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yay, photography! (thumbnails or links only, pls.)
the_pied_piper:
I really like those landscape pics. It makes me think of the american midwest and all the little villages spaced out over there [is this where the pics were taken? sorry if it wasn't but i think its the greyscale that makes it seem that way] that all the novelists and songwriters write about. It just seems different enough from the open lands we get in the UK to seem to have that eerie mystique about it. :-)
Be My Head:
Southern Ontario (Canada)
If I get the chance I suppose I might look for other things around here that I can photograph in the same dreary/depressing style.
the_pied_piper:
Oops, bit of a way off there. I do like the greyscale photography though, very artistic.
elcapitan:
Be My Head, I like your shots, but I think they could do with a little more contrast and attention to colour. It looks like you've just opened them in Photoshop or Lightroom and changed the colour mode to "Greyscale" - I don't know if you've done any proper B&W stuff, but as counter-intuitive as it sounds, the colour balance is actually really important.
(Unless maybe you deliberately went for that dreamscape low-contrast feel, in which case I take it all back.) :)
Anyway, here are some shots from Mumbai. Specifically, they're from Dharavi, the biggest slum in Asia (and incidentally, the focal point of the action in Slumdog Millionaire, although I'd been planning a visit well before the movie was released). This place is intense; 1.7 square kilometres, with a population somewhere between 600,000 and a million people. Despite the fact that they have almost no toilets and daily queues for water, the residents are some of the nicest, most welcoming people I met in Mumbai - but it's still a pretty unsettling place to walk around.
The shots themselves are well below my usual standard, but I like them for what they portray. The light was unworkable in most places in Dharavi, and I would have given my right testicle for a decent off-camera flash. (Also, I'd had more than a couple of beers with some Jogeshwari locals before I went there.) But still...
Ballard:
elcapitan, your work is absolutely wonderful. Vivid, poignant, and an inspiration to me as an amateur photographer.
Thank you.
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