11 April 2009

From My Travel Diary : Srirangapattanam 2009

Our guide had eerie stories to tell about Tippu's torture chambers @ Tippu Sultan's Fort, Srirangapattanam
If only walls could talk... (inside Tippu's Fort) We were on our way to the fort when we inadvertently landed in front of this beautiful mosque. Our all-knowing guide didn't wait for too long before he dished out his tall tales of how Tippu Sultan used to come to this Mosque for solitude. Whether his story was authentic or not, i couldn't help thinking that there is indeed something serene about the mosque which could capture anybody's imagination.
My first vision of the Gumbaz. Where lies the tombs of Hyder Ali and Tippu Sultan. The crowd outside the Gumbaz.

7 comments:

  1. OK so this one is a little more "entertaining" than your regular adventure clicks (See see... I'm actually bothering to leave a comment :). The first image was nice .. goes well with the text. Rest is so-so... but why on earth do you need to black-and-whitify all of them? You're sooo overdoing it and more and more of your stories are going B/W. Hmph... SNAP OUT OF IT!!

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  2. ha ha....You are actually right. I'm in a B&W mode these days. For no obvious reason though. Im gonna do a colour version of this same set too. May be id like it better now.

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  3. So i decided to do a little experiment here. Mix B&W imagery with colour. But this is too small a post (its not even a preconceived story, to begin with) to judge if it works. Hmmm... high time i venture a little outside my comfort zones...

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  4. Ah... no wonder all of them look such a drab!! See its so much better in color.

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  5. Yeah. But i prefer the first two shots in B&W. Do you guys mix B&W and colour imagery in video editing?? (aesthetically that is)

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  6. Color's working!! You're not doing justice to them by black-and-whitifying them. all of them... show me the color... show me the color!!

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  7. ya ya... totally... but it works in video only when perfectly cut. otherwise its better to leave them in either colour or B/w. In your case, even for the first two B/w is not working... they all deserve a lil colour in their lives... even the walls :)

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