Pan-Fried

Since the very first photographic outings, I've been seeing people trying to take pan shots with still camera. Often a good snap by those and some at exhibitions would fascinate me. But honestly, I never thought of experimenting with film rolls at that time. Now that I'm using digital cameras, its easier to do such experiments. I did some with moving vehicle lights at night. The daylight panning idea surfaced as I was travelling from Kharagpur to Kolkata with my friend Subhamay Mitra in his newly bought car.

It was a coincidence that the wind was blowing in the same direction of their movement. Seemed to me as if the greens were moving by the wind current created by the rider.


This is a strange sample where some static subjects seem to be moving but other static subjects are still. Also, the actually moving subject, the rider, seems to be frozen in the frame.


In last 3 pictures above, I've moved the camera from inside the moving car. This last image came out as the best resultant of the trip though.

Well, Experimenting was okay, but please do not ask me about what I derived from it. I'm really confused with the weird acts of relative velocity. But I think this could have helped Einstein a lot.

Sub-m-Urged

Ideas are often submerged among other ideas and come forth only when urged. I must have thought something while taking these but somehow it never came forward for so long. Well, the idea of another blog post was submerged just like these boats were.

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