Surya Kiran – There is still hope…

Finally a somewhat displayable picture which would not have been possible at all using my older camera!!

Surya Kiran the aerobatic team of Indian Air force performed over the city airport as a part of finale for the National Air Race. These shots, an example of extreme zoom, were taken from our roof top. Airport is about 10 Kms away, so these jets were not flying exactly overhead 😀

The 800×600 is achieved by cropping the Hi Res 5MP pictures. The pixelation of sky is artifact of compression needed for the web…

These shots would not be possible with my older Casio8000SX because it is very slow to get ready would have missed the shots before it came on, 1MP does not leave any room for cropping

There are a couple of more of Aasim which I took when he was blowing soap bubbles thinking no one was looking – will post them as soon I get time to resize and upload

In other things we have just returned from a day out with Aasim and are again going out to get some clothes for him – some guys gave all the fun.

  • I don’t see any JPEG artefacts in the sky. Seems like a clear shade of blue to me.

    BTW, how do you manage to get plain white or black backgrounds in your pictures? Do you just rely on the difference in brightness to achieve that?

    • I don’t see any JPEG artefacts in the sky
      Most monitors won’t show it at 32 bits (downgrade to 24 or 16 bit display to make it more apparent)

      plain white or black backgrounds in your pictures

      Setting is mostly topical – like in the Gerbera picture white is a handheld A4 sheet of paper lit with an additional table lamp where as in Aasim’s MIB picture it is an open door of unlit bathroom 😀

  • Kinda digressing but..

    Reading the title of your post I was reminded of a nusery rhyme I learnt when I was kid. ( which I’ve promptly forgotten except for the first 2-3 lines ).
    Konkani –
    Suryanchi kirane , dharyaanth liplo , chandrama oochelo
    Pretty understandable I guess.

  • amazing pics. 7 more days and counting for my cam 😀

    • Thanks – kewl add 7 more before you actually get it from Zeremy 😉

  • kvk

    Excellent picture! Congrats on the new camera.

    Did you use a polarizer?

    • Thanks, Thanks 🙂

      No I did not use a polarizer had jacked up the in camera contrast before shooting

  • when he was blowing soap bubbles thinking no one was looking

    ….Smile, You’re on Candid Camera! 😉

    Nice picture this!

  • I love the blue-ness of the sky!

    • Yes – yesterday was a very clear day 🙂

  • Memories!

    Speaking of suryakirans, it reminds me of the Aeroshow pics I took

    check out number 109 esp, my luckiest shot EVER!

    Aeroshow Album