Photowalk in Pottery Town

Date : 4th March 2012
Members:Me, Abhish Lohithan & Rajat Mohanty

I and Rajat was new to photography and we decided that going out on photowalk was probably the best way to learn.
We didnt want it to be too elaborate, least we lose sight of our original purpose. A little bit of searching on the web gave me this lovely location. It had all the promise of a good photography location. We decided to give the place a shot.
On that day I started at 11 in the morning. I was still not clear on how to get there. From Majestic bus stand I took a bus to Shivajinagar bus terminus. Once I reached there it became clear to me that the Blogs and forum posts had misled me to believe the place to be close to Shivajinagar bus stand.
Rajat met up with me at the bus terminus and together we enquired on how to get to pottery town but not many recognized the name. This was the digital age so we flipped out our mobiles and hunted a few more blogs, a homework that we should have done before taking the leap. It was then I found out that Pottery Town is too inconspicuous a place and the nearest prominent location is known as Fazer Town. This was something the bus conductors could recognise and hence we hopped on to one that could take us there.
From Fazer town its just a 15 minutes walk. The way is pretty easy to find.
On reaching the place we found that its nothing more than a small locality of some 20 or so houses, each of which doubled up as a shop cum workshop. This was quite not upto our expectations.
Instead of waiting for Abhish, we decided to take a stroll around the place. The area was pretty small, however the way people gave casual glances at our cameras confirmed that photographers frequent here.

Once Abhish reached we prepared our gear and approached a shopkeeper. Its was the first on on approach from the road. The man was kind enough to permit us to watch and shoot while worked and informed that he would be making fresh set of clay glasses shortly.

We shot at the pot and pitchers drying and also the ones already prepared and put up for show in the shop. Once the shopkeeper started making new pots we had some really dynamic shots. The light inside wasn't adequate and we could not use the flashes too, least we disturb the man.

Fast focus prime lenses are the best options here. Unfortunately I didn't own one, and had to make do with a wide angle.

Soon we were content with the shot we had and we left the shop after thanking the man. It was a short outing but a good one considering the shots that we got.