Well i intended this to be a full fledged post,but unfortunately its not.Ill anyway edit it in the future.

I was involved in an opera production recently, titled “Madama Butterfly”, which was premiering on the 27th of march,it was the first production of this Puccini masterpiece, i was in the chorus, well all those things apart i do have a few pictures from the rehearsals of the opera,that i shot using my friends digital p&s some of the pictures are unbearably noisy but i was initially hesitant to stick a noisy slr in their faces coz everyone was quite wound up for various reasons, well i hope the pictures give you an idea of the mood over there

well, this is me, i know ugly, but hey!!

and this is rohan and aashish fooling around and me going snap while we wait to find out where we get made up..(yes there was make up involved now dn get any ideas..)

winston pretending to be lost in thought after make-up u see make-up does that to u makes u wanna pose even more than normal haha

bernadette aka betty posing, she is a mezzo-soprano from hungary, the star-shaped flare from the bulbs is cause of the max apperture of f2.8 i guess, i dunno..

more poses from winston, seen here is the how u doin’ pose haha

Rohan all excite, yay! This is so normal to have my picture taken with make-up on!!

thats rohan, winston, nerissa and carissa they were in the chorus too, really nice lot actually!

rayna and aashish

nerissa haha, she threatened to sue me if i took anymore pictures of her..

rohan…

seho chang, a baritone from south korea a really really fun guy, hehe during the time we were working, we taught him the hindi phrase “mein tumse pyar karta hoon!” the guy went nuts and kept repeating it haha even putting it into song..

feet.. i was pretty bored by now..

Florian Spiess an amazing bass, thunderous and magnificent are words i would use to describe his voice but truth be told i think those words fall short in describing the purity of his voice..

some more rohan..

darryl! He’d just come in at this point so snap snap!!

haha swapnil sleeping i sorta have a whole series of pictures of him sleeping at various stages of the opera, this ones while waiting at the really long queue for make-up!!

phillipe and martha theyre austrians from austria, yay!

yasna and rohan..

time for some surrealism..

rohan with martha trying to sneak up behind him..

rohan with a very grave looking martha haha!

isabella posing as the japanese calendar girl

group picture isabella, yasna, cynthia, rohan, and martha..

isabella and her sleeveless kimono

winston and yasna all ready to go on stage..

winston looks likesome resident of an islamic country here hehe..

thomson caught after posing for another camera hehe..

here are thomas and darryl posing..

some Ilford pan 400 for those who didnt know its the 3rd world edition of ilford’s delta 400 film i was rather sceptical about it but hey its great and its definitely cheaper than tri-x, which people over hear sell at exhorbitant rates claiming shortage of product(yeah shortage my ass more like artificial scarcity)

So anyway heres the post..

it was a really cosy day, kinda heavy showers etc so the guys fooling around..

in this bar near college its called vinvina v for short..so we just flash the victory sign when we wanna go there.. heh thats the back of navneet’s head by the way.. 1/8th at f1.4 ..yeah it was dark

after their drinks a bit tipsy and more at ease with me taking pictures..(they werent used to an idiot sticking a lens in front of them then..) 1/15th at 1.4 i think it was heavily overcast nice light but yeah no fast shutter speeds..

karthik.. hes quite photogenic i think.. i just liked the scene here must be 1/125th at 1.4

ah a decisive moment? i dunno 1/125th at 1.8

snehal i just wanted to take a picture of her well didnt turn out as idve liked it but i guess thats the price of carrying a big rock in ur hand instead of a nifty little rangefinder (not that slrs are bad heh)

this is the food court at the galleria mall on palm beach road,vashi..i just like the scene a lot 1/15th at 1.4

now for some color Superia 800,brilliant film,im sorry i wasnt more selective in shooting it,was feeling quite miserable for a while after it came back from the lab..until i went to process watson‘s pushed superia(he gave me this roll of superia by the way), and the lab guy asked me bout it and blah blah blah he said he had a few rolls am i interested?i said yes please and i bought 4 so whatever, bottomline is its a brilliant film excellent saturation and grain great for available light stuff.. so on with the pictures..

this is shyamala shes full of stories this one heh there are at least 8 new stories that she has to let me know in a day along with lotsa old ones(she keeps forgetting she’d already tonarrated those earlier heh) all in all shes a great friend to have. Taken at 1/8th of a second at f2.0

so i went to i-rock last year.. for the uninitiated i-rock(independence rock) is an annual 2 day rock music festival of sorts the first day being a competition betn upcoming indian bands and the second day is just pure music where some well known bands from india perform along with the oldies(who refer to themselves as the dinosaurs of rock)..well i dont know about u guys but the oldies are more bearable than lame assed indian idiots trying to sound like norwegians..

this is from the second day i was quite drunk and well the mosh pit is not a nice place to shoot from and they wouldnt let on the other side of the barricade coz i didnt have a press id.. anyway this was the only shake free image i got, now u know why i felt miserable shooting this film impulsively..

i dont remember the band i think it was one of them dinosaurs of rock and i never remember their names..

1/8th 4th at f1.4

its tri-x time yay!

so anyway its my college’s annual fresher’s night, i always found the term fresher retarded freshman seems more appropriate..anyway really dark and shit scan quality is dreadful here but please bear with me will upload scans of better prints when i do get them..

ankit and gautam, these guys hate each other and i mean hate each other but its amazing what alcohol in the system can do to people no?

1/60th at f2.0 kinda underexposed

this is keshav,vanessa and the blurry one is munawira.. see i wasnt the only one taking pictures there

1/15th at f1.4 shouldnt have shot wide open tones are fucked!

they soon realised i was going snap snap so heres a snapshot with them all posing

1/15th at f1.8

won’t their mothers be proud? karthik navin and random guy from second year posing actually random guy is drunk out of his senses navin and karthik flipped when they saw this picture haha the cretin at the neighbourhood lab completely ruined the tones here but whatever..

1/15th at f2.0

ah anuj snehal and azhar haha all pretending to be happy and gay while thinking whens he going to click!

dont remember the speed and aperture for this one

so much for that party

this was taken in class during a lecture these guys had to give a presentation and i was bored.. it looked really good on the contact sheet but again retard ruins the tones in the print on the digital paper bah..

1/60th at f2.0

shyamala had gone to her homeopath at bandra, thats a suburb of bombay,and while returning we decided to walk it from the reclamation area back to the train station, on the way near st.stanislaus i think i saw this on a shop front, i thought it was cute and kinda funny i mean come on, dog raincoats?? so snap snap!i like the pattern the shirts form around that poster..

1/60th @f1.8

i was waiting for shyamala at vashi (another suburb of bombay) and was bored so more wastage of frames..

1/500 @f3.5

well thats all for now check this space for more in the future..