Sidhu Blog: Music, Technology, Photography and Pens: Reviews and Opinions

A photograph I clicked on this Diwali (19.10.2017).

What comes to our mind when thinking about professional photography ? Yes, the blurred backgrounds (shallow depth of field) with sharp subjects! And next thing that comes to our mind is how to get (achieve) it? The answer is a DSLR and a wide aperture lens. There are plenty of options in market for both DSLRs and Lenses with wide apertures, but today we are here to talk about the 50mm f1.8 prime lens .

It was a lazy Sunday afternoon when I saw a Pigeon sitting in the flower pot on my apartment's balcony. When I checked closely it was incubating the eggs that were laid in the flower pot. I quickly got my camera out and started clicking few shots, three of which I am sharing here.

In the current day scenario, photography has become portable and easiest way to express our feelings be it on Facebook or Instagram or Pinterest or Twitter. And a big share of credit for the rise in photography awareness amongst people around the world goes to Smartphones. Smartphones these days have put a camera in hand of every toddler, and in a way, it is good that photography as an occupation and hobby has gained a lot of acclaims. My story of being a photographer as a hobby began in 2010 when I started using my Nokia N-97 mini as my primary camera. As time passed my smartphones changed and I started devoting more time to photographing my surroundings from my point of view. And in 2012 I got myself a DLSR (Canon EOS 550D) in a hope to capture photographs as I saw in photography sites like Flickr & on Facebook photography pages. I could not hold the excitement when I held my DLSR in my hand and started clicking photographs as if I was a professional photographer. And wi