Photowalk Dubai... WHY?
It has been more than a decade since I bought my first point and shoot digicam; full charged battery would last for 40-50 images, 1.6 mega pixels camera was point… wait… wait… wait… and then shoot. I pointed, waited, shot my first 10,000 worst pictures (still shooting bad though) for more than five years.
Switched to DSLR - remarkable Canon 20D, it was entirely different shooting machine. Fast, responsive, faster auto focus, high ISO, greater dynamic range, bright images, so forth and so on. I produced set of far worst 10,000 images next two years; images from point and shoot felt better in comparison to Canon 20D. Left me wondering and frustrated.
However, passion kept driving me insane, madness lead me to spend every fils saved replacing 20D; Canon 5DMkII was my new love, poured more money to buy lenses, lights and accessories. I updated my workflow as well; started shooting RAW and processing in Photoshop. In the course I tried and failed to learn from literature; watching training videos were not cool for my nature as well.
Early last year, March 2012, I joined EPyC, Emirates Photography Club on the meetup.com website. Attended 25+ meets, five photowalks and 20+ talks; however, felt something was missing.
I felt being morphed into the camera on Auto mode, continuously analyzing light, thinking what ISO would be best, f number, aperture setting, flash output would be, sometimes pressing my finger on imaginative shutter button; hence, frustrated, don’t know where to point and what to bring in and out of frame!
Later in 2012 I joined Photowalk Dubai (PWD) a new group on Facebook, formed by: Subodh Shetty and Anjum (OldFashioned AJ), Marian Pengyan Han joined recently. Creative, inspirational, dedicated, cool, awesome, appreciative are few layers of their composition. Without a doubt they are people to fall in love with immediately.
Switched to DSLR - remarkable Canon 20D, it was entirely different shooting machine. Fast, responsive, faster auto focus, high ISO, greater dynamic range, bright images, so forth and so on. I produced set of far worst 10,000 images next two years; images from point and shoot felt better in comparison to Canon 20D. Left me wondering and frustrated.
However, passion kept driving me insane, madness lead me to spend every fils saved replacing 20D; Canon 5DMkII was my new love, poured more money to buy lenses, lights and accessories. I updated my workflow as well; started shooting RAW and processing in Photoshop. In the course I tried and failed to learn from literature; watching training videos were not cool for my nature as well.
Early last year, March 2012, I joined EPyC, Emirates Photography Club on the meetup.com website. Attended 25+ meets, five photowalks and 20+ talks; however, felt something was missing.
I felt being morphed into the camera on Auto mode, continuously analyzing light, thinking what ISO would be best, f number, aperture setting, flash output would be, sometimes pressing my finger on imaginative shutter button; hence, frustrated, don’t know where to point and what to bring in and out of frame!
Later in 2012 I joined Photowalk Dubai (PWD) a new group on Facebook, formed by: Subodh Shetty and Anjum (OldFashioned AJ), Marian Pengyan Han joined recently. Creative, inspirational, dedicated, cool, awesome, appreciative are few layers of their composition. Without a doubt they are people to fall in love with immediately.
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| Anjum (Old Fashioned AJ) |
Since joining PWD, my images started to look lot less worst; to fellow members at least. Their feedback and thumb-up has molded confidence into my attire. My camera stopped humming and started singing heavy metal, PWD provoked and drove my passion to its limits. Last two months my cameras produced 15K exposures; hundreds of gigabytes are consumed on storage media. I am sweating, bleeding, sleeping, dreaming and living photography; my heart thumps and sounds like camera shutter.
It took me years to understand that camera is merely a tool; a disposable camera or a fancy DSLR wouldn’t make a snapshot or ‘the photograph’ neither does a technically perfect exposure. I know now, what’s the difference between ‘the photograph’ and snapshot. Composition and Emotion! Composition you learn with the time and emotion inside the photograph is purely luck. I consider myself lucky enough, finding emotions outside every image I share. PWD members are not miser at all when it comes to providing warm wishes, appreciation and loving response.
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| A smile of success (Subodh with Nikon D800) |
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