Delhi & Uttar Pradesh rejoiced (horizontal series)
- Thread starter zoossh
- Start date
Hi Zoosh
thank you for sharing your work, its inspiring. I notice that your photos capture strongly the color "Orange", be it the clothes or the sun set at the background. How do you do it ? maybe its only me but somehow i really like those photos where there are orange colour in your composition. ha ha i am not sure if i make sense
anyway keep posting and thank you
thank you for sharing your work, its inspiring. I notice that your photos capture strongly the color "Orange", be it the clothes or the sun set at the background. How do you do it ? maybe its only me but somehow i really like those photos where there are orange colour in your composition. ha ha i am not sure if i make sense
anyway keep posting and thank you
zoossh
Senior Member
i'm orange biased and tend to shoot in cloudy WB. when editing, i tend to leave them alone as well unless they are affecting the skin hue.
zoossh
Senior Member
WB refers to white balance. this function is in DSLRs as well as many advanced compact camera. it basically refers to adaptation of color temperature.
light, being an energy form, comes in components of different wavelength and different energies. when there is a good mix, it is white light, and everything shine under white light will reflect its colors correctly.
but due to changes in differential absorption and reflection along a day, the color of light can fluctuate between red and blue. our eyes compensate to extreme reds and blues (when ambient, i.e. filling all around our vision, and not just an apple or a viagra pill on your hand an arm's length way) automatically to make them less reddish or bluish, but not always possible always to neutral. a sunset is still orangish to different extent in different corners of the earth.
our sensor does not have that automatic ability, except for auto-WB mode that can occasionally give you a neutral white balance when compensated correctly.
the other WB modes refer to the amount you want to push towards red or towards blue. in this case, cloudy will make something more reddish. using arbitrary values, it can make -2 becomes 0, 0 becomes 2, and 2 becomes 4. so it all depends on the lighting situation you are in, and the white balance outcome you want. not everything needs to be push back to neutral, it depends on the mood you would like to portray.
do google more on this, it is not an easy concept to grip, but i'm trying my best to summarise and not be too long winded.
zoossh
Senior Member
#154 that is my travelmate who is squatting down to shoot the two young boys on the street. by this time, she should be in japan. see how's her shots when back. actually they are not the main purpose of the shot, although they appear as a good background. i also didn't do a good job for the foreground due to underexposure and shutter duration limitation, there is not much of a details to say what is the person squatting doing, it is so black that i'm just saying anything i like. but then my main focus and aim of the picture is to capture the spill light that occurs when a car moves behind a trishaw. trying to do that the whole night, but the shutter duration is too long (esp when i intentionally block my light source) to freeze that motion or to avoid handheld. this is among a few successful attempts among mostly failures. i might be lucky as this occurs next to a focal light point from the lampost at some intervals, thereby helping to secure sufficient light. luckily got the timing.
the noise is really high... so image quality is poor. i didn't use a tripod, and in fact can't rem if i brought one.
the noise is really high... so image quality is poor. i didn't use a tripod, and in fact can't rem if i brought one.
night86mare
Deregistered
love the portrait, and love the mood in the second quoted. what were the settings for that picture? for a night shot, it's pretty clean
zoossh
Senior Member
10mm, matrix metering, EV-1, ISO 1600, f/5.6, 1/25s, incandescent WB
zoossh
Senior Member
#159 night walk of the pilgrims in the living quarters at allahabad.
although i have mentioned much earlier, think i will repeat here for the benefit for those who didn't manage to read it. Kumbh mela is a celebration held every 4 years rotated among 4 different holy grounds in india. during this period, millions will flock in and out over a period of 1-2 months for the pilgrimage, sort of like a mecca, thus logistics are arranged to avoid congestion and accidents. quarters of tents are set up to accomodate those who came and we are walking along one of these roads in the living quarters that stretches many kilometers long.
