if you've been following my gallery, you'll know that I'm usually an all rounder, i shoot everything, in everyway.

Things from now will be different. I just re-surfaced from a 2 month contemplation span and I came back deciding that black and white is my thing, and will make it my signature.

To be technically accurate, my photos are not pure black and white, or monochrome. I don't deny that the photos are not "as-is" they are processed. But with me, it's more of a pre-processing than post-processing. I've developed my own picture styles (Canon allows users to "define" and "program" the way their cameras sees things, thus one can get jiggy with it and innovate!) which now reaches two; aditya-1 and adit2.0. Both of them are very, very low saturated settings, with an emphasis on contrast, sharpness, and a whopping white balance of custom 10,000 kelvins.

The last 3 photos in my gallery have been taken with these settings.

Why so?

The last months I photographed before the contemplation, I found my pictures were "okay", but they were still missing something. I felt that anyone could make what I make. It's not too hard after all. I thought later and agreed with myself that the thing I want from my photography is that a "message" is sent. Just anybody can make a photo that's soul-less.

So what's the deal?

Colour. I found that colour ruins my concentration. I realized that I sometimess fuss too much colour that I forget about composition and forget that I need to breathe soul into my photography. Low saturation helps me concentrate. Helps me express to you that even though you cannot see blunt red on my photo, you'll somehow know its red. And it relaxes me to know that the first thing you're gonna see on my photos is the subject, not the spectrum of colour that is a mere accessory to the whole photo.

So, here's to low saturation!