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5 books every budding photographer must have

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Sat, 4 Feb 2017 00:36:00 -0800

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1.Tony Northrup's DSLR Book: How to Create Stunning Digital Photography-

Stunning Digital Photography is much more than a book, it comes with 12 hours online video training and free help from the author and the other readers.once you go through the content of this book you would understand why this book is #1 photography e-book with 100,000 readers. Apart from 12 hours online video training this book, this book also have hands-on practices at the end of the every chapter to experience real world experience you need, you will also have option taking online quizzes at the end of the every chapter to see what you have learned and to make sure didn’t miss anything, you can also join author online private group where you find helpful like-minded people who also want to improve their photography and above all after buying this book you are eligible to download the ebook for free with new content and videos as new equipment and trend change in the market, so it never get outdated.

If you are beginner photographer you can master the composition, exposure, shutter speed, ISO, Aperture, natural light, flashlight, troubleshooting blurry or dark images, pet photography, wildlife photography(mammals, birds, insects, fish, and more), long exposure photography (fireworks, star, meteors), Photographing sunrise,sunset, landscape, cityscape,flower, waterfalls, rivers and many more.

Advance photographer can also benefit from this book, you will learn, posing men and women with checklist, taking candid, casual, formal and underwater portraits, using raw images, using HDR,Macro photography, Using light modifiers,Remotely triggering multiple flashes for inexpensive studio lighting, building permanent home studio, using studio lighting on any budget,shooting your first wedding, high speed photography,location scouting, planning shoot around sun and moon,star trail(using 2 techniques),light painting, eliminating noise,focus stacking for infinite DOF, underwater photography, getting close to wildlife, using electronic shutter triggers and many more.

This book will definitely make you more knowledgeable and help you mastering skills that help you grow as a photographer I must say it’s proving much much more value than the price of the book. So if you want to buy you first photography book, go with this one.

2.Understanding Exposure, Fourth Edition: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera

This book is the revised edition of Bryan Peterson's most popular book demystifies the complex concepts of exposure in photography, allowing readers to capture the images they want.

Understanding Exposure has taught generations of photographers how to shoot the images they want by demystifying the complex concepts of exposure in photography. In this newly updated edition, veteran photographer Bryan Peterson explains the fundamentals of light, aperture, and shutter speed and how they interact with and influence one another. With an emphasis on finding the right exposure even in tricky situations, Understanding Exposure shows you how to get (or lose) sharpness and contrast in images, freeze action, and take the best meter readings, while also exploring filters, flash, and light. With all new images, as well as an expanded section on flash, tips for using colored gels, and advice on shooting star trails, this revised edition will clarify exposure for photographers of all levels.

There is also a kindle version of this book allow you to read it anywhere, anytime in any device.

3.Adobe Lightroom 6 / CC Video Book: Training for Photographers

With this video book, you'll learn how to instantly find any picture in your library, fix common photography problems, clean up your images, add pop to boring pictures, retouch portraits, make gorgeous prints, create photo books, and even edit your home videos.

Tony goes beyond teaching you how to use Lightroom. Tony shows you why and when to use each feature to create stunning, natural photos. When Lightroom is not the best tool, Tony suggests better alternatives.

Combining the benefits of video training and book learning, this video book gives you over 14 hours of video and dozens of free presets and raw images to practice with. If you learn better with video, watch the video training and refer to the book for quick reference. If you prefer reading, the book is concise and practical, and each chapter links to relevant videos when you want to understand a topic more deeply or see it used in the real world.

Tony covers every aspect of Lightroom in-depth but structures his teaching so that both beginner and advanced photographers can learn as efficiently as possible. If you just want a quick start, you can watch the first video or read the first chapter and you'll be organizing and editing your pictures in less than an hour. If you want to know more about a specific feature, switch to that video or jump to that chapter in the ebook. If you want to know everything about Lightroom, watch the videos and read the book from start to finish.

4.Studio Anywhere: A Photographer's Guide to Shooting in Unconventional Locations

What’s your definition of a photo studio? Is it a room with a white seamless backdrop or a cyc wall? Maybe it’s simply anywhere you’re in control of the lighting. In a perfect world, where every day is a breezy 72 degrees with partial cloud coverage, we would all have a 5,000-square-foot studio–and the entire catalog of B&H™ in our equipment lockups.

