PhotoIndica - Telling tales with pixels and grain

An evening of fun with my new/old Flickr friends

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:57:36 +0000

I am currently on an extended visit of my home country India for reasons I blogged about here. Over the past several months I have been an active member of the Hyderabad Photography Club Group on...

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This little piggy went to..... [Flickr]

PK Koduri — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:32:08 PST

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Chimes [Flickr]

PK Koduri — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:32:04 PST

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How people look on an acid trip :-) [Flickr]

PK Koduri — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:31:58 PST

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Mira 02.10.2010

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:24:43 +0000

Share and Enjoy: Related PostsPhotoshoot for cast of MLK in a Hip Hop World Tue 09 Feb 2010New Born Portraits for Meredy by Koduri Wed 09 Dec 2009Chicken Thu 24 Dec...

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Photoshoot for cast of MLK in a Hip Hop World

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:34:06 +0000

A little background information about this act sourced from a PR release: Rooted and grounded in the civil rights era, “MLK in a Hip Hop World” allows audiences to observe dramatic scenes through...

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Play Stump the Darkroom Chump

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:40:28 +0000

This afternoon a good Flickr Friend of mine sent me a panicked email: “I recently gave an ilford HP-5 for development at my usual photo studio. I used my regular camera and clicked a...

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Hybrid digital darkroom workflow

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:10:53 +0000

Many of you that follow my blog know that I use film for some of my work. Sometimes I get asked if I have a wet darkroom and my answer is no, but I did at one point. I got rid of it when I purchased...

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Dunn Meadows (Indiana University Bloomington): Digital Darkroom Workflow [Flickr]

PK Koduri — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:04:48 PST

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Many of you that follow my blog know that I use film for some of my work. Sometimes I get asked if I have a wet darkroom and my answer is no, but I did at one point. I got rid of it when I purchased my first DSLR, a Nikon D70. I also got rid of all my film cameras including my favorite Fuji GW670.

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A few years worth of work in one image…..

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:14:51 +0000

Well I haven’t posted anything in a couple days. I have been busy meeting people, plotting my next move, and reading a lot. The above is a composite/collage I made from some of my photographs...

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Holton Valley Farm [Before and After]

admin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:19:38 +0000

BEFORE After working on this image in my Digital Darkroom this is what I got. Tools used: 1. Adobe Lightroom 2 – Preset Punch and Sharpen Landscape 2. Photoshop CS3 – Levels, Healing...

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Holton Valley Farm (Kentucky) [Flickr]

PK Koduri — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:15:25 PST

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After working on this image in my Digital Darkroom this is what I got. Tools used:
1. Adobe Lightroom 2 - Preset Punch and Sharpen Landscape
2. Photoshop CS3 - Levels, Healing Brush, Selection Tools, Layers and Layer Masks, and Adjustment Layers

To See Before and After Versions: www.photoindica.com/blog/2010/01/10/holton-valley-farm-be...

The bond we share

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:27:07 +0000

The Bond we Share..... [Flickr]

PK Koduri — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:42:13 PST

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We all go through life making connections and building relationships. These relationships could be with other humans, animals, and even inanimate things. How many of us haven’t given a name to our car or talk about our electronic devices as if they were a person. This bond is especially strong between humans and animals. We humans depend on them for just about everything – food, clothing, even work.

The above photograph was captured in Downtown Indianapolis near Monument Circle. You will find many of these horse drawn carriages parked around the circle waiting for passengers. Sometimes you see a couple out on a romantic evening and at other times you see kids just enjoying the ride. The passengers change all the time, but the horse and the carriageman stay the same. They enjoy a special bond and you can see it in how they communicate and respond to each other. I took this photograph after walking around the circle a few times. I did not have any expectations as to what I wanted to photograph that day. But when I saw this scene playing out in front of me I knew I had something special.

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Letting our emotions guide us in the photography process

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:10:56 +0000

Solitary Raven on a Tree Branch [Letting our emotions guide us in the photography process] [Flickr]

PK Koduri — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:40:48 PST

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Don’t we all love landscapes, images of birds and animals – the more color the better. There are times however when you can create a powerful image without having any of those elements and letting your emotions guide you. Like in the photograph above – it is practically a duotone image. All you see are black of the branches and the raven and white of the sky.

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Googly Eyes Turtle

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:41:43 +0000

The above image is from one of the first rolls of film that I shot on a used NIkon F4S camera. The lens is a Micro-Nikkor 60mm AF-D lens. Share and Enjoy: Related...

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Googly Eyes Turtle [Innocence] [Flickr]

PK Koduri — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:35:15 PST

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Seating for 2 [Flickr]

PK Koduri — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:51:24 PST

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I visited New York City just before Thanksgiving holidays. It was my first trip to the city after 12 years. It was a little over 12 years ago (August 12th 1997) that I first set foot in the United States. I did not get to see anything that day as I had a connecting flight to catch. This time I wanted to take in as much as humanly possible. The hotel we were staying in was right next door to MOMA and naturally was the first place to go see.
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Note: the dark streak and spot that you see were caused by airport X-Rays. Need to take better care of my film when traveling.

Somewhere, Indiana [Flickr]

PK Koduri — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:07:18 PST

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I was telling someone over lunch that photography changed the way I look at the world. Before I purchased my first camera, I would go around my business, never took in my surroundings, and almost always never interacted with locals. That changed after I started photographing, I started noticing and appreciating my surroundings more and more. When I look at a building I wonder what was the architect thinking when he drew the plans. When I look at an old and decaying tree stump I try to look for the beauty in its rotting structure. That was the case when I took the photo above. Read more at www.photoindica.com/blog/2010/01/03/seeing-what-others-mi...