Smiling Tambura

 

Photo Session

Recently, some of us went around on a photographing spree. The subjects weren’t natural wonders or astronomical objects. They were professors. Yes. I tried my hand at taking professional portrait shots of professors for putting up on the department website. The idea was inspired by the photo on this webpage.

This was one of the shots that I took.

After a bit of GIMPing (mostly along the lines of this), I managed to get the photo to look like this.

I was impressed with the result. So, I decided to take one of mine also. That resulted in this.

 

Energy Conservation Night at Ganga

Ganga Hostel, IIT Madras helps in conserving energy

 

Midnight Beauty

What do you do after an evening full of mugging for AM110 ? You obviously get bored, duh. And I was no different. Took my camera and tripod headed to our terrace at midnight. Unlike normal photo sessions, I had a plan this time. I wanted to capture a nice, bright, long aeroplane trail. But as usual, I was distracted by other beautiful things waiting to be captured on film.

One of them was a huge patch of yellow light emanating from a construction site and its exotic reflection on a cloud over it. I was ready. I set up the shot and waited for the exposure to get over. Luckily, a plane happened to pass through my field.

Wow! I was amazed by the shot. That was, by far, the best night shot that I have ever taken.

Field Details:-

Sirius is seen in the top left. To the right, is an aeroplane that just took off. The yellow light is from a construction site.

Exposure Details :-

Canon PowerShot A540

f/2.6, Focal length, 5.6mm

ISO 200

15 second exposure