[ubsmart]

kvish, stunning clarity and awesome DOF. I would rate them 10/10. As mentioned earlier, the third one is a stunner.

[guyonblackybx]

Tried out my new lens at HussainSagar Hyderabad.

Camer: Canon 400D
Lens: Sigma 170 - 500mm







100% crop of Buddha from the image above.

[guyonblackybx]

Originally Posted by kvish

Some flower shots taken during a recent trip:

Pretty good macros. Love the lotus and the last one with bee. perfect

[Rehaan]

Kvish, that fourth flower IS a gem indeed!!!!!

Spectacular photo!! It looks like there is sunlight coming out of the center of the flower!

(btw - I prefer the original composition to the expanded/tilted version)

cya
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[kb100]

Lol... Got bitten by the photography bug recently.

Set out to experiment with my pooah ol 4 year old Canon Ixux 430 P&S (4mp). Here is one example ... I am actually embarassed putting it up here!
The second one was with flash!

This was a challange because there was a stiff breeze blowing.




Here is where I used the flash - The flower was extremely tiny and its stamen(?? or what ever) looked like the burnt wick of a candle!

[kaushik_s]

Wow, so many flower photographs here, so I thought I'll bring on some Butterflies, here are some,from the far North-eastern state of Assam, I hope they'll find it nice here ;-)











Thanks & Regards,
Kaushik

[Nitin]

Superb pics,Kaushik! Love every bit of photography on this thread!!

[Sks_Biker]

Nice pictures kvish. The lily seems quite good.

@kaushik: The first picture is amazing. The rest could do with some more DOF I felt.

[supremeBaleno]

Nice butterflies there, kaushik. Good snaps.
BTW, which place in Assam ? Don't remember seeing such beautiful and unique specimens of butterflies there. Or is there a butterfly park in Assam also ?

[Sks_Biker]

Since we are on the topic of butterfly adding a picture of it and a flower

[kaushik_s]

Originally Posted by Nitin

Superb pics,Kaushik! Love every bit of photography on this thread!!

Thanks Nitin, yeah me too was missing this thread before,have lots of lovely photographs..

Originally Posted by Sks_Biker

@kaushik: The first picture is amazing. The rest could do with some more DOF I felt.

Hi SKS_Biker, thanks for liking, yeah the DoF is shallow as I to get a good shutter speed I had to keep the aperature low(around f8) and most of them are close-up shots.

Originally Posted by supremeBaleno

Nice butterflies there, kaushik. Good snaps.
BTW, which place in Assam ? Don't remember seeing such beautiful and unique specimens of butterflies there. Or is there a butterfly park in Assam also ?

Thanks man,You've been to Assam ?? All these butterflies are from the garden at my home only.. I'm from a place called Gorgaon in Sivasagar district.Lots of butterflies are there and quite a few different ones.
I've seen quite a few exotic birds also there but I'm not into birding so don't have many pics of birds.I could spot lots of Adjutant storks/painted storks/egrets/herons/cormorants and countless small birds.
Regards,
Kaushik

Sks_Biker, lovely pics, isn;t that the butterfly is fluttering it's wing ? nice capture...

[Sks_Biker]

Yeah the wings are fluttering (hence the not so steady picture :( )

[kaushik_s]

Originally Posted by Sks_Biker

Yeah the wings are fluttering (hence the not so steady picture :( )

Well actually I liked that effect,it's showing nice motion..

[supremeBaleno]

O.T.:

Originally Posted by kaushik_s

You've been to Assam? I'm from Sivasagar district.

Spent 7 years there and in Sivasagar itself - the ONGC colony. Assam (& the other 6 sisters) is surely an awesome place, but not known to the rest of India. Almost like Kerala, except for the harsher winters. Let's take this offline, so as to not go O.T. - will PM you.

[NetfreakBombay]

This is Manhattan skyline, taken from Newport. 30 second exposure and 200 ISO.