crop, edit, edit

Another trip to Tamhani. This time with a punctured tyre! The machine which helps me to move from one place to another was helpless to move on its own! It was a tiresome walk of 1 km or so...

Just as the mechanic was trying to fix the problem I got curious about the scattered instruments and the dead tyre; got a snap just like that! back home played with the snap...

    I first tried cropping it so that everything comes closer so as to give the picture a kind of tightness; made it black n' white with a sepia tone.

Again adjusted brightness and contrast a lil bit. Then put the picture in PS. There I played with using different filters. Embossing attracted my attention; it was kind of fossilizing the frame!! I like it. Hence I tried it; adjusted the angle so that the picture looks more like a 3D snap; bordered it to make it packed.

  Finished! Can be sold as a book cover! ;-)

Tamhani scape

Borders make picture attractive, compact. these lines try to attract viewer to the more important features of photographs.
Landscapes such as this one are borderless although they look good with borders! what i mean to say is; it's man's nature to keep everything under control and happy (symbol of which is border); this may not work always though!   

Details:
1/125s, f/8.0, ISO 200
Instrument:
Sony cybershot DSC H50
Location:
Tamhani, Maharashtra, India.

Such a sweet home

No explanations about the quote (cauz everybody's home is different and personalized). I wanted to make this photograph soft; curtains did the job.
Details:
ISO 80, 1/80s, f/3.2
Sony Cybershot DSC H50

तुझ्या सजण्यात समावली, ही आयुष्यभराची ठेव...

1/200s, f/4.5, ISO 200, Manual handheld
Instrument: Sony Cybershot DSC H50

 

The Future Conservationist

An instantaneous shot while on a short trip to Kirloskar at Nashik. These people were interested in our binocular and this guy particularly was afraid of my hat. He thought that I am a Police inspector and will ask him for money.

Instrument: Sony Cybershot DSC H50

ISO 100, 1/640s, f/3.5. (this photograph has been previously exhibited in one of the photo exhibitions).

Behind every buddha there's a lil noise!

As I was wandering in one of the museums in the city of Jaipur, a kid attracted my attention, as I was being watched by him and he was quiet interested in the camera hanging from my shoulder. As I turned back and looked at him, i got a frame to catch his innocent and curious face. Here, in this picture there are two faces...both showing different mind states.

Wire tailed swallow (Hirundo smithii)

Very cute bird with least concern (LC) conservation status in IUCN data!!:-) These birds are solitary in nature. In Marathi language it is known as "तारवाली पाकोळी"!The long wire is not visible in this picture. Got this picture yesterday in the morning; Sunlight was to the left of the object; hence it created nice colors at the back of the bird. This is shot at my favorite place, on the busy bridge of Kawadi!

1/640s, f 4.5, ISO 100.