Glimpse to the world Around us

Glimpse to the world around us.

As Orson Welles said “The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.”

And I have quote this because I have photographed a family recently living in very bad conditions, slum area they are facing so many problems which includes lack of water, dirty floors, poor ventilation and they do not even have shanty houses but they are satisfied as the photographs below will depict.

The photograph is a house of that family which I am going to discuss further. I have captured this picture to introduce the environment of the living of this family.

This picture is itself explaining the atmosphere of their family, they are people having nothing with them no money no food no luxuries but they have beautiful hearts and pure souls.

And look at her eyes and just feel her life really I can feel her life and as Jean_Luc Godard said:

“When you photograph a face, you photograph the soul behind it.”  It’s true I can read her soul.

Someone’s whole world.

·         Miserable but unique life.

·         Look at her eyes and feel her life. When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.- Jean-Luc Godard

·         Visually imperfect couple but who knows about the heart.

·         Sometimes love is caged.

·         Love is all about mother.

·         His life, his passion.

·         Let’s look back for a while.

·         This is perfect if one can feel.

            

Handling and organizing photographs.

Handling and managing photographs.

Keeping a backup:

It’s important to take care of your artworks very cautiously because it’s your work and by keeping a record you can later understand the mistakes and can compare your photographical learnings. Keeping a backup of data and updating it regularly is no doubt a good choice and practice.

Keeping on-line data:

It’s a good way to keep data online so where ever you are you can access it easily and there will be no issue of losing it. There are so many websites who offers free storage like www.dropbox.com, www.bitcasa.com etc

Organizing photographs:

By Making separate folders for each and every trip it will become easy to access data without having any type of problem. There can be so many ways to organize the data it may have done with making albums of by renaming the photographs.

Take & keep Notes:

as notes always makes everything very meaningful and it helps to remember  important and little things so by taking notes with each and every photograph you capture will make you more professional and skilled one.

Taking notes

Content sheets and Test printing:

Content Sheet

Test Printing

Making content sheets and not even making it also printing it with different settings and if treating photographs on Photoshop try to take test print with every setting you want and then put then in front of you and let your creative mind decide what is good and what are the lacking.

learning photography

Learning photography

No doubt, practice makes a man perfect and whoever don't believe it will suffer with failure. Photography can also be learned by practice but before practicing it you have to understand few things.

1. Your camera

camera 

it’s not important to have a overpriced and very professional camera because in initial stage you don’t need that but whenever you make photography as your profession you must have good and professional equipment as it then becomes a demand of your profession. 

2. Read and watch photographs

 

As reading is a very good habit but here from reading I do not mean any type of text but here it’s all about reading visual language. It’s very important to be a good photographer that you try to read photographs of good photographers try to understand the composition the light and the relation with subject. 

3. Learn about legendary photographers

Learn about the lives of photographers they will help you to know that what is important and what is not. What you should do and what you should not. It will also help you to manage time and subjects. By reading about the photographers who didn't have the equipment but still they have done a tremendous job will be a great motivation for you.

4. Don’t stick to one mind subjects

Good photographers always have their one specialty but before knowing their interest they practice each and every mind set to know about their interest. It is important to change your mind and go out capture different things portraits landscapes sign-age architecture nature etc.

buying a DSLR makes you a owner of it, not a photographer.

It’s true that the trends of photography have changed but it does not mean photography has changed. Now people think that having a overprized camera with its expensive accessories you can make good pictures but it’s important to know that yes technology matters but creativeness and imagination of the photographer has it part more. It’s important to understand that overprize equipment is not necessary because if you don’t have the sense of creating composing and capturing things you can never be a good photographer

Since last 2 years I have been through many Facebook pages where people post so many stuff and out of thousands only few ones are well composed and deserve to be called a good photograph.
Before learning about photography I do also get impressed whenever i see someone having DSLR but now its very common people use it like we use point and shot few years back. As someone said Buying a DSLR makes you a owner of it, not a photographer. And I totally agree with that people should also understand it and respect this medium I think there is no responsiveness about photography.People should read books about the importance of this medium and should understand that  the legends of photographers did not have DSLRs.you can take a photograph but you can never make it if you don’t have that creativity and aesthetic sense.
Here are few photographs of some good photographers try to read them and learn with them.