Orange Slices

Who the hell cuts & eats oranges like that!!  

Unless it dishes out a good plate for photography :)

Xtreme Sport

Went to the XGames, Kuwait Style :P Naah.. It was just Xtreme sport organised a tournament for local stunt riders to show off their tricks, divided between groups of Amateurs & Pros. Most of the kids in the Amateur Category did really well but what was most surprising was that non of them had any safety gear on? C'mon you could seriously hurt your self out on those ramps. 

The guy pictured above is Superman, atleast that's what his shirt said from the front and boy could he Fly!!  Check some of the pics from the event below. 

Falling Down? or Rising Up?

Rising Or Falling?

Times flies so fast, again its been over a week since the last post.. although I did spend a lot of time with my camera and clicked hundreds of pics last week, I never really found enough time to update the Blog.. today however I decided to make sure I did so. 

Using the flash gun I made captured this image of water bubbles in my fishy tank.. If you didn't already guess by now, the image is upside down. It gives it a different perspective and point of view of a simple everyday object. The below settings were used to make this image. 

Camera: Canon EOS 500D

Lens: Canon

Focal Length: 50mm

Shutter Speed: 1/60

Aperture: f/4.0

ISO: 200

Flash Gun: Nissin Pro Di866 Mark II

Day 15 with the 50mm

Spell Check Error

I'm not sure what the guy wanted to say here!
And if u wondering who is standing behind? It's none other that Kevin!!
:D

The Judge - Pontiac GTO

Aaaaaahhh!! its been a week since my last post coz unfortunately I haven't had the time to update the Blog. Mornings would be busy with work work work and then evenings would be really tiring. Did have fun last Saturday though clicking pics for the senior citizen program, held by the Youth of our Parish. I used the 50mm to click... Yup I don't know what i was thinking. :P but the pics did turn out pretty good.
Today after mass we stopped by the Local Supermarket and parked right outside one of the buildings close-by was this Pontiac GTO, I've seen it there for the last 5 - 6 yrs now and I've always wanted to click some pics of it. So today I Did, used the stock lens only on Av Mode @ f18 for this shot. It's a Dream car to own and I envy the guys how has the keys to this beast. 

Day 7 with the 50mm

Phew! Had one of the most exhausting shopping experience today. 3 guys, 2 hrs, 1 bottle of water later we returned with 0 items, yep ZERO!!! It started out with a yummy Snack of Samosa Chaat @ Amman rest in Salmiya with Kevin and then picked up Anselm or should I say he picked us in his new loaned-out ride.
We had one goal in mind, get some Hawaiian  themed outfits for the Senior Citizens program being held tomorrow. Unfortunately luck wasn't with us, as either the Beach pants were too short, too expensive, too plain or just unavailable. Even good t-shirts were not available in the 6 outlets that we went too. Finally we gave up and decided to pick thru our old stack of clothes. Too tired now to type any further..goodnight all.

Day 6 with the 50mm

The Glowing Lamp

Ok, yea I know the Day 5 Post is missing, unfortunately I was out yesterday from morning 7am and got back home only at 10 pm last night so was too exhausted to do any photography and fell off right to sleep. 

Above i used an Ordinary vase, put an LED light into it and clicked at a slow shutter, it gave this lovely glow to it and was surprised to catch the trails of light exiting out of the vase.  

Day 4 with the 50mm

Just my Regular Cup of Bokeh!

Today I decided to try this Bokeh effect, have seen it done online a couple of times and wanted to do it better. It's been my mind last couple of days & although I wanted to actually make a tribute to Spain today for taking the Euro Cup, somehow my mind was on getting this image done.
Took me about 15 mins to set up the frame to shoot. Tried to use different objects too like a vase, glass bowl and kept adjusting the settings on the Cam till I got this image.
Its very simple technique to do and I enjoyed every bit of it. Dad joined in too and became the Light assistant while i was behind the lens :D Thanks Dad!!

Due to Public Request, I have updated this article to explain further on the Bokeh Effects

Bokeh comes from the Japanese word 'Boke', meaning Blur or Haze & is used to describe the 'Out of Focus' area in an Image i.e An image where you have a subject in Focus (Mug) and the background blurred out (lights) is called Bokeh effect. Here, the Blurred background is pleasing while not distracting from the actual Subject.
Imagine your eye is the lens of the Camera, if you keep the palm of your hand close to your face and focus on it, you will notice that while you are focused on your subejct (Palm) the background is blurred and the further you move your palm away from your Eye & closer to the background, the clearer it gets. So Bokeh effect is caused when the subject is close to the lens of the camera and further away from the Background causing the background to Blur up.
Hope this helps! :)

 Savio A D'souza

-SnapThat

Day 3 with the 50mm

Bored in the Beamer!

Caught this fellow sitting bored at the petrol station waiting his turn to enter the car wash.

Was lucky to even click this pic, apparently there's a no snapping at petrol station rule here in Kuwait, we got told by the station attendant to turn off the cam. Did you know there was something like that? I mean come on!! Who makes these rules up? lol

The 50mm here really impressed me with the image sharpness and clarity and am glad was able to Snapthat ;)