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"Pretty Friends"

This time I’m before you with a photograph, “Pretty Friends”. I was on a trip to Lohaghat, (Uttarakhand) with my few close friends during the end of 2012. We had stayed in KMVN Guest House. On one fine morning, while my friends were getting ready for an outing, I started strolling in the campus of resort. Suddenly I noticed two small girls in the lawn of Guest House. They were chatting by sitting on a wall. Their posture, colorful dresses and tailed woolen caps, all together fascinated me and provided an opportunity for a candid image. I thought of an unusual picture and preferred photographing them from backside. I chose a longer focal length with a slight big opening of aperture in order to get blurred background. A few images were clicked. Here is one of them.  

This image is special for me because this seems narrating a story without having a look on the facial expressions of small girls.

I used a Nikon, D 90 Camera with a Tamron, 70-300 mm lens. The aperture was set at 5.6 and the shutter speed was 1/250 Sec. ISO was fixed at 200.

My View: Sometimes, selection of unusual view point results into memorable images. We normally click portraits either from front or from a side. We should try to choose some different viewpoints. We will surely get a few good images.

--Dr. Pankaj Sharma