By Sandeep Datta, May 28, 2014
Never thought anything could be equally charming and delightful the way writing feels to a short story writer by heart and journalist by profession like me. But photography proved me wrong.
Having learnt a bit of designing and painting or achieving a bit in badminton, cricket or kabaddi in sports, before my late 20s to late 30s in journalistic world, I feel I was born for photography and writing. This is the reason I have developed keenness to explore photography a bit seriously than any hobbyist.
There are so many reasons that one should take to photography. Most important of such reasons being it is the best activity for those who wish to enjoy life to the fullest like a unique celebration of life.
Photography opens up a universe of happy moments for anyone who wishes to explore or do something different, something new, or something distinct every time. There is so much to learn and explore that one finds just one life is not enough and craves for more.
By the time we manage to click satisfactory pics, we feel why didn't we start much earlier in life to stretch our span of photographing lot more than we have. Still, one must feel blessed that he or she took to photography and turned a new person overnight.
The art of photography offers something unique for anyone. No matter how much accomplished or not so successful we have been in other forms of livelihood or challenging careers, photography has something for almost everyone to learn.
It involves a hug scope to develop, to recreate and to wow the world around oneself with regular practice. Interestingly, mere a few days or weeks enables the inquisitive mind to capture anything ordinary and represent it extraordinarily.
From grandparents' wooden stick or broken glasses, old fountain pen or time piece or an iron of 1950s, or even any piece of age-old crockery from the storeroom or father's first scooter to the dead tree near one's house or just any flower you come around during a walk, anything can be turned into an invaluable piece of art with an artistic click. All it requires is "an eye to recognise the hidden beauty".
Photography offers so much that a life looks too small of a time to collect it all and use it. But surely, just clicking photographs with a costly camera doesn't make you a good photographer. One needs to learn this art step by step.
Be it the most recommended "study of light and shades" by observation, or "learning to see" much before clicking things around, or the need to differentiate between the main subject and other things "worth inclusion or exclusion in a shot's composition", or the decision to realise juxtaposition in a scene, or "the story in a scene", or even the significance of a gesture or story behind a person's reaction visible on one's face -- everything is worth a photographer's observation.
Never thought anything could be equally charming and delightful the way writing feels to a short story writer by heart and journalist by profession like me. But photography proved me wrong.
Having learnt a bit of designing and painting or achieving a bit in badminton, cricket or kabaddi in sports, before my late 20s to late 30s in journalistic world, I feel I was born for photography and writing. This is the reason I have developed keenness to explore photography a bit seriously than any hobbyist.
There are so many reasons that one should take to photography. Most important of such reasons being it is the best activity for those who wish to enjoy life to the fullest like a unique celebration of life.
Photography opens up a universe of happy moments for anyone who wishes to explore or do something different, something new, or something distinct every time. There is so much to learn and explore that one finds just one life is not enough and craves for more.
By the time we manage to click satisfactory pics, we feel why didn't we start much earlier in life to stretch our span of photographing lot more than we have. Still, one must feel blessed that he or she took to photography and turned a new person overnight.
The art of photography offers something unique for anyone. No matter how much accomplished or not so successful we have been in other forms of livelihood or challenging careers, photography has something for almost everyone to learn.
It involves a hug scope to develop, to recreate and to wow the world around oneself with regular practice. Interestingly, mere a few days or weeks enables the inquisitive mind to capture anything ordinary and represent it extraordinarily.
Photography offers so much that a life looks too small of a time to collect it all and use it. But surely, just clicking photographs with a costly camera doesn't make you a good photographer. One needs to learn this art step by step.
Be it the most recommended "study of light and shades" by observation, or "learning to see" much before clicking things around, or the need to differentiate between the main subject and other things "worth inclusion or exclusion in a shot's composition", or the decision to realise juxtaposition in a scene, or "the story in a scene", or even the significance of a gesture or story behind a person's reaction visible on one's face -- everything is worth a photographer's observation.
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