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SuJ 1"> Today I went to Nireekshana ACET India, a HIV/AIDS clinic with the children from the orphanage. They started off by singing songs with the kids and then had them watch Bob The Builder as they called them to get weighed and then to the examination room. Dr. Lavanya performed a physical examination on the children. After their physical examination was finished, they each got a piece of candy. Other patients were at the clinic as well. A patient received his medication from the pharmacy portion of the clinic and then sat with a woman who worked at the clinic and prayed over the medication. As the man grasped the medication in his hand, I listened to the woman chanting the prayer and thought about how much was on the line with this medication. One of the pharmacists showed me the different HIV pills. There are different pills they combine with the two different base HIV medications. After awhile, I asked her to show me how much each medication cost. Just for reference, the exchange rate today was 49.08 rupee to one us dollar. Some of the pills were 11 or 12 RP a pack, but others which only contained 4 or 5 pills were 20 or 30 RP. This adds up very quickly and becomes costly for many patients. Going to Mumbai tomorrow!
4 comments:
Greta photos. Love to see them lightened a bit though.
Great...my bad.
Taylor-
I would love to see them lighted too, everyday is a struggle with my limited apeture.
Shoot with a slower shutter speed, its not sports, you can shoot at a 1/15 of a sec. if you want to! :) Watch your white balance..
Find those moments! Find the emotion and the expressions that tell how these people feel just by looking at the pics.
What lens are you shooting with? [It doesn't really matter] Don't shoot too wide, rather, shoot at like 35mm [not 18mm+crop 35mm, but real optics 35mm] and move your body around, make the lines of the table, the windows, the kiosk thingy come together as visual shapes within the composition, at 35mm there is a perfect sort of arm reach distance away that your subject becomes the focus visually in the frame and everything falls off really nicely.. Photo #4 is a perfect example of this - you got a sort of moment in there, but if you frame it better, line up those horizons and tables, then make that green behind the windows part of the background composition, it would be really nice...!
Watch those backgrounds, use a shorter DOF if you can..
Don't look down on people, don't squat and look up at them, shoot at their level, put yourself on their level with them, its says something to the viewer about your respect for your subjects as a human being.
You got a great opportunity here! Make the most of it :)
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