Delhi & Uttar Pradesh rejoiced (horizontal series)

[night86mare]

#199 having difficulty over the following white balance.... can't decide which one is the best....

everytime i reopen the thread and look at it. i will like #199A instantly, but as i scroll down, i will find #199C more neutral, and yet i find #199D pleasing as well as my pictures tend to be all warm and a cold tone will help to provide some variation.

i thought the last two looked more accurate, but i wasn't there.

daylight white balance looks the most pleasing to me, not overly warm.

 

[zoossh]

#204

visitors of taj mahal, at close distance.

 

[zoossh]

#205

One of the very few close-up portraits taken in Delhi and Agra, as most are taken
in Allahabad and Varanasi instead.

 

[zoossh]

#206

Travellers waiting at the main lobby of the New Delhi train station at Paharganj,
from the 2nd floor outside the tourist information office. Just outside the train
station, we met our first but only encounter, where some guys approach and
tell us that our train tickets need to be endorsed and stamped before we can
board the trains, and the office is just somewhere across the streets. It appears
to be a known scam, and we proceed to the office in the train building nevertheless.

 

[zoossh]

#207

girl at varanasi. this is actually a vertical shot, but i realised it works as well, if not
better, in landscape, as a crop. but then after the crop, the digital quality drops.

 

[zoossh]

#208

dof could be much better. a little mis focus too. but i do like the picture for the
intended composition and capture of expression, so i thought it is worth posting

 

[zoossh]

#209

monkey rampaging across and occasionally resting by the windows. the vertical
crop on the left may have worked better retrospectively, but that will degrade
the digital quality unless the vertical frame is adopted as a 2nd shot.

 

[zoossh]

#210

passing by a stranger

 

[zoossh]

#211

another street portrait. boy at allahabad. but his features is rather sharp
and eyes a bit slanted and the brow not very deep, doesn't look very indian..

 

[zoossh]

#212

meditation and yoga, at varanasi. look carefully and there are plenty of
interesting little things going around like small puppies. unfortunately no
foreground interest being pinned on. shot from around ramamahal ghat

 

[tuglaq]

#200 Jawaharlal Nehru, India's hero and loyal follower of Gandhi, leading India to its independence. He was born here in Allahabad.

Bro Nice Shot...

This snap is of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Freedom Fighter and leader of Azad Hind Sena.

sheik

 

[zoossh]

Bro Nice Shot...

This snap is of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Freedom Fighter and leader of Azad Hind Sena.

sheik

thanks, as corrected.

 

[zoossh]

#213

one of the half sheltered tents in the midst of the entrance (the area is very big)
of the sangam kumbh mela settlement. these food (looks like the tibetan momo or
the chinese dumplings) prepared might be the dinner/next breakfast (photo taken
at midnight) to feed a sizeable amount of pilgrims. the aperture is pushed to f/4
at 10mm, at ISO 1600 with resultant 1/6 sec shutter duration, at bare minimum
to handhold and already with some subject movement of the face on the right.

 

[sigg]

#210

passing by a stranger

only one nitpick. if only there is some little space to his right and without his arm getting cropped. this would have been a fabulous photo.

 

[zoossh]

only one nitpick. if only there is some little space to his right and without his arm getting cropped. this would have been a fabulous photo.

it is truely a bad mistake not to include space there. but in order for it to be decently good, i think the picture need to be crisp sharp, and i think i probably need 2 more stop or more steady hand.

 

[nirenj]

Wow man, most of your photos are very nice. I appreciate your effort to show the life of Indians here. Very few of our CSs dare to go there and take pics. Thanks a lot.
I am a proud Indian.

 

[zoossh]

Wow man, most of your photos are very nice. I appreciate your effort to show the life of Indians here. Very few of our CSs dare to go there and take pics. Thanks a lot.
I am a proud Indian.

there is a lot of apprehension and often difficulty in bringing along many gears, but in a group, those inconvinience are in a way much reduced.

and also i like places that you can take a lot of photographs without spending a fortune, and in places where you are not accused of being a pervert, a terrorist or being someone who treats the locals as human zoo. and you and your camera won't be stopped becos of media blackout and fear of foreigners. india provide all these opportunities at ease, and the only person who can hold things back would only be yourself.

 

[Estherfu]

Amazing photos and amazing stamina - just realised that this series was started almost 2 years ago?!
Sorry that I have not gone through the middle section of the series, realised that you have used your 10mm and 18-200mm, how and when do you decide which lens to use? Did you find the 50mm useful?
esther

 

[zoossh]

realised that you have used your 10mm and 18-200mm, how and when do you decide which lens to use?

depending on working distance, subject size and intended volume of subject in the frame. wide angle for subjects very near you. tele for subjects very far from you.

Did you find the 50mm useful?
esther

certainly. many portraits are done with 50mm too.

 

[Jiordano]

Nikon D50
Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6,
1.5x 10mm,
ISO 1600/Evaluative-meter/EV-0,
Aperture Priority f/4 1/13s,
WB incandescent
sRGB3a
unedited

Very nice pics..have been reading up on your stickys learning of filters..
was wondering did you use any filter for any of these pictures? Thanks!