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Spiti Valley – days of walking high in the mountains and staying in the villages http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2012/09/spiti-valley-mountains-villages.html
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Stranded in a Storm in Lahaul & Spiti – A Week of Uncertainties http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2012/09/lahaul-spiti.html
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Images - Paro Taktsang (Tiger's Nest) monastery in Bhutan - http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2012/08/tigers-nest-monastery-paro-taktsang-bhutan.html
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Images from the Western Ghats, a world heritage site. http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2012/07/photo-essay-western-ghats-becomes-world-heritage-site.html
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About three years ago, when I was last in Hampi, I made a few images of the place with a cell-phone camera. I thought they aren’t bad, although they were technically inferior.
I was back in Hampi last week, leading our photography tour with a bunch of high-energy folks. I continued to shoot with phone-camera. The technical quality of images have improved, but continues to be a long way from DSLR-like image quality. But they are now perhaps reasonably good for small-screen viewing, and you may not find evident technical issues in a small screen.
Here is a collection of images I made. The important trick shooting with a phone-camera, I realize, is to not go after challenging situations, avoid tricky lighting, keep it simple and pay more attention to composition. For those who can’t stop asking ‘what camera?’, the last set of images in 2014 were shot with a Samsung S3 and the ones below are made using a Xiaomi MI 5.
This tour was fun. It was open exclusively to people who had attended our tours and workshops in the past. Interacting with all the regular travellers, three days flew-by in no time!
http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2017/02/hampi-phone-camera-photography.html
I was back in Hampi last week, leading our photography tour with a bunch of high-energy folks. I continued to shoot with phone-camera. The technical quality of images have improved, but continues to be a long way from DSLR-like image quality. But they are now perhaps reasonably good for small-screen viewing, and you may not find evident technical issues in a small screen.
Here is a collection of images I made. The important trick shooting with a phone-camera, I realize, is to not go after challenging situations, avoid tricky lighting, keep it simple and pay more attention to composition. For those who can’t stop asking ‘what camera?’, the last set of images in 2014 were shot with a Samsung S3 and the ones below are made using a Xiaomi MI 5.
This tour was fun. It was open exclusively to people who had attended our tours and workshops in the past. Interacting with all the regular travellers, three days flew-by in no time!
http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2017/02/hampi-phone-camera-photography.html
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Images: Punakha Dzong, Bhutan. http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2012/07/photos-punakha-dzong-bhutan.html
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My 2016 in pictures: http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2017/01/my-2016-in-pictures.html
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Images - A Splash of Colours from Hampi. http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2012/06/hampi-photography.html
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Ancientness of Orchha: http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2012/06/ancientness-of-orchha.html
"It was a quaint little town in the middle of the forest – one of the places where life goes at its own pace without worrying about what is happening in rest of the world. There isn’t much else but forest in every direction of the town, with a few villages dotting the road to nearby Jhansi. An old fort is the dominating landmark in the town. Two temples – one dilapidated and one renovated, a group of cenotaphs in memory of kings of yesteryears, a few houses and an equal number of guest houses, a big chowk where most of the town folks hang our is all that the place is..."
"It was a quaint little town in the middle of the forest – one of the places where life goes at its own pace without worrying about what is happening in rest of the world. There isn’t much else but forest in every direction of the town, with a few villages dotting the road to nearby Jhansi. An old fort is the dominating landmark in the town. Two temples – one dilapidated and one renovated, a group of cenotaphs in memory of kings of yesteryears, a few houses and an equal number of guest houses, a big chowk where most of the town folks hang our is all that the place is..."
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The joys of Coorg - http://travel.paintedstork.com/blog/2012/02/the-joys-of-coorg.html
"When I arrived in the evening just an hour before sunset, the air was crisp and there was a slight hint of the cold winter night about to arrive after dark. There was a lazy yet cheerful mood in our eighty-year old bungalow, where the evening’s golden sunlight bathed the walls and furnishings and made them glow. I was considering a sortie in town after a cup of coffee, but as one hot cup led to another and another, I found no mood to kick myself from my sit-out facing a valley and miss the continuous supply of world’s favourite brew. After all, Madikeri’s sparse spread of tiled-roof houses and greenery amidst them looked pretty from my chair overlooking the valley, and there was no real justification to set out and discover more..."
"When I arrived in the evening just an hour before sunset, the air was crisp and there was a slight hint of the cold winter night about to arrive after dark. There was a lazy yet cheerful mood in our eighty-year old bungalow, where the evening’s golden sunlight bathed the walls and furnishings and made them glow. I was considering a sortie in town after a cup of coffee, but as one hot cup led to another and another, I found no mood to kick myself from my sit-out facing a valley and miss the continuous supply of world’s favourite brew. After all, Madikeri’s sparse spread of tiled-roof houses and greenery amidst them looked pretty from my chair overlooking the valley, and there was no real justification to set out and discover more..."
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