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The light filters through the bare branches, drawing shadows that seem like farewells suspended in the air. In the stillness of the afternoon, two souls meet in a corner of stone and shadow, tangled in a moment that seems to resist time. The scene is tinged with an inevitable contrast: the warmth of the last ray of sunlight and the coldness of what feels like a goodbye. As if the light itself, casting its fleeting shapes upon the wall, knew that some moments are meant to fade away. / La luz se filtra entre las ramas desnudas, dibujando sombras que parecen despedidas suspendidas en el aire. En la quietud de la tarde, dos almas se encuentran en un rincón de piedra y sombra, enredadas en un momento que parece resistirse al tiempo. La escena está teñida de un contraste inevitable: la calidez del último rayo de sol y la frialdad de lo que se intuye como un adiós. Como si la propia luz, al proyectar sus formas efímeras sobre la pared, supiera que algunos instantes están destinados a desvanecerse.
The Sony Alpha 230 is an entry-level DSLR camera featuring a 10.2-megapixel APS-C CCD sensor.
For this image, a 50mm lens was used, which is ideal for portraits and urban scenes due to its natural perspective and ability to isolate subjects with soft background blur at wide apertures. The ISO 100 setting ensures a clean image with minimal noise, while the 1/15s shutter speed suggests careful handheld shooting or tripod use to avoid camera shake, capturing light in a delicate manner.
The black and white processing was done using Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw, applying fine adjustments to contrast and exposure to enhance the interplay of light and shadow. The tone curve was refined to balance deep blacks and bright highlights, reinforcing the dramatic mood of the scene. Selective adjustments were applied to key areas to emphasize texture and depth, resulting in an evocative and timeless image.
Purple as tulips in May, mauve
into lush velvet, purple
as the stain blackberries leave
on the lips, on the hands,
the purple of ripe grapes
sunlit and warm as flesh.
Every day I will give you a color,
like a new flower in a bud vase
on your desk. Every day
I will paint you, as women
color each other with henna
on hands and on feet.
Red as henna, as cinnamon,
as coals after the fire is banked,
the cardinal in the feeder,
the roses tumbling on the arbor
their weight bending the wood
the red of the syrup I make from petals.
Orange as the perfumed fruit
hanging their globes on the glossy tree,
orange as pumpkins in the field,
orange as butterflyweed and the monarchs
who come to eat it, orange as my
cat running lithe through the high grass.
Yellow as a goat’s wise and wicked eyes,
yellow as a hill of daffodils,
yellow as dandelions by the highway,
yellow as butter and egg yolks,
yellow as a school bus stopping you,
yellow as a slicker in a downpour.
Here is my bouquet, here is a sing
song of all the things you make
me think of, here is oblique
praise for the height and depth
of you and the width too.
Here is my box of new crayons at your feet.
Green as mint jelly, green
as a frog on a lily pad twanging,
the green of cos lettuce upright
about to bolt into opulent towers,
green as Grand Chartreuse in a clear
glass, green as wine bottles.
Blue as cornflowers, delphiniums,
bachelors’ buttons. Blue as Roquefort,
blue as Saga. Blue as still water.
Blue as the eyes of a Siamese cat.
Blue as shadows on new snow, as a spring
azure sipping from a puddle on the blacktop.
Cobalt as the midnight sky
when day has gone without a trace
and we lie in each other’s arms
eyes shut and fingers open
and all the colors of the world
pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
Marge Piercy, “Colors passing through us” from Colors Passing Through Us (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)
Best view: view on black n large : )
>>Last time when i went to the super market i bought a Kinder-Joy Egg and this toy came out of it :D Don't know why but this reminds of M.S Dhoni in this pepsi ad - Pepsi Ad :D
......and today someone in my office forwarded me this cool video. I couldn't stop laughing for 5 mins :D - Rajini - watch it and u'll love it : )
Note: No offense plz - for the title and also for the video - its just for fun : )
Shot At: Home, Hyderabad, AP, India.
Explore highest : 137 :) thanku guys
There was no electricity-no-internet at home and since it was a weekend there was not much to do. So I thought of doing an experiment with my camera.
I have been wanting to do this for quite sometime now and had been talking to a friend about it. It's a method called cloning. The idea is simple(but effective) - A photo where a character is 'cloned' several times... one could be standing, another one could be jumping, another sleeping, another eating... and so on. This is the first time I've tried this out and frankly it was really much simpler than I had imagined.
Here's a do-it-yourself recipe for cloning:
1) Find a suitable location: Find a place where the light does not keep varying. It is important that the light remains constant unless you don't mind spending more time post-processing.
