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Try Some Thing New Today..

PLEASE NOTE I USE THIS AS A LOG SO PERSON WHO IS INTERESTED IN THE SAME FIELD CAN GO THROUGH AND LEARN SOME THING.(Im updating it time to time But I dont delete the history so u can go through it with the time.Please go to bottom to see what is my current status)


2007-2010-
I'am a student In university of Greenwich ,UK and working as part timer as well.Having said that its only during the summer Holidays get some freedom to play with little my camera

Hope you guys enjoy my work and still limited to simple 8 megapixel point&shoot camera . But Positively thinking of getting more out of it trying my best.I think I like macro photography than any thing else...I have no clue why though:) recently start doing more experiments with HDR ..(it`s a nice subject we can sit and talk for a while for sure:))

I love to see work of my following srilankan photographers and around the world...,appreciate them and try to learn the techniques.Im not shy to ask anybody or either greedy to hide the secrets we can use to take a fine photo.I know its not rocket science we use to take a wonderful shot.lol...

leave a comment if you wish..no matter as long you just click you mouse on one of my pictures and enjoy it and flip to a another photo without bothering to leave a comment.Because there are hell lot of beautiful photoed in this wonderful site you got to see .so now better you stop reading this and jump to another photo.lol.

Best of luck and more beauty may added in every click.

sampath writes


11th JANUARY 2011-
A newbie to DSLR Photography and my photography is currently equiped with these
1.Nikon D3100.
3.Nikon 18-55 f/4-5.6 prime lens.
3.Tamron 70-300 telephoto+macro f/4-5.6.
4.Manfrotto Tripod
5.Manfrotto ball Head with quick release plate
6.Cheap chinese made nikon wired Shutter Release.

26th April 2011-
Just received 50mm lens and time for some macro experiments using reverse technique
7.Centon 18-50mm f1.8 MC lens (with required adapters to mount it on telephoto lense)


5th May 2011-
Results are amazing with reversing technique..But DOF is paper thing :(

7th May 2011 -
Dof and Light is not easy to deal with Reverse technique ..Decided to go for some gear update with Focusing slide rail to deal with Dof and Ring Flash for the light.Also decided to try a new cheap macro technique using macro bellow.

12th May 2011-
Planning to design a microscopic macro rig (DIY-Project) during the summer vacation.I ll mention the blog addres soon which will reveal my upto date progress

27th May 2011-
Just recieved the macro bellow and the ring flash.But unfortunately ring flash doesnt work with non cpu lenses (for the obvious reason its cheap chinese ring flash which is TTL dedicated but works fine with cpu lenses.So decided to do af chipping the macrobellow.Just ordered the chip and waiting to be delivered.Chipping souds interesting...Chip needed to be programmed as well.
8.Macro Bellow
9.Ring Flash
10.4 way slide rail

31th May 2011-
This is kind of a surprise..Never thought to buy the microscope this early. I was just on my way to post a parcel to sri lanka ,saw a nice antique looking Cricket bat on display which I couldn't resist to go inside and have a proper look..decided to buy the Bat which was just £5 ...and i was on my way to pay for it and saw a nice looking microscope just by the cashier tagged for £25.Well I was hunting for a microscope in ebay for so long which will suit my micro rig .checked the brand new price of the model and it was around £150 ..After a little bargain she was willing to give both (bat & micrscope) for £25.Halalooya baby.I gatcha ya...So here we go my newest member in my Photography Gear...
11.XPS-13 series microscope with 50x to 1600x
magnification
One more thing...Successfully experimented the Stacking and my first effort can be seen here which was done using 6 photoes.

1st June 2011-
With the new introduce of microscope in to the gear,macro has shifted to micro world and still doing experiments related to photomicrography.Successfully experimented the first microscope based stacking and results can be seen here..

3d model also uploaded to the youtube and its embedded under the description.if some one want to see the .obj file please send me a mail.

3rd June 2011-
Light boxes are really the right stuff for taking photoes of leaves..Light comming through the leaf enhance the details dramatically and u gonna probably run out of time seeing the beauty of different kinds of leaves...you can have a look at my currently fav photo of this kind..if u got a transparent plastic sheet with a square cut out u can keep the leaf flat on the light box surface..I ll probably do it when i get a chance.

and some thing more...Tried panning yesterday and results are cool...have a look

cool isnt it??

5ty June 2011-
Today was all about droplets and dew drops...taking wonderful photoes of droplets is not so difficult...first just go outside and view them by ur eyes...move ur hand up and down and see how ur hand is reflected...if the hand is too big ,try one of ur thumbs...u ll see the logics .....size and directions...then take a flower and start ...why wait...if u want to do at home u just need few plants with bit long leaves ,water sprinkler,few colourful flowers,light source ,camera with proper lense and a forcusing rail with tripod....have a look at this..


th June 2011- ~inserting AF Chip ~
AF chipping is a technique used to gain full functionality of the DSLR cameras while using non cpu lenses.This can be really used full in most of the Cheap Macro techniques where u have to use extension tubes,Macro bellows,Reversing adapters and so on..I was tempted to this to do as I unable to use my ring flash when using reverse technique and after the successful installation of chip i can use reverse technique with following functionalities
1.i-ttl ring flash with non cpu lenses
2.AF confirmation
3.Metering
4.Set Apeture and Focal lenth

Here is the adapter I made for that..It wont be that hard even though words like "programming","Installing chip" all these words sound complicated.Go ahead and do if u got set of old lenses you do not bother to use.

newly aded gadets to my gear
12.Home made light box.
13.Home made AF chipped male-female nikon f mount universal adapter .



25th June 2011
~Portrait Photography~
Been busy as I ve been researching,Experimenting and purchasing eqipments needed the Portrait photography over the last week and finally finding few minutes to document them down.Over the weekend I converted my room to a photographic studio and of course had to get rid of my bed and few more unwated (well kind of not really) furniture and ended up painting the walls in jet black and now its a nice looking studio of course.Then ordered few main lighting equipments like stobes,barn doors,soft boxes and Umbrellas and of course a lense..woohoo..here we go portrait..havent uploaded any images as didnt have much time to properly retouch them.any way thats it for now..Currently Sleeping in the sofa and have become a couchsurfer inside my own flat..lol...
Gear Update is as follows.
14.3x300w Strobe neewer 300DI
15.3xVictory light Stand
16.Barn Door & Colour Gel Set
17.20 degree Honey comb /spot grid
18.White & Silver Umbrella
19.24"x36" 2x Soft boxes
20.Tamron XR Di sp AF f/2.8(IF) MACRO d:67 A09
Planning to run a portait studio session with the coparation with a nearby Art galary and I ll update about that soon.(only at the discussion stage yet)
thats it folks.


12 Aug 2011-
~life as a photographer~
been busy with studio work and facinated with portrait photography
21.Speedlight

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