But the reality is that you may have an outdated DSLR with two decent lenses (which took you several years to save up for), and all you have at your disposal is an unfinished basement, your garage, or the empty conference room at your office. That’s where Studio Anywhere comes in. With photographer Nick Fancher as your guide, you’ll learn how to get portfolio-ready photos while working in some of the most problematic scenarios imaginable. Whether shooting a corporate portrait, a test shoot with a model, or a promo shoot with a band, you’ll discover that most of the time, there’s no need for an expensive studio–you just have to get creative.

Studio Anywhere is a resource for photographers to learn through behind-the-scenes photos and lighting diagrams from a range of photo shoots–but it doesn’t stop there. Because directing a photoshoot involves more than simply knowing how to wield a camera or process a raw file, Nick also lets you in on the aesthetic decisions he makes in his signature photos, inspiring you to develop your own vision. And, finally, he describes his Lightroom and Photoshop workflow so you can learn how to deftly navigate post-processing.

Shows how to create images with minimal equipment that is within reach of anyone’s budget

Takes you through the entire shoot, from concept to lighting to exposure to post-processing in Lightroom and Photoshop

Teaches how to build a portfolio without a dedicated studio space

5.Digital SLR Photography All-in-One For Dummies

This new edition gets you up to "shutter speed" on the latest camera technologies, including the new consumer-targeted full-frame models and pro features that are now incorporated in consumer-focused units. Veteran author and professional photographer Robert Correll walks you through how a camera works, what lenses to use, how to set exposure, and how to capture the shots that define a portfolio.

Fully updated to cover the latest generation of cameras and boasting more than 700 pages, this must-have resource explores the latest in tools and offers additional content, including video and interactive tools so that you can enhance your photography knowledge.

Covers the basics of DSLR mechanics and explains how settings affect the final photo

Reviews lenses and walks you through choosing and applying the right lens for your situation

Discusses how aperture, shutter speed, and ISO combine to determine how your photo will look

Demystifies how to light a photo, from using natural light to flash to artificial lighting

Helps you shooting high-quality video and film

Digital SLR Photography All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition is packed with everything you need to get your idea photo, from portraits to action shots to night photos and so much more.

These best 5 five help you mastering digital photography, from learning photography complex techniques to set up your own studio in any r. So have these in your book self and start practicing everything you learn from these books. If you want to set your goal to set up your photography business in just 7 days download this free ebook from the orenzweb.com. This ebook guide you step by step and help your photography business to be set up in 7 days, not only this but it also covers the marketing tips and trick to get results which help you making your first dollar while you are learning the skills. So take action and grow.

Do we need expensive lenses and camera for good photographs

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Fri, 3 Feb 2017 05:44:00 -0800

Is it true that you need expensive lenses and high-end camera to take good photographs? Hmm.

I am sharing some photograph below, these photographs were taken 4 years back when started photography with my first entry level camera Nikon D5100 and 18–55mm lens.

Ans-1- Yes, if you are doing some high-end commercial project then you definitely need one to deliver the desired quality.

Ans-2: No, if you are planning on taking just good quality photographs on your vacation, go with any canon or Nikon entry level DSLR. But not point and shoot.

You need to understand that why any expensive lens or camera are so expensive? It’s expensive because it enables you to work on details and when you are working professionally on some project, detail is the first priority. Every lens is made for some specific task to perform, that’s why we photographers keep 2 or 3 lenses handy always while doing any project. but in case you just need to capture your vacation where you’d take some portraits of your girlfriend (I assumed you are going with your girlfriend), some beautiful landscape or sometime if you feel very creative, you’d want to take some nightscapes and long exposure photographs. Believe me, for all of these you don’t need any high-end camera or expensive lens, any entry level camera with kit lens would also work for you.

