Tried many variations while photographing – different angles and focal lengths – needed to get a high contrast image to bring out the detail. Exposed this one by a stop over the meter and it looks good to me in B&W. The color version does not show the detail as much because of the low [...]
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Posted in rain on Mar 27th, 2008
A sudden rain shower with the sun shining from behind and scattering light through the fat water drops hanging from the railing. I’d shot a dozen frames or so, and had taken the card out to transfer the images to a hard-drive when 2 Sunbirds came to suck up water droplets from the foliage… the spare cards [...]
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Posted in SoFoBoMo on Mar 24th, 2008
Had planned 2 photo themes earlier, but both would have had to be “local” to a specific location. That’s history now. I’ll now be shooting 2 themes consecutively – one will be based on shadows/reflections/silhouettes and the other is a specific street-based idea… details follow once I get started! These 2 give me the flexibility [...]
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Posted in SoFoBoMo on Mar 20th, 2008
Was considering delaying the SoFoBoMo start/finish dates but possibly I’ll just start on the 1st or 2nd April… who knows if I will finish it by May 2nd [or ever] though! Following the example of other SoFoBoMo’ers – an update on the preparations is in order: The SoFoBoMo timeline and progress log page is ready and [...]
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Posted in AISD, Black and White, Crow, Dance, Dhaka, Drama, Music, nature, nest, school, Starling, WIP on Mar 19th, 2008
For the past many weeks the WIP photo project for “The Jungle Book” production at AIS/D Elementary School had taken up all of my shooting time. Am not complaining! in case that is what it sounded like. It was a great experience, both photographically and to witness the progression of the learning process the kids [...]
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