How my Business Card evolved with the power of Crowdsourcing

Photographer Visiting Card Design

I have been working on creating new stationery for my photography business. It also meant new Business Card too. Being an independent photographer, I decided to create things on my own. Then I realized that there were shortcomings in my business card design. I am a professional photographer but not a professional graphic designer☺. So,… Continue reading How my Business Card evolved with the power of Crowdsourcing

How to add Jetpack Portfolio Custom Post Type into WordPress – Part 1

I have been maintaining a self-hosted WordPress site for my photography portfolio and blog for some years now. Broadly speaking, the user content (text, images, gallery, video, etc) displayed on WordPress sites could broadly be pushed into either WordPress Pages or Posts. I always believes that conceptually Portfolio was something different from both, the Page… Continue reading How to add Jetpack Portfolio Custom Post Type into WordPress – Part 1

Best of Indian Wedding Photography 2013 – A Visual Storyteller’s Perspective

est of Indian Wedding Photography 2013 is a video that showcases the portfolio and perspective of Indian Documentary Wedding Photographer Nishant Ratnakar to the weddings he is commissioned to shoot.

One of the most important tasks for any photographer is making a portfolio of his/her work. It sometimes becomes a painful challenge as the photographer has to go through tons of images in the archives. Each photographer needs to be critical of his/her work, which can be difficult as most of us tend to get… Continue reading Best of Indian Wedding Photography 2013 – A Visual Storyteller’s Perspective

Encounter with A Giant Pufferfish

Encounter With A Giant Pufferfish © Nishant Ratnakar

It was the first time in my life that I went Scuba diving. And what happened next was an unbelievable experience, something which I’ll never forget in my lifetime.

A Photo Book for someone you love

Cover Page of the self-published photo Book - "It's All About Her". I designed and published this through Blurb.com . This was a surprise gift for my wife. Personalised Photo Books do make a great gift.

In this digital age, most consumers of photography will probably never print their photographs. Today, most of the visual communication takes place online over internet and social media networks. I have an old suitcase at home. It contains stacks of picture albums with photographs of our family, friends and relatives. The newest album in the… Continue reading A Photo Book for someone you love

The 30th Wedding Anniversary – A reason for portraits

Sandhya & Pratap. Radhanagar Beach at Havelock Island. Andaman & Nicobar Islands. April 2014.

When someone mentions the words ‘portrait shoots’, the most common images that conjure up in our minds is of couple portraits. And in the market of couple shoots, a huge majority of assignments in today’s democratic world of photography business are of youngsters getting their portraits taken just before they get married. Hence, one of… Continue reading The 30th Wedding Anniversary – A reason for portraits

The Andaman Journal

 Chennai Airport Terminal “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again” ~ Joseph Campbell I agree with the above quote attributed to the late American writer Joseph Campbell. For many of us, it is a lifelong quest to find that sacred space. Maybe, our individual sacred space is not confined to one… Continue reading The Andaman Journal

Speaking as an Embedded Wedding Photographer

Screenshot of my interview published on the website of AISFM, a leading Film and Media school in India

Off late, most of my Visual Story-telling projects have been Wedding Photography assignments. Over the years, as I went independent as a photographer, I found wedding photography to be a natural extension of the photography styles that I practiced – Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. Hence, the transition from shooting primarily news and editorial images to… Continue reading Speaking as an Embedded Wedding Photographer