Rajasthan - a third helping

[madamasu]

I hope I don't get on anybody's nerve, if I post yet another selection of the pictures I have converted so far. Mostly portraits, as people really run after you to have their pictures taken. Then they look at the display, smile and thank you.
Again, I 'm knocked over myself by the intensity of the colours. The man with the henna-red hair and beard in the Sardar-market of Jodhpur really looks, as if I had saturated it by a factor of 100, but I didn't.

1) Under construction- as almost all of Delhi at the moment. A man was standing on scaffolding at Connaught Place, working at the masonry, and women were climbing up the ladder to bring him stones they carried on their heads.
Elmarit 90mm ISO 320 @ f 4:





2) A young girl at Firoz Shah Kotla, who absolutely wanted her picture taken, which I did of course. How could I otherwise, with this sweet face and the sparkle in her eyes?
Summicron 50mm ISO 320 @ f 2.8:





3) A man at the Sardar Market of Jodhpur, his hair and beard coloured orange-red with Henna.
Elmarit 90mm ISO 320 @ f 4:






4) Two children in one of the narrow streets of the old part of Jodhpur, where many house are painted bright blue, hence the name 'Blue city'.
Summicron 50mm ISO 640 @ f 2.8:





5) Two girls I met in the streets of Jodhpur.
Elmarit 90mm ISO 320 @ f 4:





6) One of the many old man, who sweep the ground in the huge 'dargah' (see wikipedia, if you are interested) of Fatehpur Sikri.
Elmarit 90mm ISO 320 @ f 4:




This looks much yellower here than my original










7) A young man with beautifully coloured eyes near Akhbar's mausoleum in Sikandra.
Summicron 50mm ISO 320 @ f 2.8:






I took about 1500 pictures, of which maybe 5% are worth looking at, but this would still be far too many to present them all here. So, if anybody is interested in more, please go to my flickr-site. I will upload more at the end of this week.

Thank you all again fo your many favourable comments.

Thomas

[bogolisk]

I've bookmarked your profile so I could come back to look at your pictures again again again.

I'm reading the Michael Freeman's The Photographer's Eyes. I have some slim hope that you might have some free time and would add a bit more into the caption so novices like me can learn .

Cheers

[Nesster]

Please keep these coming. Publication ++ quality, wonderful people pix.

[madamasu]

Thanks for your comment, bogolisk. I have also profited a lot from two of Freeman's books I have. I still have to learn a lot, especially when it comes to difficult light situations, and about 90% of the possibilities of PS are beyond my grasp.
Anyhow, I'm still only 64 and have plenty of time to learn.
I'll retire by the end of July this year and my flight to Kolkata is already booked.Then I will be gone for almost 4 months.

Thomas

[LucisPictor]

Your shots are far from annoying, Thomas.
I can't get enough of them and hope that you're going to show a lot more, really!

[kuuan]

haha Thomas, I love that mortar falling down on the first one, I just can imagine how the floor below was looking like

the smile of the girl, the boy personifying a god, rather godess and his friend, the small one with the dark brown west, specially the last one, all superb portraits!

[Katastrofo]

Just amazing pictures, all the sets. Have you offered these to some
travel magazine?

[dakoo]

What great shots here tooo !! I love the kids together..

[madamasu]

Thanks for the hint, dakoo, but I'll travel the northeast: Darjeeling, Sikkim, Assam, Bangladesh

Thomas

[patrickh]

Love the pictures Thomas - and you will enjoy retirement.


patrickh