Day 2 with the 50mm

SelfShot

So I took the Cam to work today and started clicking at anything and everything I could find. Called Kevin up and one of the first things he asked me was.. 'Did you take the cam to work?', man i'm so predictable :P But only one guy knows me that well and it's Barco Man (Kevin). enjoyed the day with the 50mm, images seemed to be more clearer and crisp. The auto focus seems to be a lot faster as well. Can't wait to wake up tomorrow and start clicking again!

Day 1 with the 50mm

Hitting the Right Notes!

My poor bass guitar! I don't recall what my idea of purchasing this lovely instrument was in the first place. probably thought it would look cool :P . Been almost 3 years that I touched it and mom has been after me to get rid of it. But for some reason I was never really able to do that. Maybe someday in the future I might pick it up and start to learn again, until then it at least makes for a good subject to photograph!

50 Days- 50 Pics - 50mm

Yea to me! I purchased the Canon EF 50mm F1.8 II Prime lens today! It's the cheapest but one of the best lens of it's category. With an Aperture reaching as Large as F/1.8 clicking images in low light is not a problem anymore.

This little monster came in a tiny little box but packs a big punch on street & portraits photography. Already tested it, clicking a few shots and instantly noticed the sharpness of the images. The super compact sized and light weight lens really makes it easier on the wrist's as well.

I have decided to do a project: 50 day- 50 pics with he new 50mm lets see how far I get with this, so wish me Luck!

Morning out with Ian & Kevin!

Yawn!!! still exhausted from all the running jumping and monkeying around this morning. Woke up @ 5.30 am today as we were supposed to go to the beach to click some snaps. We had to still get the 2nd Image done for the 'Ernst & Young' Brand name competition and had been scratching our head for ideas. Sunrise was at 4.50 am and by the time we could all actually hit the road it was already 6.30am and bright

We decided to set up on the lawns out side Al Corniche Club on Gulf road and tried to get some flying images, motion Blur / Panning shots, just random stuff.

 Kevin and Ian decided to go for a Run :P

Ian seemed to be in a surprisingly good mood to get some snaps pics done and was happy to be the model in most of the pics, he didn't even mind getting into the water fountain.:P

And then we started flying!!!

Just me :)

 My planet needs me!!

Show Off!!! hmph!














On the whole it was a fun day with 2 good friends, wish more could have joined this morning.
That's all for now, gonna go back to sleep.

Check some more crazy pics below

Kevin trying to be funny!

Leaning tower of Kuwait???

Trying to frighten his own reflection!



































Enjoying life with every click! :) 

Savio Dsouza

-SnapThat

Photo of the Day - 28 June 2012 - Wrangler with EY Shades

3 days ago, I was asked by a friend to click a photograph of a vehicle with a sun shield having the logo of EY. Next thing I call-up Savio “Man, we have a job to do” and told him what’s on hand.

So we put on our thinking caps…

First of all, we needed a nice vehicle. Who to ask?? Tadaaa!! called up my cousin Ronnie, as he just got himself a nice Wrangler. He agreed to come. (thank you Ronnie). Meanwhile the next day my friend sent me the sun shield we were required to use. The only problem was we had to submit the click by the weekend and we were all pretty busy. As we are all working people we decide to meet up after work and head to location just before sunset the next day. Our location, outside the Hard Rock Cafe as it’s a landmark in Kuwait and close-by for all of us. We reached location (I had a tire puncture fixed in-between to add to the mix) and began to set up quickly as the sun was setting quickly and we had to get a decent shot before we ran out of time.  The result is here below.

As Ronnie had come with his wife Fiona and sweetie pie Rianna,  we clicked a nice family picture. Managed to get the sunset, and some long exposure shots of the Jeep too. All done, RonFioRia headed back home to watch the Euro Cup Portugal v/s Spain, while Savio, Me headed to Church to help at our upcoming Senior Citizen Program.

Photography Tip of the Day- Don't become obsessed with Perfection!

Don't become obsessed with Perfection!

It’s good to try to be your best and want to click good photographs, but do not become obsessed with perfecting every shot. The only thing you should be obsessed with is clicking all the possible pics.

Even Pro-photographers don’t always get all their shots right. Enjoy the time with your Camera and take a few crazy snaps as well. Keep experimenting & practice, practice, practice!

If you see something you like, keep it! Do not delete the images thinking that lighting or composition of the snap is not good enough. Use people's criticism as a stepping guide to getting better.

Savio A. D'souza

-SnapThat

Fun with Motion Blur

So let’s talk about an interesting article today called Motion Blur!

Contrary to popular belief, your photographs don’t always have to be Sharp!

Shocking right? Yea, sometimes a blurred pic says a lot about the photograph, depending on what the photographer was trying to capture and how the image was taken.

As Kevin mentioned in his earlier post on, "how to click Good Photographs", There are no rules to photography. What is important, is what the photographer is trying to portray in the image.

Like all Topics of Photography this one is very vast and not possible to cover in just one post so we’ll break this down in parts.

What is Motion Blur?

A simple definition would be- An image captured of an object in motion (vehicles moving, people dancing, spinning wheels, etc) which show the movement of the object in the form of a blur or streak of light around the object is what is known as a Motion Blur. Examples are below.

This is caused namely because either the moving object was too fast for the camera’s shutter to capture it in a ‘Still / freeze’ shot and / or the photographer deliberately lowered the shutter speed of the camera in order to capture the object’s motion in the form of a Blur.

There as two types of Motion Blur.
1. In which the object in focus is 'Still', while the surroundings are blurred (also commonly known as Panning)
2. The Surrounding are 'Still' and the object in focus is blurred.

But why would you want blurred images?

Motion Blur photography gives us a 2 dimensional view of the object in the image. Unlike still photographs, we can determine the movement and are aware that the object is focus is not just standing still.

Here below is another interesting shot of Motion Blur.

1. What do you notice in this image?

2. What do you think the people are doing here?

This photograph was taken on Yacht Trip a couple of days back. Unfortunately due to low lighting, we were struggling to get any good shots of this dancing group enjoying themselves.

Kevin suggested that we try to click at a slower shutter and instantly we noticed the results were pretty amazing. Now we could capture them dancing about and enjoying themselves and not just still images of people in funny looking poses.

This post will just give you an example of what Image blur / Motion blur is and how it can be used to bring the snap to life.

We will cover the technical aspects on this subject on a later date.
Until then, be it ‘Moving or Still objects’, if you like what you see don’t be afraid to SnapThat!