Street portraits - Nandgaon India

[Manfred M]

On our way to the Holi festivities, we also wandered around the streets of the towns shooting the people there. Here are a few shots I took in the town of Nandgaon.

1. Boy and the blue doors





2. Reading the newspaper





3. Watching from the balcony





4. Watching the photographers





5. Head shot

[Urbanflyer]

Wonderful shots. What an interesting adventure and beautiful people!

[bje07]

Nice shots, colorful and sharp, except a excess of PP on the right eye on #5 BTW excellent portrait.

[DickyOZ]

Wonderful shots. What an interesting adventure and beautiful people!

+1

[Shadowman]

Very nice series.

[John 2]

Very nice series Manfred but the first one is just excellent.

[rpcrowe]

Great collection of captures...

[Rainforest]

Not a happy little boy - but a captivating shot. Love everything about it - the harsh light and shadows and the graphic blue doors. ..that blue - those eyes!

[rpcrowe]

Manfred, your coverage of India makes me want to visit that area!

[Tronhard]

Manfred I must say that I am envious of your skills with taking captivating images of people. They seem to me to all be excellent and seem to bring out a spirit of good will and welcoming from your subjects. With all that dye flying around (looking at your avatar) how did your cameras fare under such conditions? Did they get covered too?

[Rita]

I think that these are all wonderful but there is something special about the first one, lots of emotion.

[Manfred M]

Manfred I must say that I am envious of your skills with taking captivating images of people. They seem to me to all be excellent and seem to bring out a spirit of good will and welcoming from your subjects. With all that dye flying around (looking at your avatar) how did your cameras fare under such conditions? Did they get covered too?

The camera was in a full rain cover that was taped in place onto the lens hood. The two hand openings (with elasticized cuffs) is how we had access to the zoom ring on the lens and camera controls. Visibility (using the viewfinder) was challenging as perspiration from the hands and forearms did a good job fogging up the transparent part of the hood (used to see the viewfinder) and the dye and powdered colours did a pretty good job obscuring the outside of the cover. Wiping the interior with one's hands and the exterior against one's body worked reasonably well, but seeing to frame the shot was difficult, so shooting a bit wide and then straightening and cropping in PP was really the only effective approach. Seeing through the viewfinder was quite challenging and it was far too bright out to consider using LiveView.

This is a shot that my wife took of me near the beginning of the day where I didn't have too much colour on me yet, shooting with the covered camera.




We were basically stuck shooting with a single lens per body. This is a situation where internally focusing lenses really shone because the rain covers did push back when normal lenses that extended while zooming were used.