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Monday, 13 April 2009

Kids @ Padinharayil, 2009
Category: People 'n Portraits

Every year, a day before Vishu, @ our maternal house there is an offering to the family diety. Its indeed a gr8 opportunity to meet the entire family and for me, to click a few shots of the younger generation. I did post some of the pictures last year too from the same function (See the post Kids @ Padinharayil). Here are the pics from this year:

The first pic is of Vaishnav, who had been one of my favorite subjects :) (See the post Vaishnav's Pics).

This is Upasana and everytime she see me with camera she says 'എനിക്ക് ഫോട്ടോ എടുക്കുന്നത് ഇഷ്ടമല്ല' (I dont like taking my photos)! The only chance I have is following her around with the longest lens I have :)

The third one is Devi Parvathy aka Malu and this is the first time I am posting her photos.

All pictures are taken using the Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L (macro) lens, handheld, Av mode @ f/3.5. I had ISO-200 turned on only for the first picture, but moved back to ISO-100 for the remaining. Guess, I needed it atleast for the 3rd pic, since Malu was in the shade. The first pic came @ 1/500s, 2nd at 1/200s and the third one @ 1/125s.

Posted by usandeep at 12:01 AM

Updated: Thursday, 28 May 2009 12:57 PM

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Monday, 20 April 2009 - 5:39 PM

Name: "Thomas"
Home Page: http://walkthewilderness.net

"Master of Mayhem" surely takes the cake in this series.

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Monday, 20 April 2009 - 7:22 PM

Name: "Anoop"
Home Page: http://rusty.in

Great pictures again!

Why don't you post some tips and tricks on taking pics of people? I guess that's the most difficult, esp. kids I guess. Opinion of a (very) amateur photographer :)

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Monday, 20 April 2009 - 9:52 PM

Name: "joshi daniel"
Home Page: http://joshidaniel.wordpress.com/

first of all congratulaions on your marriage :)

the first two images you were able to capture it so naturally. that's a great thing.

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Tuesday, 21 April 2009 - 12:37 PM

Name: "Mridula"
Home Page: http://www.gonomad.com/traveltalesfromindia/

And fun they seem to be having. Nice clicks, all of them.

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Wednesday, 22 April 2009 - 12:55 PM

Name: "Shilpa"
Home Page: http://shilpaprabhu.blogspot.com

Lovely pictures. Lovely kids.

Like the faded background that promotes the kid to prominence.

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Wednesday, 22 April 2009 - 8:45 PM

Name: "mohkum"
Home Page: http://mohkum.aminus3.com

The little master is taking the lead. You could bring out the true skin tones here. Great work!

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Friday, 24 April 2009 - 4:56 PM

Name: "sandeep"
Home Page: http://usandeep.com/

Thomas: Yup ... thats my fav too :)

Anoop: Not much tips to share here, Anoop. I use a 180mm lens @ f/3.5 which gives me a blurred background and also allows me to shoot from a distance, so that i get candid shots. I wud keep it simple - use the longest lens u have, go outdoors for good natural light, preferebly evening about 5 or morning about 9, let the kids have a free run and shoot with the aperture at its widest (or a li'l less depending on ur lens)

Joshi: Thnx. I guess u visited my site's index page :) Its a few months now. I shud change the index page :)

Mridula: They were having a lot of fun :), especially the master of mayhem!

Shilpa: Thnx Shilpa, the background blur is thnx to the 180mm and wide aperture. I'd been using this lens for portraits whenever the light permits :)

Mohkum: Thnx. It was outdoors and natural light. Guess, thats why :)

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