About the Image(s)

During my walk through the bylanes of the historical city of Jodhpur in India, I came across this small boy looking from behind a door which was half shut. I found the boy was curious on why I was taking the photographs of the empty street with just a stray dog sleeping! After taking my street shot, I turned towards the boy and smiled. I thought at first he will close the door and disappear from sight. But he kept on looking at me. This made me decide that I have to be quick. Without looking at him I changed from the prime 50mm lens to my old faithful 24-105mm F4 lens. Prepared my camera specs on intuition and felt that I should give it a try to click the boy in his natural state without him being alarmed. To my surprise the boy kept on looking at me. First I took the shot at max 105mm and gradually came closer with gentle steps all the time smiling and making sure that I did not frighten him. I kept on clicking as I closed on for a tight shot ( one meter distance from camera) at 58mm that would present the emotion as well as scenario. I kept the boy in the rule of third trying to give more space to the door for perspective. The image was converted in PS5 to mono. A thin pixel stroke was added. Camera Canon 5DMk2, Lens 24-105mm at 58mm.