Photographer Plays With Sunsets To Tell Beautiful Stories

By Zainab Pervez in Amazing On 11th November 2021
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Stopping to appreciate a sunset is good for the soul. The evening glow in the sky is not only beautiful to observe, but it allows us to connect with nature. 20-year-old Indian photographer Krutik Thakur celebrates the majestic beauty of the Sun with a series of playful silhouetted images. He incorporates the setting Sun into each scene as if it’s a tangible object that his subjects can hold in their hands.

Thakur came across sunset images online and became fascinated with the genre of photography. He decided to teach himself the skills needed to capture similar images himself. “With some practice and knowledge from YouTube, I learned how to use a camera,” Thakur tells 

 “I got to know the settings and tried to take some creative shots.” He continues, “One day at the beach, I met two little kids and I made a series of photos from different angles to make it look like they were sharing the Sun.” Thakur posted the series on social media, where his followers fell in love with it. The photographer began capturing more magical images featuring the sunset, and today, he specializes in the narrative style.

#1 Packing The Sunset

Credits: Krutik Thakur 

In a world where everybody depends on others to lighten up their life, be the one who can create the sunshine.

Watch the image from right to left, and that's how it was shot.

Three different images from three different angles at three different times with three different sun colors shot on the same day.

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#2 Sun Lamp

Credits: Krutik Thakur 

You will shine more by helping others to kill their darkness.

Shot for the occasion of Indian festival of light, Diwali. These kids were playing at the beach and I asked them to pose for me.

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#3 The Sunflower

Credits: Krutik Thakur 

Happiness blooms from Sunshine.

I was listening to The Sunflower song while browsing all my sunset pictures and the idea struck my mind: "sun and flower —sunflower. Woah, what a great idea!" I was excited but had to wait almost a week for the rain to stop.
Used paper cutouts for the sunflower.

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#4 Football With Sunset

Credits: Krutik Thakur 

Willpower will help you strike every goal in your life.

This work has brought many good moments in my life. My first work to ever get published in a magazine and an inspiration to create a silhouette with the sunset came from here.

My friend owned a DSLR, I requested that he give it to me for a few days, and he agreed.

P.S. Sorry for the flip-flop at the last frame. I didn't notice it while shooting and got to know about it while post-processing and got no chance to shoot as corona had stricken my town and had to be at home.

#5 Won't Let The Sun To Set

Credits: Krutik Thakur 

Three different images from three different perspectives at three different times.

The image at the bottom was shot first, following the one above and, finally, the top one, which was shot a few minutes before sunset.

It was a fully planned image, down to the time I would shoot each frame. I left the home with my friend Taniket and hoped to find a long wooden stick at the beach. After a few minutes of searching, I found a good one and tied a rope and a hook to give it a more realistic look, but due to strong wind, it was difficult to manage, so did some correction while post-processing.

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#7 Turkish Ice-Cream

Credits: Krutik Thakur 

You can not defeat kids when it comes to ice cream.

It was a well-planned image. I went to the beach with my friend Dhruv and his younger brother Ridhay with a pipe and a cardboard cutout of a cone and shot this with ease, but I got the idea during post-processing of putting a stall which would help it look more realistic.

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#11 Friends And Sunset

Credits: Krutik Thakur 

Friendship the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Sunset was super amazing; just a little increase in exposure did the job.
I was not getting any ideas to photograph, so while heading back home, I just turned back, saw the sky changing its colors, and saw a few kids playing. There was a lot of distance between those kids and me, so I shouted. One kid heard me and came. There was a connection between that kid and me, so I told him to get back there. I said, "when I will raise my hand, you all have to jump together, holding each other's hands." I raised my hand and failed, then I loudly shouted once more and got this in the second attempt.

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#24 Dilscoop

Credits: Krutik Thakur 

A cricket shot invented by a Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan which was later named Dilscoop. The new generation loves this move and me being a huge cricket and sunset lover, planned and shot this with my brother Ujjwal. We took cricket gears and stump at sunset point and he geared up and I shot these series.