Photographie

Long gone are the days where we bought new Colour Film Roll 400's before we went out on excursions. No more AA batteries. We don't have to wait for ages before we view the snaps we'd taken. All this courtesy: the power of electronics. Digital cameras have made photography available to the masses. The USP of most networking sites are their photo managers. In fact they are the very essence of portals like Orkut, Facebook and Flickr.


Photography has become so ingrained in people's lives that they now look to buy cameras that can be used as mobile phones rather than vice versa. The time spent posing for the camera has obviously increased many fold. They are great memoirs of our past actions, they record every detail, every action; good or bad. Nonetheless, there comes a point when you wonder whether posing, or acting, and sometimes missing the real event to capture it on screen is actually worth the effort. I was in this dilemma before my trip to Shimoga last weekend. Having clicked close to 7000 snaps with my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5, I was beginning to loose the motivation I had when I had started off.


Hoping that my love for this hobby wouldn't end so early, on Friday I read all I could about photography,cameras, aperture controls, shutter controls, DOF (depth of field) and decided that my main intention of the trip would be to spend time experimenting, while donning the role of a shutterbug. The initial experience with manually setting up the aperture and shutter speed was a bit taxing but as I got the hang of it, came to realise that I wasn't actually doing justice to the camera all these years. It opened up a whole new range of possibilities that I could experiment with.


This tiny bit of learning has made photography so much more interesting, and has thus given me that much more motivation to learn about it. It is a very intriguing hobby. Now, this has also given me an air about myself that I am no longer junta (that I was too, till last Friday). Now, I've attained Nirvana.

Click on the pictures to see what I mean

































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I almost overlooked the most important aspect of all. Patience. I might not have enough to catch fish, I might not have enough to crack CAT but I did have enough to wait for the right moment, and that's what made all the difference!