Experimental

Experimental Photography

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Although life can be full of bright and sunny days

/san junipero As soon as he regained consciousnes

/tangerine “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not

/why don’t you stay? And in the middle of the d

/of motion It’s all a dance, isn’t it? This f

/and freeze One of the significant advantages of $/and freeze One of the significant advantages of modern image-capturing devices is the ability to convert fractions of a second into clear, neat, tact sharp slices of time. Obviously, the development of digital media has brought us to a state where we no longer worry about how many times the shutter rolls - we have infinite storage. All we have to do is just aim, focus, and shoot. The camera’s brain and electronic shutter will do the rest. Right? Well, my experience in the field has taught me that it’s - see, aim, frame, focus, and wait. Wait for the pieces to fall into place for the frame you saw assemble in front of you. It’s way more rewarding this way. This frame is an example of one such instance where I exercised this philosophy. We were in a canoe in the Alappuzha lake and the early birds were making hurried motions to catch the worm. Rumour has it, most of the birds got to know about this human saying and the worm-snatching market has been crazy ever since. But that’s another story altogether. Where was I? Yes. Birds. The frame that I saw was to make something using just the straight geometry. I saw the horizon, horizontal; the canoe, vertical (in the frame). And the office-going birds chancing dead center. So, I did what I just preached - I saw, aimed, framed, focussed, waited, and shot. And shot again. And again. 14 times. And then I ended up with this. It’s not that special in terms of its content but special to me as an artist, coz I was able to exercise my faculty of photographic seeing and make something. __ of bens, beaches, and backwaters (23/48) __ #keralagram #keralatourism #alleppeybackwaters #alappuzha #alleppey #boatsofinstagram #perfecttiming #fastshutter #freezeframe #tripotocommunity$

/angle, frame, focus As a species that has a pair

/of wishes Ever since I was a little kid, I have

/clarity Don’t you feel more times than often t

/of calm and chaos Have you ever stood in front o

/I no longer see the coast that I always used to s

/this is not the end, or is it? Time weighs down

/paint me a picture Pick up your tools, Come take

/of bens, beaches, and backwaters (15/48)

/equilibrium An object, in physics and colloquial

/on walking the tightrope of rules What makes a p

/it’s an event Photography, in my opinion, is a

/I’ll meet you there Out beyond the mountainous