[anantu2001]

Hi guys,

I've been following this thread for a long time and somewhere I also wanted to try my hand at photography... I have a Nikon Coolpix P&S Digital Camera. Had never tried shooting with manual settings before.. So here goes my first set of pictures with manual setting.

EXPERTS - Don't be very harsh please because this is my First Time

Here it goes:

[redrage]

Wishing everybody a very happy Lohri, Pongal and Makar Sankranthi !

[Venom_rider]

From our latest trip to Yelagiri.

Honey bee doing what it does best...





Caught in the Spider's nest

[shajufx]

Originally Posted by clevermax

It is exactly 2792 bees.

Someone invented a 'bee counting' machine !!

Originally Posted by Torqueguru

50mm @ f1.4

Is it Nikon 50mm F/1.4 AF-S ? I am considering the 35mm f/1.8G AF-S as my first prime in the bag (half the price) !

Originally Posted by Venom_rider

Honey bee doing what it does best...
Caught in the Spider's nest

It reminded me of princess Diana's final moments. Did your camera scare this small guy ?

[pramodkumar]

Originally Posted by gd1418

Holy cows...ooops bees. How did you arrive at that figure?

Simple, how many hair do you have on you head 265894304, you have a doubt count and see.

There is a reason his name is clever and not smart or intelegent.

Pramod

[rjvora_2000]

Originally Posted by shajufx

A different shot. Its the number of bees that attracted me to click this. My guess is atleast 5000 of them on both sides. Now imagine the burning process while stealing their 'asset'.
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I counted 102 in the first line.

Originally Posted by clevermax

It is exactly 2792 bees.

Total is 2794 please recount!!

I am kidding sir.

[Torqueguru]

@Shaju
No it is the 50mm f1.4 AFD

[pramodkumar]

My First try at macro, and yes my talking instruction manual was there guiding me.





The last one was taken by clevermax.



Sorry for the flattened image, i am still a noob on pp. i use picasa to convert raw to jpeg and then ps cs 3 to compress it by reducing the quality.


Pramod

[Venom_rider]

Originally Posted by shajufx

It reminded me of princess Diana's final moments. Did your camera scare this small guy ?

These 3 are different guys... they were happily buzzing around as if I wasn't around.

The last guy got caught & eventually wiggled out off the web.

[shajufx]

Thanks TG, thanks to all those who tried counting the bees, now I get an idea of how 'unemployed' we are in a corporate country ! Olden days it was just 'killing fly' but now its 'counting fly'.

Once upon a time, a wise man called 'Samurai' somewhere in the coastal Karnataka said "DSLR is a money-pit". Nobody understood that until they bought one. I was happy with my P&S canon for many years. Someone told me "you will be a great 'artist' if you buy a DSLR". I started with a D60, not that happy with the 18-55 kit, went for a bargain buy of 55-200, but again not being happy with the range, I am reading all about telezooms upto 500mm. Someone told me "you need a 'prime' for better sharpness and low light snaps", so I have a 35mm 1.8 as immediate target. A photographer friend of mine said "you should get hold of 80-200mm 2.8 for best of best". Did he mean 'sell all what I have including my wife and kids' and get on the streets ?

If you find a man like this anywhere in India, please dont ignore !! (view from a Nokia N70).

[rjstyles69]

Shot during my recent trip.

[pramodkumar]

Some people left me loose in the kitchen, Took some macros, Hope its not an overdose .















Pramod

[clevermax]

@Pramod, the mustard seeds look like Gulab Jamuns

What pramod missed to mention is that all these were taken with the kit lens reversed. There was no reverse mount, so he kept the aperture open with one finger and held the lens close to the cam body by hand and clicked these.

Pramod, impressive stuff for a noob.

[pramodkumar]

Originally Posted by clevermax

@Pramod, the mustard seeds look like Gulab Jamuns

What pramod missed to mention is that all these were taken with the kit lens reversed. There was no reverse mount, so he kept the aperture open with one finger and held the lens close to the cam body by hand and clicked these.

Pramod, impressive stuff for a noob.

Thanks guru jee

Pramod

[RuffRyder]

Originally Posted by shajufx

Thanks TG, thanks to all those who tried counting the bees, now I get an idea of how 'unemployed' we are in a corporate country ! Olden days it was just 'killing fly' but now its 'counting fly'.

Once upon a time, a wise man called 'Samurai' somewhere in the coastal Karnataka said "DSLR is a money-pit". Nobody understood that until they bought one. I was happy with my P&S canon for many years. Someone told me "you will be a great 'artist' if you buy a DSLR". I started with a D60, not that happy with the 18-55 kit, went for a bargain buy of 55-200, but again not being happy with the range, I am reading all about telezooms upto 500mm. Someone told me "you need a 'prime' for better sharpness and low light snaps", so I have a 35mm 1.8 as immediate target. A photographer friend of mine said "you should get hold of 80-200mm 2.8 for best of best". Did he mean 'sell all what I have including my wife and kids' and get on the streets ?

If you find a man like this anywhere in India, please dont ignore !! (view from a Nokia N70).
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hahahahaha ROFL this was Hilarious. Agree with you Shajufx..