Photos you can take at home and still stunning.

Here are results of some more experiments that I did.

Setup:

1. 100 Watt <a class="zem_slink" title="Incandescent light bulb" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb">Light Bulb

2. One Bowl/Plate/Cup (whatever you wish)

3. <a class="zem_slink" title="Camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera">Camera (<a class="zem_slink" title="Nikon D5000" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D5000">Nikon D5000)

4. Some balls (These balls come in very small size and you need to keep them in water. Once kept in water for 10-15 days they become 20-30 times of their original size. Sorry, I don&#8217;t know the name as they were gifted to me. In <a class="zem_slink" title="India" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333%20%28India%29&t=h">India it is quite easy to find, not sure about other countries).

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Using EOG and other image viewers to learn tricks of photography

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2472" title="Eye of Gnome Viewer with exif data" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/eog-300x218.jpg" alt="Eye of Gnome Viewer with exif data" width="300" height="218" />

Today we will look at how a simple viewer like <a class="zem_slink" title="Eye of GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/">EOG of Gnome can help you learn some basic things about Photography.

To begin with, we will open eog and then go to :

Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins

and enable

<a class="zem_slink" title="Exchangeable image file format" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format">Exif Display