Goa - My first outdoor with Canon 300D

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Hey Guys,

Was in Goa (India) over the last weekend. Shot a lot with my
Canon using two lenses:
- One is the kit lens, the Canon 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
- The other is a M42 mount manual lens. Its a russian
lens that I recently received - Jupiter 200mm f4

Here are two collections, one for each lens
http://gallery133884.fotopic.net/c410729.html
http://gallery133884.fotopic.net/c413692.html

Just comment on the outstanding and really bad ones.
I'll understand that the rest are just mediocre

- Siddhartha

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Siddhartha Jain wrote:
>
> Hey Guys,
>
> Was in Goa (India) over the last weekend. Shot a lot with my
> Canon using two lenses:
> - One is the kit lens, the Canon 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
> - The other is a M42 mount manual lens. Its a russian
> lens that I recently received - Jupiter 200mm f4
>
> Here are two collections, one for each lens
> http://gallery133884.fotopic.net/c410729.html
> http://gallery133884.fotopic.net/c413692.html
>
> Just comment on the outstanding and really bad ones.
> I'll understand that the rest are just mediocre
>
> - Siddhartha

Well, I found your pictures very interesting from a scenic/cultural
point of view, Siddartha, and I think the presentation quality is good.
Personally I don't agree with comments about "I would do this or that
with this image" etc., camera club style. I try to accept the images as
the author presented them, and yours are to me eminently acceptable. I
have some some questions, though. What mode were they shot in? They
appear to me to be RAW shots, judging by the controlled highlights,
retaining detail even inside the lamp reflectors in the image with the
person at a desk and surrounded by paintings, but I could be wrong about
that. Was the exposure as per the meter each time?

For the scenic side, there appears to be heavy cloud, or perhaps
pollution in the atmosphere in most of the outdoor shots, giving quite a
moody feel to the images. Was it so, and is it normal in those parts?
I have spent some time in Hong Kong over recent years, and atmospheric
haze/smog reduces visibility there to about a kilometre or less at
times, unlike New Zealand, where sometimes you can see for literally
hundreds of kilometres, and almost always tens of k's.

Thanks for putting up those images,

Colin

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Colin D wrote:
> I have some some questions, though. What mode were they shot in?
They
> appear to me to be RAW shots, judging by the controlled highlights,
> retaining detail even inside the lamp reflectors in the image with
the
> person at a desk and surrounded by paintings, but I could be wrong
about
> that. Was the exposure as per the meter each time?
Surprise surprise They were shot in JPEG Super Fine mode. But I
guess the credit for that goes to Canon and not me. Nope, the exposure
wasn't what the camera recommended each time. It was tweaked to my gut
feel mostly. But in this particular photograph, yes, it was manually
set so that EV is '0' in the meter. I used the minimum possible
aperture to give myself maximum shutter speed to prevent blurring.

>
> For the scenic side, there appears to be heavy cloud, or perhaps
> pollution in the atmosphere in most of the outdoor shots, giving
quite a
> moody feel to the images. Was it so, and is it normal in those
parts?
Yes, there was a bit of haze all around especially in the morning
shots. The 18-55mm I used has a B+W Skylight 1A filter while the
Jupiter 200mm doesn't have any filters.


>
> Thanks for putting up those images,
>

Thanks for reviewing them

- Siddhartha