Why buying the expensive camera and gears shouldn't bother you? I have discussed this in detail in my e-book that can be downloaded from my website, www.orenzweb.com

How to do storm photography in low budget

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Fri, 4 Oct 2013 07:18:00 -0700

Yes, its long time ago I've posted some article, I have been almost disappeared from my own blog, but I never share something until I have really to share. This time I have something very bright to talk about. I never tried this ever and it was my very first-hand experience. I got really thrilled and scared, until finish my work. I am talking about photograph lightning after or during heavy rain. I am sharing these snaps which I managed to achieve. As I said, this was my first experience with lightning and these 3 photographs are only I can show you. You know lightning happen for fraction of second and when you have a camera with a kit lens and a tripod only, it's very difficult to release the shutter exactly when lightning happen. You need a perfect timing and patience and that is the real challenge.But don't forget to have a rain cover for your camera, it's very important when you are photographing in rain. I used Polaroid SLR Rain Cover Protector For Digital SLR Cameras, you can find more cheap and best covers on Amazon.I also used shutter release remote to keep camera extra steady. Here is some shutter release remote you can use for Nikon DSLR. Photive ML-L3 Wireless Shutter Release Remote For Nikon D5300, D3200, D5100, D5000, D7000, D600, D610, D80, D90, p7000, P7100, Nikon J1, V1, Nikon 1 AW1 Digital SLRS(Replaces Nikon ML-L3).Well for this time enjoy this photograph and if you have some question or want to say something about this picture, please feel free to leave a comment or an email in my inbox.

Some more Pictures: Updated

How to edit an under exposed picture in LIGHTROOM

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Fri, 7 Jun 2013 12:12:00 -0700

You have the Second opportunity

Whenever I share my photographs with someone, often I get this reaction "O my god! it's looking beautiful, is this edited? and I just smile. Obviously, every photograph needs little or more color correction and finishing touch, that doesn't mean this is not originally beautiful photograph and my editing make it beautiful. But this time I won't just smile, I admit, the above photograph, I am sharing this article is edited. How? that is the real experience should be talking about. And also I realise the second opportunity.

Whenever we talk about photography, we discuss right exposure, ISO, shutter speed, Aperture etc, etc… and forget about the second most important part which I called the second opportunity in photography, we just try hard to take picture in right exposure settings often succeed but what if you miss the chance and what if you took a very good photograph in bad or wrong exposure, no problem, we have another chance to correct it on your editing table in post production process.

Yes, you are right, editing and that is the second opportunity in photography I am talking about.

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Sounds so Simple?

Every thing seems to be very simple, yes I know any photograph needs a finishing touch but here I am talking about the photograph with a bad exposure and making it extraordinary image, on our editing table with some tricks.

You’d think why I should bother about editing rather I’ll make sure, my camera exposure setting is right. Yes you are right, I also thought like you, until I clicked this image and edit it on my computer. Just think, we take loads of photographs and at the end of the day we have thousand of photographs looking nice on our camera screen, but when we go to the editing table, we delete 100s photographs after every photo shoot, because they are not reaching our expectation. In photography it is said that we have to be as lucky as skilled.

So luckily you have some good photographs but exposure is extremely bad, almost black as you can see in the given image, what you’d do? Yes this is very frustrating. But here is your second opportunity. I think we should not delete the photos blindly, may be there is some photographs which can be edited and who knows it could be your photo of the day. So picking that photo, from your all thousand photographs, is obviously not simple.

Playing with editing tools:

When I was on assignment to cover Indian festival ‘Holi’ I just clicked this image accidentally while traveling, without bother about exposure and almost forgot about this image and after finished my assignment, I started post production process, this was looking horrible when saw this photo on my computer screen and the first word came into my mind was ‘waste’, but at the same time I liked the composition very much, the way train moving in the image and I noticed there was no disturbing element like electric wires and poles present there, I felt like this was the man made marvel in between the beautiful god made nature. But the lighting was as poor as you can see in the original image. Normally I delete the bad images immediately but that day I decided to repair this image and started paying with tools. After some experiment and adjustment, got this result you can see in second edited photo.

So when I completed my work it was a great feeling to see this image in large view on my computer.

