Report - “4th IIPC World Photography Day Annual Photo Contest-2010”

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“4th IIPC World Photography Day Annual Photo Contest 2010”

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Friends,

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Photography like other forms of art has become an important medium of artistic expression today. India International Photographic Council’s contribution for promotion of this form of art is admirable. The IIPC’s ‘World Photography-Day Annual Photo Contest’ provides a podium to the art lovers, whether an apprentice, amateur or professional, to display and polish their skills and know-how.
The response of participants towards “4th IIPC World Photography Day Annual Photo Contest-2010” was exhilarating this year too. 1025 entries from 78 participants covering about 15 states were received in five categories, namely B/W Pictorial Prints, Colour Pictorial Prints, Nature Prints, Journalism Prints and Travel Prints. About 280 photographs got acceptances out of received entries (1025). 05 photographs received awards and about 29 photographs got Certificates of Merit. The award winners are:

(1). Mr. V.K.R.S Sarma (East Godavari Distt., A.P) for “Fishing with Hope” (B/W Prints Section).
(2). Mr. Konda Jashuva (East Godavari Distt., A. P) for “Water Carriers” (Colour Prints Section).
(3). Mr. Sanjay Kumar Pashine (Jabalpur, M.P) for “Langurs Drinking Water” (Nature Prints Section).
(4). Mr. T. Srinivasa Reddy (Vijayawada, A.P) for “Perfect” (Journalism Prints Section).
(5). Mr. Sharad Shrivastava (Vidisha, M.P) for “Towards Destination” (Travel Prints Section).

Dr. Pankaj Sharma, AIIPC, IIPC Gold, Mr. Bijan Das and Mr. Deepak Ghosh, LIIPC were Jury Members.
The Photo Vision, Bareilly organised the exhibition of the best entries successfully for the fourth time successively on 19th and 20th August 2010. It is heart-rending to mention that the President of Photo Vision, Mr. O. N. Sharma, an ace photo-artist, passed away only a week before the exhibition. He gave his precious guidelines for the success of the event till the last moments of his life. The guidelines and suggestions of Late Mr. O.N. Sharma are respectfully acknowledged. The exhibition was dedicated to him.
The members of Photo Vision, Mr. Gopal Sharma, Mr. Mr. Deepak Sharma, Mr. Bipin Mehra, Mr. Sanjay Jaiswal, Mr. Sushil Saxena, Dr. Anupam Sharma, Mr. Sachin Gaur, Mr. Ajay Sharma, Mr. Karuna Nidhi Gupta, Mr. Anuj Sharma and Mr. Sri Gopal Sharma gave their precious support for the success of the show.

The event was sponsored by Fun-N-Fashion Footwear, Bareilly.

----Dr. Pankaj Sharma
Contest Chairman

"Glimpses of Kumbha Mela – 2010, Haridwar"

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Glimpses

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Kumbha Mela – 2010, Haridwar

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Mr. Anup Sah, AIIPC (Nainital) is a renowned photo-artist of India. He has more than 250 awards and 1500 acceptances in national and International contests of photography to his credit. A big number of his photographs have been published in reputed books, journals and magazines. Mr. Sah has been invited as a jury member in numerous photography contests. He is a passionate mountaineer and has climbed important Himalayan Peaks. He is before us with his photographs of Kumbha Fair at Haridwar (India), 2010. This fair was an important religious event of 2010.

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---- Dr. Pankaj Sharma

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Tribute To A Legend : O. N. Sharma, ASIIPC

Tribute To A Legend

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O. N. Sharma, ASIIPC

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Friends,

Mr. O. N. Sharma of Bareilly (U.P, India) was a photo artist of high repute. He passed away on 13 August, 2010 at the age of 92. Passing away of Mr. Sharma is a big loss to the world of photography art. Here is an effort to through light on his life.

Born in a village of District Aligarh (India) on 9th November 1918, O. N. Sharma happened to go to Lahore in 1935. There he learnt the basics of photography under the guidance of his brother-in-law. Due to his hard work and inborn aesthetic sense he got perfect in this art within a short phase. In 1942 he tied with Kinsay, a British firm of Musoorie, as an artist. Later, in 1946, Mr. Sharma joined a reputed firm, Mahta in Srinagar. Hereafter, he worked in Rawalpindi in the year 1947. During this period he got in touch of famous pictorialist, Mr. R. R. Bharadwaj (popularly known as Guru Ji). Mr. Bharadwaj taught him fine points of photography art. Mr. Bhradwaj’s personality and work style left a deep impact on him. After the freedom of country, Mr. Sharma came in touch of the Nawab of then Rampur State. Nawab of Rampur got deeply fascinated with his mastery over photography art. Nawab requested him to be the official photographer of his state. Mr. Sharma, who had got high-quality command on the technical and aesthetic aspects of photography art, accepted this invitation and shifted to Rampur. He worked with Nawab of Rampur for a long time. As he wanted to do something of his own, he finally shifted to Bareilly in about 1950 and opened his studio, named as Navyug Studio. His studio earned a big name and fame due to his hard work. He captured various big personalities of that period, such as past presidents of our country, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan and Sri. B. B. Giri, great actor Prithviraj Kapoor, Pradeep Kumar etc. Prithviraj Kapoor came to Bareilly in 1955 to perform his plays. He wanted some artistic self-portraits, and for this purpose he met Mr. O. N. Sharma. Mr. Sharma clicked his pictures whole heartedly. Prithviraj Kapoor liked one of the clicked portraits so much that he ordered 150 copies of the same. Being impressed with Mr. Sharma’s artistic ability, Prithviraj Kapoor invited him to Bombay. But his love for Bareilly stopped him to go anywhere else.

Mr. Sharma was famous for various branches of photography, but he is well known for his excellent black and white portraits. Perfect composition, wonderful use of light, liveliness and meaningfulness had been the basic characteristics of his portraits.

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The India International Photographic Council, Delhi honoured him with its "Associateship" in 2009.

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Sri O. N. Sharma was an artist of distinction and an excellent human being. There is no equivalent to his artistic approach . He, along with his fellow photo-artists, founded Photo Vision Society in Bareilly about 20 years back to promote photography as an art. Due to his patronage and guidance, Photo Vision is well known all over the country today. He was a guide to numerous art lovers and was always ready to help them. Sri Sharma consistently bestowed his true affection on the art lovers. It is difficult to find a great human being like him in today’s era. His precious services to the field of photography art, and his cultured behaviour will be remembered forever.

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--Dr. Pankaj Sharma

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Learning : "Magic of Inversion"

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"Learning"

..... Magic of Inversion

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Dear Friends,

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Experimentation is an inborn characteristic of an artist. This often results into amazing findings. In photography art, there is a great scope for experiments. The recent technological developments have added wings to our inventive pursuit.
We normally love to see positive images. However, negative images can sometimes look wonderful. Converting positive images into negative ones is quite simple. This can be done through the following steps:

1. Open an image in Photoshop.
2. After this, we have to create a duplicate image to work on. For doing this, go to image and then click duplicate. As a result, a duplicate image comes into view. Hereafter we have to close the original image. The creative effect is to be added to this duplicate image.
3. Now go to image>adjustment and select invert. After clicking invert, the image transforms into negative one. The inverted image can be obtained by clicking ctrl + I as well.
4. If the inverted image really looks artistic, we can adjust the brightness/contrast and saturation of the photograph as per our requirement.

Closing note: Inversion does not go well with all the images. This works magically with the images of colourful forms and shapes found in nature or in manmade objects.

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--Dr. Pankaj Sharma

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