3ifactory's first photoride to St.Thomas Mount

First things first… 

What is a Photoride??

You would have obviously heard of photo walks…

A Photo walk is an event in which group of photographers meet at a particular place and take photos while walking around that place… pictures of a particular road, street….goes on like that. A photo-walk can be classified under street photography…

Why Photoride? Why not a Photo walk?
We would surely have photo-walks in the near future… but my opinion is photo-walks are only for cities. You can't have a photo-walk in mountains, hills, beaches etc

We love to travel in our bikes and would love to go on long trips and love photography… combine everything and you get a “PHOTORIDE”!!! :P

Photoride’s exact definition is taking photographs while riding, but we have used the term in a different way defining something different… kindly excuse us….


3ifactory’s first photoride:

         Ever since we started 3ifactory way back in November 2007 we wanted to organize photo-walks, but back then we had just our mobile phones to shoot so we didn’t make them as big events… it would just be the three of us - Vishwaant,Zreej and me.

Date:Jan 10th 2010
Purpose: Our first official photoride
Place: St.Thomas Mount,Chennai
People:
1)   Sreejith
2)   Shiva Vishwanathan
3)   Rajesh
4)   Vishwaant
5)   Hari
6)   Kaushik and
7)   Aako Shiva

I don’t want to give a boring lecture about what we did or what we learnt.
I would just give a overview about what happened in bits and pieces.

How to get there:

From Kathipara bridge take the route which leads to porur… once you cross the bridge there will be a blue colored sign board saying that it’s the way to St.Thomas Mount… Take a left there. There are two options to go to the top:
1)   You can walk through the steps (takes about 15-20 mins)
2)   Ride to the top (little bit lengthy route)

We chose to ride since it’s a photoride :P (mokka) you need to drive through the defense quarters and there will be a play ground and a small blue sign board saying that it’s the way to the Shrine… take a right there and drive for 15 mins and you will be reach the top!!

What we did and what we learnt:

Took some long exposure shots, bokeh shots, light painting shots, candid shots, some portraits and photos of the shrine as such….

Vishwaant who always act as if he is a pro was giving out valuable tips (WTF!!) about photography… :P manasula periya photographer nu nenappu aana oru photo kuda urupadiya edukka theriyathu..Canon 500d vachu epo paarthalum scene poda vendiyathu!!

Sreejith who is a real ace in photography was the one who gave really useful tips and tricks involved with photography… thanks dude… its great to have you around.

Shiva V and Rajesh being newbies were exploring their new cameras by taking different shots and occasionally getting help from others.. thanks a lotguys… for joining the trip. Hope you guys join us for many more such trips.

Kaushik the budding photographer was giving out nice ideas to take photos with different angles with wonderful subjects… and yeah though he had just a sony ericsson... he was putting it to work by taking lots of shots.

Hari the Nari came late…but brought his awesome Nikon D90 and Sreej was busy exploring hari’ cam.

Yours truly was all over st.thomas mount taking photos almost of everything there :D

Overall it was an awesome trip and we had tremendous fun… learning and taking photographs is one thing… but having fun while doing all this is totally different…
did we have fun? Hell Yeah!! lotsa fun!!

Thanks to the amazing group who were always teasing each other (teasing vishwaant and hari in particular) :P helping out each other… totally awesome… totally totally awesome :D


Mokkai:

Any Trip starts with a T and ends with Tea.. We all reached the ground around 7:30 pm, had tea and escaped….

P.S: Will update u babout the next photoride  soon… having few places in my mind… pachamalai, tada, mudhaliyar kuppam and karikaatu kuppam.

Lets see!!