Some time back I made a composite family portrait from three headshots taken at my home studio. It started getting a lot of comments on social media. Many people asked me how it was made. In this post, I’ll try to answer all those questions. I’ll explain and show how I made this photograph right from… Continue reading How I made this family portrait
Category: Education
My blog on photography education, teaching photojournalism, documentary photography, photojournalism business, and workshops
A Basic Photography Workshop at Pause Studio Bangalore
Sometimes, I wish my photography education started during my primary school years. And then I think otherwise. The very thought of learning photography from school conjures up visions of a methodology of learning something with the objective of cracking an examination question paper. Imagine, “Explain Focal length in 20 sentences for 10 marks”. Would this… Continue reading A Basic Photography Workshop at Pause Studio Bangalore
Gregory Heisler 50 Portraits
“Whatever happens in front of the lens stays. What’s captured during the encounter is all that exists.” – Gregory Heisler
Outdoor Portraits using Fujifilm x100s and strobes
In the last seven years of my life as a professional photographer, a majority of time has been spent as a photojournalist on the field in the open outdoors. Conventional studio setting was not part my work (and wasn’t even the point of interest) when I embarked my journey as a photographer with the intention… Continue reading Outdoor Portraits using Fujifilm x100s and strobes
Composition in Photography is a Political Decision
I’d like to share an important point with respect to composition in photography. This is from the learning and real life experiences, that I have had as a photojournalist and as a Visual Story-teller.
Photo sphere for visual story-telling : Nexus 4
Photography and Visual Story-telling have undergone tremendous changes over the last hundred years. From a single or a series of images printed in newspapers, to online slide-shows, and to a convergence of motion picture and still photography, the world has changed a lot. Today, a visual story-teller has plethora of options to tell a story. From info-graphics,… Continue reading Photo sphere for visual story-telling : Nexus 4
A year without a Job
A year without a job… But not without work! Yes! It has been exactly one year since I last stepped out of a workplace as an employee. At that moment, it wasn’t clear on how exactly I will get through the year. But, I had a clear plan on how I wanted to attempt reaching my… Continue reading A year without a Job
A Slow-motion Music Video on a Digicam
Evenings with Arnie is a music video where I follow my nephew Arnav during his playtime on one fine overcast Summer evening at our home in Bangalore city. This is as simple as I can get with the description of this video :).
Photo Books and Weddings
Photo Book- Nishant & Swapna Engagement There is one question that is very relevant to present day photography – Do people still print the images from their digital camera? Industry might pull out charts, graphs and all sorts of figures to show sales of photographic prints to a consumer market. The Art World might speak… Continue reading Photo Books and Weddings
Revamped My Photography Website Using Photocrati
Revamped my Wordpress based Photography website by discarding the free f8 theme of Graph Paper Press and replacing it with the Premium Photocrati theme