H A S H W I N Photography

This was something i did about 3-4 yrs back. Water drops on dvds and cd surfaces produced interesting patterns. What makes them more interesting is the different colors you get just by moving the camera a little to the right or left. The angle at which you view the drops dramatically changes the colors on them. and more so if you use a second dvd/cd to reflect some light on it.

The patters get more interesting when you crop the images further.  i spent quite a bit of time with the crop tool on these set of images!

Here is the setup shot. (canon 20 and canon 100mm f/2.8 macro lens mounted on a tripod and triggered either using a cable release or set on self timer).

Shot Setup diagram

and here are some shots from this setup:

UFOs

silkworm

trapped

disgusted

marching towards the prey

isolated - h1n1 ?

peacock feathers

In the ‘peacock feathers’ shot,  you can see the reflections of the second DVD that actually gives the peacock feather look.

I had a chance to photograph the bharathanatyam arangetram of Alagu. This event took place at the Roseville high school. One of my usual routines is to take some photos of the idol of Lord Nataraja that is usually place on the right corner of the stage and typically there is a flood light that is focused on the idol. I walked up to the lighting technician to request him to turn on the lights so that i could get a few shots. While talking to him, he said that they had done some rehearsals earlier and that the screen colors turned out very saturated and asked me if i needed to get some test shots before the program began. Since it was about time to start, i decided to just take it live… and boy, what beautiful colors…. check out these images below….

orange

blue & orange

dark orange

blue & green

Lord Nataraja in purple & orange

darkblue & maroon

deep pink

with the musicians

the lobby decorations were awesome as well. the highlight was the floral arrangement. will be adding more photos of it and more dance photos as well.

we also did a guest sign in photo book for alagu with the pictures taken during a photo shoot. more photos of that to come…

Congrats to Alagu on the wonderful performance !

update: here are more photos from the arangetram: vibrant colors, set1 and set2

these are a few sample pages from the guest sign in book

guest sign in book sample page

guest sign in book sample page

guest sign in book sample page

guest sign in book sample page