Ever thought of living on the Moon?

This capture is one of my few first clicks from my Nikon P510I and still one of my favorites. We happen to be in New Zealand that time. Such a beautiful country, people there are blessed with beautiful sea beaches, clear blue skies, splendid landscapes (volcanoes, hills, mountains..), and King size moon view too..

I was a usual evening, suddenly from my living room window I saw this giant satellite in the sky and realized that it was going behind a tall residential building opposite our's. Just waited for the right time and got lucky to capture it, the way I wanted.

Following days I waited for the Moon position to be same, as I thought I will be great if could capture the same shot but with someone standing in the balcony.
But I didn't get the moon in the same position again, leave alone someone standing there :(

Don't you think that would have made a great shot?

Light Painting

Light Painting: 

Light painting is an interesting photography technique. As the term states, it's painting with light.
It's so much fun, easy and does not require any additional accessories.

All you need is a camera, a tripod and two light sources (torch, light pen, small LED torch) and a dark room. If possible, use a light or torch (one with which you want to paint) that is small but has sharp light. I have used a light pen in the above photos.

Setting: 

Set your camera on a tripod pointing at the model or the subject around which you want to paint. Next and the most important step, set your camera's shutter speed as low as possible. The slower, the better, as it will give you that much time to paint. My camera unfortunately has the minimum speed of 8 seconds only.

Now, the fun part:

Press the shutter button, start painting. Use can make all fun things, from giving wings to your angel, fly a light kite, sit on a light chair, enjoying a lollipop or an ice cream, or gazing at your own moon. But yes make sure to complete painting within the shutter speed time. In the end just before you hear the click sound and your camera's shutter is about to close, use your second torch and flash the light on your subject or model (remember we are taking this picture in a dark room and your subject is not visible to the camera).

 THAT'S HOW TO DO IT!!!

Try it and do share your photos.

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Happy Shootinng!