Second one from the same place as yesterday. Again, the light is not great in this shot but I find the movement of the two kids quite funky!

(This photo is also cropped from the original).

This is one of the test images I shot with my 135/2.8. I do not like this photo completely but there is something about the composition that appeals to my eye. And I was happy that I caught the kid’s kick in mid air! He shows some great potential, doesn’t he? There are a couple more images in the same series so I might post them over the next two days.

(I cropped the image slightly to cut out some empty space at the bottom).

Another trawl through my archives. This one is from quite a while back, from my last trip to India to be exact. This was shot at the same place and time as the one here. However, in this case, I did not do much post-processing.

As the exif data suggests this is from a little while back. I haven’t shot anything over this weekend so I raided the archives and came up with this! There is something about the way he is looking at something, equal parts melancholia and plain curiosity that caught my eye.

On a slightly technical note I thought of cropping out the leg peeping into the shot on the left but in the end decided to leave it as the resultant crop was looking a bit abrupt.

This is my lab colleague up to his usual clowning with me! Inspite of horribly overexposing a part of his left ear and the wall behind him I put this up as it is the first decent pic from any of my newly bought Minolta prime lenses. This was taken by the 50mm/f1.7. It is so sharp and fast! I’m beginning to love the quality prime lenses give even though they are not as convenient as zooms. Once the other two primes I’ve bought are delivered I’ll be in business!

Haven’t been posting regularly out of pure lazyness! This might be the last in the recent series of ‘people potraits’, for now. You can see how my Sigma zoom lens goes soft at this focal length when you look at the people in the background. And there is some color fringing too. But forget all that and concentrate on the lovely moment in the foreground. This is what makes photography such fun! (The image is cropped a bit on the right from the original).

I wish I remember what she was staring at so intensely. I also wish I had caught her in much better light.

The guy entering the frame from the left happened suddenly and was not in the composition I was framing but I think by blocking out a long field of view on the left he lends a greater focus on the guy to the right.

The caption for the photo reflects the fact that the guy on the right (with skulls on his jacket) is also a skater and had done the same thing the skater in the background is doing a few minutes before I took this shot.

Any day, if you go behind the Cologne Dom you will find at least twenty of these skate-boarding enthusiasts honing as well as displaying their skills for greedy photographers like yours truly!

I finally made my way to a neighborhood park today. So expect to see some park photos over the next few days. Unfortunately, I shot everything with the ISO set on 1600 (didn’t realize that until I got home) so the noise levels, in what otherwise should have been clean images, are rather high. Oh well mistakes do happen!