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Musicnation.Com – copycat & desperate to survive?

Ranjay Mitra — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:58:25 +0000

I have had my pictures copied by many people. Most of them had either the courtesy to either let me know or to refer to my post. I was really shocked & rather insulted when http://musicnation.com/ (MusicNation), thought it wise to send me a link of a place where they have just renamed one of my images.

To add to the whole act of a desperate crook, they even went ahead and wrote obnoxious statement on Craig. No wonder they had no reference to what they were writing. Here is a link to Craig’s image on the post on Music Nation – http://mnmedia.musicnation.com/Blog/2008/080124/oldmanclarinet.jpg

Here is the original post on my blog, made on15th August 2007.

http://nonphotographer.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/san-francisco-street-artists-clarinet-by-craig/

I could think of the people behind this website of Musicnation.com to be no less than cheap and have no respect for either the music or the musician. Here is the post I am referring to – http://musicnation.musicnation.com/blog/2008/02/street-musicians-part-ii & the last image on that post is that of Craig.

They don’t realize that we could easily make a watermark on these images. However, we do not do that so that the readers get to see the image at its best!

Back to Skateboarding

Ranjay Mitra — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:39:07 +0000

Slowly I am scanning the 300 plus images I shot at the esplanade in San Francisco of the young skating enthusiasts and I am finding that I have more of them that I could post! The hour long I spent was worth sweating in the sun with a 10 pounds camera sitting on my palm! And this was my day 2 with the D200 and I was trying out the 80 – 400 f/5.6 VR with the 1.4x converter on. That is a massive 840 mm! This was a way long for the 300 feet stretch of skating arena and way too heavy to handhold.

The lens, as always works wonders on fast action! The colors are immaculate. I am shooting JPEGs for now and I do not retouch, except when I have to desaturate for a monochrome copy. The focus was extremely fast while the DoF was way too high as you could make out from the series of images I have posted so far.

Raves & Rants off the Street of San Francisco

Ranjay Mitra — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:58:04 +0000

This image is from my test shots on my D200. While I spent an hour with these amazing group of youngsters while they were engrossed in perfecting their art of skating on the Embarcadero promenade. It was 1:00 PM and the sun was bright with the temperature shooting over 75F, but the sweating heat did less to stop these young enthusiasts from trying their acrobats – something worth ranting!

Skateboarders in action

The Art of Skate boarding

Ranjay Mitra — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:05:42 +0000

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Skate boarding has evolved as a hobby and a passion for some. Late on a Sunday noon, a group of young enthusiasts gather around the Embarcadero (San Francisco, CA) esplanade to practice, learn, share and grow the popular sports.

Skate Boarding in Embarcadero.