Colors of Nature
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Instead of waiting for big game like tigers and elephants, I’ve started to appreciate little things in the jungle which most people just ignore or don’t bother to have a closer look. For example, take this desert succulent plant. This is found almost all over india and many species of this plant develop spikes at the edge of their leaves filled with toxins to keep enemies away. This one here clearly advertising the fact that the spikes have toxins by color coding them and hence asking everyone to stay away.
Who says plants do not communicate 🙂 I’ve uploaded rest of the pictures from my last Bandipur trip. Oh did I mention, this time around, I actually got to spend some time with the baby elephant. I have no words to describe what a lovely experience it was. |
the little things.
i’m quite certain that in my neck of the woods we don’t have spiders that grow to be as large as the palm of my hand. that would be sight… as much as i enjoyed your pictures of the baby elephant (who wouldn’t?!), it was the spider in its horizontal web that interested me the most.
The spider pics are awesome.
The spider pics are awesome.
neat
thankyou so much for the sparrow pikchur!!!!!
gaint_tree_spider
awesome!
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The agave leaf is very good but I think the DOF is very very narrow affecting some of the thorns. Which lens are you using for this? Talking of little things, have a look at this.
The jeep photo is very good; Perhaps you can sell it to the government!
As said in the preview Elephant pictures are superb and you need a better macro lens
wow!
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see….
I told u it was a good one, even though u say its small….
🙂
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I used my 18-70mm lens. I do not have a macro lens yet, so this is the best I could get. The 105mm macro lens is on my wish list though 🙂
The jeep picture might be on the bandipur resorts pamplet. They took a copy of it.
Its on my wish list… the 105mm macro lens 🙂
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which lens did you use for the shell picture ? nice DOF
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>>The jeep picture might be on the bandipur resorts pamplet. They took a copy of it.>/i>
no pay 🙁 You should get some if used commercially.
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They’ll just show the finger if I do that, as there are tons of other photographer who have better pics 🙂
Right now I need to make inroads and build the contacts/name. Once I am there I can start charging them. But I have started charging for proper commercial shoots
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Fuji S602 camera in super macro(!) mode. It is good when there is enough light like in the shell picture and the subject is static. Had to get very close, any closer and the shadow of the camera would be present. You can see my reflection in the water drop.
dont worry one is landing home this weekend…
u can relive ur “lovely exprience”… 😉
But I want the other baby elephant. This elephant refuses to play with me 🙂
WOW !!! Simply amaazing..
NICE SNAPS!
Wow! Wow! Wow! The distant clouds and mountains are so vivid in the photos.
awesome pics .. as usual 🙂
Awesome pics dude, Keep the good work Up!
you’re getting better buddy .. The spider picture is really creative !
the distant clouds is the the Moyar Gorge. It’s an even more awesome place. this place is bolugudda. next time you visit bandipur, do take a trek to that hill, it’s next to the Gopalswamy betta I think.
Had been there this May. Yes, the view from Bolugudda definitely rocks. It didn’t look as good as in Kalyan’s photos though 😉
Oh ok. So the real fun thing left in Bandipur is the trek down the Moyar gorge for you.
i love this picture kalyan…
its as beautiful as the single leaf one…with the water droplet at its end…
i do believe you have an eye for the different and your pictures speak a language..they express “peace”…
a nice pic to drop into tonight… 🙂
lavannya
Hey Kalyan,
Love your pics always. Your pictures are the sole reason for me wanting the Nikon D70 as soon finances permit. In this series, the jeep photos are simply out of the world…almost commercial quality…the kind that you would see for a Jeep commercial. How did you take the pictures from above?
Heh, thanks a lot and welcome to LJ 🙂
There was a small room at the top of that hill. I climbed over that and took all the pictures.
Btw I realised one imp thing. It does not matter what camera you have, what matters is your quality of lens and how much you are ready to invest in them
The Agave
Pic is beautiful. Excellent composition and colors.
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Thanks. Plan to shoot more plants in the coming trips 🙂
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Some of your compositions are excellent.
I read about a couple of comments on DoF and the plan to use a Macro for better DoF. Here are my two bits. The DoF depends on a number of factors but in this case the distance from the subject to the focal plane is critical. I believe you have the right crop or framing for your composition, so distance is not an issue. Then to achieve a better DoF you would just need a smaller aperture. Something like f16 or more. I assume the subject is not moving and you have adequate light for a slightly longer exposure in this case. So just curious what aperture did you use?
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I still don;t know how people shoot Indian wildlife at small apertures. I’m in forests most of the time and I always at ISO 400 or 600 and have my aperture set to the highest possible. Even with all that, I still don’t get a decent shutter speed for the exposure. With f16, I’ll need a tripod and slightly long exposures, which will mean, I can only get stationary subjects, or subjects which are straight in front of you. Macro photography is very tough with tripod too.
Ofcourse most of it depends on a decent lens. I only have the 50mm f/1.8 fast lens.. rest of them do f/3.5 – f/5.6, so not really fast ones.
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Hey Kalyan,
The entire blog is so simple and articulate. Somehow you manage to add spice to the most simple things in life. The photography is really classy, I hope that nothing in the world will let you give up on it. I randomly ran into your website.
It appears to me that you are inquisitive and love exploring, thumbs up to that. Maybe you should consider traveling around the world to further enrich your experiences. If you havent seen “The Motorcycle Diaries”, when it comes on DVD, you should. Its a movie about Che, a popular communist leader (dont let the communist negative connotation mislead you), and talks about the motorcycle experiences that two young individuals experience. South America is a beautiful country, would be awesome for your photography.
The responses to your blog must be overwhelming. =)
Good luck with everything.