How I edited this image:

When I was editing this image, one thing that I was clear about was, I don’t have to aggravate with the originality of the image. I was just trying to enhance the image, not only this time but I always do the same.

Which software is used? I love both, the Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom equally. For this image, I used Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop as well.

First I tried to fill light with the fill light tool and increased it until it looks clear. You can see in the image it is about 85, I also increase little bit exposure up to +0.80. I used some negative tint to enhance sky color.

Then I adjust the Hue, luminance and saturation (HLS) until it looks good as you can see the given reference image. These are the basic tools I played with and give this ordinary damaged photograph a Wao factor.
If you think any another photo editing software like Photoshop can more enhance your photograph, don't hesitate to use it.

Quick Note:

Be careful while you are sorting your best photographs, because still we have second opportunity on your editing table.
Play with the editing tool whenever you get time, experiment with your bad photographs before deleting.
Try not to manipulate image, enhance the photographs but not at the cost of originality. (All depends on the situation and type of photograph).

What is Bokeh-Beginners

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Sun, 19 May 2013 23:01:00 -0700

bokeh f/5.6

What is Bokeh?

Bokeh is a Japanese word 'boke' which means Blur. In photography when we shoot with any fast lens and create an effect of soft out of focus background in back of your subject which also looks pleasing and aesthetically beautiful.

Nikon 50mm f/1.8G AF-S NIKKOR FX Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

How to Create Bokeh?

Creating bokeh is as simple as dressing your hair, all you need to know the style you want to create. Any fast lens is okay to create bokeh. The faster the lens the better the result. You can use a lens with an aperture at least f/5.6, but talking an ideal, it's good to use 50mm, f/2.8 or faster like f/1.8, f/1.4. if you are rich enough to buy multiple fast lenses its good, but if you don't own faster lens, there's no need to worry. In fact, even your kit lens is capable enough to create beautiful aesthetic quality bokeh. While taking bokeh photograph try to increase the distance between your subject and the background and decrease the distance between your camera and the subject as much possible as your camera minimum focus distance allowed you. The more the distance between the subject and background the more out of focus it will be and you ll get better results. A simple portrait with a high depth of field is also a good example of a Bokeh. You can use this technique in various style photography.

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ABA Creation:Check Camera Sensor for Dust and scratches

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:25:00 -0700

ABA Creation: How to Check Camera Sensor for Dust and scratches ~ ABA Creation

Dust and Scratches on your friend's Camera Sensor? What? That’s really very bad news. You want tocheck your camera for dust and scratches? But don’t know how to check it yourself and don’t want to spend 100 bucks on your doubt? It’s like a nightmare for any camera owner especially for D-SLR owner. No problem here is a simple DIY solution to Check

What is ISO

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:22:00 -0700

Image with 2 different ISO setting

ISO in digital cameras indicates how much sensitive the sensor is, to the light. There are different values for ISO in your digital cameras i.e. ISO 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400 and more. If you choose higher value, the sensor will be more sensitive to light and produce more grains in the image and if less value chosen, the sensor will be less sensitive to the light and produce high quality image without grains. For example ISO 6400 will produce more grains than ISO 100 as shown in the given Picture.

High ISO values allow you to shoot with fast shutter speed to achieve optimal exposure with given aperture. High ISO also allows you to shoot under low light, but at the same time it also produce grainy image and reduces the quality of your image. Low ISO setting produces high quality images but limit the use of higher shutter speed. Choosing ISO value is all depends on under which circumstances you are photographing and how much you can compromise with the quality of your image.

In the above Image, you can see clear grains photograph at high ISO setting i,e. ISO 6400 while the another image ISO 100 have no grains and have better quality. The shutter speed for the Image ISO 100 and ISO 6400 was 1/160 and 1/25 respectively.

