On our way from Tahoe this weekend, I found plenty of opportunities to shoot into the rear view mirror for the picture-in-picture effect. The timing was bad – it was 3′o clock in the afternoon, the sun was bold and merciless, right on top and the road was white as snow. But I could not pass on the opportunities to park on the shoulder and shoot a few shots of cars in my mirror.
 

 
Surprisingly, this wasn’t shot with a Nikon! I used a 5MP Samsung point and shoot and then …

I was wandering about downtown San Jose a few weeks back, with my camera slung on my shoulder, trying to get some “people” shots when I met this gentleman.
He was seated on one of the bus stand benches, clothed wearily in rags and was carrying his paraphernalia around. I am used to such people since they make good portraits in exchange of usually a few cigarettes, or at the most a pack of Marlboro lights! He glanced at me with a “what’s up man” in the leo style (for those …

For those who have used Scala, whether for photo journalism, portraits or even for landscape images, would be disappointed now that Agfa may not ever produce any more Scala. The film was favored by many for its sharpness, contrast and its ability to shoot at 200 ASA as good as in 800 ASA. You could push it to 1200 ASA too with negligible grains!

When BH Photo started showing “Out of Stock” on Scala for over 2 months now, I wrote to Agfa only to hear that they would ship the …

Motion often signifies life, motion often signifies change and motion is easy to capture on film or digital media. Apart from the usual technique of panning, with a little bit of practice, you could do a combination of panning and fixed focus blurring.
This one was shot in a subway station, with minor panning and partial fixed focus. The fact that it was done pressing the shutter while coming down the elevator in available light, made it partially blurred. It was shot on D200 in color and later desaturated.

Wave surfing is a popular sports and there is no dearth of enthusiasts of all ages. I have had numerous shots on my Velvia™ but now that I have a digital kid, I can readily post some of them here. And this was from the first couple of days of buying the D200 while I was testing the Nikon 80-400 VR™ with the Kenko 300 PRO DG 1.4™. The VR worked great, the focus lock was desperately accurate with no hunting, the saturating was stunning without a polarizer or even …