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I high-tailed it back from the sticks so that I could get some work in. On the bus back I started taking some anti-landscapes (portrait aspect) out of the bus window and ended up taking 450 of them. Most were throwaways but it was exciting and some worked well in detail. After I got off the bus, I shot some more nightshots. Total 568 shots.
- Lots of travelling from Comilla, through tea gardens, back to Dhaka and then in Dhaka itself. Have to be careful of wearing myself out with all of the other sicknesses that are plaguing me.
- The anti-pattern of shooting landscapes out of car windows (or in this case a bus window) is a tired genre. So I got the idea, why not shoot the frame in portrait? This hints at how closed in cars are, how often we are just passing through a piece of land, never really being a part of it. Out of the many shots I took, a lot didn’t come out right, either technically or in terms of content, but that’s ok, initall forays are like that.
- The colours are looking flat for some reason. Under fluorescence it looks horrible. I can try using a pre-programmed WB for that, but I think changing that around all the time will be difficult on the fly. Also the pictures even at ISO800 have noise. Not a lot but enough to muddy the picture up a little bit if you blow it up at all (1:3 say).
- I think my tiredness (and need to pee, Bangladeshis have this ingenious ability to sit on their haunches and pee with their pants on that I haven’t mastered) and lack of ability to focus (I’d focused a lot of at least 3 hours on the bus) resulted in some lack-lustre shots at night.
- Editing nearly 600 photos is a pain in the butt.
- The area I was shooting in, just north of Motijheel was commercial. It was different and interesting. There was a lot of different light styles, mixtures going on that I really didn’t exploit.
Why tomorrow will be better
- I wont be tired and drained.
- If I find an interesting scene, I really need to stick around and take more angles rather than just adjust for the light. Need to also play with white balance (either manually, or by giving the Auto WB another couple of goes at the scene).
- Need to try a it more saturation on the colours to see where that gets me.
- Try shooting the other side of Dhaka again.
Posted 2 years ago
