Golden Gate Bridge

I am on a short hiatus from photography. I am on a official work. Few things that keep haunting me the fear of photographing in a new place. After a lot of persuasion, I could harness enough guts and leave the comfort of the hotel room and venture out into city. I made it to San Francisco. Visited the Golden Gate Bridge and roamed around the city.

A little, hiccup is that, I forgot to get the universal adapter and I am having trouble charging the battery. I need to buy one soon and I miss my prime lens, some how, I am not falling in love with the kit lens, the wide angle is great, but I feel some thing is a miss.

R U K U M A N I

S I G N

N I N E L I V E S

One of the un written rule of the photographic composition is not have the subject at the center of the frame. Again it need not be followed always !

O L D

Old age is no place for sissies - Bette Davis

J U S T B O K E H

As they say, you have to first unlearn to learn. Most of the bokeh photos have an anchor point for the focus, I blindly believed that anchor point is a must to get those de-focused bokeh rings.

Suddenly you realise that you are missing the fundamental truth about the bokeh, that is you need to have de-focused light source, that is all to it. Then taking the beautiful bokeh pictures reduces to the following simple steps.

• Set the biggest aperture
• Put the lens in manual focus mode
• De-focus on the light source, depends on the asthetics.
• Take pictures

Intersting light sources make interesting bokeh pictures, the above one is that of backlights of the vechicles stuck at traffic.

"I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer." -- Alfred Eisenstaedt

Last Sunday, while travelling back to Bangalore from Chennai, after attending a family function, I was in for a shocking experience.

On the way back we took break for the coffee at Ambur. The coffee shop was located on the border of the highway. Here I took few photographs of the stall, coffee glasses and the Tea-Master. Everything was ok and fine, the Tea-Master and few others nearby were happy to pose for me. Later, I shared their pictures with them. Their smiling faces made the day.

After that, I was drawn to one person and I was photographing him. (The final photo is show above). Just as I released the shutter release button, one person approached me and stared asking questions, on why I was photographing him, to which I humbly said that, I did not shoot him and explained that I was keener on photographing people. He was content with the reply and went back. Later a friend of his came and started harassing.

He said I have no right to photograph in the public. To which I said, I have and I also said there is no law which prohibits photography in public places (Is there a law?). The guy stated advising me that I can only photograph the flowers, butterflies and trees present in public place, and I have no business photographing people. As my tempers ran out, others pulled me out of the melee. Just to avoid further confrontation, I left the place.

Later I tried to find concrete laws/rules pertaining to photography in public places in India, but could not narrow down. Google yielded laws pertaining to UK and US.

I have decided that, the next time, I should retain my calmness and just walk away from the confrontation.

H A R A S S E D

"I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer." -- Alfred Eisenstaedt

Last Sunday, while travelling back to Bangalore from Chennai, after attending a family function, I was in for a shocking experience.

On the way back we took break for the coffee at Ambur. The coffee shop was located on the border of the highway. Here I took few photographs of the stall, coffee glasses and the Tea-Master. Everything was ok and fine, the Tea-Master and few others nearby were happy to pose for me. Later, I shared their pictures with them. Their smiling faces made the day.

After that, I was drawn to one person and I was photographing him. (The final photo is show above). Just as I released the shutter release button, one person approached me and stared asking questions, on why I was photographing him, to which I humbly said that, I did not shoot him and explained that I was keener on photographing people. He was content with the reply and went back. Later a friend of his came and started harassing.

He said I have no right to photograph in the public. To which I said, I have and I also said there is no law which prohibits photography in public places (Is there a law?). The guy stated advising me that I can only photograph the flowers, butterflies and trees present in public place, and I have no business photographing people. As my tempers ran out, others pulled me out of the melee. Just to avoid further confrontation, I left the place.

Later I tried to find concrete laws/rules pertaining to photography in public places in India, but could not narrow down. Google yielded laws pertaining to UK and US.

I have decided that, the next time, I should retain my calmness and just walk away from the confrontation.