although i have mentioned much earlier, think i will repeat here for the benefit for those who didn't manage to read it. Kumbh mela is a celebration held every 4 years rotated among 4 different holy grounds in india. during this period, millions will flock in and out over a period of 1-2 months for the pilgrimage, sort of like a mecca, thus logistics are arranged to avoid congestion and accidents. quarters of tents are set up to accomodate those who came and we are walking along one of these roads in the living quarters that stretches many kilometers long.
zoossh
Senior Member
There are many great shots in this thread. Very inspirational. Made me feel like going on a trip somewhere.
yah, pick a place that you like. i would suggest trying to go with photographer partners (be it friends or forumers) rather than family. that make a key difference.
zoossh
Senior Member
#161 our boatman at allahabad. he looks pretty uninterested in the ambience and the lighting. perhaps it is an everyday thing to him and what matter more is bread and butter. or perhaps it is a tiring work.
actually it is a tiring day for us too. we spent a pretty freezing nite along the river. walking to the site of celebration of kumbh mela at about 11-12pm, shooting for the next few hours. by 2am, i'm half sleepy but cannot sleep in the freezing open, at perhaps 5 degrees, i guess. not finding further vantage, and having scarce crowd without a high ground, gradually dry up the interest.... but it is still a long way from the dawn.... what's more we had difficulty getting a boat by the time we decide on one. almost feel like giving it up (i'm not the perseverent type that goes all out for photography). one of my mate, ramius, was however determine to get his shots of the nagas. and although with much tiredness and frustration, we eventually got a boat and found a new vantage and a really nice weather in the morning - although the few of us are pretty half-dead by then. in the end, we didn't get close to the nagas becos we are not authorized reporters. on our way off, ramius saw the newspaper photograph of a close-up wide angle and grumbled what a pity.
i shot close to 9-10GB just over that whole nite and morning, and even have to borrow extra memory cards (i got abt 7-8GB but all used up) from another half-dead mate who is probably too tired to shoot then. i think at some point of time here, they are dozing off while i'm taking pictures.
actually it is a tiring day for us too. we spent a pretty freezing nite along the river. walking to the site of celebration of kumbh mela at about 11-12pm, shooting for the next few hours. by 2am, i'm half sleepy but cannot sleep in the freezing open, at perhaps 5 degrees, i guess. not finding further vantage, and having scarce crowd without a high ground, gradually dry up the interest.... but it is still a long way from the dawn.... what's more we had difficulty getting a boat by the time we decide on one. almost feel like giving it up (i'm not the perseverent type that goes all out for photography). one of my mate, ramius, was however determine to get his shots of the nagas. and although with much tiredness and frustration, we eventually got a boat and found a new vantage and a really nice weather in the morning - although the few of us are pretty half-dead by then. in the end, we didn't get close to the nagas becos we are not authorized reporters. on our way off, ramius saw the newspaper photograph of a close-up wide angle and grumbled what a pity.
i shot close to 9-10GB just over that whole nite and morning, and even have to borrow extra memory cards (i got abt 7-8GB but all used up) from another half-dead mate who is probably too tired to shoot then. i think at some point of time here, they are dozing off while i'm taking pictures.
zoossh
Senior Member
#162 i believe i didn't observe the skin hue close enough when shooting, but a relook shows that the complexion of the kid is significantly fairer than the old man who hold him in his lap. i wonder if he is the grandfather, hence two generations down with some intermarriage between the fairer and the darker indians (actually i'm not sure if the indians differentiate each other in terms of locality/physical differences other than religion/language/nationality, becos similarly to or more so than chinese, it is definitely not of a single race in origin)
anyway got a few shots, and i prefer this really close-up shot. at some point of time, the child did have some abnormal gaze and i wonder if he's got some palsy of some form. not too sure about it. but he looks perfectly cute in this selected shot.
anyway got a few shots, and i prefer this really close-up shot. at some point of time, the child did have some abnormal gaze and i wonder if he's got some palsy of some form. not too sure about it. but he looks perfectly cute in this selected shot.
Similar threads