Shutter Speed

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Mon, 8 Apr 2013 03:11:00 -0700

Shutter speed 1/2000

Camera shutter speed is the duration of time that the shutter remains open and allow light to fall on the sensor. The longer the shutter opens the more light reach the image sensor. It also you can also use it interestingly, if shutter speed is fast, it can freeze the action and requires more light from other source like aperture, because faster shutter speed can not allow more light to reach the sensor, requires wide aperture or high ISO number to equalize the exposure. For example you want to capture some sports action like basket ball and you set the shutter speed as fast as 1/1000 sec, now make sure that you set wide aperture like f/1.4 or f/2.8 or according to whatever the light condition allow you, (we’ll discuss on how to set right exposure in our later post) but now we wont discuss on exposure so lets stick with the topic. Again if shutter speed is slow, it can smooth the moving subject like water but don’t expect to capture any action in slow shutter speed setting. If you are using manual mode, this feature can create magic, depends on how creatively you use this feature. If you want to make shutter opening and closing manually, use bulb mode.

Points to Remember:

1. To freeze fast action (basket ball match, bike riding etc.) start with 1/800 or 1/1000 sec.

2. For portraits and regular photos use at least 1/200 sec.

3. Low shutter speed allows photography in bad light condition.

4. Fast shutter speed needs larger aperture (smaller f-stops number)

5. Slow shutter allow smaller aperture (larger f-stops number)

Learning Camera Aperture (f-Stops) :Explained

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Sat, 6 Apr 2013 07:49:00 -0700

ABA Creation Diagram: f-stop opening

Aperture is the size of the opening on the lens mouth, allow light to enter the camera. The larger the f-stop number, smaller the aperture opening. For example- f/5.6 or f/8 means larger opening than f/11 or f/14. Please refer the diagram.

Let’s make this simpler.We can say this, it works on the same principle on which our eye does. The larger the opening the more

the light enters and vice versa. If you want to see how it works just stand in the front of the mirror with a torch in your hand, light the torch direct in your eyes, now slowly get the torch off your eyes and towards your eyes. What happens? The pupil of your eye shrinks small to control the amount of light enters into your eye, when you get torchlight directly into your eyes and when you remove torch off your eyes the pupil shrink large to allow more light to enter. The same thing happens with your camera and when you use manual mode you control this yourself.

How Aperture works?

Actually, the question is how you want it to? everything depends on the type of photograph you want to capture. If you are photographing landscapes(pic-1), you need to set larger f-stop number(smaller aperture opening) and while taking closeups you may need to set smaller f-stop number(larger aperture opening). This is called depth of field(we'll discuss this topic in our later post). If you want your subject to be in focus and everything out of focus(pic-2), then you must set smaller f-stop number(larger aperture opening), and if you want to make everything in focus then set larger f-stop number(smaller aperture opening).

Pic-1
Shutter 1/125,APERTURE f/11 ISO-100

In pic-1 I need short depth of field and want everything the background and foreground in focus, so I set the aperture f/11, actually when taking a landscape photo, it good to be above f/11, though f/11 worked for me here. You can set the aperture at f/14 and above.

Pic-2
Shutter 1/250,APERTURE f/5.6 ISO-100

In Pic-2 you can see the foreground and background are out of focus and extra depth of field is used.You can achieve this result with smaller f-stop number (larger aperture opening). I use f/5.6 but don't hesitate to go with more smaller f-stop number(larger aperture),f/1.4 or f/2.8 can also create magic.
There is no hard and fast rule, just believe in yourself and do what suits you. All will comes with practice, the best way to learn anything.

What is Exposure:-xplained

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Sat, 6 Apr 2013 07:26:00 -0700

In digital cameras, exposure means the amount of light enters in the camera that reaches the camera sensor to make an image. When you turn off your Auto mode and use manual mode this is very important to know how the things work. Now the question is how light enters in the camera and how it can be controlled.

Following are the three things responsible for the exposure.

Aperture (f-stops)-Size of the opening of the lens, through which light enters in the camera

Shutter speed-Duration of the time that shutter is open

ISO-Sensor sensitivity to the Light.

