India - People at work 1-5

Here are a few of Indians at work. Ladies first!

Cheers,

Larry


Gas jockey

NIKON D200    ---    82mm    f/5.0    1/80s    ISO 400

Spice seller, Kalimpong. I'm still using the Cardamom

NIKON D200    ---    28mm    f/4.0    1/125s    ISO 250

Washer-woman, Varanasi

NIKON D200    ---    150mm    f/5.6    1/125s    ISO 140

Collecting firewood, Nainital. Just walking up the hills at the high altitude was tough.

NIKON D200    ---    170mm    f/8.0    1/250s    ISO 200

Keeping the street clean Haze is smoke from local brick kilns.

NIKON D200    ---    90mm    f/5.3    1/80s    ISO 800

 

Tanks, CCROY and Samer for the comments.

The D200 is my first digital camera. I purchased an 18-200 with it and I had only a couple of weeks with them before I went to India on what was primarily a birding trip. I had no other lens with me because I wanted to travel as light as possible. I tended to stop down a bit when I could due to the softness of this lens wide open.

I had not taken many people pictures before, so this aspect of photography was new to me.

I'm also new to Photoshop, but perhaps I can learn to do some subject isolation in post.

Cheers,

Larry

p.s. More photos tomorrow