Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The Biography of a Flower

The beginnings as a bud



Time to blossom



In full bloom



Arranged in a Bouquet



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The photos were taken in a dance programme called "People get connected" on 17 Sept 2006, at the colonial-age Victoria theatre in Singapore.

Being a part of the audience and shooting moving subjects at higher shutter speed, shot hand-held with a telephoto zoom without image stabilisation, in an ambience of choreographed indoor lighting simply meant one setting- exclusive use of ISO1600. The biggest surprise to me, was the low noise in the images than what was expected.

All the photos went thru Photoshop Elements, basic fixes lke crop, levels, contrast and saturation. But the 'Time to bloom' had a bit of shake due to the subjects' rythmic graceful motion(also called dance!), and I amplified it with use of radial blur in photoshop.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

wonderful, artful and thoughtful too... Time to blossom is classic... captions are interesting... (like bouquet)
i liked your blog heading (on rods and cones with some sensory touch to it... and not just rods and cones.)
--armadillo

AruneM said...

Thanks..and u r the first person to comment on the blog heading :)

Anonymous said...

how do you do the arrangement? i mean the 4th pic, what lighting. and the second pic, the one in motion, brilliant work
do u use any computer software to touchup these items? or are they virgin pics?

Vigneshwar Ramakrishnan said...

excellent photos!! நமது பாரம்பரித்தை வலை தளத்தில் ஏற்றி உலகுக்கு காட்டியமைக்கு மிக்க நன்றி! [:)]

Anonymous said...

Great pics and nice description to go along! LIKED THE KICK-ASS PHOTO :)

L.Kitts said...

Beautiful photos. Good view and good timing. Thanx for sharing ur wonderful collections... :-)