Renaissance

Another aesthetic window, shot at the street of Saint Le Giles in Pondicherry.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
-Harold Evans

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The question of whether to compose or crop keeps lingering in my mind and now I have come to a conclusion that it really doesn’t matter. What matters is how one gets that great photograph but to some purist composition is all that matters and cropping is a sin.

Photography is all about seeing and to me it doesn’t stop once you release the shutter button. It continuous even after in your favorite image editor. The above photograph was not conceived as it is shown, I cropped and rotated the original to get the final product and to me it looks beautiful and I hope others too will feel the beauty in it. The original photograph had a little clutter to it, after reducing it to simpler form, it became even more beautiful. Crop and Rotate added a new dimension to otherwise dull photograph.

SEE your old photographs with a new eye and you may see the unseen.

Here are some of the photographs from beautiful place Pondicherry and Cuddalore. More to follow.The photographs was taken in Nikon S10. (Point and Shoot) and post processed in Photoshop.

In this series of photographs I tired minimalism and redux which leads to simple beautiful photographs. Do let me know what you think of them.

Almost all doors remain closed on hot summer day. Somewhere in Rue Saint Gilles in pondicherry

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At times I wonder why there are no comments on my flickr photos. The reason is in fact easy to figure out. Unless I am exceptionally good at photography I cannot expect comments/critiques on my work, unless I reciprocate the same to others. For this I need to build a good community of photographers by commenting on their works or participating in discussion etc. Unless I do this there is no way that someone will comment/critique on my work.

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Street photography is more challenging form of photography. Difficult than getting best macro shot, or portrait shot. The photos need to have life in them. Techniques seldom matters in street photography as the scene is so dynamic and it doesn’t wait for anybody.

A successful street photography- or any photograph for that matter - is when eye, mind and heart come together. - Cartier-Bresson

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Few photos of sunset

Original photo by sathiyan