A Matter of Portraits

I got a new found interest - Photographing portraits. After intense amount of research on various web sites on portrait photography, I tried my hand with my Nikon D3100 entry level DSLR. Experimented on my friends Ragha and Gajanan. Here I present my efforts. None of the portraits below have been edited with any software -

Ragha in a calm mood

The one above was taken with the camera at a short range from the phase to capture the mild smile at a weird angle. The portrait is a little blurred up since I did not have the luxury of time to capture this shot.

Lost in wonderful thoughts

Again another non posed photo shot of my friend Gajanan. I did not believe that the portrait would  come this good. I believe the lighting, highlights and shadows have come perfectly and displays the outlines and contours very good manner.

Anger in the face

The shot was intended to be "gangsta" look shot, but did not work out as well.

Standing tall with the trees

This shot was taken on the way to the Bhadra wildlife sanctuary in the Malnad forest range. The shot was taken from the knee level to get the portraits stand tall with the trees.

Nature is Mine

One of the best shots that I have captured till date. This was a posed photo of Ragha with the milky white and shiny clouds in the background rising from the malnad mountain range.

A Dwarpalak at Halebeedu temple

Portraits are not restricted only to humans right? This shot was taken inside the Halebeedu temple with flash.

The bull tamer

Well... this portrait did not come out so well with all the sun glare and all.

The man with a phone

This shot was taken with aperture auto mode with flash.

An unexpected portrait

I was trying to capture a shot with Vasudevs and my reflection in the mirror. Unfortunately, I did not notice the shutter speed and the shot turned out to be with a little wattery effect. Would not have been looking good if it was in color.

A tattoo of a flying horse

This shot was modified with a software and cropped to show only the biceps with the tattoo.

Well that is all I have now with the portraits. But one thing I surely understood was that Black and white portraits, if captured in a good manner have the power to bring out the emotions and serenity of the human nature in a vivid and strong style. I will be trying to focus on B/W portrait photography and keep this post updated.

the Photograchar.