Showing posts with label Olympus PEN EPL2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympus PEN EPL2. Show all posts

Friday, 26 April 2013

Masoom: my cat


I've adopted a kitten 2 months back and it has been one of the best decisions. Actually she was left by a young girl in the nearby forest and my maid Mamoni brought her home. She is such a friendly cat and the moment I held her I knew she's going to stay! She loves people, because from day one she didn't fear us humans and let us hold her. Whenever she got any chance she sat on our lap and she still does it (she sleeps on my bed). 
Coco my Lhasa Apso; my another photography model, also took a great liking to her. She stays home mostly with Coco. My other dogs- Rika, Bhola and Joju who stays outside in the kennel are yet to like her because they have developed pack mentality and try to attack her whenever they see her. Anyways her addition to the family has been such a nice thing!  She is such a sweet friend and a great companion! She is skinny and won't put on weight no matter how much food she eats! Guess it is just a growing phase... I hope she grows up to round and stocky cat!
My older sister named her Massum/ Masoom, meaning "cute/ innocent" in Hindi language. I call her "Mew-mew" because she mews all the time for food!


Exif data:
Camera: Canon 40 D
Lens: Canon 50mm f/1.8
ISO: 1250
Shutter Speed: 1/60
Aperture stop: f/1.8 
Focal length - 50mm
Camera : Olympus EPL2
Lens: MC CIMKO MT Series 28mm f/2.8 Lens
ISO- 200
Shutter speed- 1/125
Aperture: ? Don't remember...maybe f/5.3

Camera : Canon 40D
Lens: SOLIGOR AUTO-ZOOM 1:4.5 F=75mm-260mm lens
ISO- 1250
Shutter speed- 1/13
Aperture: ? f/5.3 maybe

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Ziro Festival of Music (September 2012)

Ziro Valley is known for it's scenic beauty and a well known place of Arunachal Pradesh. A music festival and a joint Art and culture festival was organized by few people I knew. My friend Dinu and I planned on going for the 3 days days music fest (14-15-16 Sep'12) to Ziro. 

I carried my Olympus E-PL2 with Cimko MT 28mm f/2.8 lens and Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 lens. Both the lens doesn't give me infinity focus and it was a very bad idea to carry them for traveling to a place which is known for lots of beautiful sceneries. Cimko MT is also particularly not a very nice lens. The one I have is on MD mount. I realized my folly much latter when I struggled for infinity focus. I tried my best with the lenses and tried "focus free" technique most of the times.
M43 Olympus gives 2X crop so Cimko MT 28mm f/2.8 lens becomes 56mm focal lens (kindly correct me if I am wrong). I post processed some of the photos in Adobe Photoshop CS4 and tried retaining the details of the sceneries and also by sharpening the photos.

We stayed in Dinu's uncle Mr. Tilling Dole's lodge. It was a pleasant co-incidence because Mr. Dole was also a Govt. commissioned photographer but now turned organic farmer and Entrepreneur.
A friend of ours had set up tea stall. We helped her run the stall and meanwhile I also did Tarrot reading for fun. The music was great. We had our own North-East celebrated artists (barefoot rock singer-Lou Majaw) and other performing. There were bands from Delhi and other part of India such as Manwhopause, etc. My favourite was the punk-rock girlband- Vinyl Records where 4 of the members are my juniors from Arunachal Pradesh. It is my bad that I don't have their photos or much of the concert photos since I was helping in the store and had limitations with my lenses...  

We also went sight-seeing to a local Hindu (Shiv-ling) temple.
I had lots of fun but I do regret not taking much photos or doing much. 
On

Saturday, 12 May 2012

Street photography: Delhi

I am a shy person by nature. I used to think that I am reserved but at times I can be quite extrovert so I guess I am just plain shy. Once my initial inhibitions are gone, I can be quite open. This is same for me when it comes to Street photography. I used to fret a lot earlier and by the time I make my mind up, the subject moves away or the frame is gone... These days I have a renewed confidence on Street Photography. I am still very much a novice but I did try clicking some photos and coming out of my shell. I hope you enjoy the photos or rather chaos of Delhi/ India.These are just random and few but since I have a renewed my confidence in Street Photography...more to come soon. Please watch out!

