When not photographing... / by Sharath Pallemoni

...I love to be filming.

Story-boarding, setting up the shots, rolling with the camera, and then the fun-part : looking through the footage, assembling the rough-cut, piecing together the narrative while looking for that one thing that's the heart of a story - emotion.

This is where I end up discovering something completely different from what I had in mind - something that's closer to the soul of what I was trying to tell. 

And when all of the hours spent  polishing and improving the piece helps connect my intent with people's expectations, when it resonates, in some small way, it makes it all worthwhile, it inspires me to take a leap - into the scary, exciting unknown of The Next Big Project.

Until that time, here's what I spent my last few nights and weekends making:

Next up, my first experience photographing a dance recital...