I went there at around 5, met a french sight-seeing couple and after 5 minutes – realized that it was not easy to get a good shot there. The sun was in the opposite direction and there was no unique POV as the hand itself was too high – the only way it could be brought to level was to shoot from a distance which introduced another issue of amazing trees blocking the view; I persisted and kept clicking and experimenting but all in vain.

When I finally decided to wrap up, I recalled that the previous photos I clicked were silhouettes and they came out pretty good for a starter like me – I thought of giving it a try. I had to venture into the trees behind the monument to get it between my lens and the sun which was almost impossible due to the trees. I somehow managed to get one point of vision where only a single shrub came in the frame and was affordable.

I also came to know that it rotates about its axis in the direction of the wind which was surely an eye opener.

I do not know what happened but while I was trying to click her sleeping, she suddenly woke up and gave me this amazing stare and went back to sleep again. I bet she would recall something of this sort happened to her – be it in her dreams or once she got home!

Increased a little contrast to bring her our of the picture. Tried black and while along with high contract blues – worked but I am still learning that so it was so-so.

There were a lot of other objects like lights, statue of Banda Singh Bahadur and irregular terrain that I had to rectify using Photoshop.

Finally when it was all processed, I thought to give it a little Rule of the Thirds or a Fibonacci etc but then I thought – Why? When I clicked it I knew what I was clicking – I composed it, so I like it the way it is.

I went there with my friend Santveer who inspired me to click silhouettes as the natural light was almost dead. I have more silhouettes which I shall be posting soon surely going again for bright natural light shots too.

Photoshopped it to replace the blue with purple for a subtle silhouette. Cheers!

This time I went to Amritsar, I had decided that I would definitely seek a framing or a POV that that no one had ever tried (atleast the ones that I know of) and I almost got it.

They have stopped allowing people to take a tripod inside the Golden Temple (seems like they will soon stop photography too) and so I had to take this shot with camera handheld; little knowing that when I will process it – there will be a ton of people in the frame accidentally diverting the attention from the main subject.

Took me 2 hours of Manipulation with over 70 layers in PS to get everybody out of the frame and here it is – something different!

Portraits apart – multiple exposure was something that immediately struck in my mind at that time and so we moved on with that!

This multiple exposure photo was clicked on a tripod with the regular camera flash in manual mode. Argh!! I just want to buy a wireless trigger and a speed-light on a stand that I can keep anywhere and get crystal clear exposures throughout my photo.

Then edited these in Photoshop CS5 with selective coloring for Batti and the Sky.

As usual – keep on getting clicked, he also suggested me to take pictures of his fellow who was a Riackshaw puller and standing on the opposite corner of the road awaiting a customer.

Just improved the exposure and white balance of this photo – else its straight out of the camera. yes 50mm 1.4 sure bring uniqueness and beauty in portraits.