Two weeks of yoga, sight seeing and photography is finished. Met new people, worked on my body & spirit a little, ate great Indian food, and did a bunch of shopping. Even the plane rides weren’t all that bad really. I can say that now although the complaints of the 34 hour trip home, at the time, were very real.
I’m in the process of gathering photos from everybody who went on the trip and a couple of people we only recently met and sadly left behind in Bangalore. The plan is to post them all in one gallery on my Smugmug.com website so we can all see the different points of view from the individuals of our group, mostly from Downtown Yoga in Pleasanton. It’s a chore and I’m happy to be doing this. I’ll post the link after everybody is heard from and the gallery is filled.
On our last night in India I climbed to the top of a tower that is under construction at the yoga retreat to take the sunset photo. The tower will be a full functioning observatory in 2-3 months if all goes as planned. In India, however, I learned that things rarely go as planned.
Getting a decent sunset photo is somewhat of a challenge. You can’t just let your camera go willy-nilly and self meter or the sun will be a blown out ball of fire. Well, not really fire because there will be no color at all… just a burned out white flash which obliterates the color in the sky and everything else in the frame. To shoot this photo I shut down my aperture to f22, it’s smallest size, lowered the ISO to 200 and then turned the exposure compensation to -4 stops.
It’s the same with shooting the moon at night. you need to carefully adjust your exposure to dampen the light and so you don’e end up with a white disk where the craters & seas on the moon should be. We had a full moon last week on the trip and one of the ladies in our group was having some trouble with that and ask me for help. She ended up with a very nice moonshot over the palm trees!
Strangely enough, Captain Photo has never been the captain of anything, except his golf team in high school. He was on a big boat once, a cuise ship, and was banned from the bridge while offering to help navigate after leaving the ship's nightclub at 3 AM.
What I, Captain Photo, can do for you is to help sail the stormy seas of HDR photography. It's treacherous out there. I've been shipwrecked more than once. (I wasn't Captain those times)
Read the blog and learn the easy and inexpensive process of making Perfect HDR photographs that beginners will love and will make your friends begin to reassess and elevate your worth! You'll quickly be sailing smooth and making amazing images!
~Captain Photo 
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Aaaah, finally you are speaking photography language that beginners like me can understand and emulate. Thank you for the simplicity. Tell me exactly what I need to set my camera setting to, that is helpful. I too can capture beauty like you. How inspiring.
So many times I see bad photos that would have been great ones if only the photographer had set the camera appropriately. There are certain common conditions we shoot photos that can be easily shot if we only stop to think for a second about what light conditions are and how to best over come them. Sunsets are so often photographed poorly resulting in a useless image that looks nothing like the glory we responded to when we pointed our camera at it. My goal is to help beginner photographers over the learning curve to making great photographs. That’s what this blog is about. Glad it’s helping you!