A la creatif: Part-1 First Day.

This is Part-1 for the project publication. I will give you all the shots that I have worked on for last one year during my study of photography along with the new ones.This part will include few specific modules.

• Bokeh decorations.


• Outdoor portraits with minimal setup for day and well lit places.
• Balancing strobes with the sun


• Night portraits with strobes+ambient balanced.


• Dimensional lights with artificial light blocks for designs and effects on background and face.


• Slow shutter speed.

Though I have written it as the Day first, however it includes photos from long gone days. So, day first means, the first day of my attempt to gather these photos for publishing. Hereafter I will post my photos on day basis, however, it is not a 365 or daily kind of blog that many photographers have.

Jamil: In front of Taj Hotel Bombay.

1/160s, f9, ISO-200, Nikon D60, Sigma 70-300DG @300mm, 42" round photopro warm reflector from the left of the model diagonally upwards to create a catchlight in the eyes and wash the shadows out. Warm reflector is used to give natural warm glow that we get in the setting sun or if we sit against a reflective object under the sun.







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Conviction: A taste of conviction for one's own soul.

Photo:1- 1/250s, f5.6, ISO-100, camera Nikon D60, lens Nikkor 18-55VR @ 36mm.

Photo:2- 1/250s, f5.6, ISO-100, camera Nikon D60, lens Nikkor 18-55VR @ 36mm.

This photo was shot while I was sitting beside a window during autumn of 2008. I saw the light coming through the window was forming some formation on the wall and I thought about some concepts of mine. First I brought a small mirror and positioned myself to place the shadows exactly the way I wanted on my face. Then I tried some random hand held shots. Two of them were good enough to put up here. You can also make paper stipes with black mount or board paper and then place them in from a reading lamp with a high wattage bulb. place your face by looking at the mirror and then click. You can place your hand in the light first and point the camera to check the TTL to set your exposure. Why your hand because your face and hand both have almost same reflective power, and hence the exposure will be almost correct. No photoshop correction has been done except B/W conversion.

Breakdown: A tortured face of today's youth.


20sec, f22, ISO-100 (to keep the grains and other noises to the minimum level), Camera Nikon D60, lens Sigma 70-300DG, @83mm.

Set the camera on tripod and pointed it to a predetermined position. Then calculated the distance between the spot and the camera and then set the focus at that distance (Sigma lens has a scale on the focusing barrel for distance measurement focusing.This was shot indoor with two ambient lights. One at 90-45 right of the camera and another from 15-65 left of the camera. You can use any light to get this shot. No flash is required here. even a high power flash light can do the job. Here I intentionally darkened the features of the face on the left of the frame, but you can use the light on the left of the camera get a little closer to the model (change the lateral angle from 15 to say 45) and bring out the features.

Trina: Trina at Russel St. Calcutta.

1/60s, f4.2, ISO-400, camera Nikon D60, lens Sigma 70-300DG @110mm, speedlight Nikon SB-400 with iTTL mode at 60degree tilt angle bounced from 42" round photopro warm reflector. The bokeh is original.

Jamil: Jamil in front of Victoria Terminus, Bombay.

1/40s, f4.2, ISO-400, camera Nikon D60, lens Sigma 70-300DG @ 110mm, speedlight Nikon SB-400 with iTTL mode tilted @75 degree bounced through photopro 42" round warm reflector. The model was standing against a taxi cab and the yellow roof of the cab actually gave a dimension to the background.