Vespa!
The unmissable shape of the iconic Vespa is captured here with the essence of being free, independent and flirtuous.
Photo was taken on the Great Ocean Road in Australia in November 2009 with a Canon 500D and 70-200mm f4 L with post processing in Photoshop and Lightroom.
A Hot Afternoon
This photo was shot in my second New Zealand roadtrip in 2010 on a Suzuki BKing. The place is Cape Egmont lighthouse near New Plymouth, North Island. The map location is here.
Camera settings: ISO 200, 16mm, f4.5, 1/2500 sec with a Canon 500D and Canon 10-22mm f3.5-5.6 lens
About Resumes, Setbacks and my MotoFlash resume…
I had developed an animated flash resume with the highlights of my photography career since 2006. Do have a look when you have the time, a big monitor, broadband and speakers.
Developing a resume for oneself is perhaps the hardest thing to do, it is basically putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and critically evaluating yourself. I have gone wrong many times and realized it later. Sometimes I would go overboard with graphics, sometimes I would make it too simple expecting the recruiter to see me as a simplistic and sophisticated individual.
Over the years I have learnt one thing, there is no single winning formula to get a job. It just depends on too many factors – the other applicants, the mood of the guy who is reading your resume etcetra.
This particular attempt of condensing my skills and experience in motorycle photography can be seen by clicking this link.
Some key screen grabs are shown below, I would recommend you see the flash resume as its meant to me along with all the photos that I decided to put into it after carefully sifting through hundreds, if not thousands.
I still am not satisfied with it, primarily because it takes sometime to download as well as it gets slow at some places. But other than that this flash resume coupled with the website that you are currently reading (motoGrapher.com) is supposed to serve the purpose some months down the line when I get content here.
See some more attempts by me to make my own resume / website:
- notJustAphotographer.com (2009)
Self Analysis: Too simple, overloaded with text but can work if someone is looking for an individual with a wide skillset and not a particular one. - itsASunny.net (2007)
Self Analysis: Confusing, interactivity really serves no good purpose. However I really liked this idea at that time. - itsASunny.net (2008) , did this on a lazy afternoon in a couple of hours. By the end of two hours I shelved it thinking it was getting too complicated and forced. However, I think, if I would have given this 4-5 days, it would have turned into something good with interactivity. But never mind.
There are 5 more designs that I made for my own website which are on my hard disk right now. Like I said if you are like me, someone who stops liking his own work the next day of producing it, then you will only get better and wiser.
Also, I think in life many things matter to get the job you want: talent, persistence, education, right friend circle, social networking and sometimes the ability to take a risk and choose a path which has darnkess in the middle with no light visible at the other end.
Often, life has put me in precarious situations due to inherent risk taking nature. But almost everytime I have climbed out, with the grace of god, with battle marks that add experience and make me wiser.
The more you stay in your comfort zone the harder life will throw you off balance and jolt you back into reality some day. Hardship is something like excercising you muscles, the only difference is that here you are excercising your ability to face problems in life and willpower.
I will end this essay which started out as the showcase of my resume but ended more on a deravative philosophical note.
Just to let you know, I think I am going to stick with this house name (motographer.com) for a long time to come now, so you better subscribe to it by clicking here!
And oops, here are the slides from my flash resume:
WitchBlade
This was a photo that I had taken on Opoutere Road (here), East Coast of North Island at 9 PM just after sunset on 31st December 2009. Just 15 kms from this place was the town of Whitianga with a crowd of thousands waiting for the clock to strike 12 into the new year. I still remember how quiet and lonely it was and almost wished that I spotted something out of the ordinary. Well, I didn’t , so I decided to add it myself, a witch on a broomstick which is probably called WitchBlade (in memory of my FireBlade).
The silence was only pierced by the steady and mellow hum of inline – four engine of the BKing standing just behind me.
The final photo is a result of processing the raw image in Photoshop and Lightroom. The witch was created using a standard photoshop brush using a mouse and a little color was added to make things more vibrant.
The photo above came straight out of the camera. I was using a Canon 500D with a Canon 70-200mm f4 L (non IS) with a 1.4x extender, which further made it slower to f5.6. The final settings were: 200mm and the extender (effective 280mm) at 800 ISO.
Below is another variant, a monochrome version without the fantasies.
