DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

 So true..!! What we forget, is remembered by photographs. They hold a key to the bygone moments , they hold a key to the old memories, they give us a glimpse of the elapsed time, they bring back to life- the gone things and feelings, my heart goes there flying and becomes lost in thoughts and I smile...

Wiki says that photography is the science and an art of recording light with the help of an image sensor. Wow! All this started back in the early nineteenth century when scientists like Nicéphore Niépce and Louis Daguerre who experimented with cameras and light and to give us this great present- camera.

Seeing objects through the camera, gives us another different aspect of the world. "A camera can see things which your eyes don't see..." were the words said by Mr. Nanavati, a professional photographer and  father of Karishma Nanavati who is an ex-bal bharatian. A workshop was held on digital photography on 30th April 2015 for  mass media students . This was a call for emphasizing on photography with digital cameras.

Mr. Nanavati explained the significance of light in photography. As its totally based upon light and its behavior, he recognized light as the key to photography. Being a skilled photographer himself, his daughter seems to have traced his steps in photography. He explained the various parts of the camera: shutter, which is controls duration of light, then the ISO which is responsible for its intensity and the white balance, manages the color of the image. 

He told us this fact which we were unaware of: exposure is the amount of light per unit area, reaching a photographic film or electronic image sensor, as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminance. Or simply, Exposure=Intensity x time.

Summing up his tips on photography, he told the following points:

1. Fast shutter speed freezes motion, whereas slow shutter speed shows motion.
2. ISO- measures the sensitivity of the image sensor. The higher the ISO you choose the noisier shots you will get.
3. A proper exposure means range of the image is good.
4. Aperture- the part of the lens through which light passes. Depth of Field (DOF) is that amount of your shot that will be in focus.
5. Shallow aperture-small opening of lens-only subject is seen and rest is blurred. Whereas, Larger aperture- larger opening of lens-wide angle and area is covered.
6. Most people tend to keep their camera in 'auto' mode, but 'manual' mode allows you much more features and finer adjustments.
7. RAW and JPEG formats are the two most used ones in digital photography. Using both together to get the best results for processing the image can be the best option.
8. Canon cameras are the best ones to use-provide numerous features.
9.  Lenses are of two types: Prime and variable.

• Prime lenses are known for being high quality and having the ability to produce clean, crisp and precise shots, are cheaper and faster as compared to variable lenses.

• Variable lenses are portable, are expensive than prime lenses but provide flexibility to the photographer- to shoot with various focal lengths.   

This session helped us a lot, has enhanced our knowledge of photography, and is going to advance our skills.

So, as Ansel Adams quoted, “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” 

 I hope you enjoyed reading the post, ALL THE BEST FOR CATCHING AMAZING MOMENTS IN UR CAMERA!!!!!!                                                                                                                   

 

A Day in a Shopping Mall…

A day, a different and memorable day of my life at Inorbit Mall, Vashi. Even though I go for shopping frequently, this one was very special. Standing at a very cozy spot of the mall, observing the crowded mall and people shopping very cheerfully. Suddenly my eyes attracted towards an angel, a real angelic little girl who has a very innocent and cute smile on her face,  a unique one. She reminded someone very special to me, My Sister, who is no longer with me and no more in this world.
My Sister, she was really a valuable one for me. Her loss makes me cry even today. It has been 10 years since she left us but still it feels as if she left us yesterday. Giving me a sister like her was the best gift by my parents ever. She was born when I was in Mont II Grade. That was the best day for me ever. We always loved each other never picked a fight as I used to compromise with her for all my toys and stuffs. We had an age gap of 7 years. We were going through an awesome life.But soon that tragedy took place; she was 6-years-old and caught with severe illness. For weeks she was admitted in the hospital. We all were worried and hoped she would get well soon. Later we came to know that was affected with pneumonia, a severe illness, that too in brain. We all were shocked and depressed. Even Doctors lost their hopes for her, but it was difficult for us to digest it and we still believed she would be better. I used to make her sleep on lap and used to tell stories and make her sleep. Weeks passed but her condition was worsening day by day. And one fine day, in the morning when I went to wake her with her morning drink, she was sleeping with smiley face hugging one of mine and her picture tightly to her chest. I went to her and called her but there was no response from her. Initially I thought she was acting but I feared. I rushed to call my parents and doctors were also home. It was a bad news. She left all of us. I was almost unconscious for days. I can’t even believe how she can leave us so early. But still she is very much alive in all our hearts. Miss you sister, miss you very badly.
That little girl made remember all those memories which I had with my sister. I went to her gave a chocolate and kissed her on head. She smiled looking at me and kissed me back. However, it is truly said that loved ones always are alive in our hearts and no one else can take their place.

Knowledge: A steering stream of sustenance

“I envision a collapsing world without ascendancy, and a senseless talk of ascendancy without knowledge.”

Knowledge is a trampoline, propelling your thoughts with consistency. While it raises you up for a jiffy, you come down again to reap momentum. There is no end to it. It’s a continuous journey to the top of a mountain, whose crest remains unseen. When knowledge says adieu, with it goes consciousness far afield. Knowledge helps us to remain cognizant about the world, its happenings. It helps us relate with our ambiance.

