Bharat Rakshak

^^^ just needs a little more magnification! A little closer and you're home! Why not try cropping?
In case the idea was to show a bit of the real flower along with the refraction, then could smaller aperture have helped?

^^^ That's a color riot praksam ji!!! First macro in particular is magnifique!

^^^
Barbed wire heart for a fence on valentines day?

praksam wrote:Nice 3d effect on the violet flowers,Vivasvatji.

archan wrote:nice pics praksam and Vivasvat ji. Do I see a yummy parantha in the pooja pic?

Dhanyavaad praksam aur Archanji.
Paratha is what my guess was too. It was taken at someone elses place while the pooja was in progress. Never asked the question.

BRadmins,

How can I change my registration email address? It no longer exists!!!

P&S - year 2001

Point and Shoot Macro

f 2.8

Bala Vignesh, I'd like to add that you will need an external flash if you really want to shoot indoors at reasonable shutter speeds and/or brightness (flash sync speed for canon is what..1/250s? Reasonable for capturing most wedding action, otherwise you can also go to high speed sync mode at the co...

praksamji, do you have 2 similar shots on water with different depth of field for comparison? I was just wondering which would look better in the above goose butt shot - blurred or clear water...

Any guys interested in a photography outing in NJ/NYC?

Amazing clarity praksam!

Bala Vignesh,

I realized it later that there will be an official photographer too. So, do you have any idea what the official photog will cover? What does your friend want you to shoot? Equipment that you have?

Bala, I covered my nieces wedding last year and here is what I learnt: 1) In an Indian wedding, it is difficult to get line of sight to your subject. Everybody sits around a fire facing different directions. Add to that te pillars and decorations of the mandap and you have a limited view of the proc...

Thanks Archan, Purush.


50mm, f1.4
I fee it would have been better at f2.0

Here you go archanji

200mm, F2.8, 1/125, ISO 1600, 5Dm2, Green Filter, cropped

200mm, F2.8, 1/50, ISO 1600, 5Dm2

Off topic, but intriguing in light of the recent utterences: Paul Krugman: U.S. Economy Needs 'The Financial Equivalent Of War' Excerpts: "What actually brought the Great Depression to an end was the enormous public spending program otherwise known as World War II." World War II boosted go...

I wonder if Pakistan ever gave a long helicopter tour of the flood ravaged areas to the press. Are the views of the "extensive" flooded areas by ISI escort only?

Paki in India? Check out Ruhel Chisty purportedly from Udaipur in the comments section......
http://www.baltimorenews.net/story/639482

how about a "image resizing by percentage" BBCode? I wrote the following for my forum: The BBCode is defined as: [imgr={NUMBER}]{URL}[/imgr] The substitution is defined as: <IMG height="{NUMBER}%" width="{NUMBER}%" SRC="{URL}" /> Example: [imgr=50]http://URL.t...

by John Sherffius at Comics.com

For Admins:
Image shown as per embed code supplied by comics.com with the image acting as a URL to the original page.

Column One: Civilization walks the plank By CAROLINE GLICK In centuries past, in accordance with established international law, it was standard practice for naval captains to hang pirates after capturing them. Today, when Europe has outlawed capital punishment, when criminal defendants throughout t...

Mar-goli, india hater/islamist sympathizer, wants to flow with the current..... the undercurrent must be strong enough for him to jump ship... Attack on pirates reflects India’s growing sea power .... the latest sign of India’s growing maritime power, a subject about which I have been writing for tw...

Consider the advantages of m4/3 with G1 internals: 1) contrast-detect autofocus as fast as any entry-level DSLR with 1-area, 23-area, face detection and AF tracking modes In single area AF mode you can set both the position and the size of the chosen area. 2) Oly ED and Leica lenses 3) small flange ...

isnt that the same kit you are considering moving out of ? :twisted: :) No. Singha, My wife refuses to peer through a viewfinder. And, for a woman, size does matter! A 12-60mm miniature lens would suffice for most travel. The other lenses can stay in the suitcase most of the time. Mort, 5D Mk II do...

But probably the micro 4/3 will be much smaller even Micro 4/3 is a good step-up for P&S abduls, but I doubt if I'll like it. I don't like EVFs. m4/3 would be excellent as a carry around camera. A camera the size of the recently shown oly tweener mock-up with a pop-up flash with the wizardry of...

12 Passengers Said Detained From Plane AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A dozen passengers are now under arrest after their flight got a fighter jet escort back to the Amsterdam airport. Dutch police say 12 people are in custody, though it's not immediately clear what the charges are. A police spokesm...

Online tests can be compromised, so this does not seem like a good idea. Now, online tests for entry to defence services Excerpts... Aptitude tests for selection of candidates for defence services may become online in a year's time. The new pattern will be similar to any other screening tests, like ...

Was this Cope India 2005 or 2006? All the pics on www.af.mil say 2006. KALAIKUNDA AIR STATION, India (AFPN) -- Capt. Kevin Jones gives a cockpit tour to Indian Air Force airmen during Cope India 2006 . Currently, the U.S aircraft have flown 113 sorties with the Indian air force. http://www.af.mil/sh...

Blocher says tighter asylum law is paying off Blocher said requests for asylum in Switzerland had fallen by 42 per cent since parliament decided more than a year ago to strip rejected asylum seekers of the right to claim social security benefits. he called for a further tightening of the asylum law...

High profit medicinal farming becoming popular in Central India Acres of land, once under traditional farming are now covered with medicinal plants and trees such as Safed Musli, Ashwagandha, Amla (Indian gooseberry), Sridar Patidar, Gur- Mar, Jamun Sativa and Patchtoli. However, farmers complain t...