Sunday, March 25, 2007
Hi again !! Back on Sunday, with loads of more photos (enuff to keep posting for a month at least :D) Was away for my first trip abroad to Hong Kong!! No thanks to my poor English that I am not able to find adjectives for the place.. or may be as they say.. A picture speaks a thousand words.. vision of Hong Kong, however, left me dumbstruck, open mouthed.
For the first time, I felt limitations of my CanonS2IS. The light, colors, widths, depths, heights exceeded far beyond what I could capture. And I *seriously* regret not having carried my wise angle lense and tripod. For almost every picture of lights in night that you'll see, I had to take at least 10 others to get one that did not blur due to handshake for shutters slower than 2 seconds at times. The first picture for example, is a 2 sec shutter hand-held, f/2.8. Not convinced with the depth of field of the picture, I wanted to go for f/8.0 which meant a full 15 second exposure with no tripod. I somehow managed to support the camera on a thing glass railing, still holding it by hand though - for the second picture. (Notice the height of buildings there!!)
Anyways, for most of the pictures in the Hong Kong series, the pictures would be interesting (if at all) for the interesting subjects rather than photography.
For the first time, I felt limitations of my CanonS2IS. The light, colors, widths, depths, heights exceeded far beyond what I could capture. And I *seriously* regret not having carried my wise angle lense and tripod. For almost every picture of lights in night that you'll see, I had to take at least 10 others to get one that did not blur due to handshake for shutters slower than 2 seconds at times. The first picture for example, is a 2 sec shutter hand-held, f/2.8. Not convinced with the depth of field of the picture, I wanted to go for f/8.0 which meant a full 15 second exposure with no tripod. I somehow managed to support the camera on a thing glass railing, still holding it by hand though - for the second picture. (Notice the height of buildings there!!)
Anyways, for most of the pictures in the Hong Kong series, the pictures would be interesting (if at all) for the interesting subjects rather than photography.