Knowledge endows us power, that power to conquer anything insurmountable. When we say that there is nothing called impossible, we say so because we have something called knowledge, which can crumple the ‘im’ from impossible. Science says we humans are the only creatures with a self-conscious demeanor. The ‘self’ here is synonymous to awareness which is nothing but knowledge.

Man has emerged out to be the most knowledgeable creature in the cosmos. From ultra-fast tachyons to ultra small nucleons, there is no matter in world that remains concealed from the super intellect human. He has the absolute power of the world. He rules the cosmos with his extraordinary brain power. Such knowledge has helped man conquer over the nature’s natural system, the tremendously large planetary bodies compared to which man is just a pin’s tip.

The world is aware of the great, Abraham Lincoln. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was a self-educated lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the Congress during the 1840's. He took the power of the States in his hand. He encouraged the building of canals, banks, roads etc and won the heart of million people. He led the states through the brutal civil war and helped it emerge out as a powerful nation.

 When a man running a tea-stall on a foot path can augment and conquer the ascendancy of a nation by gaining awareness of the vox puopuli, there remains no doubt to what knowledge can conquer. (In reference to Narendra Modi). While examples to this remain countless, power endowed by knowledge remains invincible.

Knowledge and power are mutually inclusive events. With knowledge comes intellect, with intellect comes authority. Now questions to this philosophy arise. They say such facts are meant to be in words only, cause they are not influential in today’s wayward world, were nothing remains to be seen except the sham show of people. The world seems to endow power to the educated class, but that power turns out to be negative. Where knowledge can give someone power, power can give someone gluttony (greed). So indirectly, we may question knowledge to have a pessimistic impact too? 

Before answering to this clever question, let us ponder over the discrepancy between knowledge and education. While education may or may not make us knowledgeable, knowledge invariably delivers the true essence of education. No doubt education makes us knowledgeable, but it’s not the absolute deliverer. Knowledge can be gained through personal scrutiny, public interactions, study of our environs etc.  

When we say ‘knowledge is power’, what actually it delivers is ‘true knowledge is right power.’ Knowledge itself delivers the quintessence of truth. Where knowledge resides, deceptiveness can never have shelter. So when a person acquiring power does not utilize it in the right sense, asserts negative authority, it indirectly means that he hasn't gained the right knowledge, or rather, no knowledge at all. We all human beings are in need of this right knowledge but satirically, hardly any of us have the knowledge to know what it is.  Education can give you what is meant to make you knowledgeable, molding this education into a substance with truth. Ethics and integrity is what is called knowledge. It is one of the hardest things to recognize, but one of the simplest things to acquire and implicate, once you have it.

Knowledge gives one a reason for existence. It comes from within.  Knowledge cannot be forced upon someone. Talking about some real-life heroic personalities like Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi etc. who lead the nation single handedly with powerful fidelity and dedication, the proverb seems to be even more pragmatic. Power can be showcased not only in the field of politics but other fields like science, arts and humanities. When Aryabhata invented the place value system, his knowledge added power to the non-significant zero, without which we would still have been tangled in the roman systems. He is now recognized for his skilled mathematical implications and his legendary work, Āryabhaṭīya and the Arya-siddhanta. The famous Leonardo Da Vinci with is knowledge of creativity and ingenuity, gave power and added vibrancy to his paintings like the Last supper and Mona Lisa. Whatever the field is, adding the intellectual side of your brain to it gives power. It gives it existence.

It’s time now that we start setting examples like these great men. What is still left to be exposed in us is the ‘self’. Knowledge is hidden in the cascades of our minds. It cannot be unlocked without the key of exploration. The more you delay, the more the cascade catches rust. Knowledge comes from within. Generate the knowledge within you, prove your existence. The cascade’s key is not a day’s labor, it is a lifetime journey. If one wants to rule the world with his power, have his identity imprinted in the books of history, the only key to this is knowledge. The human mind is meant to be explored and exploited. Knowledge is meant to be grabbed and imbibed. Power is meant to be earned and experienced.

“We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.”

― Israelmore Ayivor

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Vivek Vaani - Igniting Young Minds

Vivek Vaani – Igniting Young Minds

Truth is purity. Truth is all-knowledge. Truth is strengthening, it is enlightening and it is invigorating.

The earth is enjoyed by ‘Heroes’. This is the unfailing truth. Be a HERO. Always say I have no Fear.

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is FEAR that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore ‘Arise, Awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Never be weak, you must be Strong as you have infinite strength within you.

In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads and dare to carry that out in your life.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it. Live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, and every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to SUCCESS.

Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in terms of what you have become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness.

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, but because of the inactivity of the good people.

Get up, and put your shoulders to the wheel – how long is this life for? As you have come to this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.

Purity, Patience and Perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all is LOVE. They alone live who LIVE FOR OTHERS, the rest are more dead than alive.