It's been a while since I wrote something here. Let me take this opportunity to share with you all some learning that I have had since a week.

Making of the latest images - "Rock Series" had a profound effect on my thinking about abstractness in nature, attention to details and the complexity of the very concept of ‘time’. It’s been like ‘being in zone’ (meditation as some call it) since a week, admiring those lovely rocks patterns and thinking about them.

It didn’t stop there. Being a long weekend and thanks to the bad weather, I didn’t even think of taking my camera out. The only thing that came to my mind was to process those images for prints and get them printed big – at least 12in X 18in. At the end of the day, as I sit here and write this post, I have 12 large prints next to me and I am admiring most of them!

However, the entire day had great revelations to me. Here are results of this experiment:

1) Not all rock pattern images can be printed. Some will look good and some won’t! Now, the next challenge is to pre-visualize the patterns that might look good (based on today’s learning) and go ahead and make images of them as and when I get opportunities, which I will do.

2) Not all rock pattern images should be printed as 1:1.5 aspect ratios. Some look great but most of them will look awesome in 1:1 ratio, which is a square frame!

3) Ripple effect of what I have told in (1) – the images that look awesome on the monitor will not guarantee to look the same on the print! This was an amazing learning. (Am not talking about Image Quality here or about cropping. As a matter of fact I am the last person who encourage cropping!)

4) These images are best viewed on the prints when they are hung on the wall as a series of images and not individually – will be doing the same in few days to come. Yes of course! You are most welcome to my home if you wish to see the prints.

5) As I discussed these with my dear friend Ashwini Bhat on a casual talk, he had another valid point too – framing of these prints. The images will have high impact when the frame’s color is carefully chosen before getting it framed! Point taken and thanks Ashwin for adding another parameter to the equation!

Now do you realize how much of work goes into making one image before hanging it on the wall? At least, I do :). Well don’t forget the amount of time and effort spent on field making those images, processing them before printing. At the end of the day – it’s the joy of seeing our creations on the photo paper. It’s just inexplicable!

Finally this is the equation:

Large Print on Wall = Endless hours on field + Picking right images for printing + Right processing for print + Right aspect ratio + Getting the prints right + Getting right frames + NO cropping + NO Noise Reduction + NO manipulation.

The one’s marked in bold are new lessons.

Please feel free to voice out your thoughts, thanks for visiting! :)