I am back from Varkala, and I can not say that the trip was complete failure, however, yes I couldn't get a single day to photograph the moonlight assignment. Reason being the Rain God hadn't let me go alone to Varkala. It rained day and night there and only one day the moon was visible for I think 15 minutes around mid-night. I was visiting this kind of beaches for the first time. The place is scenic and awesome. Can't explain how beautiful it was in my words. I was missing my BB a lot. This is some place where should have someone with you. That special someone. I cliked some photos but I don't know why I din't feel like taking photos most of the time, it was just a feeling to enjoy the breeze, sitting there by the beach for hours and hours.
It was a hectic journey from Varkala to coimbatore and then drive up to Ooty on the same day, almost 550km run on road. Takes some tole on your helth. We reached Ooty just at the eleventh of hour of 'everything gets closed', grabbed a bite and went back home. I was feeling the fatigue after I came back home and had a bath.
However, now it is our time to forget the outer world and get inside the studio for atleast next twi months. Our winter break is also near, so I am happy. If you want to chekc out some of the Varkala's photos, please go here.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
To the coast of Arabian sea.....
So we are going to Varkala, a coastal cliff and beach in the state of Kerala. Approximately 430km from Ooty. It was suggested by few of our classmates and their families for good seafood (since me and two of other classmates who are traveling are Bengalis and Bengalis have a disturbing inclination towards fish) and better climate for our Moonlight photography assignment. We started on 17th evening and decided to drive down to Coimbatore and hault for the night at one of our tavel-mates' place. We reached coimbatore around 10-30 in the night and grabbed a bite at Domino's Pizza (Those who doesn't know, its a happening Pizza franchise nowadays in India like Burger King in US). I retired to bed while girls were watching Big Boss (some trashy version of Big Brother) around 12-30 in the morning.
Next morning we boarded a train from Coimbatore around 9-20 in the morning (which was already running 1 hour late) and still in the coaches awaitingour destination to come. Almost everyone is sleeping and I am trying to find out the reason not to talk to go to my bunk and instead write this.
Lets talk about Varkala. A small town in Kerala, this place is located near the cost of Arabian sea. The cliff is the only place to visit. With an avarage hight of 250 ft. the cliff is a natural beauty to savour. Sea food and tranquilty is the specialty of this place which attracts mostly foreign tourists (especially elderly people, who are tired of everyday life in some busy European city). Approximately 2 and half km. away from the main town and railway station this place is visited by a large number of tourists almost around the year. The peak season is from November to February. It is connected through Rail and road from all major southern Indian cities, e.g. Hyderabad via Coimbatore. Chennai Via Thiruvanantapuram, and directly from Trivandrum. I hope that this give me some fruit when I taking some much of trouble.
Next morning we boarded a train from Coimbatore around 9-20 in the morning (which was already running 1 hour late) and still in the coaches awaitingour destination to come. Almost everyone is sleeping and I am trying to find out the reason not to talk to go to my bunk and instead write this.
Lets talk about Varkala. A small town in Kerala, this place is located near the cost of Arabian sea. The cliff is the only place to visit. With an avarage hight of 250 ft. the cliff is a natural beauty to savour. Sea food and tranquilty is the specialty of this place which attracts mostly foreign tourists (especially elderly people, who are tired of everyday life in some busy European city). Approximately 2 and half km. away from the main town and railway station this place is visited by a large number of tourists almost around the year. The peak season is from November to February. It is connected through Rail and road from all major southern Indian cities, e.g. Hyderabad via Coimbatore. Chennai Via Thiruvanantapuram, and directly from Trivandrum. I hope that this give me some fruit when I taking some much of trouble.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Speechless moments
Momento senor.....its an awesome moment for me. I have received two honours from my college. For the 2nd session my photo has been chosen as the Image of the session and I was the runner-up for Photographer of the session. For the 3rd session I am chosen as the photographer of the session. Hallelujah!!!! I am happy.
Currently we are in between sessions, and we will step inside studio on 25th of this month. In between we have to do some more shots of interesting moonlight lit landscapes. This is another excitement in my life. I have never done such things. We have to shoot photos in moonlight, as in the landscape or a outdoor subject like a rock, tree or building lit with moonlight along with light painting. I am having goosebumps by the thought of it. Four of us have planned to get out of Ooty and go somewhere to take photos for this assignment. Lets see where we head to.
Currently we are in between sessions, and we will step inside studio on 25th of this month. In between we have to do some more shots of interesting moonlight lit landscapes. This is another excitement in my life. I have never done such things. We have to shoot photos in moonlight, as in the landscape or a outdoor subject like a rock, tree or building lit with moonlight along with light painting. I am having goosebumps by the thought of it. Four of us have planned to get out of Ooty and go somewhere to take photos for this assignment. Lets see where we head to.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Light painting
Whoa!!!!! man its fun and I for some weired reason never tried doing light painting. We had hard time painting with torches and flashguns, but it was AWESOME!!! First few days were awful, because we couldn't get to the location, and it rained Dinosaurs & Godzilla (in comparison to cats & dogs). As we sat together cursing the weather in whatever language and words possible. I went a step a further and tried some indoor light painting, which was not what the assignment said, so didn't actually accomplished my own project.
Ultimately we found some spot for our light painting and we did just about fine. I tried something, sort of horror. The camera was put to a test of combination of long exposure and high ISO. The only problem of Digital SLR is they have everything integrated and its in a compact body. The battery is there and sensor runs on electricity (supplied by the battery) so when you are doing the long exposure, the sensor is working because its continuously registering images unless you end the exposure. So for this continuous work, the sensor gets heated up and its gives noise. so for longer exposure there is noise, however, for some reason I didn't have noise at all (according to me a very little noise is negligible in this case). One possibility could be that it was cold and secondly I used only 8 second exposure. But need to research on this a little more.
Ultimately we found some spot for our light painting and we did just about fine. I tried something, sort of horror. The camera was put to a test of combination of long exposure and high ISO. The only problem of Digital SLR is they have everything integrated and its in a compact body. The battery is there and sensor runs on electricity (supplied by the battery) so when you are doing the long exposure, the sensor is working because its continuously registering images unless you end the exposure. So for this continuous work, the sensor gets heated up and its gives noise. so for longer exposure there is noise, however, for some reason I didn't have noise at all (according to me a very little noise is negligible in this case). One possibility could be that it was cold and secondly I used only 8 second exposure. But need to research on this a little more.
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