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Annapurna Sagar family photoshoot pictures

Ratish Naroor — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:26:29 +0000

I met Annapurna and sagar at the my friend’s Rajeev’s birthday and they asked whether I can take some pictures for them. I was much confused with the location to choose and wanted to try some different place this time . I selected the Big cotton wood canyons and thought of getting some pictures between the woods . Check out some shots here and let me know your comments .

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photo stitches panoramic pictures

Ratish Naroor — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:26:50 +0000

I have been taking lots of panorama pictures for sometime now and decided that I will showcase the stitches together in one blog post . These are the stitches taken at my recent trip to yellowstone National park and New York City (the Brooklyn bridge) . For my readers who are very new to Photo stitching or panorama photography , here is the definition for Panorama photography (From Wiki ) -
“Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format photography. The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio. While there is no formal division between “wide-angle” and “panoramic” photography, “wide angle” normally refers to a type of lens, but this lens type does not necessarily image a panorama. An image made with an ultra wide angle fisheye lens covering the normal film frame of 1:1.33 is not automatically considered to be a panorama. An image showing a field of view approximating, or greater than, that of the human eye – about 160° by 75° – may be termed panoramic.”

Feel free to click on the pictures to get the wallpaper versions for your desktop .Enjoy .

Tutorial – Tips & Tricks
I have included some detailed description on “how to make panorama pictures” . Please use the appropriate link with respect to the software you want to use .

There are two software tools that you can use to create a panorama picture:
1.) Using Canon Photo stitch tool (Usually comes in CD when you buy a canon SLR)
2.) Panorama Photo-stitching using Photoshop CS+ .

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Photo stitching in Adobe photoshop CS

Ratish Naroor — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:55:35 +0000

This is a simple tutorial to explain you the steps in creating a Panorama Picture using Adobe photoshop CS+ versions . In simple terms , to create a panoramic image we take multiple shots in a single stretch (mostly in continuous or burst mode by just twisting you upper body and not moving the lower part of the body , left or right side). For example , in this tutorial I have used 7 shots taken from the Brooklyn heights (next to the brooklyn bridge ) in New York city . Please click on the image to view the pictures in higher size .

Photo stitching using Photoshop CS +

Step 01 : Select the Photomerge option from File > Automate .

Step 02 : This will pop up a new window which asks for the pictures you want to stitch . Select the browse button and add all the pictures that you have taken for the stitch . In my case I add the 7 pictures into Adobe Photoshop CS photomerge box. Select the layout as Auto if you are not particular about which layout you want the stitch to be.

Step 03 : Once you add the pictures , press OK . Photoshop will take a few minutes (depends on the speed of your computer ) and works on merging the common points on each pictures which are adjacent to each other .Once Photoshop does the complete processing , The stitches picture will be shown and you can crop the desired stitches image you want .Once selected , you can save the stitch picture in your required format .

Check out the Final version of the stitched picture ( Click to see the higher resolution picture ) .

If you don’t have Adobe photoshop CS and want to use a free software to stitch pictures , Please checkout the Canon photo stitch tutorial .

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Photostitching in Canon Photostitch How To Tutorial

Ratish Naroor — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:44:55 +0000

This is a simple tutorial to explain you the steps in creating a Panorama Picture using Canon Photostitch software . In simple terms , to create a panoramic image we take multiple shots in a single stretch (mostly in continuous or burst mode by just twisting you upper body and not moving the lower part of the body , left or right side). For example , in this tutorial I have used 7 shots taken from the Brooklyn heights (next to the brooklyn bridge ) in New York city . Please click on the image to view the pictures in higher size .

In this tutorial , we will be using the software Canon Photostitch for stitching the pictures together.Canon photoStitch is a free software which helps photographs to be stitched professional. Download a copy from here – Download Here

Using Canon Photo stitch

Step 01 : Select Photostitch 3.1 when you are opening the Canon Photostitch Application.

Step 02 : Click open and select all the pictures that you would like to include in the stitch .Click Switch if you feel the pictures are not aligned in the correct order .Sometimes I get wrong stitches when I try stitch in wrong order , so I recommend you to try switching the order to try a stitching the other way around.

Step 03 : Click Start to start the merging and stitch all the pictures together .

Step 04 :Once the software is done by stitching the pictures , the final picture will be shown and you can crop the panorama pictures in your desired way .

Check out the Final version of the stitched picture ( Click to see the higher resolution picture ) .

If you have Adobe photoshop CS and want to use know how to stitch pictures in photoshop , Please checkout the Canon photo stitch tutorial .

