Expression of Love Photography

Expression of Love Photography Contest Winner Announced

Thanks For all the crew behind this contest

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ShutterXpose team is pleased to announce the winners of their 1st Photography Contest under the theme “Expression of Love“.
The winners are:

1. Shafimon Choolookaran (1st Prize)
2. Joy Roshan (2nd Prize)
3. Nabeel Sab (3rd Prize)

Congratulation’s !!!

Receiving the gift

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Brief Summary of the Contest

The contest was open to all residents of Kuwait. The contestant had to upload their best image based on the theme of the contest and invite their friends and folks to vote for their image. The Photo contest had a considerable good response. We received a total of 37 entries and only 25 entries were qualified and moderated based on the theme, the contest was held for a 1 month period (19th August – 19th September, 2012). The contest received a total of 3000+ votes from more than 10 countries including Kuwait. As per the rules Top 5 entries with maximum votes were selected to qualify for the Judges technical evaluation round, the last 48 hrs of the contest was quite interesting with votes swinging in favour of few participants, finally there were Ties in 3 spots which ultimately gave 8 entrants to enter the evaluation round.

The Jury (3 judge panel) members had a daunting task ahead, each jury member had to evaluate the image based on the following technical criteria :

• Does the Image suit the Theme of the contest
• Composition and
• Overall impact (Lighting, Sharpness and creativity)

The total point system was on a scale of 10, at the end of the evaluation round the total aggregate point from all the judges against each image were calculated and the final 3 winners were selected.

The 3 panel Jury members are Professional photographer who have excelled in the field of photography with couple of awards under their name. A brief summary of their portfolio would be added in my coming post soon.

Congratulation to all the participants. Taking part in such photography contest is just a stepping stone to your long cherished dream to be recognised as a photographer.
We at ShutterXpose extend our warm wishes to all the participants, Indians in Kuwait (IIK), Blogger Mathai, The Grapevine Kuwait as well the readers here for helping us to make this contest a great success. ShutterXpose would organise many such contests in the future.

 

Short lecture about ShutterXpose

Comments and criticisms from Guru.

Nabeel Sab (3rd Prize)

Joy Roshan (2nd Prize)

other participants and merit awards

 

Thanks speech...

moments ...

Thanks ShutterXpose team for the very best support.

CHERAMAN JUMA MASJID (The First Masjid In INDIA)

As a blogger i just got an idea of writing something historical for my blog readers.

i would like to start with something near by my local home town.

CHERAMAN JUMA MASJID (The First Masjid In INDIA)  

This Masjid is located at Kodungallur, about 37-km from Thrissur, Kerala INDIA.
This Masjid resembles temple. Built in 628 AD, in Al Hijra 7, that is, 7 years after Prophet's migration to Madina, it is the oldest and First Masjid in India and the second oldest in the world.

I heared in my child age about this Masjid,

is locally supposed that King Cheraman Perumal went to Mecca, embraced Islam and accepted the name Thajuddin. He married the sister of the then King of Jidda and settled down there. Before his death he handed over to the King of Jeddah numerous letters addressed to some rulers of Kerala- India  seeking their help to propagate the tenets of Islam in Kerala. After his death the king came to Kerala and met the Rajah of Kodungalloor who helped him to convert the Arathali temple into a Juma Masjid.

The Very old foto of the Masjid

it is built by malik ibn deenar- an arabic legend.

The renovated look

Inside the old masjid. (still existing)

(The Place for orration and leader ) Mimber & Imam

Interior

The renovated view

New look from the street

The miniature of the masjid Displayed in the masjid museum.

There are many historical places in the vicinity of the Masjid. The old palace of the Chera kings and a Mahadeva temple is just 250 metres away from the Masjid. The famous Kodungallur Bhagavathy temple is 2km away and the site where St. Thomas landed in 52 AD is around 5 km away from the Masjid.  (will post after all the informations collected)

 

First achievement in fotography

Receiving the gift from Adil Javed, Sponsored by AAB

It was so happy on that day when i nominated to the competition along the group members in Q8 expats photography club with the theme "water" .. first of all the message  i am receiving from Mr Adil Javed 'the founder and coordinator of the group', i was not set for the Action.. but as far as this was my first call to the competition, actually i was not so interested in competitions with my hobby. still i decided to send one image from my shoots. the rules were all against me because the image for the competition should not published before. in my case i always publish my images in Facebook, twitter, Flickr ..and also in my blog. i got one day to submit the image for the competition. thank god.. my last weeks Friday morning shoot experiment was the same theme.. water.... it was a coincidence..

The winning image

me and my photo mates was shoot last Friday .. like splashes, fruit dripping in to the water.. water macro.. etc...most of them i were published on Facebook before.. so i choose one of fruit dripping for the competition.. the image i shoot with my kit lens the 18-55. and used off camera flash the SB600 fired from right side of the subject. shot scene with the fish tank with black back drop @ back side and used the silver reflector  from left side bought from AAB kuwait. thanks sandeep, manoj and sudarshan  for the best support always.
I tried several shots to get a nice one. Thank god.. i have been selected as the winner on that weeks competition.

**Thanks Q8 expats photography club link here
** Thanks Adil Javed & crews for the appreciation.
** Thanks  Ahmed Abul Burghul from AAB kuwait for the gift.

Extension tubes magic

This week end my fotogs met in the public garden to do some experiments

i was so happy to get a chance to try my normal extension tubes with the 50 mm prime lens. the day was great we did lots of experiments. but i like the shots i shoot with my 50 mm with the extension tubes. check the images i got water droplets on the carpet grass... my macro works well...:P

Hand held shot 3 rings extn tubes together all manual settings with out flash @ day light



soap bubble experiment had tried lots coz when ever the bubble reaches ground its blasting....

so.. we are in the reflection.

its the carpet lawn...

if someone wants the fully automated one, then they can go for Kenko extension tubes . one of the third party tubes the professionals like it will cost around  80-100 $

water drops like dews...

the extension tubes are cost less than 10$.. from amazon and e-bay. but it will work all manual settings only.

 

The idea is this

actually it is not not making any ratio increse as the real macro lenses do. it just change the minimum close focus distance. for eg. the 50 mm prime minimum close focus is 30 cm?.. and add the extension tubes will change till 1 cm? :P :P or touching with the subject..

a macro tryout with the 3 tubes 50 mm 1.8, nikon D7000, tripod, shutter release, sb600 flash

The result -  sea snails (size 8 mm)

The main problem is using extension tubes other than a macro lens, we should more patience and stable hand to shoot.

tripod & shutter release are preferable for most of the shots.

loads loads loads of patients needed to shoot because we need to move front and back to get proper focus.

aperture value will be zero.

a bee shoot

so dont think about aperture. always work with manual mode only. and better not to go with auto extension tubes. it gives me im proper focusing (i tried with my friends kenko automatic tubes with canon 50mm.)

but for the cost we paying for this- its worth it.

 



one nature shoot from my last vacation to india




red Ant



bush seed 6mm size



Dragon fly head 3 tubes combo

at the end- the experiance is great, worth it for the money- need more patience and loads of clicks to get good one. - at the end macro lens is macro lens.... if u really interested in macro, and you are a canon user- go for MPE 65 macro lens.. have a great macro shooting... cheers...