Opening my box of creation, and guess what.......

I opened my box of creations and it turns out to be a painful one to close it, because my clients like "simpler" yet "attractive" outputs from me, not creative. I was really hurt and confessing now that I was not being able to take the rude behaviour from one of them. Still it was fun in a way, that in the entire session I had the liberty of choosing what and how to shoot. Despite their mild opposition, I pretended that I din't hear them and shot the entire set according to my choice; and voila!!!! I got 90% success. 10% missing because of my entire shoot din't go according to the plan. I had to change some of the concepts, because it was not suiting the model's features. What else, I got bored editing photos, cursed my purse for not being a casino jackpot machine, and lastly felt pitty on some people because they can be as freaky as they can spend an entire week in indecision.

There are people in this world (may be 'universe' is the more appropriate term, since our scientists found water on the moon), who are eligible enough to be a a judge of an indecision-society. They are choosy to the level of infinity, dumb because they have no sense of understanding art & creation and also a loser who thinks and tries to make lesser people believe that they are popular and talented. Believe me I have seen it throughout my photographic career that talent, nowadays does not have anything to do with the persons qualities. It has to do with your ability to sell your self (rather $#!t) and buy others attention at the cost of real currency. The more references you have, the more popular you are. Hows that sound, a real loser of me? Oh yes, that I am, because I can not sell my bad things to people, so I only sell things which are not bad, so less sale and less popularity.

Now lets talk some sense (as I was going real weired and abstract today). I had few assignments and now 30% of it is accomplished succesfully and after much hard work. Rest is due in February. About this assignment, I am greatful to my friend and famous model Mainak in Calcutta. I had full liberty from his end to go ahead with the shoot as I want and believe me guys, that is what a real creative person wants. Money matters, but only to some extent, what matters most is that whether you are being given the libery of go ahead with your mind and heart, both. Otherwise I din't take up photography for copy paste work.

I think that will be all, because the dosage of frustration is enough for now and I should also give you all some time to think about it. So, cheers and take care.

2010 calendar

This is my first post in the new year and I hope this year's been giving away its best to everyone as it did to me. I have been busy for last few weeks for my first glamour calendar. Though its my first attempt and am not gonna brag about it, however, this will remain as one of my best experiences. It taught me many a new things and I have come across a variety of people, starting from models, actors, makeup artists, stylists and many more. I have worked hard to keep my standards up, however, was not happy for my own work and dropped few photos behind as they were not at all good. re-shooting was not possible, since this is not a commercial calendar so I had to keep everyone satisfied. Most of the shots were finalized after a gap of several months. E.g. the shots of Mainak, they were shot 7-8 months back during a conceptual shoot. Some were shot keeping the concept of calendar in mind.

There are few shots still left to be finalised and then put on the calendar. I have decided to put this on for selective sale and only to interested people. Also I will distribute few copies to my prospective and old clients. This is to portray my entire year's effort and concept played wild in my mind to come out. Its more like a portfolio calendar for me. I have also thought about the sales part thoroughly. I will sell it and then distribute the profits evenly amongst everyone, who has worked for the calendar. Now it will be upto my viewers, who will decide, whether to buy or bye bye.....

Here's a preview of my 2010 calendar.
Calendar 2010

Forgot to mention that this week I also was busy with my results of Diploma of photography. Its a God's grace that I secured the first position in both the semesters. My hard work gave fruites. When I saw the marks myself, I was so happy, that I couldnt stay still for a while. Hope this gives a boost to my work as well.