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teju namu cute cousins from chennai

Ratish Naroor — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:41:06 +0000

Just after our wedding , We had to visit Chennai to get Shiniga’s US Visa stamped and we stayed at Shiniga’ uncle’s house. Her uncle Praveen and wife Lijisha have two wonderful cute kids and I always wanted to shoot some pictures from the time I met them . The youngest , Teju , was restless all the time and luckily he got tired and started watching cartoons . This gave me a good chance to shoot some pictures .
Namrata, aka Namu , was always ready for pictures whenever I requested her to pose . Sharing some of the pictures shot at chennai the last time I was in India .

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hummingbird pictures feeding using feeders photos

Ratish Naroor — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:19:29 +0000

The holiday on July 4th helped us to plan the trip to Jackson Hole (Grand Teton Nation Park) and Yellowstone National Park .Our GPS suggested us a different route to Jackson hole through Logan and Bear lake , but was worth for a reason . At one of the bear lake view point , the tourism authorities had hung a feeder for the humming birds and I got a perfect opportunity to shoot some high speed humming bird shots . For readers who wants to now more about humming birds , please check the Wiki here .
I did a little bit of research to find what’s the hummingbird recipe for the food kept at the hummingbird feeder . Here is a short detail on that :
- Use one part ordinary white cane sugar to four parts water.
- It’s not necessary to boil the water. The microorganisms that cause fermentation don’t come from the water; they are transported to the feeder on hummingbird bills.
- Store unused syrup in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.
This mixture approximates the average sucrose content (about 21%) of the flowers favored by North American hummingbirds, without being so sweet it attracts too many insects.

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Don’t forget to check the tips on camera settings to click similar pictures at the bottom of the post.

Camera Settings Tips
To shoot quick shots when the humming birds are flying , increase the shutter speed and take the picture . As it was daytime, I set the camera mode to A/V mode , select f2.8 (select the lowest in your lens ) and the camera sets the shutter speed for you .For day time , we can be sure that the camera will select the best fastest shutter speed for you (More than 1 /2500 th of a second ). If you are shoot at a low light situation (or with a flash at night ), I would suggest to keep the mode to Manual mode and select a high speed shutter speed .

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Utah India Mela 2010 photo booth pictures

Ratish Naroor — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:51:22 +0000

Recently at a birthday party I met Dev Avasarala and Sanjay Sharma who wanted me to help them in their fund raising event for India Cultural Center (ICC Utah). The ICC were planning to conduct an India mela where individuals would put up stalls / booth for food , mehendi , fun stuff etc .I decided to help them in setting up a photo booth for portraits , charging 10$ for two portraits (8 X 10 prints ) .

I rented the studio equipments from Pixels and frames and setup a whole studio at the booth . 22 groups came to my studio and I was able to raise near to 220 $ for the organization . Check out some of the pictures taken at my booth .

Tips & Setup details
When you have studio lighting setup , I always shoot at Manual mode with F6 – f 9 and a shutter speed of 1 / 160- 1 / 250 with respect to the distant of the lights and the subject .

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I’m back

Ratish Naroor — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:04:37 +0000

I know it’s been long since I blogged and the reason : I was in India for three weeks for my wedding . So I’m a married man now… YaY !!!!!! Now getting settled a little bit after we are back in the US . So What do you think will be my next blog post about . Of course , pictures of my beautiful wife Shiniga . Here are some of the pictures I took after the wedding in India . Please post your comments .

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soumya mupalla Wheelers historic park utah photoshoot

Ratish Naroor — Sun, 02 May 2010 04:13:33 +0000

Archana Muppala recently contacted me for arranging for a photoshoot for her family who were visiting from India . We planned the shoot for today and was at the wheeler historic farm in sandy Utah . Soumya Mupalla , Archana’s sister-in-law was also present for the photo shoot and was pretty excited for the photoshoot .Her mom told me that she loves being photographed and had an interest in photography . I took some nice portraits for her and they turned amazing . . She works for Yahoo bangalore and had a great time taking her pictures .And her charm in the face really made me remember my cousin sisters back in India .

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Owl pictures found Phoenix Arizona pics

Ratish Naroor — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:54:58 +0000

I was in Phoenix visiting my brother’s family and for my surprise , this was my second time I saw the two owls living under the water drainage walk way near his home community . I love the way they gave me the strangest look ever , everytime I pass before them in the car . So I made this attempt to shoot some pictures .I drove very close to them and took some pictures sitting in the driver’s seat . Then patiently I got out of the car and started taking pictures very closely .They were wondering what the heck am I doing with this huge metal equipment in my hand . They were patient enough for a long time till I got my shots . Here are some of the pictures I took that day . Enjoy.

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