umashankar pandey Photography

This is nice work.. i like the home there...

Silhouettes at the backdrop of city light are marvellous. Incomplete structures are a bit distracting.

Very nice portfolio Umashankar, Keep up your good work

Very nice portfolio Uma Shankar, Keep it growing!

Happy New Year! Thank you for all your support and comments on my photos in 2005. May 2006 be a very good year for you and your family, Best wishes from Dallas Texas

Nice work on people and faces ... nice meeting u ... carry on clicking ...

Love your work and your style. You ahve the eye and the taste to get the best from the nature. Keep shooting. Love your work.

Some very nice portraits in your portfolio, like the way of your presentation, keep up your good works, would like to see more from you.

Hello friend

I would like to wish you and your family Happy Holidays and a Good New Year! And say thank you for your support with your ratings and comments on my work over the last year. We are hoping to post some good weather photos this year. We start shooting sky photos in April thanks again for supporting my work.

Best wishes Ken Fugate Stormphoto.net

Great work in your prtfolio, Umashankar!! Thanks for your kind visit and rating, my friend!!

Best regards!

Beautiful portfolio. Of course, I love your portraits most. Emmanuel.

Hello Friend!

Well here it is another year is passing away and we are coming into the holidays. I think time starts to go faster as we get older, it was just yesterday I wished my friends Happy Holidays and here it is again the end of a year. The holiday lights are starting to be put on some of the trees here in Dallas, we were out last night and some were lighting the trees. I wish for you all a holiday season with family and friends, after all is said and done all we have is each other.

I want all of you to know just what your comments and ratings on my work means to me, your words are my motivation, my drive to discover, to learn this art that we all love, thank you for taking time and thank you for caring about my works. At the same time thank you for letting us see your world, our lives are so much the same, we all care about our families and friends and we all share the same things, maybe someday our photos will help make for a lasting world peace. May you and your family be blessed this season.

Happy Holidays and Happy Shooting

Ken

Dear Pandey, thank you for comment in my gallery, regards from Croatia!

Dear Friend, i always follow your work, a great work, so i decided to ask you an opinion: you consider a shot as beautiful independently by photoshop?s operations? There is a limit to define a shot as a photograph? Many of us look for the best moment, the best light, the best composition to take a real photo; we are wasting our time? Please let me know. I have added an example of retouching operated by an expert, Pam.R, in a perfect Rarindra Prakarsa style. The magic light of Rarindra (Rarindra is only an example of photoshophotographers; one of many..)! Thank you!

Dear Alberto,

I am grateful for your kind comments.

You have raised a hotly debated issue on which, I'm sure, you'd find thousands of pages/threads on the web, some on PN itself. Photoshop or any other image processing application is virtually the darkroom of digital photography. Nothing would exemplify it more than the case of processing RAW files where you have to select the white balance, fine tune the contrast, tonality and sharpness and probably tweak the exposure a point or so either way. However, you'd find that most of these processes have traditionally been carried out on film based exposures too, using chemicals and certain other equipments. As such, all these minor yet subtle changes are intended to bring the photographic output as close to the original subject as possible. This is where an artistic output differs from a forensic reproduction.

However, altering parts of the subject by removing, adding, replacing with alien elements such as false skies, background/foreground, beams of light, colours/objects non-existent in the original frame, are acts which result in digital fantasies, not photographs, and they should be categorized as such.

Further, no amount of digital tinkering can rescue a badly exposed/composed/focused image. Sometimes serious doses of Photoshop are administered to cover up poor attempts which invariably make them all the more pathetic.

Regards.

Thank you so much for your comments. You can find my opinions on my portfolio?s page. Best shots! Alberto

Dear US, i red some intersting answers about your question (ex. pictorialism). You tried, well disposed; about our photocollegues, some good.... some rude! People are the same over the world! I have seen you personal site; a love's show to photography and to your beatuful family. Best regards. Alberto

I like your portfolio, but highlight your child's smile, is the world's energy. Congratulations. Best wishes. Vicente.

Un año mas en estas fechas tan especiales quiero desearte lo mejor para ti tus seres queridos, esperando que tus mejores deseos se hagan realidad. Gracias por tan bellos instantes que a traves de tus fotografias has compartido con todos nosotros y gracias por tu apoyo y tu tiempo.

Feliz Navidad y prospero 2010.

Un fuerte abrazo -Tolo Duran.

Grazie per la tua gradita visita,e complimenti per la qualità dei tuoi progetti !
Saluti Paul

Querido Amigo. Te deseo que pases una muy feliz Navidad en compañia de tus seres queridos y que el nuevo año que esta a punto de comenzar sea mejor que el anterior y puedas ver cumplidos tus mejores deseos.
Un afectuoso abrazo -Tolo Duran

very impressive portfolio, candid child shots are beautiful ;landscapes are wonderful. excellent jobs. regards for your comments.