You can control these features to control the amount of light enters in your camera. To control exposure (Shutter speed, Aperture, and ISO) and set the right exposure for your camera is not easy, the only thing you can do is practice, practice, and practice. We have to continuously increase and decrease the numbers until we get the right exposure. If you allow more light to enter the camera, the image can be overexposed or if allow less light to enter the image can be underexposed but you can also use this feature to show some creativity (we’ll discuss this in our later post).I found this book Basic Studio Lighting: The Photographer's Complete Guide to Professional Techniques very helpful for the lightning tutorial. In this book, you can master the lighting techniques step by step and learn the control over Shutter speed, Aperture, and ISO. Tell us how we can improve this article or what more expect from ABA Creation

Shutter priority,Aperture priority,Program and Manual mode explained

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Fri, 5 Apr 2013 01:16:00 -0700

What is this M A S P on my camera? What is this Av Tv? How is this useful to me? Lots of question in your mind and the answer is here. Now its time to turn off your Auto mode and make decision by yourself. On most digital cameras you’ll find a variety of exposure modes, typically referred to as:

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• Aperture priority AE (Av)

• shutter priority AE (Tv)

• Program AE (P)

• Manual (M)

Obviously the entire above mode has their own function and particular use. It’s important to understand when to switch to these exposure modes lets explain each of these separately to understand their functionality when to use.

Hot Camera Equipments

1. Aperture Priority Mode:

As the name indicates, it’s all about your priority and if your priority is to control only aperture then set this mode. The aperture priority mode enables you to set the f-stop (Aperture) and the camera will then adjust the shutter Speed to give the correct exposure. In other words you just set the aperture and forget about the shutter speed, camera will look after that.

Photograph by Abhishek Anand
f/5.6, Exposure time 1/200, ISO/200, 55mm AV mode

When to Use: This mode is particularly useful in low-light conditions, where you want to set the brightest, widest f-stop in order to get the highest shutter speed and the minimum amount of movement. When want to blur the background of foreground or in other words, more depth of field is needed, you can use a small f-stop to get as much of your picture in focus as possible. I also use this mode when photographing landscapes and nature, where continuously I need to change f-stops too continuously. For example when I photograph any landscape I need to change f-stops from f-5.6 to f-14 or f-16 and vice-versa when taking close-ups.

2. Shutter priority AE (Tv):

Again it’s all about your priority and if your priority is to control Shutter speed then just set this mode. Using the shutter priority mode, you can set the shutter speed, and the camera selects the f-stop (aperture) to give the correct exposure.

Photograph by Abhishek Anand
f/10 Exposure time 1/200, ISO/4000, 18mm Tv mode

When to Use: This can be especially useful when you’re shooting action pictures like sports and wildlife action and you want to freeze the motion by setting a high shutter speed. By the same token, if you were photographing a waterfall and you wanted the water to blur, you could set a slow shutter speed and the aperture would adjust accordingly. It goes without saying that both modes assume you have enough light to expose your pictures within the range of shutter speeds and apertures you’re using.

3. Program AE (P): This setting leaves all the decision-making to the camera. The camera sets a combination of shutter speed and aperture so you don’t have to think about exposure at all.

When to Use: Personally I never use this mode and in my personal opinion this mode can be rarely choose in any condition of photography (may be this opinion would be change in future) but In some cameras this may be set up as subject programs such as “portrait,” “sports,” or “landscape.” Be careful though. If there’s not enough (or too much) light to achieve the effect you’re after, your camera won’t be able to work miracles. Even on this setting, check the LCD to make sure you are getting the images you want. And remember that you can still use auto exposure compensation to override the camera’s decision.

4. Manual (M): Oh this is my favorite mode; any professional photographer would say this when asked by someone. If you want to have full control over the camera then manual mode is there, just turn it on. This mode enables you to manually set ISO, the shutter speed and the aperture (we’ll talk about ISO Shutter speed and aperture in our later post) independently of each other, referring either to the camera’s built-in meter or to a handheld meter. Professionals tend to use manual exposure and handheld light meters. This allows them to take multiple meter readings in various points of the subject frame. In this method the photographer has total control over the pictorial effects that various shutter speed and aperture Combinations can achieve.

Points to Remember:

• Aperture priority AE (Av) - set the f-stop (Aperture) and the camera will adjust the shutter Speed. Use when-low light conditions, change f-stops too continuously.

• Shutter priority AE (Tv) - set the shutter speed, and the camera selects the f-stop (aperture), Use when-shooting action pictures like sports and wildlife.

