Delhi & Uttar Pradesh rejoiced (vertical series)

[satya]

thanks, i guess you are rite, but i also like the contrast of colors of the top and the bottom. there are also pictures taken separately, but i tend not to show multiple pictures of the same scene, hence will not be posting those in the short while.

#18 boy in thoughts.

i feel this a really nice one zoossh.. you managed to capture a very harmonious tone.. blends with the background.. essence of an indian street kid captured well :thumbsup: :thumbsup: hard to catch them this way...Indian kids normally get excited when they see a camera! especially an SLR

 

[zoossh]

i feel this a really nice one zoossh.. you managed to capture a very harmonious tone.. blends with the background.. essence of an indian street kid captured well :thumbsup: :thumbsup: hard to catch them this way...Indian kids normally get excited when they see a camera! especially an SLR

you know, some people are better off and prefer to travel alone, as they wanted the subject all to themselves. there's one guy called marco pozzi, a UK paediatric cardiac (baby/children's heart) surgeon, who is also a travel photographer. we share some similarities in the way we shoot and process, but there is some differences. he quoted that he usually shot 30-50 pictures per subject, which is hard of me to understand becos i always feel that i'm bothering someone when i photograph him/her. i'm quite a passive photographer and dun insist on going thru tough situations to get extraordinary pictures. but his style is more aggressive, and he may bring his subjects to a favorable background or find subjects to add to a favorable background. i dun. all i do is to ask them to turn the other side, so that i can shoot them with good light on them.

this is what he says "i try to establish a relationship with people. this is also why i can't go on a trip with other photographers. i've done it before and it gets very frustrating. you want the subject 100% to yourself and you dun get the intensity with the person you're photographing if another photographer is there."

but the above is probably the result of going with other photographers. i make do with whatever that is in front of me and just make sure i have the minimum of what i need to post process. so when other kids are being shot by my friends, i pick one of the kids that is idling and shot him candid.

 

[zoossh]

#23 indian food, usually fried and dry, which i find it difficult to take. like my mum, she grumble when she went to xi'an in china where most food is also dry. can't get used to it.

 

[zoossh]

#24, old man by the street.

as they are already sat comfortably by the bench, i dun feel comfortable asking them to oblige their positions. the shot was done against the light with some overexposure and i push back some details further from the shadow.

 

[LOTUSfairy]

#23 indian food, usually fried and dry, which i find it difficult to take. like my mum, she grumble when she went to xi'an in china where most food is also dry. can't get used to it.

i love the small small fried ones...yum yum.

 

[zoossh]

#25 early sun, allahabad.

 

[zoossh]

#26 rim lighting, allahabad

 

[asterixsg]

#23 indian food, usually fried and dry, which i find it difficult to take. like my mum, she grumble when she went to xi'an in china where most food is also dry. can't get used to it.

Unhealthy stuff, but mouth watering :bsmilie:
Hope you tried some of these delicacies.

I like this one a lot :thumbsup:

 

[zoossh]

#27 the clay cup they typically use to hold their tea (chai)

picture to the tea vendor at varanasi, another venue

 

[zoossh]

#28 taj mahal in the morning

 

[zoossh]

#29 cute kid. young and innocent. won't poke you for sweets, pens and money. walking into the area of this vindu madhan temple brought us many surprises and some of our best shots.

 

[Canon_5D]

Your pics color is more on warm side. Like the feeling.

 

[zoossh]

Your pics color is more on warm side. Like the feeling.

yah, i know. in fact, i have to reduce that. in fact for #23, deliberately push to a cold color.

 

[zoossh]

#30 max speed of the train

 

[zoossh]

#31 it is not uncommon to see kids attend to some simple business while the adults ain't around

 

[nuts]

This is really lovely, with the position of the birds perfect and even their wings position
Unfortunately, the guy is too at the edge & truncated, wasted!

All in all, very very impressive! (and I mean the whole series)

#25 early sun, allahabad.

 

[zoossh]

This is really lovely, with the position of the birds perfect and even their wings position
Unfortunately, the guy is too at the edge & truncated, wasted!

All in all, very very impressive! (and I mean the whole series)

thanks for the compliment.

#32 wonder who is in that picture? the father of the family, the ancestor, a holy man or some national figure (but i'm pretty sure he is neither gandhi nor nehru.....)? unfortunately too small for y'alls to tell.

p.s. the deepness of the red is somehow lost when conversion into jpeg for posting in web. it only looks red enough in my photoshop viewer, once output the red is gone case. i wish i'm more proficient in my understanding of color processing...

 

[diamond010]

what lens did you use to shoot the wide angles?
I see some vignetting in some of them but not all of them
??

I gather you must be changing lens all the time,
I like the angles but I find changing lens a real hassle especially
when travelling like this

how many lens to you carry on you each day?

oh yeah, i am so inspired by your shots
I am planning an indian trip

 

[pigs_can_fly]

I think they are called Lingas.

#3 offerings near Gay Ghat (ok, i dun think it got anything to do with homosexual just in case anyone ask)

any Indians here can suggest what the knobby things on the ground means?

 

[zoossh]

what lens did you use to shoot the wide angles?
I see some vignetting in some of them but not all of them
??

I gather you must be changing lens all the time,
I like the angles but I find changing lens a real hassle especially
when travelling like this

how many lens to you carry on you each day?

oh yeah, i am so inspired by your shots
I am planning an indian trip

2 basic lens + 1 supplementary

10-20mm ultrawide
18-200mm wide to short tele
50mm f/1.8 as portrait, food or stilllife

the vignette comes in from selective grad ND and post processing.

yes, i change lens all the time. within 2-3 trips, the $300+ i spent on high quality grad NDs are reduced to pure trash with uncleanable dirt and scratches. haven't have a solution yet.