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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of the most common problems faced by photographers of all levels of expertise is shaky, blurry, fuzzy pictures caused by your hand shaking the camera at the wrong moment. This becomes worse when you’re taking photos in a dark setting and the camera needs to use a longer exposure. The longer the exposure, the […]
It’s great when technology in a field advances to a state where the field suddenly opens up to the masses in a way that was never possible before. You could say things like YouTube have done that for the world of video, but long before that development, photography was brought into the mainstream in a […]