• Program AE (P) - Camera sets shutter speed and aperture, Use when-shooting portrait, sports, landscape but always be careful

• Manual (M) - You set ISO, the shutter speed and the aperture, Use when- it’s your choice.

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When was the last time you use Bulb mode in your Camera

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Thu, 4 Apr 2013 02:38:00 -0700

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Photograph in Bulb Mode

Bulb Mode in a camera is like a fun feature and I really enjoy this item. When I started photography, it was a complete surprising experience, every day I learn something new about my camera and I enjoy this very much, bulb mode was one of them. Before you start make sure you must have a tripod. You can check out this Ravelli APLT2 50" Light Weight Aluminum Tripod with Bag, its cheap an better but you are free to use any one of your choice, without a tripod its difficult to use bulb mode because this feature use slow shutter speed.This particular feature can add a new dimension in your photography. So if you still unaware of how to use bulb mode exist in your camera, just check camera manual guide and search for this feature or if you are using Nikon d5100 like model just turn your camera dial to manual mode, turn your camera focus on manual and focus at infinity, start rotating the shutter speed wheel until it comes to bulb mode. Now enjoy and share your experience, let everybody know what miracle you did with Bulb mode.
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Photograph Stars at Night / ABA Creation

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Tue, 2 Apr 2013 01:49:00 -0700

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Photograph stars at night are really a fun experience and today I decided to write my experience about photograph stars at night without flash. I was totally blind of the results. Actually I wanted to make a photograph which is full of stars and blue sky, but sky looked so black at night with naked eye and very few stars are visible, I had no idea what would I make finally. I was working with Nikon D 5100, a kit lens and a tripod.

I decided to put my camera on bulb mode(we’ll discuss later how to use bulb mode in our later post), set the camera on tripod and to keep my camera more steady and sharp, just set the shutter release on 2 sec delay mode (to make camera extra steady) or you can also use shutter release cable or shutter release remote. I clicked some photographs and after some adjustment on Photoshop, got this result. This is how I shoot these stars at night. So grab your camera and let everybody know what you made, share on ABA Creation.

Next: How to Use Bulb mode in your Camera

ABA Creation: How to Check Camera Sensor for Dust and scratches

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:05:00 -0700

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Dust and Scratches on your friend's Camera Sensor? What? That’s really very bad news. You want to check your camera for dust and scratches? But don’t know how to check it yourself and don’t want to spend 100 bucks on your doubt? It’s like a nightmare for any camera owner especially for D-SLR owner. No problem here is a simple DIY solution to Check Camera Sensor for scratches and Dust.

So you have a D-SLR and wondering if your sensor is working properly. You know sensor is very sophisticated part of your camera and can be easily damage if it doesn't handle with care. If you get single dust on your camera sensor it could be spoil you photography experience. So how would you check your sensor for scratches and dust particles at home, without any tools and gears, even you don’t need to spend 100 bucks on maintenance. It’s very simple, just watch this video and follow the steps.

ABA Creation:Photography Tips for Beginners:

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:43:00 -0800

How to start with your camera, create your own style of photography, and make great images.

When I was thinking of writing this article I have only one thing in mind how it would be helpful for the beginner photographers (I never call them immature photographers) because when I started I have faced many problems like choosing my type of photography, what to photograph, how to start etc. and spends lots of time by reading photography tips, watching images but I realize there is no particular type of photography you have to stick with, reality is when you think to be a photographer, sky is the limit, so I thought to share my experience through this article may be this will help you.

