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Holy Man With Yellow Ribbon

I am delighted to share my winning shot on a DPC contest. Recently a contest called "One In 7 Billion" has been completed. I was winner on 3rd place & got a yellow Ribbon .

About the image:

I have submitted the image taken in my trip to Maheshwar on 3rd Jan 2010. On that morning at Narmada ghat I found this interesting charachter & I requested to allow me to take his portrait. He was humble enough to allow me for that. The morning sunlight & the breeze helped me for adding in the image.I really want to thank him for resulting in nice portrait & giving me a winner shot.

Camera settings:

This shot was taken with my telephoto lens Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS. The light was nice to get nice aperture setting as f/8.0 with high shutter speed like 1/640 sec. I even though increased my ISO to 200 because I was not with tripod & didn't want to miss the shot. He was having far distance from the stairs in the background & I was shooting with the focal length of around 90mm so the f/8.0 allowed me to take sharp image with shallow background adding only colors in the background helping for the image.

About the contest details:


One In 7 Billion
An Exclusive Open Challenge using the Advanced Editing rules.


Description
Take a Portrait in ANY style (classic, candid, street, environmental, etc) that's a storyteller which shows the depth of someone different, special or interesting, a person that stands out (good or bad) in your part of the world. Dig deep and tell their story through an image.

Submission Dates:
Dec 30 2009 - Jan 5 2010

Voting Dates:
Jan 6 2010 - Jan 12 2010

Submissions: 99
Disqualifications: 0
Votes: 21,245
Comments: 569
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Comments

  1. AnonymousJanuary 13, 2010 at 1:07 AM

    Neelesh, I must tell you that you photographs are great, you must continue to persue this passion of yours

    Ashutosh

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  2. Gunjan KarunJanuary 13, 2010 at 1:35 AM

    Congratulations Nilesh.

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  3. Vivek DikshitJanuary 14, 2010 at 12:00 AM

    Congratulations Sir...

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  4. Sai KishoreJanuary 19, 2010 at 9:09 AM

    Great Photos. Congratulations...

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  5. bnileshJuly 19, 2010 at 9:59 PM

    Thanks Ashutosh,Gunjan,Vivek & Saikishor !

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