Are you wondering why the post that should have been the second is like the seventeenth one? That's what I thought when I started with this. But, here we are. I think the reason is mostly that this isn't an outright guide blog. It is a photography blog, sure, but not exactly a tutoring one. And as for this post, this will be a guide blog. An example of the usage of the Rule of Thirds  Let's start with the don'ts. I believe that it's easy to do something when you know what not to do. Don't zoom and take pictures: This is a pretty basic mistake a lot of us make while taking pictures. If you have the opportunity to move closer and take the picture then please do. Doing so ensures that your picture quality is maintained and you can further crop the pictures if needed. The exceptions to this are if your phone has a dedicated zoom lens and/or the processing of zoomed photos is extremely good on your phone (only Google Pixels have this, as far as I know). Don't

(A flower. Mi A2, with macro lens) How big is our world? Quite big, right? But how big are our gardens? Pretty small - for us, anyway. But in these gardens lie many tiny, micro creatures whose whole world is just the garden. The art (read 'patience') of capturing this micro-world is known as "Macro Photography". It's called so because the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life-size. I got into macro photography quite early on. It was something that I had liked even before starting my photography hobby. I bought a set of mobile lenses. It was exciting. I started taking macro pictures of everything. I mean, every single thing, from mud to carpets. They all looked so different in the pics. My very first pic in that lens was of a guava flower. (Honor 4X with a macro lens on) It's nothing, actually. But it was a start. There is always a learning curve. But the learning curve doesn't seem so tough when you're enjoying what you're doin

(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

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