An Endowed Lensman: Marcelo Fernando Maturana Rodriguez

An Endowed Lensman: Marcelo Fernando Maturana Rodriguez
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Dear Friends,

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Marcelo Fernando Maturana Rodriguez, a resident of Puerto Montt, Chile (South America), is a young and endowed photo artist. He is a Webmaster (Graphic and Multimedia Designer) by profession. Whenever he gets moment from his professional life, he prefers travelling different places as this provides him the opportunity to satisfy his thirst for photography-art. The main subjects of his interest are birds, small creatures and landscapes. Marcelo is an excellent human being and loves making friends. In times of leisure Marcelo engages himself in getting contentment from music. Here are few photographs taken by Marcelo Fernando Maturana Rodriguez for your delight.

--Dr. Pankaj Sharma.

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Capturing Colours of Dusk

Capturing Colours of Dusk
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Dear Friends,

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A pleasant evening is a good source of moody photographs. Apart from gentle light, evenings often offer vibrant hues which help in getting painting like images. A few points can help us achieving fantastic results:

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1. We should set the ISO of our camera at the lower end (such as 80 or 100) as this will help us getting noise free and fine results.
2. We have to use a small aperture to get maximum depth in the scene.
3. Due to the use of small aperture in low light condition shutter speed goes very down. This results into camera shake. In such situation the use of a firm tripod is always useful.
4. The colours of dusk are often so dominating that we divert from our goal sometimes. For example, if we observe colourful formation of clouds around us, we will concentrate on clouds only. This is a mistaken approach. Including a part of land, hill, any water body or tree can add meaning to the photograph.
5. We have to be very quick while shooting late evenings because the sun during this time goes down very fast. A little delay can sometimes hinder us from getting an excellent photograph.
6. Under exposing the frame slightly can enrich the details and colours in the prospect. But the excess of under exposure can spoil the image.

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--Dr. Pankaj Sharma
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A Zealous Lensman: Tilak K. Haria

A Zealous Photo Artist : Tilak K. Haria

Dear Friends

... Mr. Tilak K. Haria (Mumbai, India) was fascinated by the art of photography since his school days. He owned a Pentax K 1000 camera in 1983 and started clicking. In 1992 he shifted to Sangli (Maharashtra) and started an Industry of Consumer Packaging of Coconut Oil there. During his stay in Sangli he had a chance to come in touch of a few good friends who were very much active in photography. From then onwards, photography art became his honey companion. In 2007 he returned back to Mumbai and finally settled here. In Mumbai too he came in touch of good photographer friends, who after seeing his excellence in the field of art photography, encouraged him to take this hobby seriously. Mr. Haria is a fanatical artist and takes photography art as a strongest means of representing the people and places. He loves shooting portraits, landscapes and architectures. Besides photography good books are his friends. He feels affection for reading the books related to philosophy and short stories.

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--Dr. Pankaj Sharma.

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An Intuitive Photo Artist: Debatosh Sengupta, ARPS, AFIAP, ESFIAP, FFIP

Dear Friends,

Mr. Debatosh Sengupta, an Associate of the Royal Photographic society, Great Britain(1972), an Artist Federation International de ‘la Art Photographique, Belgium(1972) and a Fellow of Federation of Indian Photography(2003) is an intuitive photo artist. He initiated photography in 1970. He exhibited his interest in studying MAN with divergent ethnic and cultural origin having Negroid to Nordic in India since beginning and developed special interest for the study of Nature & environment as well. He has travelled extensively to the remotest places of India from the North to South and East to West for the Photographic documentation and also visited about 35 countries with different assignments.

Mr. Sengupta is more concerned with Pictorial work. He has been invited as visiting lecturer by a number of Government and Private organisations. He has been jury member in many National and International exhibitions. He has earned various laurels both at home and abroad. Some of them are UNESCO/ACCU Award, Indo-Soviet Friendship award, Gronftsher Photo Award, UNESCO World Photo Award, Lalit Kala Academy Award and UP State Lalit Kala Academy Award. Mr. Sengupta has been conferred with life time achievement award by the Academy of Visual Media, New Delhi in 2007 as well. He has more than 200 acceptances in the National and International exhibitions to his credit. He has been conferred with the honour ESFIAP (Excellence Service Federation International d’ la Art Photographique) by the Federation International d’ la Art Photographique (FRANCE).

Presently he is the Director of Photo Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, New Delhi (India).

He firmly believes that our country is possibly the best on planet earth as this has all the aspects of the nature. He realized this beauty sometime in the year 2000 when he visited Orissa, almost after the world’s one of the most devastating cyclones. Same was his reflection of mind when he visited the south coast and the Andaman & Nicober Islands almost one year after the Tsunami.

Here are his photographs taken during his visit to Andaman & Nicober islands. Please have a joy of these stunning photographs.

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--Dr. Pankaj Sharma
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