Finally moon!

I was able to get some moon pics but it happens that getting a good image is difficult. Getting an image of moon requires full zoom plus a very slow shutter speed. And if you want it with the least ISO then even the slowest shutter speed! So getting a pic with a blur in it isnt that difficult to get. Now I know that I dont have very steady hands but I got most of the images blurred even with a tripod! Maybe the wind or maybe my stomping around was enough to give that blur!

Well here are some pics that came good enough to be posted:

On 22nd even the best pic is with some (acceptable?) blur!


And this pic is just for the yellowish tinge on clouds thanks to (once again) the setting sun!

Moon and setting sun existing peacefully. A much better pic would come out of (full) moon and rising sun. But as I said am too lazy to get up so early in the morning.

And here is the video of the white tiger in zoo whoso pics are there on picasa and whose blog post I forgot to write :D

(its 30 mb and taking a hell lot time to upload here on blogger)

Night pics

Well only birds dont play truant. Went at night wishing for some moon pics. But yes the moon was absent. Being a day after the Eid, I was expecting a nice slice of moon but I guess due to clouds got nothing! Well anyways here are some pics that I took while trying out the night capabilities of my camera. Landscape mode for night sucks. So had to go manual. As is given all over the net (and which I found out later) z980 is good enough for high ISO settings. And in smart mode it chooses high ISO. So instead of high ISO in manual mode I opted for slower shutter speeds (was written as 6" - wonder what it menas) but took about 3-4 seconds of shutter spped (was trying to hear shutter open and close by keeping my ear close to the camera!). Obviously with such shutter speeds I was using the tripod without which all I would have got is a set of blurry pics!

The view which I have taken many times during the day now taken @ night. Mind you its 9:30 pm pitch dark and no flash (obviously no flash for landscapes).


A little darker pic of my street.


No mood so had to be content with a star :P



The first pic is in manual mode, second one in the night landscape mode provided by Kodak guys! You can be your own judge as to which one is better!

Another set of pics!

Yeah I know its getting monotonous posting similar kind of pics again and again but currently thats my only timepass at home so I havent got anything else thats interesting enough. Unless ofcourse if I start posting travian stuff :P

So well today I wanted pics of flowers but as they are scarce during this time of the year I had to settle for birds and finally for the sun (thankfully it wasnt a setting sun today!).

Whole set of pics can be seen @ http://picasaweb.google.com/aug21st/CamTest

So today I first clicked around the birds that were sitting in the lawn downstairs instead of going to the rooftop directly.

Thats what I call timing! Was just in time to click before that bird disappeared behind (inside maybe) that tree.

The only flower that I was able to find in my house at this time. And it is the size of my thumb!

Just as I was packing up saw this bird sitting just above my head :)

Again showing off the manual focus with focus on the leaves and building in the background!

The sun was too bright for me to even observe the clouds with my naked eye! Had it not been for the clouds it would have been just an ordinary pic.

Posting the pics of my photography session yesterday evening. Tried some stuff using manual settings thought apart from exposure I wasnt able to understand anything else :P

First of all the pics showing off the zooming capabilities-

The above building is approximately 200-300 mts from my house as in crow distance. Now am really bad at approximating distances so it can be anything but the distance am putting down in next few pics will be relative to this one :D

Yes I love the sun!

That would be approx 50 mts from my house.

A billboard some 300 mts away from my house. maybe 200..not sure! Using digital zoom here and yes I dont have a steady hand.

No idea about the distance as it was high up in the sky. Used digital zoom too and was somehow able to grab this kite in this frame!

Now some pics where I tampered with manual settings. In this set of 3 pics all taken at the same time I played with shutter speeds. In others test case I played with aperture without fully understanding its significance and got some not so good looking pics.

Now some pics which just came good without any special significance..and yeah most of them related to the setting sun (will have another session today probably during that same time..am too lazy to get up early in the morning for rising sun!)

Theres also a video with nice resolution but thats a tad bigger for my net connection to handle (~125MB) to skipping it for now. And anyone who can give tips for photography is most wlecome!