Tag Archives: Photography

Photography Recipes

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Akshay Dhavle

I started blogging about how I made a picture last week and realized that it was fitting very well in a recipe format. So I thought up a site that has recipes for delicious photographs!! It sounded like a good … Continue reading →

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CPL, ND, TTL Cord and the Tripod

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Akshay Dhavle

Had a half successful trip to Mumbai on Friday. I was on a quest to get these 4 items A Circular Polarizer (CPL) filter for my 24-105mm A Neutral Density (ND) filter A sturdy but light tripod (that can support … Continue reading →

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Pinhole pleasure!

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Akshay Dhavle

Made a body cap pinhole for my 450D today!! Here are two of the pictures. I have tried thick black paper, thiner paper painted black and medicine tablet aluminium foil. These were taken with the thin paper painted black. Tomorrow … Continue reading →

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Goa

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Akshay Dhavle

Swati and I went to Goa last weekend. It was not quite as lovely as same time last year (more crowded and hotter) but it was lovely enough After attending a workshop on Macro and Landscape photography earlier in September … Continue reading →

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Cross Processing

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Akshay Dhavle

For the uninitiated, Cross Processing is a photography technique. As some of you might know I am evaluating Lightroom 3 against Aperture 3 these days. (I am going to post a detailed review but its at least 20 days away). … Continue reading →

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My photograph on Schmap!

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Akshay Dhavle

Some days back I got a mail from “schmap!” asking me if I was OK with one of my photographs (a photograph clicked by me) in there Chicago schmap. And now it seems they have included it Here’s the link … Continue reading →

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The photographers ephemeris

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Akshay Dhavle

Here’s a useful tool. The desktop version is free and available on Adobe Air (so it runs on all OSes). I read about this tool here. It is available here for download. There’s an iPhone version too. I am waiting … Continue reading →

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My photographic resources

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Akshay Dhavle

Day before yesterday, @dharmapurikar bought a Canon EOS Rebel T1i and EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Lens. As well as the Canon EF 75-300mm Lens. We had a nice long conversation about primes and zooms, aperture, ISO, focal length, perspective, crop … Continue reading →

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News

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Akshay Dhavle

NewsOriginally uploaded by akshaydhavle For the past 7 months, I have been taking a rickshaw ride to office and back. Except of course for the 6 weeks in between that I was in Hyderabad. It takes about 30 mins door … Continue reading →

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Mac is back :D

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Akshay Dhavle

So like I said I had some water spilt on my Mac and it was recovering very slowly. I decided to give it some time and packed it away for almost 2 months. The battery was dead and I had … Continue reading →

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