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Rashmi Gour.

"Journeys"

Ex 7: The Journey Is The Destination

Welcome back from what must have surely been an exciting field-trip. And, I am sure you've come back with tons of memories and hundreds of photographs.

For this exercise, I want you to choose any 5 of your favourite photographs you took while on this trip, that encapsulates the idea that "the journey is the destination". Interpret the statement first. Then, go about constructing a narrative (a story) around those 5 photographs and place them in the order you'd like us to view them. The first one on top, followed by the second and so on. (you'll have to post  the last one first, to get it in correct viewing order). NO TEXT. Do not write anything. No captions, nothing. Just the number - 1,2,3, etc. Let the rest of us decode the story you are trying to tell ONLY through images. The rest of us will write (as comment) the story that's being conveyed by these 5 photographs.

Think about...What is it about journeys that appeals to us? Is it only physical? What about the journey within? Did I discover something new - about the place, about the other, about myself? How can I express all that in just 5 images?

This is an individual exercise. Going by the response to the previous exercise on "Reflections", I propose that from now on, these online exercises are OPTIONAL. Besides, you are hardly commenting on each others photographs. So, only those interested may post their photographs. We'll continue using this space to push our learning boundaries. No marks or grades, etc :) Just the thrill of trying something new...and hopefully learn along the way! Enjoy! - Ajay

Deadline: Sat 6th Dec 2008 8pm

PS: Remember, your name in the title and "journeys" in label.

Ajay

Camera: Panasonic LX1

Lens: 28mm

ISO400 f8/800

I didn't take this photograph, one of my workshop students did. It was something we saw that captured the misty morning ...when the sky dissolved to water... with the anchored boats providing some real solidity to the otherwise ethereal morning.

Camera: Nikon D40

Lens: 35mm

ISO 200 f 8/250

I am sick of taking rear-view mirror photographs when I travel. So this time I tried to break that. Does it work for you?

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.

Geetanjali Nenwani

This reflection is of the Asia's biggest mosque, "Tajul Masajid" in Bhopal, This scenic view from the window of the Taj Mahal has its own set of nawaabi story. The picture was clicked on a sunny noon, with pin drop of silence around & just the azaan could be heard. Apart from peace this monument creates a sense of tension, for the ancient structure is no one's concern anymore.

(I am sorry, for I am not able to figure out the exact settings in my digital camera, & the manul book is'nt with me here)

Aneesha Henry

Aneesha Henry

nisha and kiron

excuse

hey ajay

not been able to post coz i dont hav my usb transfer cord wit me n am abroad...so its even more difficult to get onto a comp conveneiently...though i hav worked on it...i wil be back on 6th so possibloy i cud put them on then.....plz forgive..tnx

kunja

Reflections--Radhika Iyengar

Instrument: Polaroid i534, 5.0 mp (6.1-18.3 mm)
Aperture : f/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/4
ISO: 100
Lighting Conditions: Low light, indoors

I had taken about 20 odd photographs of the most random things which had reflections to offer, however, this one struck me to be the most arbit one in nature, which I believe, is something different from what I usually produce.
Earlier, I had taken a tube light (from the other side) to be my subject, however, since that didn't work out, I decided to switch sides. I took some 2-3 pictures of the fan's reflection on the black granite alone, which came out to be extremely dull and distorted. So I spilt some water on the granite, and took another 2-3 shots. There was a knife lying on the table, so I picked it up and made a few 'cuts' here and there in the water, and voila. I like it, because to me, it's different.

Reflections - Tapti Ghosh (second)

ISO 200
Aperture- f\ 5.6
Evening time
Day Light mode
This photograph has both shadow and reflection of the objects. In the case of first boat, a shadow has formend due to to the position of the sun and the object. Rest of the boats are a bit ahead than the first one. So, when the sun rays fell on the boats, reflections were formed on the river.

Reflections- Tapti Ghosh

ISO - 200

Aperture- f\5.6

Lighting Conditions- dull (evening time)

Day Light mode

To begin with, it took me some time to understand the assignment. I went ahead and clicked some photographs. I was not happy at all as somehow the words 'reflection contemplate' kept playing in my mind again and agian. It was important to remember, that it is reflection and not shadow. Secondly, the object and the reflection should be in the same frame. I did not want to use a glass mirrowfor reflection. It stuck me to use river Ganges for the assignment. by the time I reached the 'ghat', the sun rays looked beautiful and gave a warm effect. I felt it was ideal and photographed the moment. In the background is the New Howrah Bridge, Kolkata.

Sorry Ajay, I could not find the shutter speed adjustment in the camera. Rest I have used in the Manual mode.

Reflections - Yakuta Poonawalla

Canon Rebel 300 D
Aperture: 5.6
Shutter Speed: 500
ISO: 800
Lighting Conditions: Bright, daylight, outdoors

You have the insiders and the outsiders. The insiders imitate the outsiders. And the outsiders wished they had a relaxed life like the insiders. Just cook and serve and not discuss meetings but new recipes.

This is what happened. These men tired from work and the corporate life, longed to be like the chefs. And the chefs dreamed all day long of waking up, getting into a suit, polished shoes, laptop bags, blackberry phones and all that jazz. Only a mirror separates them.

Reflections - Yakuta Poonawalla

Canon Rebel 300 D
Aperture: f/ 5.3
Shutter Speed: 250
ISO: 1600
Lighting Conditions: Tungsten light

She doesn't know if she wants to be on this side or that side. On one hand she loves it on this side - it's bright and pretty and she's happy. On the other, it's dark and scary and unknown. But She's there. She can see herself going with her. She is her.

Reflections - Yakuta Poonawalla

Canon Rebel 300 D
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/125
ISO: 1600
Lighting Conditions: Dark room, artificial tungsten light.

Books always make you think. They reflect your story. They echo your dreams. They reveal the truth.

These are all books I've read. Some I liked, some I disliked and some changed my life. Many times while reading I would stop and say, "Wait a minute. This is what happened to me! Or this is what I'm experiencing. Or this is the story of my friend Bhavana's life!" It felt great to know that whoever wrote the book experienced the same and that's what motivated him to write. Books are mere reflections - of a person, a thing, an experience, an emotion, a situation or just life in general.


Canon Rebel 300 D
Aperture: f/ 5.3
Shutter Speed: 250
ISO: 1600
Lighting Conditions: Tungsten light

She doesn't know if she wants to be on this side or that side. On one hand she loves it on this side - it's bright and pretty and she's happy. On the other, it's dark and scary and unknown. But She's there. She can see herself going with her. She is her.



Canon Rebel 300 D
Aperture: 5.6
Shutter Speed: 500
ISO: 800
Lighting Conditions: Bright, daylight, outdoors

You have the insiders and the outsiders. The insiders imitate the outsiders. And the outsiders wished they had a relaxed life like the insiders. Just cook and serve and not discuss meetings but new recipes.

This is what happened. These men tired from work and the corporate life, longed to be like the chefs. And the chefs dreamed all day long of waking up, getting into a suit, polished shoes, laptop bags, blackberry phones and all that jazz. Only a mirror separates them.