Silhouettes

Just basic exposure and brightness/contrast tinkering....

B500, telephoto at test

Update about the instrument

Primarily, I have always shot with a mobile camera. Whilst I felt the need for normal point and shoot photography is well handled by my trusted devices -- A Nokia 808 Pureview, an Yotaphone and a Note 4, there was ONE place where I felt completely lacking  ---- ZOOMING.

Agreed that I have the BEST possible mobile when coming to zooming, but that is not actually useful when the subject is a bird or an insect.

So, I got, the budget constrained myself, into a middle ground. Not something like a small pocketable zoom cam (c'mon, I have a f**king Nokia 808) or had adequate Vitamin M to get an SLR. Also, since am a complete noob in cameras, handling an SLR to get a good potential from it is almost a cipher chance for me. The mirrorless systems also costs an arm and a leg.

So, I got a bridge camera. A basic entry level bridge camera.

The Nikon B500. No evf is a bummer but I got it pretty cheap, so won't complain.

The prime idea is to accilmatize myself with the controls, functions and the likes of a camera before jumping guns on an SLR. Plus the zoom range of this camera (900mm telephoto in 35mm equiv.) would mean a lens costing much more than both my kidneys together. So, for now, this pesky li'l blog has a new donor for the photos  - The Nikon B500.

ciao,

Achyut.

Posting after a long, long, loooonng time. Anonymous shots, all of them are shared here.

Too late for an update, but still, My 808 pureview had to visit the doctor. wasn't booting. now it's back in action.

I'll share a few random shots from my beloved 808 Pureview and the SGS4.

1. A closeup potrait. Flash was deliberately fired to underexpose the background...toned down saturation, brightness to -1 and contrast to +1.

PV 808, Flash - fired, Contrast +1, brightness & saturation -1

2. Sunset from my roof. PV 808. ND Filter - ON, Saturation and contrast cranked all the way up and brightness toned 2 stops down. Perfect shot of the bleeding sun. Maynot be an accurate depiction of the scene, but serene nonetheless.

808 PV, ND Filter - ON, Saturation and Contrast - +4 each and Brightness (-2)

808 Pureview and a quick casual snap...

Was walking the dog in the morning and took a random snap...came out pretty good, I think.
1st one is a crop and the 2nd one has a sepia filter on the crop...hope you like it...

Pureview 808...

Sharing a few Nokia 808 pureview shots....none are edited and are straight from the device....Used the 9MPx mode (I have a hacked 808 PV)....
Check them out....