My first great night shot...

In England, the weather isnt the best for some night time stars photography. This is because of the ever present cloud cover and the light after glow coming from the street lights, especially in small towns, like the one I live in. So instead of the stars, I thought I'll capture a satellite and thus I shot the moon. Now this shot wasn't as easy as the setting wasn't available to me directly, I had to stay up most of the night for the moon to come in the right place and then, without waking up my room-mate, take a snap. This is what I got:

The best part about this picture is that it is very much unaltered, it is as I had got it from the camera, just that I adjusted its sharpness a bit. The sharpness adjustment was required as this was a 1.5 sec exposure shot and I just about managed to stay still. I was too lazy to bring out the tripod. So coming back to the photo, I have to say, this is even more prettier than what I saw last night. Hopefully I can add on to this soon.

For more pics: http://techeretic.500px.com

My trysts with photography

Ever since I joined Google Plus, I have got to admit, my interest in photography has just skyrocketed. I did have my initial inclinations but then again, I wasn't that serious. So since the day I have been following the guys Thomas Hawk, Trey Ratcliffe and the dame Lotus Carrol on G+, I thought of making the most of my photo-clicking urges and bought myself a decent cam. Being a pretty impatient guy, I was very much looking forward to getting some instant results. But sadly, that is SO not the case with photography. One has to be patient, and willing to spend a lot of time playing with some bars and number in photoshop so that, that one pic you clicked actually seems worthwile.
So after getting myself some good photo-editing software, I was finally able to get some good results post processing. Anyways, my new portfolio can now be found at http://500px.com/techeretic.
Hopefully I'll be able to add to this soon...