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| O Majhi: As we sail into the sunset of 2011, presenting some of my personal favourites from 2011. (Click on the link on the left hand side to go to this particular post) |
This year has been quite fulfilling from my photography perspective. After a dismal number of posts in the last two years, i finally posted the more photographs in 2011 than in 2010 and 2009 combined. I hope to post even more photographs in the new year.
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| Happyness Marathon: The year began on a blast, with one of my images winning a competition that was organised by the makers of the film ‘Dhobi Ghat’ and Mumbai Weekend Shoot – a Mumbai based photography group. |
Year enders are the bane of print media professionals. So i thought of doing one, as far as this blog is concerned. So, looking back, i would say i learnt a lot in photography. Got to use a lot of camera bodies, apart from my own Canon S5 IS. Went from hating micro four-thirds to loving them, all thanks to the Olympus EP3. As for dSLRs, well go to use the Canon 1000D, 550D and Nikon D3100. Had planned to get a Canon 550D for myself by Diwali, but that wasn’t to be.
Started gravitating towards black and white. But have tried to keep a balance between the BW and colour images on the blog, as i feel both treatments have their own pros and cons.
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| Phone or Camera: This was one image that got a lot of love, one the blog as well as among my friends on other social networks. |
One major addition in this year has been inclusion of a lot of people in my photographs, all thanks to the addiction called Street Photography. If you check my 2008, 2009 and 2010, there will be just 2-3 posts/year which will have any sort of human being. Thanks to Street Photography i tend to include people in atleast 7 out of 10 photographs that i make now. Have become a convert since i first came across a great resource on Street Photography, while testing out Google+ (yeah, Google+ is responsible for the addiction). Read quite a lot on the genre and hope to explore it even further in 2012.
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Discovered Adobe Lightroom and have never gone to Photoshop since. Such a lovely utility LR3 is for minor colour corrections!
Also gained a lot of blog buddies this year whose comments and critiques have pushed me to explore photography even more. The page views have increased considerably when i compare it with those of previous years. I hope to maintain that momentum in 2012.
Here are some images with colour.
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A Mouthful of Sky : My first attempt at capturing multiple exposures
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| A Ghost: Dabbling with compositing various images |
Finally, this year was also about Photo Essays. Although i technically did just four of them (pathetic) i added one more essay which was more of a compilation of sorts.
So that was it for 2011. Hope to have many many more better images in 2012.
Till then, Wish you all a very happy new year!
Take Care,
Ciao
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I haven't seen some pictures before. And that girl is quite popular, courtesy you:) It feels so good to walk down the memory lane…Love the 'mouthful of sky' shot!Thanks for your wishes and wishing you the same:)
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Great work. All the best for next year.. 🙂
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Ohhh wow..beautiful recall :)just loved it :)B&W has some different charisma… I dont know… but lovethem 🙂
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wonderful shots, all of them. Have a Happy New Year
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@Saru: wish you a happy new year as well:) and thank you for your feedback on the blog:) @Neha: hope to get better this year. Happy new year to you:)@Chakoli: yeah you cant point on what it is that makes BW so charming. i naturally tend to gravitate towards it. Happy New year:)@Krunal: thanks for the feedback. Have a great year:)
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ok the revelation was to finally recognize the guy who made the Dobhi Ghat Competition shot. And you were there all along 🙂 Absolutely adore that shot. very mumbai. Good to know and see your love for streetphotography grow.. and you are just doing find with S5 – do you really need a big DSLR. Am looking at putting mine back in the box.
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@Mayank:)) sadly i wasnt there at the venue due to prior work commitments. thanks to another friend who just happened to be there, i came to learn about this. Its all thanks to Eric Kim that i have been enamoured by Street Photography. it is addictive for sure. I love shooting through the viewfinder, and the compacts atleast the ones i like, you have to shoot via the LCD screen. 550D is quite light when compared with its big brothers like the 7D and 5DMkII:P Maybe sometime in the future when i have enough cash to spare, ill get meself an Olympus EP3:P So have you decided on the LX5 n GRDIII yet?
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