D90

I purchased a D90 body few weeks ago and then bought a 85mm f/1.8 D lens. I mounted it on and started clicking a few pictures. Auto-Focus didn’t work. I quickly checked the AF/MF switch on the body. It was set to AF. I re-checked the software settings for auto-focus (a) and it all looked perfect.

I got a little worked up and did a quick google search and figured that some people had to even return and get a replacement for their body for this reason. Read a little further and figured that mounting has to be perfect, the lens has to rotated till the exact last lock-click.

So basically, you might encounter this problem if you are changing lens or you bought lens and body separately and fixed the lens yourself. The fix is to make sure you mount to absolute perfection without being too hard at it. If Auto-Focus does not work try gently screwing it a little further. It should work. If you still face issues, I recommend you to head to a Nikon Service Centre and have someone do it for you.

Happy Clicking!

Arna-Jharna is a beautiful desert museum conceptualized by Padmashri Komal Kothari and brought to life by his son Kuldeep Kothari. I visited the museum about a year ago and was amazed by the way it was built up. Very small team, almost no machines used, 100% indigenous resources, using only the local knowledge for everything and anything. The museum is located on the outskirts of jodhpur. They managed to effectively collect water in the middle of desert and use some of Israeli irrigation techniques to make the entire patch green. This place is full of inspiration, I could share only the pictures.

Nishi & Naksh now have a new address on the web.

Nishi (My Niece) www.nishi.in
Naksh (My Nephew) www.naksh.in

Please feel free to check the pictures and let me know what you think of them.

Sandeep Narayan and Swarna Rethas are probably the most well know young and upcoming carnatic musicians learning under Sanjay Subrahmanyan. I had an opportunity to capture a few moments.

More pictures can be found here.

Naksh has now moved to Kolkata. I’m eager to travel to Kolkata soon.

Spending half my (sun)day trying to create a new cartoon character on paper with absolutely no luck, here is what I ended up doing to cheer myself up. My first ever attempt to self portrait.

Here is my pick of snaps of the photo shoot I did last weekend. Let me know which one you like the most and which one you don’t.

Last saturday (12th Aug) I had an opportunity to shoot this cute little 1.5 year old kid – Arham. I am still processing the snaps but here is the first snap I chose to process:

Stay tuned for more of cute Arham.

I had done casual portfolio for 6-year-old Shrey almost a year ago. Shrey is now decently popular child model and most recently was used by Landmark (the chennai based retailer at their cathedral road city center store) as a model.

About a month ago I had an opportunity to shoot his dad – Abhilash. A pretty casual shoot and below are some of my favorite snaps. Let me know what you guys about it.

other pictures available on my flick account

Pictures to speak for this post.