Still photography | Ring

Still life or still photography is very easy photographic field. Unlike other areas of photography, it gives more control to photographer. You can control the light. You have enough time to prepare. If you fail to get what you like, you can try more shots. If you do wild photography, you have limited control. You can no control on the object, light, direction, etc.

In the image, you can see a ring with a synthetic gemstone. It was placed on a light green folder to get a nice background since the main object’s color is maroon. Purposely, shallow depth of field was used. Therefore, you cannot see clear visibility of the ring and its frame. Main aim was to get the image of gemstone in blurry background, and f/4 aperture was enough to blur the background. In addition, Reynox macroscopic lens (model M-250) was used. Macroscopic lens added more DoF. In-built flash was set to -2 in order to avoid harsh light and reflection on the stone.

Camera settings:

• Aperture size: f/4
• Shutter Speed: 1/60 sec.
• ISO: 200
• Focal length: 55mm
• Flash: Yes
• Macro lens: Reynox 250

Main four colors in this image

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Dices

Dice can generate random numbers. But, I set some numbers in aperture, shutter and ISO to get dices. The image could imitate as black and white photo except the red and blue dots. I have placed the dices in a black plastic folder. The folder was mixed of mate and glossy. Therefore, you can see small dust-like spots, and it could be negative impact to the image.

The aperture size was f/8 to reduce depth of field (DoF). Even though, there is simple DoF which I intentionally created. However, I feel a clean background and aperture size like f/16 would be ideal. BTW, I would like to share a quote from Navjot Singh Sidhu, "One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six."

Camera settings:

• Aperture size: f/8
• Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec.
• ISO: 100
• Focal length: 55mm
• Flash: On

Black hole or whirl

As a photographer or photography lover, you see an image, object or scenery and admire on it. It could be turn as photo. This is happen to those who hold a camera or at least a smart phone. Some others try little further to create unusual photos. Some of them take risk and do adventure to make an amazing outcome. Others try some techniques such as light painting, micro level photography, panning, zoom burst, HDR, etc.

I tried a different method. It was not adventure, very technique or costly. The result is given below as an image.

An object could be black hole?

I took this image and asked friend to tell what it is. Some said it looks like black hole or some kind of whirl. Some others said it looks like UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) / flying sauce. Actually, it is an USB powered mini fan with blue LED. It uses for laptop to reduce heat. I kept it in a place where I can get enough light to control background as black. I did several clicks with different angle.

Camera settings:
Aperture size: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1 sec.
ISO: 100
Focal length: 146mm
Flash: No

Main colors used in this image:

010978	0237c5	1679fa	c4f4f6

Note: Full resolution image is available at Wikimedia Commons under CC 4.0 license. It has passed Quality image review.