I will be conducting Mangalore Photography Club’s Photography Workshop on Composition & Lighting next Sunday 30th June 2013. Soon after the basic foundation of photography workshop we had on 2nd June, we decided that it is time to look at the two major pillars of any photography techniques, namely Lighting & composition. We delve deep … Read more
Coppersmith barbet is one bird that is easiest to identify. It has a round shade yellow face and throat. The body, light green upper part and dark green streak on pale yellow under part. Then a black stripe across the eye. Another point as to why it is easy to spot and identify, it chooses … Read more
Here is a sunset I witnessed near the Software Technology Park, Derebail Mangalore. Sun was setting over the Mangalore landscape of coconut grooves, evening haze along with smoke. You can see quite a few black kites flying in the sky. I wanted to show you how the same sunset looks when shot using three different … Read more
That Sunday evening in January 2013, I was hunting around for few birds with my Canon EOS 5D Mark III fitted with Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L II IS USM + Canon EF 2X III Extender. My hunt started in a relative hot sunlight of 2PM and went on till around 5:30 PM without any bird … Read more
My daughter had just finished final exams and summer holidays were starting. She wanted to spend some quality time in water parks. After searching out for several likely destinations we finalized on a desert as our water park destination – Dubai in United Arab Emirates. The emirate of Dubai is located southeast of the Persian … Read more
Two weeks back I posted a blog on Purple-Rumped Sunbird. Here are few more photographs of the male Purple-Rumped Sunbird hanging from the small thorny shrub taken during the same day. I used 1/320th of second and f/6.3 aperture to capture these birds at ISO 1250. I was using Canon EOS 5D Mark III with … Read more