Razr Sharp

My father's Razr V3i, nothing much to it, slow shutter speed, stable camera and the over exposed lights give the effect.
As simple as that.

The Motorola MOTORAZR V3i in a new 'light'

The Tiger from Ranthambhore

As mentioned previously, I had bought this sculpture made out of black clay from a Handicraft Centre called Dastkar outside Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve where women from the villages surrounding the park sell their works.
Anyway, for more than a year it lay in a desolate corner in the drawing room of my house until I caught sight of it a couple of months ago.
What I did with it was as follows.
I first propped it up against a pillow on the bed and switched of all lights. A minimal beam of light came through the window.
The camera was made to incline slightly upwards using a hand towel.
It was a fully automatic mode, except the focussing, which I purposely switched of as in the dark it would end up using the flash for like ten seconds, a major battery drain which I did not want.
So I focussed it manually by tilting my head so that it would be parallel to the bed.
I forget the aperture rating the camera was giving, but the shutter speed was around five or six seconds.( I had the flash switched off)
For illumination I got a strong torch which I pointed at the mouth to give supernatural feel to the photograph, and then I clicked.
After an agonizing wait of six seconds, the picture, not completely satisfactory, but with the 'equipment' I used, I was pleasantly surprised at the results.
I clciked about fifteen more photographs of the tiger with the torch pointing at different parts of the tiger but they did not come out that well.
I tried putting the torchlight on only one east or west, I cannot remember which, hemisphere, to show a Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde sort of an arrangement but I could not as the torch beam was not precise enough.
SoI settled for the mouth one.

A tiger from Ranthambhore

A tiger sculpture from the Handicrafts Centre, Dastkar in Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, India.

The Adidas Deodarant Spray-Can

I got the idea this afternoon, as I finished working on a home made reflector I was trying to make by putting aluminium foil on an old calender. As I began trying to use it, I realised that it was of practically no use as the flash on my EOS 350D was a fixed mini flash, the kind that folds into the camera and was not movable. It was obviously futile trying to use a torch as a falsh substitute, as the beam was immensly weak. I instead decided to try and use it as a glossy background for no flash photos.
In five minutes, I came up with what I call an Improvised Photographic Device, the setup of which was as follows:
I put the subject, in this case the deo aerosol can on a green bathing towel in front of the convex reflector on a 3.5 foot cabinet top.
I then put a cushioned stool on a table for a tripod substitute, as I do not possess a tripod as of now, right in front of it.
Since the position was awkward for me to manually focus, I was forced to opt for a battery intensive auto focus which used a five second flash as the only light in the room was one yellow light.
Focussed, the camera stood somewhat shaky on the cushion, I clicked, hoping the cushion would hold up for the shutter time of 4 seconds.
Thankfully it did.
The results are there for you to see.


PS-The reflector is seen as the background in this photo.
Also, for added effect, I wetted the can.

An adidas deo bottle never looked so good;

Savvy Player II

If you want it bigger still;

Savvy Player

The bigger photo I had promised.

My First Picture on this Blog

This is only the photograph;
For a larger picture, please send request by email.
I will, in the future, try to publish bigger ones, this time, owing to a slow connection, I had to compromise.
I just hope you can see it.