Duck Dynasty
I took a trip to London early this year. I spent a lot of the afternoons in the Hyde Park. This image represents all the emotions I felt just seating in the par...
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I took a trip to London early this year. I spent a lot of the afternoons in the Hyde Park. This image represents all the emotions I felt just seating in the park staring at nothing for hours. The quality is downgraded by the upload on this site, but still one of my favs. :)
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adavies
July 30, 2016
Congratulations on being the People's Choice winner of my Birds Galore challenge! This was among my top picks as well...awesome image! Great job! :)
ProsperK
September 06, 2016
Thank you @adavies @rosemoyle @evelynbrezina Your words are encouraging me to keep on keeping on ;) Please follow for more work coming.
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Location
This photo was taken in Hyde Park London where I took a early this year. An evening straw through the amazing and extremely relaxing park in the middle of a very busy metropolitan city is a must when visiting London. I especially spent a lot of the afternoons in the park and on one of those casual evenings, I decided to snap away on swans doing their version of break dance(At least that is how it looked in my wacky mind).Time
This which is a personal favourite hangs in my sitting room. It represents all the emotions I felt just seating in the park staring at nothing for hours till sun down. But for the most part, it represents the daily emotions that I have to deal with. The highs, the lows, the winning, the loses, the fear, the love, the loneliness even in a crowd. The questions with no answers that we all have to face sometime.Lighting
I waited for the moment when the sun had sank down and disappeared behind the horizon line to capture the sequence. As a part of the story in my mind, the end of day should represent accomplishment, achievement, satisfaction. And yet when I stare long enough at these beautiful birds, what I see is the opposite; hunger, thirst, discontent. A strive for more, a quest for better, a search for answers to questions unasked. Math, physics, life problems that still go unsolved. And thus is my life. Thus is most of ours. We stretch out to receive, to achieve to touch the skies. Only to find for every inch closer we get, the goal post shifts. A horizon mirage.Equipment
An image I believe should always evoke some sort of emotion. Does not matter what the emotion, the same way it is irrelevant what equipment is used. The cameras used by professionals twenty years ago are half the quality of most new smart phones now. So, it really does not matter what your packing, what matters is how well you use it, or not :) On this image, I used an amateur grade camera: Canon EOS 600D, Aperture: f/7.1,ISO: 400 Shutter Speed: 1/160, Focal Length: 24/1 on an 18-55mm kit lens and a tripod. So no excuses about equipment can ever ring true to me.Inspiration
Observation I believe is the mother of all creativity. Creating processes start from a spectator point of view. I love to take time off and enjoy nature. I usually carry my camera with me. But I find it important to take a pose in life and simply watch! Watch the world spin, watch time pass by without fiddling with all these gadget that have turned us into breathing robots. Ais for most of my images, a story then develops in my head, and it is from these that I decide to capture specific images. It is like a nature filter. I only press the shutter when I am convinced a story is being told. This notion, a story telling mentality coupled with sheer patience for the right moments led to this image. I have always found swans both fascinating and incredibly calming. So what better way to tell the story of my life than through a "swan Dynasty"Editing
I took the image as a sequence and had to combine them in Photoshop.In my camera bag
I currently own a canon 6D. And whenever travelling, my go lenses are the 24-105 L, 50MM 1.4 AND THE 70-200MM 2.8. I find that this line up covers all the different scenarios I find myself in. I always carry a flash or two just in case, a polarising filter, release triggers and of course when called for a tripod. I learnt very early in my photography life that use of a good tripod will very much so separate the sheep from the goats in the photography world. Especially when it comes to landscapes. I can not emphasis enough how important it is to have a good tripod, if one is taking landscape and cityscape photography seriously. Almost as important as glass or body.Feedback
Such an image may look like a fluke. However, the secret in it is in both the planning and the execution. Take time to plan your short. some times you have to wait for the shot to come to you, instead of chasing it. Anticipate the shot before it happens. If you have a tripod, set it up and then... WAIT! Wait for that moment, know what you what to capture before you capture it. And when that moment is right, know when to squeeze the trigger. In other words, think of yourself as a sniper. For that's who you are.
