Silhouettes in a Giant Moon rise, Captured Using a 1200mm Lens

Real photo - no Photoshop required.

Did You Know!

Silhouettes in a Giant Moon-rise, Captured Using a 1200mm Lens?

Earlier this week, photographer Philip Schmidli of Lucerne, Switzerland captured this incredible photograph of a biker’s silhouette in front of a giant moon rising in the horizon.

Schmidli reveals that he has been trying to capture this photograph for four months or so, but complications got in the way of previous attempts. Clouds got in the way of the full moon in January, and bad weather interfered with his attempts in February and March as well.

Finally, during this latest attempt with April’s full moon, the weather cleared up and gave the “green light” for this photo idea.

He first spent hours exploring Google Earth, searching for the perfect location to shoot the image. He needed a hill in the distance that would allow his subject to be framed by the moon rise .The he ended up deciding on this hill.

To have the subject be dwarfed by the size of the moon, he needed a large gap between the camera and the hill. The distance for this shoot ended up being 1.3 kilometers, or 0.8 miles.

Photographs by Philipp Schmidli

How you rate this experimentation? - An amazing picture with Canon 40D

Tintu Thampi and his brother Kukku Thampi likes experimenting the harry potter style and the attached image is part of that initiative! 

They used the Canon 40D, with settings as follows 

Aperture: 7.1, 

ISO : 500, 

Exposure : 1/1667. 

How do you guys rate their creative input? Keep your comments coming and help them in their efforts towards improving their photography....

New Fujifilm HS50 latest and best price in UAE

The new Fujifilm model HS50 -42 X optical zoom-16 megapixel-1080p HD video recording - This camera is currently a highly recommended camera in the  bridge camera category in the GCC market . The latest and the best price available in the market is AED 1899.

SONY HX300 - REVIEW WITH LATEST AND BEST PRICE IN DUBAI

Sony introduced new Cybershot HX300 which is in the bridge category with 20 megapixels-50X optical zoom-1080p HD video. As a very good camera should have the three key components to produce images : Lens,image sensor and image processing engine. This camera includes this three components in the best level as Sony can. 

Here it is used the carl zeiss lens which is the most Cyber-shot's eye to the world. Sony assures a superbly detailed image. The Exmor CMOS image sensor helpd the camera to double the light sensitivity and combines with Sony's Column A/D conversion to reduce noise by half while shooting in dimly light. With the help of Sony's image processing engine BIONZ which is very fast and efficient. The specialty of the camera which is Extra high sensitivity, Hand-held twilight,anti motion blur and high power zoom with blur free makes the photography experience more interesting and amazing. 

This model can be compared with Nikon's P520- 18mp- 42x- 1080p HD video , Canon SX50 - 12mp-50X-1080p HD and Fujifilm HS50 - 16mp-42x(manual) - 1080p HD video.

Compared to all this model the Sony seems to be a little bit bulky and the design is not interesting. Size wise more preference is for Nikon P520 and Canon Sx50. Fujifilm HS50 also is a size more but it looks like a Dslr camera with manual zooming which is amazing in design. Features wise also more preferable is Fujifilm.

The latest,current and the best retail selling price of each model in Dubai,UAE is like this : 

SONY HX300 - AED 1999

CANON SX50 - AED 1899

NIKON P520 - AED 1799

                                    FUJIFILM HS50 - AED 1899

Sony Rx1- review with latest and best price in Dubai

This is Sony'samazing new model RX1 which is 35mm full frame Exmor CMOS Sensor which will help to capture every detail of the scene with an extreme low noise and amazingly rich. This camera has a wide dynamic range and it is 24.3 effective megapixel resolution. 

This is highly inquired model of Sony among all the same range models in the competitive brands.

The main competing model of this range is Fujifilms new X-series and Olympus OMD series. But the Sony and Olympus has the unavailability in Dubai market feels the customer not to go for those models. But still the Sony is highly recommended by me. 

They use the same Carl Zeiss lens for this Sony Rx1 camera and the ISO can be increased upto 102400. For fixing external flash they gave a ni-multi interface shoe and it got an amazing body design.  The current,  latest and the best selling price of this model in Dubai,UAE market (will be updated soon)

Special offer!!!! Never wait gor that....

Most of the customer used to wait for a price drop in camera,mobile and other gadgets when they arr palnning to buy. Its not a good decision to wait for a price drop or special offer. Escpecially in the high end gadgets. For the small gadgets like compact camera and low end mobiles its ok to wait for a good offer. But most of the high end gadgets will reduce their price once tge model is outdated or ehen its going to be discontinued.
In case of cameras Dslr camera price will not be reduced if that is a good model. For example Nikon D90 stuck in the same price for a couple of years because of its high demand and popularity. But if a model is not success or a flop in the market then the price will go down immediately after the launch. Same like this Canon Eos 650 first edition was a flop because of some technical issues forced the company to reduce the price immediately after the launch. But this price unstability and issues is not applicable on compact digital cameras. Becuase as per the company the share of sale is determined by the sale of compact and low-end fast-moving cameras. In last couple of years Fujifilm camera reduced one of their compact camera price to half the original price to make their share in the market more visible.
When we see the mobile market we can see the same effect. High-end models of different brands like Samsung,I-phone,Sony, Nokia, HTC etc is still in the stable in terms of price. They never try a price drop in that series for making a big sales. Because they know that the customer will buy even in the same price.

The new Sony Xperia Tablet Z launched in UAE

The new Sony Xperia Tablet Z launched in the UAE market which is said as a uncompromised tablet experience by the manufactures. The unique design of Sony which is super slim and ultra light with the crafting with premium materials makes this Tablet more interested for the customers. Another speciality is the Unparelleled connectivity and water-resistance. It is using the S4 pro Quad core processor which will make the use of Movies ,games, musics and more as a best experience and better entertainment. 

This is launched in the market as a competition for the SAMSUNG GALAXY TABS , I-Pad from Apple and Asus tablets. As same all the Sony products the features are so amazing and expertise than any other tablet such as the water-resistant and more slimmer and lighter body shape. Handling this device makes more comfortable for the user because of this options. 

But as same as all Sony products the software usage will be a bit uncommon and a little complicated. But the performance and the other features make this dis-advantage nothing as per the user. 

The current best price of this device in UAE MARKET is   

                                                                                  AED 2299.

Fujifilm HS50 vs Nikon P520 - video full HD hands on preview

Here I am comparing the video quality of Fujifilm HS50 and Nikon P520 

Fujifilm HS50 video quality in 1080p.

Current selling price for Fujifilm HS50 is AED 1899

Nikon P520 video quality in 1080p.

current selling price for Nikon P520 is AED 1799 only