Yesterday I attended a startup event in the afternoon at Connaught Place, and went armed with my camera and Gorillapod to take a few night shots. However, between the event and the photography, I ended up guzzling a couple of beer on a near-empty stomach and was more than a wee bit high for taking serious shots!
The good thing about being high was that I could ignore curious passer-bys whose stares, questions and comments unnerve me normally. The bad thing, of course, is that I lost the focus and patience that is a must for taking good shots.
The thing with night shots is that you need a tripod (I had a Gorillapod which works fine if you can find a pole, fence or wall to fix it on). Also, a view from top of a building works the best (like the photograph featured on Connaught Place Wikipedia entry), but unfortunately I didn’t make the effort (for reasons already mentioned).
The photograph above is tilted because I had placed my Gorillapod on a stone, but fixing the tilt meant losing some objects from the edges, so I’ve left it as it is.
The photographs here are unedited (no post-processing, not even cropping). I find it too much of an effort to play around with image processing software, though one of these days I’d like to try HDR.
Please post your comments on the shots!
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