Here is a photograph taken at the recently concluded Darter Photography Tour of Hampi. Making pictures in Hampi has always been a big challenge for me. I have visited the place more than half-a-dozen times, with four tours made when leading Darter Photography Tours. When you are revisiting the same spot again and again, it takes a lot of observation and focus to find new perspectives and create new images that hasn’t come to your eyes in the past. Sometimes, in search of such opportunities, I even go on some outings without taking my camera along. It helps me achieve two things: (1) I get to spend more time with the Darter Travellers, working with them to make the right compositions and help them with any problems as they make their images (2) gives me free time without my camera to simply observe and understand, which helps me get closer to the subjects and hence create new perspectives and imagery the next time I come back.
Photography in Hampi
To this place next to the river, I had earlier travelled a couple of times without camera and once carrying only a wide angle lens. This time, I decided to carry a telephoto lens along. As luck would have it, this usually empty riverside was full of pilgrims this time and gave me many opportunities to make some new images.
Here is one of those photographs captured that day. Instead of waiting for the man to wear his turban and then get his photograph, I found a very attractive composition in the long flowing turban. I did not stop at this, but made a series of images as he went on with tying the turban.
Camera Data: Photographed using Canon EOS 5D MII, 70-200 f/2.8 ISII lens at 1/4000sec, ISO 100, f/2.8