Vikrant Photography

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Happy Valentines

I thought that sharing the story of valentines day might be interesting with all of you, since it is the biggest day celebrated world over as the day of love and lovers and i am a part of it because i got married on this day.

"One of the stories beind the reasons for how Valentine's Day started comes the time of the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honour Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia.
Young boys and girls lived strictly separate lives. One of the customs was name drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl's name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry.
I also thought of sharing a image of a recent bride i shot. The image was shot on location with strobe lights.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Key Terms and Concepts

Have you ever wondered what the Terms like Jpeg or CMOS and several others like these which are used in today's digital photography world stand for? Whenever I hear of a term like this I am very inquisitive to know more about it and what it stands for. So I thought there must be people out there like me who will be interested in knowing about these terms. Here a few commonly used terms”

CCD/ CMOS- Charge-Coupled Device/ Complementary Metal oxide Silicon sensor.
Digital cameras use one of these sensors to digitally record light coming through the camera lens. Digital media cards store this information, and customers can later export the data to other devices or computers.

JPEG- Joint Photographics Expert Group. A standard method of compressing photographic images. Compatible with most digital cameras, devices, and operating systems, you can identify them by the file extension ".jpg."

Fixed Focus - A lens that cannot automatically adjust its focus for objects that are very near or very far. Instead, the lens has a fixed range of focus.

HDR - Image than current photographic methods .This allows HDR images to more accurately represent the range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight.

PTP - Abbreviation for picture Transfer Protocol. A standard designed to transfer images from digital cameras to computers and other devices without needing additional device drivers

Monday, October 11, 2010

Kim Kardashian pictures in W

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Fierceness!

The hawtness that is Kim Kardashian was chosen as the November 2010 cover girl for W magazine and we think they made a great choice.

But the two shots people will be talking about most are the two nude photos.

Check out the fully uncensored photos of Kimmy below.

Nipple and bootylicious! Loves, loves, loves it!!!

Very "artsy" too!

Posted: October 11, 2010 at 2:58 pm

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Anne Seshadari and Michael Maci - Vikrant Tuniouss photography exhibition - Page 3 Pics - HT City - DesiMartini

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

what does highlights do in a picture

Here is a perfect example of a spring picture concept . I was thinking about a spring shoot and incorporate it with a beauty picture. In our team that day we had very talented hairstylist Kondor and Make up artist Darya .I noticed the flowers in my Garden and i thought how about using them in this picture. These pictures was shot in my home studio, with two lights and reflectors . In the first shot i used one light Elinchrom bx500 Ri, on a medium soft box on to my camera left I was using my 35- 7.0mm 2.8 ED Nikon lens. I was also using a couple of reflectors. The meter reading was f11 at 125 shutter speed. In the first image i black bounced from the other side to create more shadows and reduce the spill we also used another reflector under the model to get that extra punch on her collar bone and face definition..
In the second picture here the backdrop is actually off a sari and i have lit it up with SB800 and using reflectors restrict the the light on the backdrop to avoid spill.the second light was camera left with the similar exposure. Both the images had similar highlights but the only difference is the backdrop
Now you will think how come both the images look so diff rent even though they were shot under similar conditions and exposures... On purpose the make up was done glossy to shine and catch every highlight possible..In the first image we made sure all the highlights we created come through properly in the second pictures post production i killed the highlight of the image and this was the result i got, very pale flat looking picture.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Edgy three light look

By far this is one of my favorite images in the recent times, There is a very interesting story behind this image I was in Columbus Ohio for two days working on a project with my friend Yogesh who also happens to be a awesome art director. After a long day of shoot we both went to eat at his wife's restaurant. we were sitting and planning our next day where we were suppose to do a lot of post production work and wrap the shoot as well. All of a sudden I saw two very interesting faces standing and talking to “Uma”, Yogesh’s wife. I asked Yogesh who are they; he told me they are our regular guests and come here often as they just love the Indian food. he questioned me back why are you asking about them? I said, that something just came in my head and I really would like to do that, upon which he looked back at me with a weird look and said what? I said, Look at their faces dude, aren’t they amazing, let’s go and talk to them. He said, what about our work, I told him we will finish that in time. I explained Yogesh what was in my mind in terms of lighting and he looked at me and said hmmmmmm, sure lets do it, because he is as crazy as I am when it comes to creating art. He introduced me to them and I started talking and explaining to them the concept. They were real sport and said yes. Otherwise people think a photographer from New York, ummmm let me think again. Lol, no it’s not like that. Photographers from New York are well respected; we decided to shoot the next morning at 9.a.m in Yogis’ home studio. I was really excited to do this shoot and was looking forward to it.

Now came the time where we were thinking how we will finish our work and still do this shoot. Both of us decided to work all night and finish the post production work, even though it was tough but like I always say anything for a good picture. We worked all night till 6.am and woke up at 8.am since our models arrived before time. It was the husband wife and there their two kids. I wanted to set up the lights for the Edgy three light gritty look. Ideally I would like 2 medium sized soft boxes with chimera grids and a beauty dish for such a set up, but we had 2 Profoto heads with one large soft box and one umbrella and for the third light we had a Nikon speed light SB800. The challenge here for me was to create the right highlights on the right spots and they have to be equally distributed and balanced. I used the SB800 as the key light which is replacing the beauty dish; it will illuminate the forehead and the nose. The other two lights were placed on the right and left of the model; I had to move the lights at different distances several times just to get the right exposure since there is very little room for any spill light in this kind of set up I had to flag the lights, we used a spare door sitting in his garage, we used the black side of the umbrella as a black bounce and of course a white reflector under the models chest to give that little highlight on his collar bone It took almost a hour and half to finally get the right exposure and setup. Finally we started shooting and working on his expressions and at the end I got what I was looking for. I can’t tell you guys how satisfying it is to achieve something you have visualized and especially in a situation like this. I did a different lighting setup for his wife just to make her look softer and prettier. I will talk about her image soon, we also wrapped our actual assingment in time and i got on my flight back to NY in time.
chao.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Spring Swirl

The time is here to witness the beautiful colors of flowers and trees, I always wonder how God creates things and changes things according to season and this applies not only on the trees but also on us humans, not all the seasons of our life are the same. There is a tree outside my home which was naked not long ago and with in couple weeks it is loaded with the most beautiful and colorful flowers one can imagine, i have been shooting pictures of this particular tree in all seasons, I like to document the changes it goes through in every season and during my life time in this house.
These flowers will stay for another couple of weeks and transition to beautiful leaves.
I wanted to shoot this picture in a diffrent manner and give it some twist, so i thougt about the swirl, it was late in the evening aroung 7.00 pm when i took these shots. i had my fav Nikon lens 28.. 70mm 2.8 set at 28mm for maximum width, i stood right underneath the tree and shot it upwards with a long exposure of about 4the of sec and during the exposure time i had to keep the camera very steady and give it a swirl to get this effect. important thing in this picture is a slow shutter, open apperture and a very parrell and steady movement in the camera.. if this info is any help to you please do share it your experiences with me.

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