I have seen lots of my friends who are always try to make some stunning photographs but being a beginner photographer they failed most of the time. Reason? Simple they photograph every thing and every time without any vision. They don’t even bother to think what and why they are photographing and that is the reason I found their pictures are very confusing. I also realize that they strongly emphasize on the techniques like taking images with different angles, filling frames with subject, this is good and everyone who photograph must think about that but one should also keep in mind, this techniques alone cannot make great images, techniques can make a photograph good, not great. Then what makes that? Answer is ‘The Subject’. How you treat and how you see your subject. First of all ask yourself what you want to photograph? What is your interest of photography? This is very important; you cannot photograph anything and everything because there is hundreds of styles like Commercial, Event, Macro, Nature, Night, Panoramic, Portraits and People, Sports, Action, Adventure Underwater, Time-Lapse, Travel, Street, Architectural, Urban, Landscape, Still Life, Wedding Etc, etc, etc.. Don’t worry you just have to choose only one and think, if you are enjoying to photograph them? Obviously it will take your lots of effort and time as well may be more than a year to understand but without follow this step you cannot move further. Be careful may be you will realize there is more than 2 or three style you love to photograph, so don’t be very particular about this. When I started I thought I would only do wildlife photography but when I tied people photography I really enjoyed and now spend my most of the time by taking portraits of people and I realized how this is challenging (I shall discuss about this in detail in my next article that would be focused on portrait photography only).So when you are on the way of making great images from the beginning always keep this 5 things below on your mind.

Think and Shoot:

Whenever I take pictures first of all I imagine how this look like would, I never ever shoot instantly (this will not applicable on wildlife photography, this type of photography needs instant click because you cannot predict their action.)I think, manage to get my pose and then click. (see pic01)

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Be interactive:

Anything you photograph needs interaction. It means talk to your subject, try to understand their nature whether the subject is live or Still no matter just make relation with them before you click. Being a beginner you really need to practice this and improve this gradually. When I did this I was surprised by the result. I spend lots of time with flowers, leaves, trees and after a little interaction with them I click my camera. May be this sounds weird but try this, you will be surely surprised. (see pic02)

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Be Positive:

Yes, this may be not seemed to be very important but believe me this is as much important as your subject of photography. Your altitude can simply change the mood of your subject (if you are taking images of peoples.) and your positive altitude can turn your image live. Let’s take a simple example, if you are trying to take a portrait of a kid and he is not looking comfortable while posing, what you think you should do? just keep on photographing her and talk to him about any thing, make him comfortable, be a friend never ever let him know he is not posing according to you, just be nice with him and I promise he’ll award you with a great portrait. (see pic03)

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Do Experiments:

I always like to do lots of experiment with my camera and I realize at the end of the day I got at least one photo in my camera which looks great and most important I get something new. Believe me if you experiment in your photography, actually you make something new which is your very own discovered style. Take some photos with different angle, try to hold camera like never been before, lay down, kneel down, hold camera vertical, use available lights creatively etc, I don’t want you to be confuse, I am just telling you to do something which is yours. This is good to follow great photographers and there photography tips they are universal useful after all they are great, you must follow them but this is necessary to develop your own style which can make you great photographer.

Shoot and learn:

Go out side and take images, Best way to learn. Practical knowledge is always better and helps you to learn the things faster. Just get out of your home with your camera, take image and see how it works. All the best.

Written by Smita for aba creative works

NIKON COOLPIX P510: how to shoot high speed movie.

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:36:00 -0800

Last Sunday I got an opportunity to hold Nikon CoolpixP510 and I was surprised with its performance. The image color tone was really great in auto mode, I must say, sometime greater than my Nikon D5100 DSLR comparison will not be right But here we’ll talk about P510’s HS 120/fps feature.

My friend came to me with his excited face and brand new P510 and asks me to learn him some cool features. And the first feature came to my mind was its high speed movie i.e. 120 fps,This has become a trend in almost all Nikon P series cameras. That was really a fun.When I told him about this feature he asked me, ‘how to shoot high speed movie’ I told him its very simple than you think with Nikon user friendly keys.

Press menu button just below in the left side of the navigational key Come 1 step down with navigation key and Go to shooting menu Go to movie setting Select 640x 424; 120fps Now press record button and enjoy. Now he know how to shoot high speed movie with his brand new camera.

Look at the result in this video. This is really funny. I am looking so stupid, please don't laugh.

We will talk about some new feature of Nikon later.

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abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:45:00 -0800

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Tasty Bitter Gourd

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 06:13:00 -0800

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ABA Creation: Street Dogs in India Photo

abhishekananddhanbad@gmail.com (Abhishek Bharat Anand) — Mon, 7 Jan 2013 01:23:00 -0800