Trials with Phone scope

Saw a Phone scope at Waterstone today at an offer for around 3£ so decided to get one to try. Here is a photography of my dress in ultra close up. Only one downside is that the lens is part of the photo. Either it is built like that or I am doing something wrong. More experiments are in the queue. Good that I have got a week off for half term 😉

WPC: Experimental

We went to the London Mayor Fireworks last Saturday. It was preceded by a parade, which we missed except for the tail end of it. The fireworks started at around 5.20 and lasted for 15 mins. I tried to experiment with the way I capture them and to some extent, I did get a few good ones. Here are a few of them as part of this week’s photography challenge. 

My Moon. Finally! (phew)

After a very long time and lots of trials, I got a decent photograph of the moon. I could still look at some more techniques to improve it and should have ideally got my spider tripod to get some more steady shots. But I had very less energy left after my Pilates workout. I wouldn’t have bothered if I hadn’t seen the moon on the way back from my workout. But once it showed itself to me in a cloudless sky, I just couldn’t let it go without trying for a shot using my zoom lens. It doesn’t look that huge over here in Bangalore. It probably is slightly bigger than usual, but that’s about it. Next time I will be prepared and try and get a much better shot of this lovely natural beauty. Good night, all!

Vintage

I was already having ideas about using my Pinhole lens and playing around with it more, because the last time I took a portrait, the focus wasn’t that good. So I wanted to practice it at home with my small items and see how they came out. And after more than a couple of weeks, I still hadn’t time to start on that. But when I saw Sylvain’s prompt for this week i.e. Vintage, I knew it was time 🙂 I took out my dad’s very old Agfa Isolette, which is broken and doesn’t work anymore.  I told him that it was my inheritance 😉 and that I am not letting it go (because he was about to throw it in the bin 😯 )

So here is my attempt at pinhole images using my Holga pinhole lens. Had to use the flash and  a bright light to get this effect and this was was exactly on my mind. Might seem a little bit overexposed, but I had this effect when I imagined it and I am happy with the end result too. I did have to process it a bit. And since I had to use the floor as my tripod, I think that helped too. I should remember to use my tripod here on with my pinhole lens.

Drone 100

If you like drones or transformers or Intel or art or science or music or just plain creative ideas, you might definitely like this.