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12-25-2008, 04:54 PM
Name: Vivek
Profession: Project manager in a software firm
Equipment:
Current: 400D (will be replaced very soon with a 5D Mk.II), 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 (kit lens), 24-105mm f/4 L IS, 70-200mm f/4 L. Future additions: 16-35mm f/2.8 L IS, 15mm f/2.8 fish eye, 85mm f/1.2
L
Mobile: N82
Previously used: Kodak DX6490 (4 MP, 10x optical zoom) and a hot shot point&shoot film camera.
Favourite Subjects (of Photography): Night, low light, portraits, landscape, nature and wildlife / animals.
Intended Objectives:
"You have to know a lot, to know how little you know"
Learning never stops, no matter how much you think you know. I hope to learn a lot from interacting with this very awesome and skilled crowd. I had been a very quite observer on the "photography and critique" thread - I really couldn't find time out from work to actively participate. I hope to do so from now on...!
Somewhere down the line, I am looking forward to a professional career in photography.
Favourite Photographers:
Margaret Bourke-White (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bourke-White) (saw her work in Kushwant Singh's A train to pakistan). The subjects were no doubt very grisly, but there was a fantastic sense of 'capturing the moment'.
A Little Background:
My first memory of photography comes when I was around 11 or 12 years old... I was watching my uncle and his son taking pics with a film based yashica p&s and I was so hooked that I was just chasing them all of the time. It took me few years (and good score in the 10th) to finally convince my dad in getting me a hot shot p&s.
The first real sense of landscape photgraphy was a family trip to ooty in 2001. Of course, you had to point the camera at what you liked and clicked. However, there was a question of how you had to position everything in the viewfinder. That was my first awakening!
My second jump came with this photograph below. By that time, I had gotten my first digital cam and had taken lots of shots with that (including the memorable HX-4). I was still on automatic mode, selecting the full auto and just shooting away. but after this pic, there was no looking back!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/3134048661_cf7bedf147.jpg
My third jump was getting the 400D - travelled the US with that and took about 500 pics on the whole. Learnt what depth of field was all about... this was one of my fav pics...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/3134869808_b0c2e6f1ae.jpg?v=0
What kicked me into being really serious was a workshop we had at office - a professional photographer (don't remember his name, but he was a self taught professional with around 25 years of field experience)...Watching him talk about shutter speeds, aperture, f numbers, depth of field had my jaw dropping and I realized this was the knowledge behind what I had been doing so blindly...
It is that road that takes me ahead today...!!...here are some of the pics I took...
"The Celestial smile"
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3258/3134872710_73923821b2.jpg?v=0
"Numb"
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/3134051175_b4606326f1.jpg?v=0
"Explorer"
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3127/3134050861_ac0acbb1e0.jpg?v=0
"Do not Disturb"
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1207/1350984525_b4c5d39684.jpg?v=0
Profession: Project manager in a software firm
Equipment:
Current: 400D (will be replaced very soon with a 5D Mk.II), 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 (kit lens), 24-105mm f/4 L IS, 70-200mm f/4 L. Future additions: 16-35mm f/2.8 L IS, 15mm f/2.8 fish eye, 85mm f/1.2
L
Mobile: N82
Previously used: Kodak DX6490 (4 MP, 10x optical zoom) and a hot shot point&shoot film camera.
Favourite Subjects (of Photography): Night, low light, portraits, landscape, nature and wildlife / animals.
Intended Objectives:
"You have to know a lot, to know how little you know"
Learning never stops, no matter how much you think you know. I hope to learn a lot from interacting with this very awesome and skilled crowd. I had been a very quite observer on the "photography and critique" thread - I really couldn't find time out from work to actively participate. I hope to do so from now on...!
Somewhere down the line, I am looking forward to a professional career in photography.
Favourite Photographers:
Margaret Bourke-White (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bourke-White) (saw her work in Kushwant Singh's A train to pakistan). The subjects were no doubt very grisly, but there was a fantastic sense of 'capturing the moment'.
A Little Background:
My first memory of photography comes when I was around 11 or 12 years old... I was watching my uncle and his son taking pics with a film based yashica p&s and I was so hooked that I was just chasing them all of the time. It took me few years (and good score in the 10th) to finally convince my dad in getting me a hot shot p&s.
The first real sense of landscape photgraphy was a family trip to ooty in 2001. Of course, you had to point the camera at what you liked and clicked. However, there was a question of how you had to position everything in the viewfinder. That was my first awakening!
My second jump came with this photograph below. By that time, I had gotten my first digital cam and had taken lots of shots with that (including the memorable HX-4). I was still on automatic mode, selecting the full auto and just shooting away. but after this pic, there was no looking back!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/3134048661_cf7bedf147.jpg
My third jump was getting the 400D - travelled the US with that and took about 500 pics on the whole. Learnt what depth of field was all about... this was one of my fav pics...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/3134869808_b0c2e6f1ae.jpg?v=0
What kicked me into being really serious was a workshop we had at office - a professional photographer (don't remember his name, but he was a self taught professional with around 25 years of field experience)...Watching him talk about shutter speeds, aperture, f numbers, depth of field had my jaw dropping and I realized this was the knowledge behind what I had been doing so blindly...
It is that road that takes me ahead today...!!...here are some of the pics I took...
"The Celestial smile"
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3258/3134872710_73923821b2.jpg?v=0
"Numb"
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/3134051175_b4606326f1.jpg?v=0
"Explorer"
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3127/3134050861_ac0acbb1e0.jpg?v=0
"Do not Disturb"
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1207/1350984525_b4c5d39684.jpg?v=0