Article published on DPS

Its been a while but I was so excited to see my first article published on Digital Photography School (DPS). This website has been my source of information when I started photography and still it amazes me with the content that they produce. Do have a read here. I would be happy to hear your comments and ways you do dance portraits.

We are on Instagram :)

Follow us on Instagram. We finally have an account. Keep up to date with the shoots that we do and some behind the scene fun!

@fourbysixphotography

$5 off from eGlobal

Hey Guys

This Christmas season I am on a shopping spree. I just bought a new Nikon D5100 with Sigma 18-250mm lens for a friend from eGlobal. If you want to get $5 off you next order just use the friends code BUY5 to get your discount.

500px Awesome account 40% off

Hey Guys

Another gem of an offer this time from 500px.

Get 40% off your Awesome account, just go to the link 500px.com/upgrade and use the promo code  00baa79724ff8

This offer wont last long, so make hay while the sun shines :)

Again whats in it for me? Once you sign up send me your Username in comments below which I will forward it to the 500px team and then we each receive an extra month of membership each on our accounts :)

Happy photographing.

http://fourbysix.com.au

Photojojo $5 off

Hey Guys

Just bought a new lens kit for my Android phone.

After the order was completed Photojojo offered me $5 discount that my friends can get when they use this link. So here is the link:

http://photojojo.com/r/b8ac

Just use this link to get $5 off on your next purchase from Photojojo.

What do I get you ask? I get $5 off on my next order as well :) Win-win?

Panaromas and time-lapse with your mobile using Spinpod!

Ever wanted to take panaromas )which were seamlessly stitched) or time lapse videos with your mobile?Your wish might soon come true!

Los Angles based Zhiping Chen and Daniel Aharoni have started a Kickstarter project Spinpod. This is a tool for capturing timelapse or panaromas with ease, using nothing but your mobiles and/or small action cameras.
Check out their video below which tells you about this cool device. (I am already backing their project so I am excited)

                                

The product looks promising with the features that it provides. You can take cool panaroma shoots of your friends around a table/or just the traditional way. Place Spinpod on a flat surface and let it snap a selfie of you. It also allows time lapse videos with 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10 second interval to capture your time lapse videos.

The Spinpod would also work as a tripod making sure that you get less shake on your photos. This means sharper photos :) The specification have been provided below:

If you are as exicited as I am to try this out, heads to their Kickstarter page and help them raise the necessary funds. There are only 25 days left for this.

Kicstarter page for Spinpod

Harley

A couple months back I was asked to take a few photos of a Harley. The owner wanted the photos for online site so that they could sell it off.
I had not done anything like this before and I was very apprehensive. It was pouring down on the day that we decided to do the shoot.

The gear that I had with me that day was my Nikon D700, Nikkor 50mm F1.8 and my SB600 flash unit. I for reason decided to take photos only with my 50mm. One of the reason was that I knew 50mm being a prime lens would help me get sharper shots and secondly that was the only prime lens I had.
As it was pouring down, we decided to do the shoot in a garage which had a nice shed. The challenge there was that the wall at the back was too close to where the Harley was standing. I tried all different angles but however I might try the wall was going o be in my photos.

I did a few of shots of the Harley from either sides and then took shots of the detailing and the speedometer.

There was one good thing, I could place the Harley right at the edge of the shed and make my background go blur. But there was too much happening in the background. I tried changing my Aperture to the lowest to get a good bokeh, but it was too bright on the outside.

All the photos were corrected for exposure in Lightroom. Some of the shots have been shot as HDR images and combined in Photomatix Pro.

All in all it was a fun shoot :)

Hope you all enjoy the post. If you have any comments, please leave them below.