Ethics in photography? Where is the line?
Written by Anurag Bhateja on March 21, 2009 – 9:10 pm -I am fed up of the comments on my photographs or my fellow photographers’ photographs who have ever clicked a photograph of a poor and publish it on public domain. First of all I want to point out what I heard during a lecture of Mr.Raghu Rai. A person from public asked Raghu ji that isn’t this a bad side of photographer to click during riots or epidemic or earth quake etc. rather than help the victims? He answered that we are photographers and clicking photographs is our work. If there are people to help then we should concentrate on our work.
I want to know if I were a professional photographer and got an assignment to click some shots of poor people around my city, should I yell for ethics and sentiments? I don’t think so. I should do what I asked to. I do not understand why people do comment on other person’s work if they can not digest the work done on poor or people in pain?
As per my thoughts when you are clicking something you should keep your emotions in a suitcase, lock it and throw it in sea. There are so many fields in photography where you have to kill your emotions to complete the assignment. There are some lines though. Clicking a burning national flag, Holy books or figures, currency note or nude shot without his/her knowledge or some situations like this should not be clicked in any case.
Why a photograph clicked by some well known photograph is always a good photograph no matter it is of rich or poor but if same is clicked by a amateur it is against “ethics”?
If we are in this field just to click rich and happening places then we should open a studio and click “Marriage Photographs” and should be happy.
I know I am rude but this is a truth that to be a photographer you have to pinch your emotions a lot of time. So stop yelling for ethics and enjoy every mood. Remember we all feel proud on winning “OSCAR FOR SLUMDOG”!!
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Tutorial — Capturing Moon With Texture
Written by Anurag Bhateja on April 24, 2008 – 11:28 am -
Moon is always a source of inspiration for poets, photographers and children. Now shooting the moon with cam is tricky and needs a stable hand to work with, which means you need to practice a lot. Now as moon is only visible in night long exposure is required as there is no enough light. I agree but when we increase the exposure the texture gets vanished and we are not able to click proper textured shot of moon. Here in this image I managed to get clear shot of moon with texture as a very small tricks work here. Please note you must be aware of manual mode for this shot otherwise or the cam is on auto or program, the texture will not come.
1. Now first of all get ready with the with settings Exposure: 1/300, f/3.2, ISO 80. These setting may vary according to time, place and month as in every month the distance of moon, the light and surroundings vary so the shutter speed may go up to 1/60 or may go down to 1/400.
2. Switch off the digital zoom as it will make image look broken.
3. Now the tricky thing is getting the cam stable. You have to either put it on tripod or on some stable place. I have used a table with a block of wood to get tilt in the cam.
4. Set the timer to 2 seconds so that the image do not get shaky.
5. Click it and test several shots with different settings.
Enjoy the moon!
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Getting unusual candle shots!
Written by Anurag Bhateja on April 20, 2008 – 8:00 pm -
This is one of the most appreciated shots that I have uploaded on flickr. Till date it got 280+ views. Now I am revealing the secret behind this shot for amateur photographers.
1. 1st this required is multiple number of different sized candles.
2. 2nd most important thing is a dark area like a closed room or you can do it at night time. I used the area under stairs in night time and switched off all the lights around me.
3. Now Set your cam to manual and get the settings shutter 1/200, f/2.7 and ISO 100. Well these are the settings I used you can vary F value for variation in DOF.
4. Now set the mode to super macro.
5. Light up the candles. Set the candles in the style you want. I took three candles and tilted them so that each one give support to other candles.
6. Now if you click the shot the flame will come straight. The real thing starts here. Shooting in area where there is lot of moment in air, good shots will not come. To get shots better along with moment in flame you have to just blow air from your mouth very lightly.
7. Continues practice and some shots will surly give you a cool unusual shot!
Enjoy!
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