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4 Things You Should Know About Getting Started in Photography
Continuing our series of getting you started in photography, here are the 4 things you should show about getting started in photography: 1. It’s expensive When you are just starting up, you will need to buy lenses, camera bodies, tripods, and filters, which are expensive equipment. If you’re not careful, you might just dry up your bank account. So you need to be more smart with your decisions. Do research extensively on what you will have to buy. As you get started in photography, it’s tempting to try different types of photography. However, different types of photography usually equates to different types of equipment too. So if you want to…
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7 Tools You Need To Get Started In Photography
Now that you are ready to get started in photography, we have talked to photographers in our Picsdream community (our SuperPicsdreamers) to bring you this list of the 7 tools you need to get started in photography: Manual mode camera Yes, that’s pretty obvious because you are getting started in photography. The reason we are listing it as the first item in this list is because most people think it is mandatory to get a Nikon or a Canon to get started in photography, but that’s not necessary at all. As long as the camera you have lets you shoot in manual mode, you don’t have to stretch your budget to…
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Are you Ready to Get Started in Photography?
Picking up your phone or camera and pointing it at something to take a picture is not photography. Photography, on the other hand, is an art. So how do you get started in photography, and not just keep on taking pictures all your life?
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How to Get Started in Photography?
hotography, in fact, is an art, not a task like taking pictures. Now that you understand this, let us show you how to get started in photography.
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Top 6 Tips for Awesome Candid Photography
Featured image: Image courtesy: PicsDream, Prashant Godbole Awesome candid photography requires a certain amount of spontaneity and unpreparedness on the part of subject. It’s all about being real and natural. Also, the more natural it is, the more difficult it is to shoot. It can take years to really master the candid style as it takes a lot of resilience, quick composition and a sense of what works to get make the ordinary moments an absolute stunner. Following are a few tips that can help in getting that awesome candid photograph. 1. Being ready As cliché as it may sound, with candid style one doesn’t plan for a moment to unfold;…
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Wildlife Photography: Top 5 tips to shoot wildlife
Wildlife photography is one of the most challenging genres of photography. It can be the most fulfilling, dangerous, thrilling and frustrating experience; all in equal measures, simultaneously. As much as a lucid wildlife picture is celebrated and treasured, the overall experience can leave the beginners feeling flustered and ludicrous. While it can be wonderful and enthralling being on the spot, giving the photographer a great adrenaline rush, it takes a great deal to capture the same essence in the photograph. Faults can be many; it could be the lighting, timing, the focus, background and even the photographers’ confidence at some point. An adventurous spirit, patience and honest love for nature…
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Top Indian Landscape Photographers to Follow
Photography is not about the cameras, gadgets, and gismos. Photography is about photographers.” – Peter Adams. Rightly, so! It takes passion, creative thinking, an eye for detail and an ear that can listen to the silence of the landscapes. There is art, music and dance in the landscapes and, therefore, an avid landscape photographer should be an artiste, musician and a performer at heart. They carry with them an inherent ability to capture the splendid beauty of the nature and take it to the next level. We have listed a few landscape photographers who are passionate about landscapes and have carved a niche for themselves – nationally and internationally. Soumitra…
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Landscape photography: How to get that perfect shot?
So, you have a great camera, expensive gears and an awful lot of enthusiasm to get that perfect landscape photograph? Rarely photographers can hold themselves from capturing an amazing landscape. It’s alluring, hypnotic and there is no escape. Yet, you capture that soulful landscape with all its intricacies, silence, and an enthralling beauty, only to realize later that the ethereal essence of the moment is not captured at all. The photo doesn’t look alive! There is something about capturing the landscape. It poses an inherent challenge, daring you to capture the silence; yet the picture should be screaming with a story of its own. A dare to capture a shot…
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Best landscape photography locations in India
“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” – Ansel Adams And, the places you have travelled! There is no other experience richer than travelling places and permeating in the placid beauty of nature. And, if you are a landscape photographer it is almost a sin to stay put in one place. Just like its cultural diversity, India offers diverse landscapes with snow, desert, forest, mountains, rivers and sea all in one place. Once you have soaked your soul in the…
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Picsdream News: Future Forward Picks Up Ten Photographs from Picsdream
As promised, we’ve aggressively started promoting and showcasing the photographs on Picsdream to buyers and art collectors. Our efforts have borne fruit too! Early last month, retail and online chain of camera and photography equipment, Future Forward picked up ten photographs from the collection of photographs uploaded by Picsdreamers on the site. The store known for promoting photography bought the photographs as display pieces for their store in Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi. The photographs will be prominently exhibited at the store, making it a matter of great pride for us and for the Picsdream community. We congratulate Balan Madhavan, Mukesh Khugsal, Uthama Kumar, Raghav Sethi, Bhavesh Bhati, Rajan Raju, Mandeep…