Behind the Image - The Sprinkler The purpose of this series is to dive into a photograph and get to know how it was made. The image that I have chosen this week is of a pair of mating lions in the Serengeti. I had wanted to make an image of the lion doing this…
DetailsSnow covers most of the ground in these parts during the winter months. Winters in Japans remote northern island are harsh and surprisingly, the best time to be in Japan for a bird photographer. For as long as I remember I have had this dream of being there in peak winter to try and make some images…
DetailsBe Clear about what your aim is… Its all about knowing who you are and where your heart lies. Bird Watcher or Photographer?? I used to ask the above question to myself a lot of times and it is only in the last few years that I haven’t been troubled by it. The more I see…
DetailsDo you know what sun-spots are? Forget technically, but to the human eye they look like dark dark tiny spots on the sun. Sensor spots/dust have a similar feel on the image. Have you ever come across a set of images that have a tiny out of focus black dot repeated at the same…
DetailsThe Modern day DSLR come with some astonishing figures in terms of how fast they can click. For those of you who are unaware about your cameras capabilities, here is what you want to look for. There are two concepts that you need to understand in-order to calculate the speed at which your camera can…
DetailsISO vs Under-Exposure - A Noisy Battle Imagine yourself in a tiger reserve at the fag end of the day with light going low rapidly. You are struggling to keep up the shutter speeds (cranked the ISO to 1600 already) and a tiger decides to pay you a visit. You have a full grown male tiger walking…
DetailsLet’s assume that you have a camera which claims that it has 51 focus points. You attach a 300 f/2.8 on it and you can select any of the 51 focus points. So far so good. Next you go to shoot some birds and choose to a lens like the 500 f/4. Now it seems…
DetailsThis is my first post about Post-Processing. I have been resisting on posting anything on post-processing because I feel that this is a topic that would be better suited to the video format of blogs and hopefully I will soon come up with a new video-series about post-processing in wildlife photography. Having said that, there…
DetailsThere are a lot of features in your camera that we do not use often and don’t know much about. Today we talk about ‘Mirror Lock-up’. Did you know that your camera comes with a feature named mirror lock-up? So lets see how does one reach this feature and what does it do… Enabling Mirror Lockup: Nikon…
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