Habitually Good

Those of you who visit my blog regularly know that I like photography. I try to take good photos myself. And some of my photos have come out good. But, people who take great photos are able to visualize the composition and the end product of the picture that they are taking before taking it.

I will explain that in a moment, but let me introduce a very good friend – Paresh Rana (we are actually related – he being my brother’s wife’s brother). Paresh is one of those people who really increased my interest in photography. For him photography is a passion (if not a full time job, which it should be). He has done various portfolios and shoots as a photographer (if you clicked on that link on his name, it would have taken you to his website).

Anyway, Paresh is one of those people who just sees the world that he is capturing in his lens differently than the rest of us. And he uses his camera and some magic in post processing to come up with what he originally saw in the scene.

Here’s a photo he took of a performer some time ago.

Now this is a cool picture in its own respect. I love the colors and the pose, and also the mock expression on the performer’s face.

But this is not what Paresh visualized when he took the photo. He saw an end product which was totally different from this picture.

With some post-processing, he has transformed the image to something totally different. Here is the link to the final image on Flickr: Cosmic Color.

I tried to embed the final image from Flickr, but it didn’t allow me to. Since the image has been stored to not allow any embedding.

However, because Paresh had already shown me the final output, I had saved it (naughty me) and so I am able to reproduce the final output here. Please notice that the images are copyrighted by Paresh with all rights reserved. Do not copy or link to these images without his permission (I do have his permission of course).

So, here is the final outcome of that picture. It’s called The Cosmic Color.

This is awesome creativity.

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