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Anyone familiar with Indian style sweets? Well ladies and gentlemen, this is the rural version of that. This was an interesting shop, and somewhat scary actually. As you may know, I just came back from a 2 month long data collection trip to India for my thesis. During the long hot days in the villages, we'd often try to find places to sit down to get some respite from the burning sun. In one particular village we found this rather 'typical' shop, completely open to the elements, gazillion flies and not to mention the ever present dust.
After seeing what I saw what I saw in this shop is when I fell ill for a few days :P Can't really explain verbatim exactly what went through my head when I saw what I did, but let me try. Essentially there was a BIG bowl full of thick sweet flavouring to be used to dip the flour balls into. However if looked shiny black, whereas it's supposed to have a transparent hue to it.
When I asked the gentleman you see in the picture what it was, he took an industrial sized spatula and started to use it as a sieve to remove what appeared to be a think layer of black substance from the top of the liquid, at least half an inch think. Upon further inspection, my stomach suddenly came to mouth as I came to the dreaded realization that these were hundreds, if not thousands of dead flies!!
While I was trying my utmost to control the retching in my stomach, the man calmly scooped out the flies and proceeded to put the flour balls back in. By the time we left, I saw people eating them.
But enough of that. Just a little detail about the shot...if you look at the top left, it's completely blown out. This just shows how bright it was outside on a 40'c day! The bracketing was -2 0 +2, still couldn't get any of the details out.
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Shot details:
3 handheld bracketed shots using: Canon 7D; Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5,
Post processing:
1. Lightroom for initial fixups,
2. Merged in Photomatix
3. Post processed (colors, sharpness and so forth) in Color Efex
4. Finally did a little more processing (vignetting and temp and so forth again in Lightroom)
Want to lose your appetite? Read below!
Follow me on:
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Anyone familiar with Indian style sweets? Well ladies and gentlemen, this is the rural version of that. This was an interesting shop, and somewhat scary actually. As you may know, I just came back from a 2 month long data collection trip to India for my thesis. During the long hot days in the villages, we'd often try to find places to sit down to get some respite from the burning sun. In one particular village we found this rather 'typical' shop, completely open to the elements, gazillion flies and not to mention the ever present dust.
After seeing what I saw what I saw in this shop is when I fell ill for a few days :P Can't really explain verbatim exactly what went through my head when I saw what I did, but let me try. Essentially there was a BIG bowl full of thick sweet flavouring to be used to dip the flour balls into. However if looked shiny black, whereas it's supposed to have a transparent hue to it.
When I asked the gentleman you see in the picture what it was, he took an industrial sized spatula and started to use it as a sieve to remove what appeared to be a think layer of black substance from the top of the liquid, at least half an inch think. Upon further inspection, my stomach suddenly came to mouth as I came to the dreaded realization that these were hundreds, if not thousands of dead flies!!
While I was trying my utmost to control the retching in my stomach, the man calmly scooped out the flies and proceeded to put the flour balls back in. By the time we left, I saw people eating them.
But enough of that. Just a little detail about the shot...if you look at the top left, it's completely blown out. This just shows how bright it was outside on a 40'c day! The bracketing was -2 0 +2, still couldn't get any of the details out.
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As always, comments/notes/crituques and favourites (just hit F ) will be very much appreciated!
For the best view, hit L .
Some people who's work I admire are tagged in this picture. Please visit their stream!
Click here to see the rest of my HDRs (High Dynamic Range Photos)!
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Shot details:
3 handheld bracketed shots using: Canon 7D; Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5,
Post processing:
1. Lightroom for initial fixups,
2. Merged in Photomatix
3. Post processed (colors, sharpness and so forth) in Color Efex
4. Finally did a little more processing (vignetting and temp and so forth again in Lightroom)