Blue sky to add pop to subject

Blue sky adds drama to common subjects.
Try to under expose by 0.5 to 1 stop to get dramatic blue sky.

Add foreground interest for better impact

We were photographing wildlife of the greater rann of kutch which is a desert habitat, 

when we realised that the car that we were travelling in 

could make for an interesting addition to the sunset scene

adding to the beauty of the photograph.

What do you think?

Featured on Popphoto flash

One of our image featured on popular photography and imaging site in Popphoto Flash "The Fix" section : http://flash.popphoto.com/blog/2010/02/fix-it-fast-sun-block.html

Photographing the cranes of japan by Art Wolfe

was a beautiful evening when it was virtually impossible to seperate the horizon from the sky the low tide had begun and i was trying to stalk a grey heron to get it with its reflection, while shooting it i heard a diffrent kind of call which i had never heard before, an adult crab plover and a juvenile were flying by, i had the Nikon D40 with the Sigma 170-500 dg lens on it, (Darn!!! - the autofocus would not work as the D40 doesnot have a motor and same goes with the sigma 170-500) somehow luck was on my side and i managed to focus on these beautiful birds as they came close.

As we reached khijadiya we could hear
the cranes calling nearby but could not see them,
the blessing in disguise was that we got to experience
the beauty of a misty morning at the beautiful lake
as the light reached us after being filtered through the mist.
It was one of the most memorable mornings of our lives.
Thanks to the sigma 50-500mm lens we could shoot the
landscape without changing the lens,
knowing that if a bird came flying by, all that was needed
to capture it was the twist of the zoom ring.

The light was really low when the lion got up
and start patrolling its territory.
could not get a sharp shot at 500mm setting
of the 50-500mm lens when it was sitting.
As we were in a car, we used a beanbag and zoomed out
to 195 mm to reduce the blur, panned the camera while squeezing
the shutter on continuous shooting mode
to increase the chance of getting a sharp frame.
1/13 sec at f8 the camera was on 800 ISO.

This male was lying near the waterhole rolling on this rock scratching the parts of its body which were hard to reach otherwise. as the light was very low, the camera was supported on a beanbag, every body in the jeep co-operated when asked to freeze.
500mm Lens 1/125 sec at f8 ISO 800

These little waders are very difficult to get close.
I had to slowly crawl on my elbows like a soldier to get
a reasonable size image of this stint in beautiful plumage,
the bottom part of the image looks green because of the low angle
and the grass in the foreground near the lens

Bought a new sigma 50-500 DG. very happy with the results so far. this one was shot on the third trip with the new lens. one of my dream come true to watch the cubs with their mom.

tern fishing

This tern was photographed using manual focus mode after it tried to catch a fish from the water

This comb duck was photographed with a D40 with 70-300 G lens using manual focus.

© MANJEET & YOGRAJ JADEJA
This sunbird was photographed in rain
while my brother was holding an umbrella.

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© MANJEET AND YOGRAJ JADEJA

One of our favourite shots photographed at dusk near our home,
we soon learned that there is no need to go to exotic places
to take good photographs also no need for expensive equipment,
this photograph was shot with a 70-300mm zoom lens
(costing INR 5K i.e. ~ 125 $)