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How to Fix an Overexposed Photo

July 31, 2011 @ 9:29 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

My ever-restless and creative friend Reena was recently talking to me about a series of photographs she’d taken over her last trip to a national park in her neck of the woods. They were just not turning out as dramatic and eerie as she wanted them to. This, of course, set my photographer-sense tingling and [...]


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Experiments in Widescreen Photography in Dubai

December 14, 2010 @ 7:14 am by Samir Bharadwaj  

I don’t take many pictures in Dubai. The more I’ve travelled to India over the years, the more I have realised that my enthusiasm and success with taking good photographs in Dubai is a mere shadow of its potential self. When I returned from my last trip to the visual assault that is Mumbai, I [...]


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Women With Bad Cameras

July 28, 2010 @ 7:02 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

After my little experiment to show that good cameras are not essential to taking good pictures, I still felt the point could be made clearer with more real-world examples. If I could show good photos taken by other people with less than stellar cameras that would be a big step in the right direction. It [...]


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Taking Good Pictures Isn’t About The Camera

July 16, 2010 @ 11:21 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

If you have a serious interest in photography, in a professional capacity or as an enthusiastic amateur, you’re sure to have been greeted with this line at some point: Great Pictures! Which Camera did you use? On your less understanding days, there can’t be a more irritating thing to be asked, because the person asking [...]


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Weekend Drives With My Canon G9 Camera

May 24, 2010 @ 1:57 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

I‘ve had my Canon G9 camera for almost 2 years now. While I’ve put up a fair selection of photos taken with it from my sojourns in India, I’ve rarely shown much of what do with it for the rest of the year, when I’m in Dubai. The truth of the matter is, I probably [...]


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Taking Street Photos on the Bus Route

September 19, 2009 @ 2:01 am by Samir Bharadwaj  

After my Sunday visit to the Mahim Nature Park, during my recent trip to Bombay, I spent a week doing a lot of hopping around through the city. My transport of choice is usually a public bus, and that week I was on buses a lot. Most of the time, I had my camera with [...]


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4 Easy Lessons in Photography Inspiration

December 20, 2008 @ 5:13 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

Remember when you were little and your parents had guests over? At some point the conversation would inevitably turn to you and your astonishing talents. Maybe you were a great piano player, or a master reciter of Little Bo Beep, or your sneeze was funnier than anyone else’s on your street. Whatever your alleged talent, [...]


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