Photography

Some of the pictures I've taken since 2017 as part of learning photography. My primary camera is Nikon D3300, and I have two zoom lenses and a 50mm prime. Initially, I used manual exposure and manual focusing explicitly because that helped me learn. I still use manual exposure, but mostly use single-point autofocus except in cases where autofocus won't work well.

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2025

The first one is perhaps my best shot of the year, taken in the morning of Dec 28 (Nikon D3300, a used Tamron zoom lens, AF, manual exposure). The second one is taken with Nikkor 50mm 1.8D, manual focus. Both images are straight-out-of-camera JPEGs.

2023

Last four photos are taken with a toy-like film camera (Kodak M38) with good-quality film (Kodak Gold 200) in it. All other images are taken with Nikon D3300 (digital). JPEGs generated in-camera. Photos of fields taken from inside a running train. I took them in monochrome mode, but later switched to the Landscape picture control mode available in Nikon D3300. The photo with a tractor has been straightened a bit. Both photos of ferns have been cropped in-camera and the photo of the single fern have been exposure-corrected in-camera.

Broken two-wheelers at a workshop in Palakkad, Kerala. Taken with Kodak M38 point-and-shoot camera and Kodak Gold 200 35mm film.

A person sleeping under a tree in Palakkad, Kerala. Taken with Kodak M38 point-and-shoot camera and Kodak Gold 200 35mm film.

A grass field near Shoranur Railway Station, Kerala. Taken with Kodak M38 point-and-shoot camera and Kodak Gold 200 35mm film.

2022

Taken with different lenses and different focus modes. Manual exposure. Straight-out-of-camera JPEGs without any post-processing except for size reduction.

The following pictures were taken with a used Nikon 50mm 1.8/D lens. Manual exposure and manual focus. All in-camera JPEG (the Teak seed photo has been exposure-corrected and cropped). While I was chasing birds last December, the key to these pictures were sitting in a place patiently waiting for sunlight, wind and action. Wind plays an important part in the picture of the spider web.

2021

Taken with a cheap Tamron 70-300mm (no VR) or the 18-55mm kitlens. All manual focus except the vertical bird photos. RAW processing was used for the photos of birds and the landscape. The vertical bird photo with bright background had serious colour bleed, which was fixed using Darktable.