H A S H W I N Photography

Some DVD label designs from my assignments

In this post i will add some collages from the photos taken at the “Mudras” program.

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Here are some pictures taken at Mudras – Essence of Music Composers through Dance by Janani Narayanan & Srividhya Srinivasan.

Here are some photos from the bharathanatyam arangetram of Priya Sohoni. The arangetram took place at the Cubberly theatre at Palo Alto.  In this post i’ve compiled some of the shots that are ‘symmetrical’ or ‘sequential’. This link (will post soon)  has some more photos from the beautiful event.

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

I had a chance to photograph the bharathanatyam arangetram of Navya Maithri Konda. Such a beautiful event… Right from the lobby  to the stage decoration, every minute detail was taken care of.

I also had the opportunity to do the pre-arangetram photo shoot for Navya. You can find pictures of it here. The three dresses, in red, blue and white were fantastic. The accompanying jewellery for each dress was fantastic and complemented the dress so well.

Red

Blue

and white

The lobby decoration varied from life sized cut outs, to posters to digital displays. This is a shot of the larger than life sized displays.

Life sized cut outs

This is a picture of one of the 16×20 posters that i made for them.

16x20 arangetram poster

and here is the guest sign on book we made for the arangetram.

guest sign on book

guest sign on book

The performance itself was great ! Navya did a wonderful job that had the packed auditorium giving a standing ovation. She was the 108th graudate of the Shri Krupa Dance Academy (108 is considered a very auspicious number in the Hindu religion.) Here are some shots from the arangetram performance .

(COMING SOON)

Oh here are some shots taken just before the arangetram

the last minute energy before the solo debut performance – (arangetram)