hints, allegations and things left unsaid...
Illusions
Proximity to your subject and ambient light conditions can lead to dramatic pictures that bear no resemblance to their original subject whatsoever; pictures that are wide open to varied interpretations. This is especially true (as I recently discovered) if you happen to be clicking lamp-shades:
The pictures above are not that of a Manhattan skyscraper but that of a fancy wooden cage encasing a light bulb.
The patterns; cast by the light emanating from the wooden shade, on the bushes flanking it on either side might lead you into believing that I clicked glowing wings of some mystic mythical creature. Pictures cannot get any more deceptively untrue than this:
Here is what our subject looked like in reality:
The picture below might remind you of a quaint old haveli
In reality it was just a fancy lampshade made of iron and glass:
posted: 27.6.04
4 Comments
This is great stuff!!!! very very impressive!!!
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srikanthsastry, at
29.6.04
The Haveli close up was nifty ... which camera do u use (not that its imp for the kind of shots you have here)... just curious :) - Avis
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, at
29.6.04
Thanks Gutsy, SemanticOverload.
Hi Avis, I use Minolta DIMage XT 3.2 Mega Pixel Camera. Like all digital cameras that are a year old, this too fast headed towards obsoloscence, though I'll definitely recommend it to anyone even today :-)
Do check - http://www.dpreview.com/ for Digital Camera reviews and news.
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Deepak, at
29.6.04
hey deepak i am a regular visitor to dpreview - its a gr8 dgcam review site ... plan to get myself a Nikon D70 6mp dgslr :) and a couple of nikkor lenses sometime this year.
speaking of old cams, I have had a sony dsc p50 for the last 2 yrs and i would still recommend it to any one on a budget if only it were not out of prodn.
going through the pics you have got here, i found the macros of snowflakes, dew and the spider web most remarkable. and the stone age electric toaster actually looks like one!!
also something very uncanny... at least 5 of the pics i saw on different pages of your blog bear more than a passing resemblance to some of the pics i have clicked over the last two years! the swings, the construction site, the butterflies, orange clouds, the bee on a flower, the parking lot from air!
see www.photo.net for some interesting work by amateurs.
keep clickin! - Avis
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30.6.04
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