All Things Technology: A Trip to Lake George

Every photography trip teaches me something, and this one was no different. Although I knew that we would be staying near a water body and most of my pics will involve water in it, I took a “calculated risk” of not ordering circular polarizing filter for my lenses (they were too expensive and I didn’t want to spend money on filters for sometime).

As I imagined, I absolutely missed the polarizers. The reason – reflectivity of the water. Water reflects great deal of light, which looks great for a naked eye, but in a picture – its the most dreadful thing. You end up with pictures badly exposed where ever there is reflection and picture will not be as beautiful as the scene might have looked to the naked eye.

Circular Polarizer removes reflections and enhances the blue light. Which is great for landscape pics.

So keeping in mind this issue, I had to shoot in a way which would either make the reflections look good or avoid reflections in the photograph.

Lake George is a scenic place, there are million things you could photograph – Its picturesque, its beautiful. Suni, Adi and I enjoyed the beauty thoroughly.

Here are some of the results

First day – Hotel where we stayed had a beach! and Adi loved it.
The boats moored were a pleasing sight.
The Pier was picture perfect!
This was happy to be photographed!!
A nice scene
Views from our room on either side.
More boats…
We decided to cruise a bit
We went on a most romantic dinner cruise! Lovely
The flight !
The Landing
A Photographer and his wife – Picture taken by a Japanese tourist!
..and as usual Adi found some friends to play on the boat!
totally going crazy!
Great scenes from the cruise
Some panoramic….
Different shades…
Speed boat coming straight at us
Romantic…
After the cruise, its time for the fireworks.
Beautiful… All the fireworks are tripod mounted F/4 @ 4 seconds. ISO 100 to reduce noise.
And more…
The 2nd day was the day for trekking! Our little helper! Did a good job! Do you think we were dressed similar?! hmmm…
The forest! Never shoot the ground when shooting inside a forest….it will be boring (unless you have exotic animals roaming around)!
The water fall!
In the evening we at the “Top of the World”
Beautiful!
After the top of the world, we went to the winery! Impressive
Where Suni met Mr. Frankenstein!!
Last day was the day for Prospect Mountain! Beautiful View!
More panorama! How I did it? With a tripod, its a composite of 8 individual pictures stitched in Photoshop.