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Does an SLR make you a true professional photographer?

Does an SLR make you a true professional photographer?

The basic question In the world of art the debate on the content and form is quite old. Every day there is a new facet to it. The interleaved relationship of content and form in the context of medium has been discussed to a great depth by several artists and art critics. How much does a form or content depend […] More

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Mega Pixel Number and Truth Behind it!

Mega Pixel Number and Truth Behind it!

Hi Again! Did you listen about the new Canon 5Ds and 5Dsr launch, I am sure you did.. The dream of having that camera having more than 50 Mega Pixels is almost realized if you have gone ahead to make a booking or ordered one already. I did not buy one of those till now and I do not think […] More

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Cloudy Day and Soft Light!

Cloudy Day and Soft Light!

A cloudy is day often regarded as a great opportunity for getting nice portrait pictures! The well-established reason is soft quality of light. Yes! Clouds make light relatively soft but it is important to understand that how the same light coming from the sun becomes soft because of a clouds. The distance of between Sun and the Earth is huge, […] More

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The Standard Lens!

The Standard Lens!

Standard Lens! looks like a simple term but often turns to be a bit complex to understand. The cameras available in the market from several manufacturers vary not just in their shapes and sizes but more importantly in the size of the imaging device placed at the centre of it. Many times the megapixel number misleads one to believe that […] More

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Light Meter Calibration

Light Meter Calibration

Working in a studio with a friend few days back I realised that both our light meters were reading the same light differently. I was wonderstruck and felt that either one of the meters is defected. We chose to pick a new meter which was Sekonic L308B and its reading matched my friends light meter readings and then it was […] More

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Tribute to film rolls. .

Tribute to film rolls. .

I begin my blog with a gentle tribute to the dearest film and the film rolls with 24 exposures which marked my start in the Photography world. Way back in year 2004 March 30th, my first SLR Nikon N75 with battery pack MB-18 was a gift from my brother(Abhishek Kathuria – Senior Scientist at present) which was then bought with a […] More