Location: Chitradurga
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Friday, November 30, 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
Colour correction in Photoshop
This video shows a very simple of improving your pictures in photoshop. Recommended for serious photographers.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Shadow play
Location: Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas
This was taken in the lobby of the hotel/casino Caesar's Palace. The hotels in Vegas are the grandest I have seen. Caesar's palace is one of the biggest and it is definitely a very beautiful hotel. Even though this picture looks nice, I would not take the credit for it mainly because I think it was lighted thus to photograph well.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Friday, September 7, 2007
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Friday, August 31, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Friday, August 24, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
There goes my USP... :(
Visitors to this blog might have noticed the nice little addon I put on every post - the little map of the place where I took the picture. Making it possible was tough. I had to hack html, javascript and the maps API together to ensure that each post could have its own little map and they would coexist. I was proud of this little thing that I considered to be unique to my little blog. But now, this blog's uniqueness is threatened. Now, any average Jo can do this. <sarcasm>Thank you very much Google!</sarcasm>
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Submarine
Location: Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
I love this picture but I cannot tell you why. Perhaps it is case of an artist (if I may call myself that :) admiring his own work but then I do not really all the pictures that I take. I like some of them and I rarely love any. For some reason, this photo has a quality that makes me admire it. I realised it when I was framing the picture. Click on the photo to go to the flickr page and see larger versions of this picture, ie, if your monitor resolution is as high as mine...
Monday, July 30, 2007
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Sometimes you really do need a great camera
You must have heard that gem about how it is not the camera that is important but the photographer. As much as I agree with those wise words, there are times when a good camera is very important for a good picture. For instance, this picture has all the trappings of a really good one but look closely and you realise that the incredible amount of noise in the picture makes it look horrible in any decent blowup. The reason was because it was taken with a Sony digicam that I used to carry around all the time but which fails me always when it gets darker outside. So, what could have been a really good picture with a D80, which I own now, turns out absolutely pathetic with this camera.
I just rue a missed opportunity for a great picture... :(
Monday, April 9, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
In the moment
This picture was taken near Vythri resorts in Wayanad. My friends were crossing over so that they could pose for a picture and I wanted to take a more natural picture as I believe that posed pictures are best saved for portraits. The water spray on my lens was unintended and the people in the frame were quite unaware that I was taking a snap right at this moment.
Location: Somewhere in Wayanad, Kerala
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Friday, March 9, 2007
The geek
As I look back at my collection of photos over the past few years, I realised that I have taken very few pictures of people, in general, and portraits in particular. I think I am more of a nature photographer than an human interest photographer. The reason for that is not because I do not find people interesting but perhaps because I havn't really sought out to photograph them. I hope to make amends in the near future.
The above picture is that of a dear old friend whom I met in IIT Kanpur and who was part of the fullee faltoo gang of our wing that also included Nikhil, GY, Sandey and me. Adi is the definitive computer addict, the one who was always glued to his screen. He was the one who introduced me to the world of Diablo 2 and other RPGs and the one with whom I played one-on-ones in the unreal world of UT. When I took this picture, he had just turned around because I asked him to and after the picture was taken, he, without any trace of emotion, turned his head back to the screen. With a beard that was almost six months old and a room that was not cleaned for just as long, this portrait of his best describes him. I took this picture with my (actually, my dad's) practikar which is over fifteen years old and still one of the best cameras that I have ever used. This picture is perhaps also my best portrait.
Location: A-Bot, Hall 1, IIT Kanpur
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Served chilled
This was taken during my second trip to Goa in November 2005 when I went for IFFI 2005. I spent the entire week in Panjim, near the place where the festival was going on and never once had the chance to go to the beach. The festival was amazing and I was introduced to a lot of contemporary cinema from across the world, especially from Iran and South America. I decided to go to Goa on the last day, without an idea of whether I would be allowed to be a delegate. I did not tell anybody that I was going and when I did get the delegate pass, I called up my boss to tell him that I would not be coming to the office for the entire week! Now that I look back at it, I think that was the best whimsical decision I ever made.
Anyway, when the festival was coming to a close and I had to get back to Bangalore but I did not want to leave without going to the beach and relaxing for a while. After an entire week of non-stop movie watching, my eyes and head needed a rest and that day sitting at the beach, in that shack, I felt most at peace with myself, a peace that I had not experienced since the time I went to Honnemarudu and a peace that I would not experience till I went to Gokurna. It was at this moment of zen that I took this picture and I think it captures my mood and the atmosphere of the beaches of Goa.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Monday, March 5, 2007
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