The fever called photography spreads to my kids

Once upon a day, while on a evening visit to the Silver beach in Cuddalore, I did the above silhouette of my elder kid Suriya jumping up while the sun is setting in the back ground.

Ever since I did those shots --> story here;  came back home; did a preview of the clicks  on my home PC, my younger kid Lokashyam takes cue of the shots. I sensed his inquisitiveness.


After a few months, we went to the beach. The sun was setting then, but I was not in a mood to do photography, instead wanted to sit on the sand and enjoy the breeze. But, little Lokashyam pesters me to do some clicks with him in the frame. He himself shows the place, a little away from the place we clicked earlier. This place was little swampy with back waters in the background.

The wet mud there presented a slippery surface. Had a hard time to walk past this place. My little kid walks before me a bit faster out of his eagerness, so that he is in position for that silhouette. In the midst of all this, he skids on the slippery surface. I was walking five feet behind him, at a bit slower pace. I can't walk faster and reach him. If I try to go past him and catch him, I too may fall down .

A little astonishment for me is that, he stands up on his own, takes some more  steps to move further near the water. He once again falls down. I am helpless. I could not control him either. I was particular not to shout at him, because doing so, may spoil the evening and the photo shoot that is gaining a momentum goes off as well. But, I silently watch him walk, of course with mud on his back which had made him dirtier.

After a little of confusion, he takes a spot and stands. This time, my elder kid Suriya goes near him and we ensured the little one, stands at a place which is not slippery.

Lokashyam then checks on me; I get my camera out into action; I need to spell out One, Two and Three so that he jumps up in action; and the silhouette gets composed.

And here are the memorable shots that we made.

 I could realize that he could not jump off higher.

I had a little doubt, if he is having pain due to the fall he had.

Got a little satisfaction that I could have this frame to satisfy him. So, I negotiate with him to finish the exercise. I still had a fear. Would he be suffering from pain due to the fall?

Now, he gets satisfied that some good has come out of my clicks. He then comes near me as my elder kid Suriya, calls me for doing a shoot for him.

 As Suriya is past 8 years old, he can jump higher. I do not have any fear either.

 Also I am accustomed with him and am tuned with his rhythm.

A shot well taken !
So, I am satisfied of having done some good shots for him to relish.

The thing to be kept in my mind is that, these two kids have a plan in their mind and it should have come in the frame I clicked. So, if I am not clicking right, I would be forced by them to spend some more time doing the same exercise during the next visit to this beach.


Now, Lokashyam, after seeing all the jumps made by Suriya, call me for a re-take.

He has fine tuned his jumping style a bit. Caught the above picture and am sure that he is satisfied with the shoot.
And I am satisfied that this little dangerous exercise concludes.

Inquisitiveness had made him dirtier. But, I am not complaining.



You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. ~ Dale Carnegie 

So, I am liking all these happenings!!
Come what may...
And these life time clicks are a memory that got chiseled that day...

Silhouette

Couple of days back, after munching off hot and tasty puris at the road side hotel, before getting to start off our work day, as my colleague Maruthu Kumar was updating the hot news of the day on the tamil daily, I was lucky to get this nice silhouette of him on my camera FujiFilm JZ300 (P&S).

Hot puris at the hotel!
Hot news on the paper !
A cool shot on my camera !

Hmmm, some interesting situations making this photographer a poet !!

Silhouette photography spreads to my wife...

Tried a little of silhouette photography this evening. My wife clicked this, as I was riding the Enfield. A bit of difficulty for her to do this click as she needed to stand on the sides of the road - with filthy wastes on the sides, with kids around and me riding on the road. So far this one is a good silhouette. Should try a better one next time. Contentment is that my wife has now learnt a bit more on the silhouetting front in photography.A bit of WOW moment to me today.

Photograph Memories with Silhoutte

Got lucky to silhouette my elder son Suriya up in the air. Its really hard to achieve because the sun needs to be eclipsed by him while he is still up in the air and the camera shutter needed to be clicked at that luckiest Milli second.

A feeling of contention... My wife has now learnt the art of making silhouettes. Though I have done silhouette photography earlier, this is the first time i got silhouetted myself by the click of my better half. A photo to make into the memory along with my kids in the frame.

Camera: FujiFilm JZ300 (P&S)
Place: Cuddalore Silver Beach
Date: 26 Jan 2013 

Silhouette

Silhouette is the technique of photographing people, objects or landscape elements against the light. If done correctly we can achieve the subject as a shadow (silhouette).

Today while I was coming back from office, myself and other colleagues were waiting for the arrival of bus to go back to our Cuddalore town. The Sun was about to settle down at 5.15 p.m. and it was just bright giving me just a few minutes to make out my camera and do this shot. Though the Sun was giving us luck of shining for a few more minutes, we were unlucky that our bus to Cuddalore had just then pacing towards us.

Packed up my camera and pushed off into the crowded bus and started our journey back to home. 

Felt contended to have done a satisfactory shot after a long time on my Point & Shoot camera.

Camera used: FujiFilm JZ300 (Point & Shoot)