Tabletop lighting

On August 1, 2010, in Products, Strobist, by Niraj

Spend a few hours doing some table top stuff. The first subjects were a crystal vase and a small glass. Both being highly reflective. The important thing was to avoid any of their surfaces from reflecting any objects (including the light source) and giving away the shoot.

I got a large white mounting paper sheet for the ‘white seamless’ background and added another one at the base. The table was of rubber-wood which has a natural yellowish brown texture. Added 2 black sheets on either sides for negative fill (I could have added white sheets as well but after exprement, that wasnt working to my taste).

Vase and glass

Canon 7D. EF 85 1.8 at f2.5, 1/125

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Canon EFS 10-22 exclusive

On July 7, 2010, in Gear, Natural Light, by Niraj

I was at Lalbag last Sunday morning. The sole purpose was to shoot enough pics with the EFS 10-22 to demonstrate its field of view. All this for folks interested in buying my lens and had asked me for some pictures. Since I had few pics with it, I decided more were needed…

The weather was utterly overcast with just occasional streaks of light trickling through the thick cloud cover. I had to spend time waiting to get even the bare minimum light.

Took a path over the rock and got a ‘wide’ perspective of the temple atop it.

Temple

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@ Bannerghatta National Park

On May 26, 2010, in Natural Light, by Niraj

Am back again.
Had been to Bannerghatta park last december with my mother and son Pranav. This was his first visit to a zoo. He was as excited as ever. The park is fairly large and we expected to see his favorite critters – elephants were on the top of his must-see list.
(these wonderful textures are by: Texture 1 and Texture 2).

am-here

Am here...!

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