Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe, California. No photo can do justice to the deep blue water of this beautiful lake. It looks stunning in every light situation.
Table Rock
Table Rock cliff. Table Rock Mountain Hike. Near Portland, Oregon, USA. I’ve enhanced the shadow/light effect with bleach bypass effect in Color Efex 3.0
Northwest Forest
Northwest Forest. This is a post-processed photo, to increase dynamic range called high dynamic range (HDR). Human eye can see approximately 20-24 F-stops worth of light intensity variation while most digital cameras can only capture 8-10 F-stops. What it means is what we see in a real scene can never be captured on a digital photo as it is. But with computers we can combine multiple images captured at various settings (called bracketing) and increase the dynamic range. This technique is most useful when shooting a subject with bright background like sky, snow, beach. In a normal photo, you either get a very bright overexposed sky and properly exposed object or very dark object and properly exposed sky, but never both. HDR image can depict both objects properly exposed by combining these two (or even more exposures). Notice in this photo that I’m pointing the camera directly at the sun, but still the tree barks, leaves etc. in the foreground are properly exposed. In a normal photo you would see them completely black in such case. Table Rock Trail (near Molalla, OR), Summer 2010.
Chicago downtown
A view of a slice of Chicago downtown as seen from the Sears Tower Sky Deck. You can see the Lake Michigan in the background. The apparent curvature on the horizon is not because of the curvature of the earth but the distortion created by the camera lens at a very wide angle. Spring 2004. Chicago, Illinois.
Sunset at Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe in an awesome sight. This photo was actually shot by Shraddha in a hurry while we were just finishing a drive around the lake perimeter. This road goes all around the lake and this portion of the road is quite higher (in many places it’s at the water level). Shot with Nikon Coolpix 4500 point-and-shoot camera.
Auto Program mode, Matrix metering.
Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon. November 1998. Shot with a film camera (Canon EOS Elan IIE) and Kodak MAX 400 film. Sigma 28-80mm lens.
Sunset at Columbia Gorge
Evening colors in the Columbia Gorge. As seen from the Vista Point. Shot with Nikon D90 and Nikon 10-24mm VR Wide-angle lens. Post-processed with Nikon Capture NX2.
Other details:
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/80s
Aperture: F/4.5
Metering: Matrix
Focal Length: 10mm
Ecola State Park
Beautiful Oregon coast. Ecola State Park. July 4, 2009. Shot with Nikon D80 and Nikon 18-200mm VR lens.
Other details:
ISO: 160
Exposure: 1/250
Aperture: F/10
Metering: Matrix
The Chai Time Gang
The Chai Time gang on US 20. Three Sisters in the background. Shot with Nikon D80 and 18-200mm VR lens.
Other details:
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/60
Aperture: F/16
Exposure Bias: -0.7 EV
Metering: Matrix
Fun with wide angle
Near Bridal Veil falls, in the beautiful Columbia Gorge, east of Portland, OR. Shot with Nikon D90 with Nikon 10-24mm lens.
Other details:
ISO: 200
Exposure: 1/50 sec
Aperture: 3.5
Exposure Bias Value: -0.67 EV
Focal length: 10mm
Metering: Multi-segment