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A Bengali Hindu wedding is an elaborate affair. In the days gone by when life was not the fast paced affair it is today, the affair could carry on for a week. Today the number of ceremonies have come down; except for the very rich, who can afford a week long affair;, but it is still an elaborate...

Today Morning Evening.

105mm F2.8 AIS, without extension tube.

This a big fly, filled the DX sensor. Even at F22, the whole fly does not focus across its length. Will try focus stacking some time. 105mm F2.8 AIS, macro at 1:0.88 (with supplied extension tube) Side View - this is the full frame Rear End Focus on front End Side View, with Kit Lens for...

First round of Lillies are gone, second round coming up.

Catch of the day.

These are my options for close up photography 16-85 at 85 16-85 at 85 with Nikon Close up lense 105mm F2.8 AIS The Macro has the best magnification, but is a pain to use - Manual Focus, Manual settings, Manual Flash control, back to the old film days.

As said, D3200 at 24MP is an over kill, when you need 2MP. A reasonable cell phone is 5MP+. Any way, now that you have it do the following . Shoot jpeg fine. . Open the image in View NX-2 supplied with the camera (else download the latest version from Nikon Site). Then Convert the files to...

Caught this minute insect on our basil bush. The sky is overcast with intermittent showers. The image is 1:1 and the insect must have been 4-5mm long.

First round is over. New ones are starting

Attempt at hand held shooting. ISO 800 has quite a bit of noise. AIS 105mm, F22

RAW is easy. Just set the image quality to RAW. If you want redundancy set it to RAW+jpeg. To process . Download the Nikon RAW software Capture NX-D, and install it. . Copy your images from the camera to the computer. It is best to keep the images in a separate sub directory, one for each date...

Wilting already So it has a life of less than three days

Tiny spider on the basil leaf

The Lilly has started withering today

This lense is pretty good. The only reason it is so inexpensive is that it practically out sells all the other lense. . Use a sturdy tripod, one that will be planted solidly on the ground and not vibrate/shake in the wind. . Use ISO 100. Higher ISO increases noise which also affects sharpness...

Status in the evening

I thought of doing a series on this Lilly which is growing in a pot at my house - starting from the bud till end The pot This was when I noticed it bud Close up At dusk Today morning Close Up The pot again