http://naturelyrics.com/blog My views about creative and artistic nature photography - Ganesh H Shankar. Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:48:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not sure how many of you have seen a very interesting recent ad by Canon - "Art and Artist". If I remember it right it showed an image of a dancer performing with "Art" written near it and beside it was an image of a Canon 1D Mk3 with "Artist" ... http://naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/art-artist-and-the-porter/ I often hear views that a nature photograph should faithfully portray what is seen by human eyes. I would agree to this if purpose of nature photography is only documentation. First of all the medium of capture (sensor/slide/negative) has inherent limitation compared to human eyes and it is ... http://naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/realistic-representation-curtailing-creative/ I visited Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary yesterday morning. Light was just perfect and sky was painted with beautiful cloud patterns. Lots of White Ibises flying in all directions. Seeing them I decided to make some images with different patterns of clouds as background. Wide angle lens (24mm) gave interesting perspectives of ... http://naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/journey-through-clouds/ Recently I came across works of a 15 years old school kid named Nirvair Singh. Some of his work really made me think. Here are a few of his images - Fields of Punjab Compliments Sunny Pearls Shadow Against the Sun Can this Survive in this World Just Before I Leave These images and the way he ... http://naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/photography-what-to-learn/ After a few unsatisfactory macro experiments today morning I decided to sit down below some garden flowers at Lalbagh, Bangalore hoping to make some different perspectives of butterflies and bees. While I could not get butterflies the way I wanted I did get some interesting perspectives with bees, flowers and ... http://naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/hours-under-flowers/ I made this above image yesterday after struggling for hours using a 50mm f1.8 lens reversed on a 105mm f2.8 Micro lens. Those who have used such reversing techniques understand very well what a nightmare it is to use such a combination in field. The main issue is the front ... http://naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/abstractism-and-abstract-realism/ During this week end I spent some time doing cosmetic changes to my web site Nature Lyrics. Tried to retain my old design principle of keeping everything simple. Not over use technology for the sake of using it. I have also separated macro gallery and landscape gallery. Added couple ... http://naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/old-wine-and-new-look/ Our sensory organs are amazingly designed. Very minute change in what is being sensed can have large difference in its impact - be it taste, visual response or hearing related. Last week I had some time experimenting with different light sources to make an image of this above ... http://naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/choosy-mind/ Last week end and today I spent some time photographing frogs near a pond at Ramnagar. There were many at a pond. After thinking about what to do last week I decided to make an image of frog in water emphasizing its eyes and it hanging like posture in water. ... http://naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/frogs-some-perspectives/ The train running 2 hours behind schedule was probably cruising at 120km/hr. Sitting beside a window I was trying to visualize some images of frogs to be made at Katthalekana. When Dr Gururaja of Indian Institute Science, Bangalore who is an amphibian scientist informed me of his week long ... http://naturelyrics.com/blog/creative-artistic-nature-photography/in-search-of-frogs-at-katthalekana/