Take off from a cliff

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Ganesh H Shankar
Take off from a cliff
Ramnagar is special place. As much as these critically endangered vultures I love those rocky moutains, play of light, forms and shapes. Vultures and these cliffs of Ramnagar have their own personality. I gave rest to my 600mm lens for some time and tried to explore a different perspective here with a focus on vulture and its habitat using my 70-200mm lens. In this experiment I tried to frame the vulture with cliff and tried to use light and shadow by framing the unlit portion of the cliff to add to the composition. After a long wait when it took off I made a few images. Thanks for your views..
Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:02 pm
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Commentby Pramod Viswanath on Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:00 pm

This is stunning capture Ganesh. Your 'extreme patience' has paid off really well here. Very very different perspective from the hills of Ramanagara here. I reckon you almost stood in that spot for more than an hour and it just shows your persistence and passion in making images. Excellent frame this. Your journey of making this image will remain in my memory for a very very long time!

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Commentby Sriharsha Ganjam on Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:08 pm

Nice use of Space and Light Ganesh. As with the earlier Vulture image you posted, I love the texture of the rocks. One thing to learn here is the power of persistence and patience.

Commentby Santosh Saligram on Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:50 am

Ganesh, I don't know how, but the ability to weave magic with the rocks and the vultures of Ramnagara is unique to you - perhaps it has its roots in your mature visions and fertile imagination. You have yet again produced an image of sublime beauty here, with the light on the lower rock and the position of the vulture serving to create a marvellous image of perfect timing and composition. The scale on display is just right - neither too narrow nor to wide, and enables a very pleasing representation of both the being and the habitat. I can't help thinking that this image would have been even more pretty without that dark cliff on the top right, with just the lit rock and the vulture lending even more simplicity and fluidity to it, but perhaps that's just an unimaginative me. :-)

Thanks for sharing this creation.

Commentby nirlep on Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:59 am

Hi Ganesh
This is a beautiful image. personally speaking I love the visual echo in this image. The wings of the bird have a strong echo in the rock form which looks like a huge outstretched wing.
Thanks for sharing.

Commentby Nirav Bhatt on Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:38 pm

This is an excellent image. I just wanted to ask you the reason for keeping the top right outfocus rock/branch. I am sure you would have tried it without the branch too.. It would be interesting to see how that looks..

Commentby Ganesh H Shankar on Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:33 pm

By top rock/branch you meant shaded region Nirav ? If so that was by design :) I wanted a dark region in the frame to emphasize the lit rock and bird. I felt dark region added to the image. May be it is just me ..

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Commentby adnan jariwala on Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:29 pm

amazing picture. The cliff-effect is rendered masterfully with use of space, light and dof.
the top right hand triangle (out of focus and dark) offsets the well toned lighted cliff and sky and delivers a power-punch IMO. Masterpiece.
Many many thanks for sharing this Ganesh.



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