Hartford's beautiful

Its been a long time since I posted somethin on this blog... So here's a picture taken from my apartment (taken at twilight). The colors of the sky and the buildings (all lighted up) make Hartford look very beautiful ....




The next, again at twilight from my apartment window. The clouds contribute to the beautiful colors. Oh! how much I love shooting in low light ...

It's Wednesday and two more days to go! uh ... i'm so exhausted - had to cook today. Califlower, beans and potatoes sauted in onions and mixed with tomato gravy (and some spices tooo) that was the dish!

Moving ahead from my previous post - i have a restricted view because I'm in my apartment. Let's move out and see the surroundings. After lunch and a short nap on Saturday, I'm out braving the cold just to shoot in twilight. I love the thought of twilight because that's when the sun's almost below the horizon and the sky sports a multicolored camouflage of yellow, orange, red, blue and all the associated shades. This effect in physics is called the "Rayleigh effect" and you see it because of diffraction of light. Did i get too technical? This picture of Bushnell here was taken at twilight.

The next one here is a picture of the Wadsworth atheneum taken in absolute dark without flash with an exposure compensation of -0.7EV. You'd ask me why did you need an exposure compensation at night ?? Well, look closely at the photograph and you'll be able to read the hanging banner on the right wall - just to get that!

Day was almost over, and I showed up at a friend's place. I had tea .. and with tea he served me cookies, walnuts and almonds with a cup of tea. So what's so interesting in that?

Well .. the plate of cookies looked very tempting .. want to see what it was like ? Technically speaking this is a macro shot taken with flash. I'm impressed with the details .. Find it funny huh? - taking a picture of something that's on your plate? Laugh if you have to. I call it a day!

First pictures from my apartment window

It's hard to describe the feeling of holding your love in your hands. When I say love, I mean my new Nikon D40 (for now).

I'll give it a shot here - when you hold it, you feel pride .. pride because you own it and that (as if) it was made just for you! Like you got all that you wanted all this while .. so desperately?!? - maybe. The touch of it has adrenaline rushing through your veins. The excitement? - you feel like you are on cloud 9. You look into their eyes (i means lens) and you see the whole world! Does any of this sound familiar to you? Oh! and should I say nervous, cautious tooo ?!? That's when the thought of losing it or having it go out of your sight comes to your mind ...

So here I am, with my new love - Nikon D40. Day1, Saturday 2/16/2008 was a bright and sunny day though very cold. I attached the 50-200mm lens and thought would take some shots from the window of my apartment.

This first picture I took was using the 55-200mm lens at f=175mm. The Bushnell state capitol buiilding. The other images I too seem a little overexposed and so i thought - lets play a little with the P mode and set an EV (exposure compensation) value.


This next picture is a shot with -0.3EV. Can you see a softer blue? Now that's the effect of the exposure setting ....