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Today photography is going through a transitional period. Digital photography has almost taken over film photography. At tourist places, public or personal events, festivals, we see every second person taking snaps either with a point and shoot digital camera or a mobile phone. These modern gadgets are designed in such a way that even a novice can take considerably good photographs without having in-depth knowledge about photography. As luck would have it, a certain person dropped the newly launched Nokia N79 mobile phone in my hands, for a few weeks, and requested me to go on a photographic journey with it. This post is to let you know about my rendezvous with Nokia N79 and how I enjoyed it.

The images displayed here are not directly from the camera. I have worked on them on a photo editing software to tweak them to my taste.

To begin with I thought I should start shooting the objects which are in my vicinity; or which I come across every day. I was also intrigued by this 5 MP mobile phone camera which sported a classic Carl Zeiss optic. Since a long time I was yearning to capture a fascinating wall-size sketch of Rabindranath Tagore which I see almost every day. It is placed in a decorated office cabin. So, what if there was no ideal photographic lighting condition available in the cabin? I just shot the picture by setting the camera to Auto mode function, and this modern gadget took care of almost everything. Quite obviously this image cannot be compared with the super fine result of a high-end camera, but for a mobile phone camera it is good! Isn’t it?

I shot this sketch under the incandescent light supported by a twin-LED flash of the mobile phone.

I work in an industrial estate, where a lot of manufacturing activities take place all around. While moving in the lobby after lunch, I just halted near this picture of Ganapati painted on a textured wall. Texture of the wall, the form and strong colors of the painting attracted me. Rest of the work was done by the camera set to Auto mode.

Though a little tight composition due to lack of enough space for shooting, I liked this image for its colors and texture.

Small is beautiful! It’s fun to shoot small objects. Nostalgic memories attached to them are bigger than the monuments. I have a hand-made greeting card lying on my desk. It’s a de-moisturized leaf of a Pipal tree; on which an elephant-head God, Ganapati, is hand-painted with beautiful colors. Normally one needs a special lens to shoot such objects from a close distance. Special lenses deliver pin sharp images, but cost a fortune. In this case I put the greeting card on my table and utilized the Close-up mode to shoot the picture with flash.

Had I shot this picture in an ambient light without firing a flash, the result could have been little better, I suppose!

I have always been fascinated by Sunscapes. This is the time when the nature pours out its utmost beauty in the ambience around. The sky has its own colorfully textured language; which changes every second. Each animate and inanimate element in and around the frame seems to be relaxed and retired from a chaos. The mind is taken to a different high and a journey within the inner self begins from there.

First I thought of using Auto mode of the camera to shoot this Sunset at Haji Ali Durgah. But, finally I set the camera to Landscape mode in order to get the distant objects considerably sharp in focus.

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