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Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Catching practice in a Concrete Jungle
Category: People 'n Portraits

Just that the guys were not using a red ball, but a red brick! Thanks to the numerous new buildings that is coming up in Bangalore, we have concrete skeletons almost everywhere. There are few of them on my way to work and this is what I saw when I was heading back home one day:

The guys were moving the bricks from a truck to the 2nd floor of this building. There was a chain of people from the truck all the way to the 2nd floor and the bricks were being passed by hand. One of these guys were taking some nice catches and was positioned in front of a shaded area giving me an almost black background.

Shots are taken using the Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L (macro) lens, handheld in Av mode @ f/3.5. I bumped up ISO to 800 to freeze the action @ 1/640s for the first shot and 1/500s for the second.


Posted by usandeep at 12:05 PM
Updated: Thursday, 9 July 2009 2:23 PM
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009 - 8:42 PM

Name: "Ripudaman"
Home Page: http://fast-lenses.blogspot.com/

WOW! Awesome expressions caught!

Thursday, 9 July 2009 - 12:15 PM

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

Really nice captures, both.

Sandeep why is your site and comment box so slow to load in IE? There have been times when I came wanted to comment but just went away.

Thursday, 9 July 2009 - 2:46 PM

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

I think these two shots bring their real timings. you have captured their skills timely!     

Thursday, 9 July 2009 - 4:41 PM

Name: "Amal"
Home Page: http://blunderfulmoments.blogspot.com

You always stun with the photo Sandeep... Too nice detail.. Amazing to see those sand particles flying behind! 

Thursday, 9 July 2009 - 7:33 PM

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

in the first image the timing is excellent and the dust paticles in the air adds to the action in the image!

Thursday, 9 July 2009 - 10:04 PM

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

Awesome captures, You have converted a day-2-day scene into a stunning composition. Well done.

Friday, 10 July 2009 - 6:40 AM

Name: "r.ramakrishnan"
Home Page: http://sankriti.blogspot.com

stunning & superb !

Friday, 10 July 2009 - 11:13 AM

Name: "Dhanush"
Home Page: http://pintspics.blogspot.com

Entamme.. Look at the concetration on the guys face(2nd Pic)

Monday, 13 July 2009 - 2:23 PM

Name: "Prashanth M"
Home Page: http://payaniga.com

Wow!! wonderful timing & eposre..

Believe me, its not an easy task catching those bricks - have tried it myself...

Tuesday, 14 July 2009 - 2:44 AM

Name: "Dinesh"
Home Page: http://maduraiveeran.wordpress.com

Awesome shot with nice expressions and background!

Friday, 24 July 2009 - 12:19 PM

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

Ripudaman: Thnx buddy

Mridula: Hmmm ... I've heard this comment from a few others too. Guess its something to do with my service provider. Looks like they r planning to get in some new blogging tools. if that also doesnt improve i may have to shift to blogger or something ... lets see. Also, I am quite glad that u keep coming back in spite of the slow server :) Please bear with it for some more time. Will try to fix it as soon!

Mohkum: Thnx. They had been doing this for a while and I needed some 5 shots to get the timing right :)

Amal: Nice to hear from u buddy :) and thnx

Joshi: I needed a couple of attempts to get the timing right. Fortunately they had a few more bricks to move up when I saw this :)

Thomas: Thnx a bunch :)

Ramakrishnan: Thnx a lot

Dhanush: Hmmm ... I guess it'll be the same for everybody when a brick is hurled towards u ;-)

Prashanth: I agree prashanth. It cant be easy.

Dinesh: Thnx buddy. Was lucky to have some shadow in the background :)

Friday, 7 August 2009 - 5:04 PM

Name: "Which main? What Cross?"
Home Page: http://mainsandcrosses.blogspot.com

Lovely set. In fact I love all your recent posts. Especially the marigold ones. 

Saturday, 8 August 2009 - 8:28 AM

Name: "Ram"
Home Page: http://learningtosee.aminus3.com/

Nice action captured.... Great work.

Sunday, 30 August 2009 - 10:43 PM

Name: "swapnil"

dis one s dam cool....nice expressions..

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