PROTRAITS at your ease.....

When people buy cameras, the main subject is found in home...the portrait, snapshot of mom,father,cousins, babies,friends come to mind...THE MEMORABLE FACES R MADE IN HOME...Shooting is made them to personally view their images.

2)TAKE PICTURE WHEN THE PERSONS ARE at their cool...The mom is tired, whole day and you want a snap....She may protest...taking portrait forcibly make her mood off, and your effort to shoot, mom,dad,brothers,sisters will go waste....If they feel relaxed, get the portrait to remember....The words 'comfortable,relaxed and curiosity on both sides, will relax the mood for a good portrait....AND A SMILE SAY THOUSAND WORDS.

3) NEXT ESSENTIAL is the light....I observed that the children upto 5-6 years get them  photographed rather easily and when grow old many feel inhibited,...They run here and there & give u a good chase for nothing...If u catch them, they will make faces thus destroying the natural look. YES, early morning or late evening light will best help you...On camera flash works well, but renders flat lighting...Flat lighting faces hardly  make a good picture....Better take pictures in shade...that provide better lighting and there is no squizzing eyes as may happen in sunlight....Verandah, the shadow beside a wall give good effect, changing your angle and the modelling light falling on their faces, say half face in shadow and half towards light.

The above picture I took under a cloth tent...no doubt the lighting is flate, but there is goggle with reflection is good enough to make a cropped potrait , as I went closure, and made a fisheye effect of face and the reflection in the goggle....If you have good relations with neighbours, you can approach the children first and including elder after few shots.

PORTRAIT IN BLUE

hnx to Prabirda, Theqca,Shobin.....what I wished and important is that   nobody has said the flicker of random evening light well dressing her hairs and help keeping the face away from the background.....Regarding treatment, suiting to portraits is besides colour & b&w, sepia and when you leave these three, the most preferred is light blue toned portrait...and other colours u can imagine the effect, whether anybody wud like are yellow, red,pink,green only look good in experimenting with some good or photogenic effects.

In commercial photography, even light green tints may have been preferred by few clients....as they wanted the look of a cinema posters, and in bigger size....so the above photograph is one of the themes and out of rut....still I do not say unconventional, as I have faced  thousands of photographs and photographers, as many of you do....yes as my friends said unusual and different...I must thank them again to come out of the local or usuals.

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY--AN OUTLOOK

There are many camerapersons, who cover most on roads and the surrounding life....The life they are nearer every day. There may be busy roads, a secluded place on the road, where a begger is sitting asking the ongoers for a 'rupee'...Oh, not of the old 'paisa'....There was a song on the street in an old film...''O babu, o jaane wale babu, ek paisa de de....' Now even the 'chavanni' (four anna) is withdrawn by the govt....Therefore, minimum is rupee one, and more as u wish. There is rush on the roads and as on date every hour is peak hour with tremendous increase in the vehicles...I saw people -Irani people selling goggles on the road...Beside there was a shoemaker, and a small book seller, with film songs books seller etc...The beggers, The thelas of Kulfi, Pani purri, tea stalls, the groundnut seller....almost everything photogenic and to get photographed was the privilege...Now u cannot put your lens before anybody...there may be shoutings. The Sadhus with elephants ask Rs.100/- for photograph.....There were and are good portraits around with strange faces, to get you an award in photo competition....There is lot to be said on street photography.

2)Street photographer's main criteria is to capture subjects in their candid moods with almost, or may be, some interaction with camera or the cameraperson.

3) There was a definition in London Festival of Street Photography....Pl read---''unposed, unstaged photography which captures, explores or questions contemporary society and the relationships between individuals and their surroundings''.

4) The locations are everywhere when one sets out of his home with his dear camera....yes,yes...there are streets individually (as portrayed in the first photograph below), parks, beaches,malls - malls are just like the street sellers (the candids galore there) and the places you pass through on foot, on bike or may be a four wheeler, there are pictures to capture....As I caught the balloon seller guy, counting money and still sufficient light of evening to wait. for more earning....his grand-father accompaning him (above).....The colours of the baloons will certainly allure children and the parents.

5) The thing, I learnt that where situations are not favourable or people get angry or not in mood to get photographed, please get away from there....But one more imp thing I learnt is to photograph children and then to photograph the situations I may find favourable...since parents are more sensitive to the children, and become friendly easily.......NEXT is to oblige them with one copy of the photograph, the easiest way to intrude....u can understand why I used word 'intrude'...the difficult things made easy.......Please hv your comments (to oblige your potential customers on the streets)...hahaha...Interesting.