Just returned from India!

[Johnmcd]

R-D1 and cv 21/4. What an incredible place...

Cheers - John

 

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More, more, more - please 🙂

How did the camera hold up to humidity?

 

[gdmcclintock]

Johnmcd has created some nice photographs here.

Check out Raghubir Singh and Raghu Rai. They have published remarkable photobooks of India. Also, David de Souza's Itinerants, Mumbai's Nomads is a wonderful collection of color portraits of Mumbai's street hawkers, very unusual because the portraits are large format studio photographs rather than environmental "street" shots.

 

[rickp]

thanks for posting the first trip photos. my son was stationed in chennai for 2 years, and enjoyed every day (as you obviously did)!
greetings from hamburg
rick

 

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Just went through the whole gallery. Obviously 95% is due to the camera, 95% to the photographer and then 10% pure luck ;-)

Seriously - there are too many great pictures to comment on them in details (the cricket series for instance, the girl in the pink outfit) – but your people pictures stand out. I love the signs with warnings too.

Of course, you have been cheating using an M9. No one can get anything like this out of that old, tiny, low key 6M sensor…

Thanks for sharing.

 

[naruto]

I see that you were even in Bangalore, where I stay. 🙂 You traveled from Chennai on the Shatabdi? 🙂

very nice pics. And great capture of the chaos. I somehow never seem to get it right. 🙂

 

[NathanJD]

I could do with some fancy articles to keep my lady sweet! 😀 great shots John!

 

[Johnmcd]

More, more, more - please 🙂

How did the camera hold up to humidity?

Really well. No problems at all. And I stopped babying it for once 🙂 I normally had it around my neck with the E-P1 in the bag.

The 21/4 was a great focal length for general shooting and I used it in conjunction with my 21/28 Ricoh GRD viewfinder.

 

[Johnmcd]

I see that you were even in Bangalore, where I stay. 🙂 You traveled from Chennai on the Shatabdi? 🙂

very nice pics. And great capture of the chaos. I somehow never seem to get it right. 🙂

We were going to take the Shatabdi but it got canceled 🙂 In the end we took a different train a day or so later.

I glad you enjoyed the pics and the chaos - though I still think it's nearly impossible to really capture.

John

 

[Johnmcd]

Cheers - John

 

[dfatty]

Wonderful photos and gallery!

 

[peter_n]

Great pictures John! I have a kid in Mumbai at the moment, she's doing research there. Some day I will go... 🙂

 

[Johnmcd]

 

[back alley]

not sure if i asked this before...do you use a monopod or a tripod?

great stuff here, as usual.

 

[bennyng]

Those are some great images John! Really brings back memories of the days I used to travel to India. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,

p.s. The humble Color-Skopar 21mm is really not too shabby a lens, isn't it?

 

[35mmdelux]

great work, John.

PS:I have a Color-Skopar 21mm. I think I'll hang on to it.

 

[shadeofpale]

Nice shots, fine details, wonderful colours!

Thank You.
Don

P.S. Are the pictures out of cam?

 

[Johnmcd]

not sure if i asked this before...do you use a monopod or a tripod?

great stuff here, as usual.

Just hand held. I only use a monodod for sports stuff and the DSLR.

Glad you like them. Still working through the 'negs' 🙂

Cheers - John

 

[Johnmcd]

Nice shots, fine details, wonderful colours!

Thank You.
Don

P.S. Are the pictures out of cam?

I always shoot RAW with the R-D1 and then just adjust the levels as required in PS. If the day was a little dull I might also add a little extra saturation.

Cheers - John

 

[fates]

I really like the last two of the tuk-tuk and the stuffed bears on the cycles. I'd like to see the one of the tuk-tuk in B&W actually... with all those tires peering over the top of the building, it's very cool.

Have any low light shots with the CV 21/4? Since this is the only lens I have at the moment, I'm struggling with it's wide open focus accuracy and it's OOF rendering. After 5.6 this lens is real nice tho...