Category: Photography

I love photography. For me, it’s like painting, but better. And more accurate. And unlike painting, I can actually participate. I am not a big success or great master by any means. But I enjoy taking pictures. I also enjoy looking at other people work and sometimes sharing it. When I do, this is the category that I use.

Drop of water

Drop of water

Today I tried to photograph a perfect drop of water. This is not as easy a task as it may sound. Luckily, I’ve read few tips on how to do it some time ago. Interesting background is easy to make – just rip an advertising page out of some magazine (such as Cosmopolitan) – and you are done. Drops fall fast, so shutter priority mode is preferrable. I shot in Manual (1/200, f/5.6, ISO 100), since Rebel’s metering system was confused about what I wanted to do and overexposed everything way too much.

The only thing which I didn’t have with me was a tripod. Tripod is needed to prefocus camera, since it does a louzy job of finding focus points in the pool of water and some magazine page at the bottom. It always tried to focus on the magazine page. I’ll leave tripod for the next time.

Album location: /photos/2004/2004-10-31_POTD

Amateur Song Festival No. 3

KSP No.3Most of today I spent at Amateur Song Festival in Kakomalis. It was the third one in the last two years. By the way, the official name is KSP, which should be written in Russian letters. It can be roughly translated as Kakomalis Song Phestival. :)

Anyway, there were lots and lots of people, nevermind the lack of advertising. Plenty of regulars, but few new faces too. Lots and lots of music, food, and drinks, and general fun. Those who didn’t go missed a lot!

I have made a few pictures, which are available here.

How to properly photograph the interiors

By means of Canon Digital Photography Forums, I came across an excellent thread here. Author explains every step she (?) took while photographing an office of her friend’s company. There are a lot of lessons to learn. Plenty of suggestions by other people make it a really useful read. Worth the time.

CD-ROM

CDROM

Today I played a little bit with colors of the CD-ROMs. Many people experiment with these. One of the most popular experiment is putting a tiny drop of water on the disk and lighting it from different sources. I realized that I will not be able to do anything with water until I’ll get a macro lens.

Still, the colors are nice. I’ve made about 20 shots out of which I selected three.

Album location: /photos/2004/2004-10-29_POTD