 Photos taken in Sarojini Nagar Market in Delhi, India. Look at the never-ending crowd! Wish I could be in a more higher ground to show the flow of the crowd.
 Shopkeeper arguing in front of Murals and Statues sold for cheap.
 Cheap Jeans
 Boy selling "Papad" (Rice crackles).
 vegetable vendors in Sarojini Market

Momos! This a Nepali or Tibetan variation of Chinese dimsums sold on the road side in many cities/ towns of India. It is cheap and tastes good.

Taken with GoPro HERO2 Camera in Chandni Chowk, Delhi. Not the sharpest photo and even the colour looks less saturated. I came here looking for old camera and found Zenit 11 camera. Updated here: http://kenri-photos.blogspot.in/2012/05/zenit-11.html

Dog eating outside a Hindu temple in Chandni Chowk. Many street dogs strive well in India because most Indians are religious and spiritual and believe in greater kindness towards animals and birds. they often leave food for street dogs and cows on the road side or outside their homes.
Photo taken in Connaught Place. I came here to get my canon 40D serviced. Very bad service I must say. I had some fungus issue on the inside of the camera and dust on the view finder. The technician at the Canon centre said that I need to change my sensor and viewfinder for Rs. 27 thousand something (about 28,000!!!). I got my camera back and had it cleaned in Chandni Chowk for Rs. 1500! Didn't get the dust off the viewfinder but it is workable as of now.

This photo was taken in District Park, opposite Saffdarjung Enclave.

Look at the crowd again! I am not used to seeing such a large crowd as I come from a small town so it actually intrigues me to see flow of human beings at one place: strangers. The photo was taken in Nehru Place, Delhi. I came here for to get my laptop serviced. This is the largest wholesale place for electronics in Delhi.

Photo of my niece Moni and her young maid Sapna with her pug, Mango. She is a student of Tourism in Delhi. Photo taken outside her flat.
Many young students from the North East of India like her stay in Delhi as a Paying Guest, in Hostels or flats for higher studies. Students from good family usually stay in flats with helpers brought along with them from their home. India is a developing country with many poor people. The Rich and the Poor of India has a huge difference in their capital income. It is easy and cheap to find domestic helps in India. Even the middle class people of India keep helpers.

An old man resting in District Park, Delhi.


Monday, 9 April 2012

Olympus EPL-2 with various prime lens:

Camera: Olympus EPL-2 with
Helios 44M 58mm f/2 Lens
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 Lens
MC CIMKO MT Series 28mm f/2.8 Lens
Carl Zeiss Jenna Tessar 50mm f/2.8 Lens

 Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 Lens
 MC CIMKO MT Series 28mm f/2.8 Lens
Below are the photos taken with  MC CIMKO MT Series 28mm f/2.8 Lens
Barbie
 Camera - Olympus E-PL2
Lens- Cimko MT 28mm f/2.8 lens

Aperture priority Mode
50mm

ISO-400
f/4
1/100sec

 Coco
Camera - Olympus E-PL2
Lens- Cimko MT 28mm f/2.8 lens

Aperture riority Mode
50mm

ISO-400
f/4
1/20sec

 
 Carl Zeiss Jenna Tessar 50mm f/2.8 Lens

Helios 44M 58mm f/2 Lens

Monday, 6 February 2012

Night Photography

It was a windy and cold night,
Dark and unknown,
This night I wrote a poem,
In colours could I paint,
What I saw- beautiful night!

Stars stars stars on earth!
How beautiful the night is!
Cried the Bougainvillea!





The moon looked over as Bougainvillea talked to her shadow,
She said without me you wouldn’t have a soul to talk to,
Bougainvillea said, “Yes, indeed! Thank you!”




Camera: Olympus PEN EPL2
Lens: Fujian TV Lens f/1.