Tritone

I have recently been in email discussions with Mitchell Kanashkevich about how he gets such sweet black & white images. I found out that they are not really black & whites after all, they are “tritones”. Apparently it is a little Photoshop trick he uncovered. They are a mix of two colors on top of black. Mitchell was kind enough to walk me through it and so I gave it a shot. Tell me what you think of this verses the color image of the same. I think I will be doing more of these.

A 90 year old Gujjar woman.

A 90 year old Gujjar woman. Tritone.

Grocery Shopping

Just got back from New Delhi. I did a radical thing. I traveled with out my one ton of camera equipment! I was only going for a day, two nights to get my daughter from summer camp, so I wanted to relax with her and do some shopping for my wife. It was nice. I also got to meet with my agent at India Picture and the publisher of the book Anuj Bhari.

When you live in a place like Srinagar you learn to take advantage of trips to Delhi. This trip I bought frozen stakes and shrimp to bring back. I also picked up some red and yellow bell pepper. I know, to most of you that must sound strange. But we have nothing like that here in Kashmir. Last time I bought beef here in Kashmir, well it wasn’t even beef it was water buffalo and after we got it home we saw it had worm eggs or fly eggs all over it. So we tossed it. Ah, life in the village! Srinagar a village of 1.5 million!

A new friend from TPN and The Photo-Circle, Mitchell Kanashkevich made some nice comments about some of my shots here on TDT. I told him I had a nice shot of a girl in a window I would post, so here it is:

A young Kashmiri girl sits and dreams as she watches the world float by. Taken from a boat in the the back waters of Srinagar.

A Bakarwal man begins his namaaz (prayers) outside in the open air.

New Pictures added to the site

A new batch of images shot over this last month have been added to the Digital trekker. Please take some time to check them out and give me some feed back.

Thanks,

Matt

Checking In

I have been on the road for some time and not having a lot of free time to blog. Book Update: I am still in contractual negotiations with the publisher on the book. Working out a "non-competition clause." This is hard work!

As for my travels I just got back from Maldives. Shoot a few good images there and have been waiting in Delhi for our first tour of this season to arrive. They showed up yesterday. Seem like a good bunch. Her are a few images from the past few days.

A banana salesman in Male, Maldives.

A young mother at India Gate, New Delhi, India.

A toothless smile of a worker at Humayun's Tomb, New Delhi, India