The art of exploring

July 02, 2019

Photography is an art, created by with the help of a camera, lens, and other accessories and technologies. With the help of all the electronic devices, Photographer created a scene, photographs whatever lives in his mind or in his creative mind. In the simplest way, whatever he sees actually and produced in an artistic way. Whatever his creative mind explore and then capture.

The goal of photography is express an idea, convey a message, create an emotion etc. To achieve your goal, only one thing always matter how much you explore before pressing the shutter. Explore does not mean always that you explore the good places to shoot. You need to explore the better idea to shoot to convey a better message.

Exploration means a lot for photography, rather I would like to mention that EXPLORING IS AN ART. Never misunderstand this word Exploring is only for the locations. exploring required even for the product shoot, Interior shoot or all the photography genres. Let's discuss How the exploring habit will make you a better photographer. 

Few important steps to explore for better photography.

Always try to know the purpose of photography if shooting commercially, Discuss with your clients. Once you are through with the purpose of photography then start exploring the ideas, photography gears, locations, accessories, any other things related to the project.

Suppose you are shooting the macro products for your clients then you should know in advance the product's end-users, How they use and why they use. What is the purpose or uses of the products, how this product is going to help the end-users of these products? Understand the functionality etc. Basis of this important information then you start your planning, exploring, writing, scripting etc Visit the competitor's website, watch their youtube channels, go through your client's product literature.

• Finalised your photography gears
• Which lens can be more beneficial.
• In the studio, Outside, Client's plant etc
• create a better idea, write a script if you can.
• Product specification
• Final products
• Work on the background
• Create a magic

When there is a shoot for the model, jewellery, bikes, cars, interiors, fabric, dress material,  Eyeglasses, Industrial etc. There is a lot of exploration happens. They explore locations, models, the punchline of the products, how to catch the viewers interest, dresses, sometimes they shoot the same product with different celebrity /model/actors to catch different category customer.  Sometimes they spent too much time before the shoot.  The only requirement is that your photographs must convey the correct message along with the wow factor of the image.

Art of exploring gives you a better understanding of your shoot of any photography genres. It purely depends upon a photographer, how he handles the project before the shoot and after the shoot. I often receive a phone call from the clients and a few clients talk like this, Our product is ready for the shoot, Please come along with the camera and your team now and shoot. This type of phone call always disappoints me. Sometimes it is tough to manage them but part of the profession. I always avoid shoots without better planning.

Art of exploring not only help you to shoot professionally but also help you to build your own personal portfolio better. Suppose you are planning to shoot wildlife, You explore the wildlife national park, Which kind of animal, bird, species you may find to shoot. Which is the perfect weather to shoot, What are the charges for Safari Jeep, and other expenses etc? On the basis of this study, you settle your photography gears, safety kit, money, travel days etc

Art of exploring, search, discover, seek, examine, analyze etc will always give you a power of delivering a better shot, also help your viewer to understand your mindset. style, message etc.

Keep experimenting, exploring and have wonderful and happy photography to you all.

Photographer and Blogger Prasenjeet Gautam (www.prasenjeetgautam.com) has captured the above all the images. India