2) Fix(literally!) your tripod:. I think this is the most crucial step - making sure that the tripod remains in the exact position throughout your photo session. Make sure that even your camera does not change position.
3) Start taking pictures: This is the fun part. Use your imagination and take several photos(Don't worry about bringing them together right now). The composition of the characters will probably make or break your photo. If you happen to be alone(like in my case) use a self timer and do a self photo session. However, I recommend asking someone else to take photos for you so that the composition fits in well (from a third person's view).
4) Bring them together: Take all your photos and put them in different layers inside Photoshop. Start from the topmost layer and erase the portion of the layer which hides the character in the layer below it. And Walla!! You should now magically see a clone! Repeat this step for all the layers. Do some re-touch and that's about it. Your cloned image is ready. Remember that it can get a little tricky when characters overlap each other. Work carefully on those areas to make the final photo flawless.
I really had fun doing this whole thing. It was a new experience and I think it's pretty easy too. I hope you find this information useful. However, I'm yet to do a research on how other people do cloning. I'm guessing it should be fairly similar. If you know an easier way of doing this, please let me know.
Have fun cloning!
-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as my best of 2007.
The Lonely Planet says, "Few places in India are as colourful, charismatic or spiritual as the bathing ghats lining the Ganges in Varanasi ... a walk along the ghats or a boat ride on the river is one of India’s most absorbing experiences." This shot was taken from a boat across the Ghats.
Varanasi (Sanskrit: वाराणसी Vārāṇasī, also commonly known as Benares or Banaras (Hindi: बनारस, Urdu: بنارس, Banāras) is a city situated on the banks of the River Ganges in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, regarded as holy by Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and probably the oldest of India. Mark Twain wrote: "Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together."
Check out the whole set - V for Varanasi.
Varanasi, India
2010
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The newly acquired - but pre-owned - Canon 800mm fd lens had some bulk to it - a bit awkward, but fun to play with once set up. The full moon was just coming up and seemed a perfect subject. As my prep neared completion for a shot, I spied the sailboat coming into view just beyond the jetty.
The idea of the combo shot - an "in camera" double exposure - suddenly appeared in my head, but it wouldn't be easy. The moon was to the east, rising at sunset. The lake and boat were to my back - at the west...
Can I guarantee a moon exposure on slide film and spin around to get the moving boat?
It became a race against time.
Because I was not in contact with the people on the boat - I only had time for one, maybe two or three tries at the most. To optimize my chances for each image on slide film, I had to shoot one, then the other, then reverse this order.
This in itself is no big deal, and because I was setup on the moon - I could shoot it first, then spin around to setup on the boat.
There was an interrupting faux lighthouse tower at the end of the jetty - the trick would be to calculate composition time, allow the boat to move into placement, set exposure, pull the trigger and hope to have enough time to do it over again.
Anxious to get a fix on the boat, I made the first exposure on the moon and spun hurriedly. Almost as soon as I got the boat in frame and focused, I tripped the shutter.
Yes!...but oh - NO!
Joy turned to dismay - trashing the right side of the composition were confused forms of errant silhouettes! They had mysteriously materialized into the shot - ruining it. They turned out to be a group innocent tourists at the end of the jetty strolling into MY PICTURE! How dare they! Not good. Oh well. Do it again. There's time. Do it NOW.
I followed the scene until the composition cleared. As it slowly came into harbor, the boat became mine in the one shot I had left.
As for the moon - it has always been mine.
Shot in Oklahoma at Lake Hefner, near northwest Oklahoma City, I've added some Photoshopped enhancements (the reflections) to try to complete the illusion. Other than that, what you see is what I got...an "in camera" double exposure on slide film.
I just wanted a romantic feel to the last sail of the day...and to see if I could put it all together.
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Camera: Canon F-1n
Lens: 800mm
Film: Fujichrome 100
after 11 months of no chloe at all, here she is again.
view on black.
title is a neat jeff buckley song.
She jus started to run away after a few clicks n never came to me, when ever i was with my camera! :D :)) i jus have this talent of making the kids run away from me... easily with jus my camera!! Ok fine, its not jus specific to kids! Lol! :D
warm September sun shining on our ruin -- who could believe that four (!) years after the big earthquakes, our home is still not rebuilt...
See also >>> LC-A - Places Set and Belomo Agat - Places set and Holga 120N - Day Set and Rollei 35 - Day set and Pentax Espio 200 - Places set and Fuji Instax Mini 10 set