Photograph of the day - People

A Kathakali dancer in role of Bakāsura
(a demon from Mahābhārata who was killed by Bheema)

Place: Kochi, Kerala
Camera: Vivitar 3800N with 28-70 mm lense
Exposure: Details not available, ISO400

Photograph of the day - People

Place: Musée du Louvre (Paris, France)
Camera: Vivitar 3800N, 28-70 mm lens.
Exposure: Details not recorded. ISO200, flash not used.

Curious reader may spot the reflection of the camera and the photographer in the glass in front of the statues of children!

Photograph of the day - People

PraNav in deep thoughts

The photo is taken at the shore of Arabian Sea at Bhogave, Sindhudurga, Maharashtra

Camera: Vivitar 3800N film SLR with 28-70 mm lens

Exposure details are not recorded. Kodak ISO400 film is used. I caught this moment when sun was setting on the west coast. The exposure meter misled me and I set a faster shutter speed leaving dark areas underexposed and hence granular. As composition of this photograph was satisfactory, I decided to make a b/w image with added grains using Picasa and got the photo posted here as the result.

Photograph of the day - Flowers

Pink lotus in Cauvery Garden

Place: IIT Madras Campus
Camera: Vivitar 3800N SLR 28-70 mm lens
Exposure details not recorded. Kodak ISO400 film.
The photo is taken on a sunny morning in December month of 2002.

Photograph of the day - Landscapes

Mountains in Sahyadris

Place: Mahabaleshwar (Maharashtra)
Camera: Vivitar 3800N film SLR with 28-70 mm lens
Exposure details are not recorded. Kodak ISO400 film is used.

For this picture, I feel that ISO100 film would have produced better colours and made the image less granular. The top portion showing sky is given a bluish tint for a better effect. The photograph is taken at fullest wide angle possible with the lens which has lead the image to have dark arcs in the corners.

Photograph of the day - Landscapes

Magnificent view of Chakkilidurg on left and Rajagiri on right from Krishnagiri at Gingee

This photo was taken when climbing Krishnagiri during my first trip to Gingee in 2003. The sky was overcast by clouds as used to be in those times whenever I used to set out for photography expiditions! Interestingly even today it happens many times. In the photograph posted here is a sky-blue tint that is added to the sky in the top portion of the image for a better effet.

Camera: Vivitar 3800N Film SLR with 28-70 mm lens
Exposure details not available at present. Film used is ISO400.

Related posts:
View of Krishnagiri from Rajagiri Citadel
Photograph of the day - Travel
Gingee Ride Plan
Gingee Trip - Photo album

Photograph of the day - Landscape

Photograph is taken on one fine morning in Panchagani (near Mahabaleshwar) February 2002. The fog was getting thinner as morning sun had just appeared in the sky. The hill the left side can be found on Wikimapia whereas we were standing on the other side of the canal by road side.

Camera: Vivitar 3800N
Exposure details not available at present.

Photograph of the day - Nature (Skyscapes)

This picture was taken from the top most floor of The Eiffel Tower (La Tour Eiffel) during my business trip to Paris a few years back. To be there was an experience in itself. The mercury had dropped just below zero degree celcius. Handling camera was a task itself due to strong and frosty wind. This was my fourth film role since when I had started learning photography using a film SLR. But, I was desperate to document the frames that I could visualize by eyes. So I clicked photos by setting exposure meticulously each time and at the same time not expecting too much from them. But to my surprise, the outcome was not bad at all!

I have added inclined blue tint to each one of the top corners. I felt it was necessary to reduce the monotonousness of skyline in those areas.

Photo taken on: November 11, 2001
Camera: Vivitar 3800N Film SLR with 28-70 mm lens
Exposure: Record not available at present, ISO200 film.

Photograph of the day - Nature

River Seine - A view from a bridge across the river.

Paris, France. Oct 2001.

Camera: Vivitar 3800 N 35 mm SLR

Photograph of the day - Nature (Landscapes), Travel

On the way to Mumbai, via Pune - Mumbai Express Way, this snap was taken a few kilometers before entering Lonavala (near famus Khandala) through glass pane of the bus window. This itself is popular hill station. This trip was a part of my visit to various places in Western Maharastra (my home state) in which I travelled total 3800 km by road (bus/car/untility vehicle/motorcycle) as a change from routine train journey. Obviously this travel was spread over two rainy weeks around mid-July of 2004.

It was around 10 in morning and it was raining outside. I have added a blue tint at the top of the image to suppress the brighness of the clouds over the hills. The same effect could be obtained by attaching a graded blue filter (1/4th) to the lens.

Camera: Vivitar 3800 N 35 mm SLR. Exposure details were not recorded. Kodak ISO 400 film was used.

Photograph of the day - Nature (Landscapes)

This photograph these paddy fields was taken at a place in Raigad District in the State of Maharashtra during monsoon of 2004. It was around 8 am in morning and the sky was overcast rain had taken a short recess some ten - fifteen minutes; perhaps to allow me to get my camera in action. I have added a sky blue tint to the top portion of photo. The result is the photo on right. I really don't know how good its effect has been. Comments are welcome.

Camera: Vivitar 3800 N 35 mm SLR
Exposure: 1/30 seconds, f/8

Photograph of the day - Nature (Skyscapes)

These skyscapes are taken through a window of MSRTC bus on NH4 a kilometer before Khambataki Ghaat during the journey from Pune to Kolhapur.

Camera: Vivitar 3800 N 35 mm SLR
Exposure details are not recorded.