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Light Painting Technique

(Vidhana Soudha. Mi A3) This post is more of a guide type of post. So, I'll try not to make it boring. I'm going to talk about a mode called Light Painting, which you might or might not have heard of, but you would have come across the pictures at least once. I'm doing this post because some people told me that it's not possible to take pictures like that after I posted a couple of these on Instagram. It's totally possible, and anyone can do it. It's simple by the core. The name says it all. You paint with the lights.  So, how do you paint with light? A: You keep the shutter open for a longer time. What's shutter, and how do you keep it open? A: Shutter is the door to the image sensor where the image gets recorded. The sensor is our eye, and the shutter is the eyelid. The longer the shutter stays open the more light gets captured. These are just basics, there is also aperture that needs to be taken into consideration. What is aperture, you ask? A: It, to

The Best Sunset

Date of the subject: 28th Sept 2019. (Original. Mi A3. 1/120. ISO 194) Have you noticed that sunsets are crazy good in September and October? I don't have any research or study to back this claim, though it is said that it's mostly because the day starts shortening in September. But I do have many photos to back my claim. Today the subject is more of a 'how' rather than 'where'. This is not a travel blog for now. I am gonna be writing about the sunset we witnessed and how we set about to captured it, and later edit it. Editing is a part of photography. You can't separate those two. Mind you, editing is done to make the picture resemble the actual scenery and not to give over-dramatic effects. But sadly, we are seeing a lot of the latter rather than the former. Without further whining, we shall start. (Original - unedited. Mi A3. 1/20. ISO 616) (I have edited these images in Adobe Lightroom for mobile) The first things to look for are cropping and straighteni