I was at Hampi last weekend, leading a photography tour to capture the heritage sites and landscapes of the ancient town. While I was there, I decided to use a cell-phone camera seriously for the first time to see if it can be a viable tool for photography during impromptu situations. Here is a collection of images I made during the three days, and my analysis on using a cell-phone camera.
I used a Samsung Galaxy SIII for this shoot, but this isn’t meant to be review of this specific phone camera. Also, some of these images were also shot using digital zoom, which deteriorates the quality of images considerably. These images are not meant to be assumed as a demo of phone-camera’s image quality in general.
A sunrise in Hampi, captured with a cell-phone camera.
Two weeks ago, I was charmed by the moods of monsoon in Hampi. It rained in bits every now and then, rarely needing me to run for a shelter, allowing me to feel the raindrops on my body throughout the day. The earth wore a green cover, and there was livestock taking advantage of it everywhere. Clouds hid the typically unbearably bright sun of Hampi and kept the weather just perfect. I couldn’t have asked for more.
Posts were infrequent here for most of July, since I was travelling for much of this month. I began my July with a travel photography workshop in Badami. Later, in the second week, I was out leading a week long photography tour in Lahaul & Spiti, Himachal. Subsequent to that I spent another week travelling through the heritage cities of North Karnataka. Before I knew it, the month was over!
The image below is from my last week’s visit to Hampi. It was memorable to me, primarily in enjoying the monsoon weather and seeing all the livestock that thrived on the abundant grass everywhere.
Sheep grazing in the surroundings of a monument in Hampi. With the monsoon rains firmly entrenched, green grass was abundant all over, providing plenty of food for livestock.