MOBILE PHONES V/S COMPACT CAMERAS...just read!

Well your mobile is your photographer.....There are lots of changes in quality in last two years in the pictures taken by smartphones because of increase in megapixels and the refined sensors rendering good images, leaving behind their cousins .....hahaha, yes the compacts, which were hitherto became a part of all affordable homes....in homes, picnics,travels etc. But the recent development in smartphones left the compacts behind reducing the sale of these cameras by 17 per cent. But still the DSLR, it may be natural, are the choice of all enthusiasts and the professionals....I feel, it will be futile to compare a mobile camera with a DSLR....DSLRs' sale has picked up......Oh, the mobile cameras also deterred the sale of camcorders. Many mobile cameras in video output are trying to produce the HD capability, which was generally incorporated in all types of digital cameras within last two years.... Camcorder's sale too reduced by 13%......The smartphones are cost effective too....With a 3.2 MP camera, the cost is nearly 3k, and for more MPs, pay more, with lots of handy features including the internet, the micro cards with videos and songs to pass your time in a better manner.....I do not advice the smartphone's anytype of use in 2 or 4 wheelers....there are sad incidents, both ears choked with the headphones and taking attention out of the roads.

NOW the choice is yours---smartphone,with a camera,  (a necessary inclusion in all good mobiles), compact cameras, though still better than the mobile phones....left on u......But as the above facts reveal, the trend is changing fast.

Nature Photography

(Photo by Surya Pareek at jjm.)That is all present here which makes a nice beginning in a forum and in shoot too....It takes courage and cleverness to catch the less seen birds beyond the city outskirts.....so naturally, urs is a very good shot......mostly in nature photography, besides the creature, the surroundings too help make the picture better....Nothing bad in the fourground, since it is a natural perch of the bird....

Different camerapersons find different or same birds, but with different situations, sites as is natural....this eagle will not sit on a electric wire and will find more secluded place which the different birds do not venture....As we differ naturewise so the birds, animals or any creature on earth differs. pl  carry on....I do agree on lens, but till it renders u sharp images it will work better in your hands. All the best.

FOCUSING IN CLOSEUPS WITH KIT LENS.

welcome to forum......My opinion differs here regarding your photograph.... IT IS NOT THAT U BROUGHT 550D in front of the flower and shot only one photo....What I feel here, if anybody wants good flowers photographs, focus on the stamen...the judgement of sharpness begins from stamen and the stamen in ur flower is diffused. IT is the case of simply not focusing correctly.
U r new to DSLR...however there is LCD screen to check sharpness and exposure....even with kit lens at 5 inches u will get good focusing on this type of flower at 5.6....however since it is a closeup photography, f8 and f11 r necessary.
--I recommend Shobin's point of underexposing by half stop....As I set my all cameras at  half stop minus compensation....In low light I may change to 0 compensation....so it is a matter of choice and lighting conditions....You keep on aperture priority, u shd have to check the aperture each time u remove the lens cap. Otherwise for learning photography and correct exposure setting with Shutter speed and aperture, which play main role, try in MANUAL settings....Once u master and keep reading the light, aperture priority will certainly of great help, finding out the DOF importantly and for high speed shooting Shutter priority I prefer....all the best, Anand.

It is simple Anand...ur autofocus system told u that the flower is in focus...yes, the petals look sharp and there are many points of autofocus on the screen in viewfinder...I generally keep set the point in centre...so I feel less worried...As M_BHAKT says u might have went too close to flower......In closeup focusing with kit lens we move up and down and here ur autofocus system, u thought is working.....I tried with my kit lens, that when I went below the fixed range of focusing, say 5'', there is autofocus signal but no BEEP. Just went above to 5 inch, the beep was heard and that confirmed that the subject is in focus........just remember and pl go through the manual as many times u can...There are assortment of features...Definite they help a lot so we are more confident while shooting.....macros,closeups to landscapes, portraits..and and......just guess??....(with due apology to Anand)....JJmehta forum.

WHITE BALANCE IN CAMERA

Vimal, as I mentioned I will explore the morning portrait, after viewing Krishna's portrait by u in the morning light with White Balance set on Cloudy.....However, u may hv taken at around 8 a.m., but I took, my grand-son, Vishesh,s portrait, with same setting at around 9.30 a.m. and found out that the yellow persists in 'Cloudy' WB...as I felt and elaborated in www.selfupp.blogspot.com, the yellow is present in morning and evening, and the yellow meant lower temperature was dominant in cloudy WB of higher 8000K temperature set in the camera in morning sunlight...Next this portrait I shot on AUTO WB and got good skin tones and a nice backlighting effect, which persists from Oct to Feb in India. May help many interested membersthnx Doc., Vimal, Aroon, Hansrajji, Ataz, Hellwrath, Sri, Mukund, Udayan, Shobin, Vikram, Mbhakt for your kind words.....
Doc...I feel u have got the answer in the posts above. In digital photography, with lots of features in the camera, many modes become a myth for the common men....For enthusiasts and Pro, where conditions differ, they read the light and do accordingly in camera in JPEG mode or in RAW and rest in pp....However, I agree with Hellwrath,Udayan and Vimal on their use of WB. 
--90 per cent users do have compacts and bridge cameras, they hardly feel understanding the utility of WB, except in Auto mode...Even the studio people do use Auto WB while usung electronic flashes, and flash light in marriages and other functions, including outdoors, becoz many of them do not know the use of WB...Yes the serious amateurs r interested to understand the need of changing WB...as I hv noticed in many forums....The next door friend do not bother and the WB remains set on Auto.
-Few yrs back, I cared to use with films, the light blue filter in the evening light and pink filter while in fluorescent....Rest even in Industrial photography, with halogens, I used two, three flashguns and the slight yellow is cut by the printer. ....another blog...www.photogroups.blogspot.com,www.photoblog.com/gop2211.

CROPPING - TO IMPROVE PHOTOGRAPH-AN OPINION.

Hellwrath....thnx for input& liked ur thinking....However,as I saw A LONG PERIOD with cameras,so when  we inserted the b&w neg in the enlarger, every up and down of the enlarger head wud make a different photo, therefore, we made several photographs from the same negative....However there is no hard & fast rule, it is sometimes liking the image as it is or making more photos....This was possible in b&w printing and now again the tools in our hand,in the computer. While getting colour prints done, we had the printer guy at his leisure time to get crops....the photography is multifaceted art and provides opportunities for various type of experimentation...to be a purist, a realistic or an abstractist---Photo of Saanvi by Hellwrath--jjmehta forum.