Learning : "Photographing Deepawali"

"Learning"

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Photographing Deepawali
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Dear Friends,

Deepawali is a festival of lights, joy and happiness. This festival gives us a good opportunity for high-quality photographs. Below mentioned points can be beneficial for clicking valuable photographs of this occasion.
1. At the outset our aim should be to capture the true feel of this festival.
2. Since this festival is celebrated during post evening part of the day, we have to be extra conscious for taking photographs.
3. If our aim is to shoot the people enjoying the firecrackers, we should set the ISO of our camera at a high level (400 or onwards). This will help us capturing their activities faultlessly. In case of shooting the firecrackers merely we should slightly under expose the photograph. This will boost up the details and colours.
4. Illuminated buildings and streets/markets present us good probability for excellent photographs. For shooting them as well we have to use a high ISO. But for noise free photographs, use of low ISO is very fruitful. In such case we have to rest our camera on a tripod in order to get sharp results. Along with a low ISO we can set a small aperture to achieve a good depth of field. But In such case moving objects will tend to blur. Sometimes (and not always) blurred moving objects add a wonderful effect to a photograph. Use of a wide angle lens is very friendly in capturing illuminated streets or buildings.
Using a high view point at times give fantastic results.
5. Shooting colourful electric bulbs by using utterly low shutter speed and with intentional camera shakes occasionally results into magical results. For this point, we have to set a low shutter speed (such as 1/15 sec. or 1/30 sec.) with a low ISO setting. Now by aiming at an appropriate illuminated decoration, we have to do two things at the same time, pressing the shutter releasing button and shaking the camera randomly. We can repeat this act twice, thrice or more. This will result into some pretty graphical images.
6. People, worshiping, or busy in lightening the lamps/candles, can also be our subject during Deepawali celebration. Here we have to use a slight high ISO. The use of tripod is quite useful in such case also.
7. Apart from above technical points, the aesthetic sense and fine skills of a photo artist will help in creating splendid Deepawali Photographs.
I wish all my friends a Happy Deepawali and Happy Shooting.

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--Dr. Pankaj Sharma

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