Mood-o-chrome

I often realize that I've kept aside several photographs which are actually good but I don't think they are. Anyways, my favorite pass-time, browsing my photo collection sometimes gives me new ideas. Today. I caught up with some photographs of my nephew Saptashwa Basu. An adorable devil he is.

The Don

The Romantic

The Poet

The Celebrity

The Mystique

The Divine

AND AT LAST

The Stripper

Pan-Stallion

This is an amazing thing that I've been doing photography for around 7 years and this is the first time that I've done Panning. For those who have no idea about what Panning means in still photography - It is a shot taken by moving the camera at slow shutter speed with respect to a moving object. The background naturally gets shaken.

Although it is not a perfect shot considering composition and exposure but I'm loving it. Have to try some more.

Call 'em Colored

All of a sudden, after long time, I got some enthusiasm to publish my photographs again. This (not 'these') photograph was taken last December at Bhimtaal near Nainitaal.

The second photo is a desaturated version of the first one. A prank came to my mind. There used to be a lot of racist people in this world few decades ago who'd call others 'Black'. There number has decreased a lot over time but those who still exist, have devised a better name 'Colored'. In any case, Black or colored, a photograph needs at least one of them to be a photograph.

Now please tell me which one of these looks better. I need to learn a lot....

Priorities Defined

Is is not necessary to have a story behind every photograph. Nor is it necessary to have a story in every photograph. But we always have the liberty to start a story from one.

I don't have any idea who owns this bicycle. May be the meat seller does. May be some other person. But why shouldn't I consider the cycle to be of that meat seller? May be the bicycle is facing towards his home. Like every other man he has two main priorities which are highly connected to each other - Home and job. Like every other person he has to balance his priorities for his very existence.

Light-errr

Drawing with the help of Light is called Photography. and I love Photography. But doing the same thing every day and every time sometimes gets on my nerves. So I thought of capturing light with the help of darkness. No big talks today. Just a few photographs. well, just for your information, I used two cell phone flash lights to create the formations.


Puzzled Power


Smile-O-Smiley


Brightness of Love

To colour or not to colour....

Got hold of my camera after around 3 months except for capturing friends and family. Anirban Mukherjee, my school buddy has the claim to credit this time. He was too eager to test his skills and new camera at Kumortuli, Kolkata. A new thing happened this time. Well, this is not new, it used to happen when I didn't have a digital camera. Took just a few photographs as if I had limited gates in my film roll.

Upon seeing the photographs, I realized that I've mostly captured photographs with a co existence of monochrome and colours. Honestly, this idea of grouping never came to me before I started creating this blog post.

The building blocks of clay Idol. Hay is used to make the basic structure of all those clay idols we see. This beautiful colour is eventually covered with black mud and then again colour is used to make those beautiful idols we see. Isn't it kind of resurrection?

Does chilli taste hot in the ears too? Mahishasur doesn't seem very happy with a chilli pierced through his ears to make a hole for ornamentation.

Peace in war zone. Actually something else came to my mind on seeing this scene. Can the cats distinguish between human beings and fierce human figures? Leave apart the human figures. How could he sleep so peacefully in front of such a big cat?

Red & White. No really, I don't have any intention to promote any brand here. actually, it seemed to me as if the provider of success and the well renowned savior are sitting in front of a court house. Redemption guaranteed.

Colours of muse. What else could I say?

Dancing Illumination

Buying a digital camera was a hasty decision that I never regretted. I've been using my Vivitar film SLR camera regularly till the end of 2008. On processing the films after a trip from Mussoorie, India, I got too upset with the bluish tone and horizontal lines in the images. Within almost no time bought my first digital camera, a Canon Powershot SX10 IS. Initial indoor snaps were good with flash. But I wanted to see it's performance outdoors. What could be better than visiting the picturesque Surajkund handicrafts fair in Faridabad?

The very first of my experiment with dancing lights was the above one. The image of course didn't depict any meaning to my eyes but I loved it.

Abrupt and unplanned movements of the camera produced many such images. I was so excited that I braved the dirt filled air for long time and kept adjusting various exposures. This was the day when I realized that small apertures can do magic. At 100 ISO and minimum possible aperture, the low shutter speed and movement of camera did the magic.

To me, this one is the best among those first pictures of the kind. This one was made by a planned movement of the camera. I wanted the human figures to be recognizable but not prominent. Also, for the first time, it was not a two dimensional movement of the camera. I moved it on a 2-D plane but alongside, walked backwards. However, some magic can never be computed mathematically.