Sruti Visweswaran

Camera Details:

Model: Canon PowerShot A570 IS
ISO 400
Shutter Speed: 1/125
Aperture: f/4.5

In this photograph, I tried to establish a sense of the place where the photograph was taken by using the reflection of the place on the camera. I took this photograph several times by shifting the point of focus and changing the depth of field, till I arrived at this photograph finally.



Camera Details:

Model: Canon PowerShot A570 IS
ISO 400
Shutter Speed: 1/250
Aperture: f/6.3

This photographs is of a small water body that runs in the IIT campus of New Delhi. The water very clearly reflects the tree that droops over it and the pipes that run through the ground right above it, except for the places where small ripples are created by the insects breeding in the water. In this picture, I tried to reveal, through the reflection itself, what the scene was, without actually showing it.


Camera Details:

Model: Canon PowerShot A570 IS
ISO 400
Shutter Speed: 1/8
Aperture: f/2.8

This is a photograph of a rangoli made by a few friends on Diwali. In order to click this photograph, I had to expose just enough for the lights from the diyas. The reflection of the light on the floor along with the actual light very interestingly shows the textures in the rangoli.



Camera Details:

Model: Canon PowerShot A570 IS
ISO 400
Shutter Speed: 1/250
Aperture: f/5.6

This is a photograph of water in a little water hole near home in Delhi. I tried taking this photograph from various angles and at different times, but this photograph appealed to me most because of the way the water reflected the person wearing a pink jacket who was walking in the distance. The water is so still that it gives an almost exactly inverted reflection of the actual scene.



Camera Details:

Model: Canon PowerShot A570 IS
ISO 400
Shutter Speed: 1/500
Aperture: f/7.1
Black and White

This photograph for me is a reflection of a very important memory. This is a photograph of a place where my friends and I spent a chunk of our time in college. It's a little marketplace across the road from my old college in New Delhi. When I clicked this photograph in colour, it did not have the same effect and mood as it did in black and white. In colour, it seemed as though I was documenting a place, rather than a memory.
In the photograph of this now empty place, I find place to rebuild and reconstruct my past. In that sense, this becomes a reflection of that past. A reflection of time.