Underwear Man

Depth of Field- Lothal

I like how my camera (which is not fancy by any means- just an old Cannon something or rather) naturally focused on the grass and blurred out the background. You get a sense of how dry the grass is here, it looks like its about to break off into a thousand little pieces. Then again if you look at the clouds in the background a storm is hovering. The anticipation of the storm brought a subtle wind across the field that weaved throughout this grass.

Composition

Can't you just see Harley Davidson stamped across the bottom left corner? I know it may not be a Harley but it has that raw look. I like the subtle tonal variation in the intricate column on the right juxtaposed to the cement on the left. The white posts set a natural frame for the motorcycle making a good composition. The eye is drawn into the motorcycle, but makes a pit stop on the column and rock, and pipes. The wheel in the bottom right take your eye for a loop and channel the focus outward in a radial directions.

ORANGE. Yet another photograph that I didn't even have to do anything to in photoshop because of its burst of color. I did crop out the background because I thought his arms framed the picture. The curvature of the left arm draws your eye around the photograph...down the left arm and up the finger tips, it then ricoshays off the white wall back to his turban. It's a debate whether his piercing glance is the focal point, or his orange turban. Regardless it makes for a striking pose.

This Sikh was hanging out at the Sun Temple. He called me into his little temple room and dotted my forehead with some kind of orange paint. Not sure the relevance? But I did feel more pure after it happened. Too bad I sweated it off in like 2 minutes.

MIAMI VICE

Miami Vice? Nahhh...just a typical paint job on a house here. I barely touched this picture in Photoshop besides a little cropping. The colors here are so vibrant on their own! I liked how the negative space was naturally white. It made for a good contrast with the intensely saturated colors. The chartreuse and complimentary red set a dull foreground to the crazy aqua or blue/green.

I like this photo because of the irony. What is a fan doing next to a chandelier in a Hindu temple? In my Consumer behavior class we addressed the DNA of Indian society as having a "This as well as that" mentality. They don't always choose one extreme or the other, old traditional ways or modern, but rather it is a living breathing hybrid. It is important for marketers and advertisers to pay attention to this. For instance, a company tried to get chocolate into the huge candy market but at first try failed. They then discovered Dvali (the festival of lights) would be a good market pitch. They created lantern like packaging for the candies and sure enough they flew off the shelf.