to stay Together

 | F-Stop – f/2.4 | Exposure time – 1/463 sec. | ISO – 112 | Focal Length – 4 mm |

The first of the many upcoming pictures with monkeys as the main subject :)

Shot this in a park last Saturday 13-July-2013, place is khandala.
With time, the monkeys seem to be very well trained to pose as soon as they see a camera :D … They embrace each other as soon they saw the cell phone in my hand.
Shot this pic from my Micromax canvas 2 phone, which is not so well known for its camera :D . I got EXIF details mentioned from the “details” tab in the “Properties” option of the pic

Specifications
Adjusted brightness, contrast, curves and levels.

May All Stay Happy :)

 | F-Stop – f/5.6 | Exposure time – 1/800 sec. | ISO – 100 | Focal Length – 55 mm |

The place is Allahabad and the festival was Kumbh mela. As the subject was too conscious about the camera, had to shoot it in the time frame where he gets unaware of my presence. That is the reason I couldn’t shoot the elbow part and the tiny bit of the hair got cropped. And as I had just a day to cover the entire kumbh, which at the end I couldn’t, so couldn’t wait for the subject to be unaware again. Also the angle could have been more eye level.

Specifications
Adjusted brightness, contrast, curves and levels.

Moon – The Experiment

| F-Stop – f/7.1 | Exposure time – 1/60 sec. | ISO – 800 | Focal Length – 250 mm |

This particular experiment was something I wanted to do since a very long time.

Wanted to do something like the example link, though not exactly. NOW, I had a post on “post processing” and there were discussions on “photo manipulations” in that post which defined “photo manipulation” as something where you removed some part of the pic to make it better and I heard it from many that this is something unethical. Well I have done the same here :), so apologies if anyone thinks that it is unethical. I wanted to have my imagination in form of a photograph and so did perform the following steps to achieve that. I feel that it would have been unethical if I would have claimed that this is one shot pic without any changes.

On 22nd and 23rd June heard that the moon would be the biggest of 2013. Took some pics on 23-JUN-2013 at 11:00 pm.
Out of the many pics selected 2 pics and decided to merge them to get what I wanted.
First pic is

This pic was taken by adjusting the focus manually. Here I removed the part of which contains the out of focus moon. Then adjusted the brightness and contrast a bit. The EXIF details of this pic are
| F-Stop – f/7.1 | Exposure time – 1/60 sec. | ISO – 800 | Focal Length – 250 mm |

Second pic is

Here in this pic, I increased the size of the pic such that the moon fits into the vacant space created in the first pic. Then I adjusted the levels and brightness. As soon as I increased the contrast I got the yellowish tint in the moon which I liked so kept the increased contrast as it is. The EXIF details of the second pic are
| F-Stop – f/7.1 | Exposure time – 1/60 sec. | ISO – 100 | Focal Length – 250 mm | 

Now, I took the moon part from the second pic and placed it in the vacant section of the first pic. Now I had 2 layers in Photoshop, one with the moon and the other with the rest of the pic. Pushed the layer with the moon in background. 

Did some minor adjustments of brightness and contrast and the final image the one shown at the start of this post …

ਬਾਰਾਤ ਦੀ ਗੱਡੀ

| F-Stop – f/5.6 | Exposure time – 1/800 sec. | ISO – 100 | Focal Length – 55 mm |

The Baraat i.e. wedding procession is an integral part of a north Indian wedding. This is basically the procession by the groom and his family to reach the wedding venue. In the procession, the groom is riding a mare and all the relatives accompany him and dance during the same.

With modernization, this ritual has undergone many changes- replacement of the mare with vehicles and other animals is one of them. Commonly seen is replacing the mare with a car in which the groom arrives at the venue. The car is decorated with flowers so beautifully that one can easily sense the happiness experienced by the people involved in this arrangement.

My friend too chose the option of a car for the Baraat. Took the pic of the roses decorated on the door of the car.

I couldn’t find a caption for this pic, so thought of typing “Baraat di gaddi” (which means the car for the Baraat) in Punjabi. Thank to the internet to give me the translation and thanks to my friends to confirm the translation :)

Specifications

Adjusted brightness, contrast and levels.