The faces of this trip.
Here are a few faces from this trip to India. It was great to get back up to Kashmir, and Delhi is always fun. It is hard to take a bad images in India. David DuChemin and I call it low hanging fruit.
I will be back home on Thursday.
Some stunning images there Matt and i’m looking forward to seeing more. #5 particularly’s a cracker.. the movement, vibrancy, and the smoke hanging in the air and between his lips. Love it!
As always, great images! As Ian say, I also like the mood on the 5th one, and there’s something about the 1st one too… some kind of alchemy between the foreground and the light…
Can’t wait to see more!
Travel safe!
It’s only useful as low-hanging fruit if you know how to pick it, and clearly you do. Nice work.
Ooh. I LOVE the one of the guy in the green turban. What a character! And the green and yellow in the background, interacting with the green of the turban, give me a sense of glitz and enchantment. Nicely done.
Wow – great pictures. I was in particular drawn to the first one. It just captures me, for some reason. 🙂 Great job as usual!!
It was really fun to be back in Kashmir after a two year absence. Thanks for all the kind words. I just posted some more traditional stuff. It is really hard not to shoot a mug shot when you got a little boy with bright eyes or a crazy “Fakir” with wild eye and you have a 85 1.2 on your 5D. So I have just just come to the point of saying, “Hi!, My name is Matt Brandon and I am a 85 1.2-aholic.
Great images Matt. Nice comp and colors. I like all of them and especially the man and orange window. Look like you enjoyed your 85 1.2 and 5D Mark II. Did you have to do AF Micro-adjustment on your 85 1.2 or just shoot as is out of the box? Thanks
Peter – What kind of micro-adjustment are you referring to. I just picked it up and started shooting. Am I missing something?
Oh the photograph of the gentleman in the green turban, Matt, it has me all twitchy (in an excited labrador kind of way!). The colours are incredible, his long hair, his kohl rimmed eyes and damn, you ARE Da Man with Da Catchlights!
Matt;
The AF Microadjustment is a feature in the 5D Mark II, (C.Fn III – 8) where you can get critically sharp auto focus on some of your lens. I hate having to do this, because it takes a lot of time and trial-and-error. I end up having to adjust 3 of my lens (24-105, 85 1.8, 17-40)out of 5. I was thinking of buying the 85 1.2 and was wondering how your lens work out of the box without the microadjustment, because it looks like all your images taken with this lens are tack sharp.
Matt;
The AF Microadjustment is a feature in the 5D Mark II, (C.Fn III – 8) where you can get critically sharp auto focus on some of your lens. I hate having to do this, because it takes a lot of time and trial-and-error. I end up having to adjust 3 of my lens (24-105, 85 1.8, 17-40)out of 5. I was thinking of buying the 85 1.2 and was wondering how your lens work out of the box without the microadjustment, because it looks like all your images taken with this lens are tack sharp.
I really like the #2, the reflected building (sucker for reflections in water) and the eyes in #6 are great.