Prasenjeet SC Gautam Photography Blogs

  Most of my student, beginner photographer always ask one common question, 'Which is the best light for photography" The answer is, Morning light is the best light to shoot travel, landscape, even portrait, models, etc. Even film shoot are always shot in the morning light.   It is not only my opinion but it is a universal truth. Every filmmaker, photographer, videographer etc always preferred to shoot in the morning light and It cut your cost also. If anybody looking for serious photography, videography etc then start experiment with morning light. Morning light is a blessing for photography, If anybody is capable of handling natural light, morning light then no one can stop you to become a better successful photographer. Now let's discuss why morning light is better and why we need to choose morning light to shoot.  Let's discuss the few important things to choose better morning light. No pollution/No Dust - When you reach a spot to shoot in the morning. Before th...

  There are two things that are inbuilt in a DSLR camera, One is a viewfinder and the second one is a LiveView to preview the images before the shoot. Handling viewfinder is a little difficult as handling LiveView because for viewfinder handling you have to hold the camera and check the preview, it may shake the camera and sometimes you get a blurry image whereas in the case of LiveView, you have to fix the camera on the steady tripod and check the preview and shoot and there is no chance of shaking. A big difference between both options.  In case using the viewfinder, you do not need to switch ON your camera, whereas, in the case of using a Liveview, you need to switch on your camera to preview the shot, technically speaking live view option means,  lifts the mirror, open the shutter, light pass-through the sensor and entire image preview land on the camera LCD panel.  Now this gives a preview of the image and then you decide to shoot if the shoot is convincing t...

When you are able to shoot better images with all required creatives, technology etc. Now is a time to sell your images online and make some money. It's a good business option, there are end numbers of beginner photographer, they generate revenue through this option. There are end numbers of stock agencies that takes your photos and sell them online. Beginner photographer dream about publishing their images on selling portals and look for fame etc.   Stock photo agencies are a pretty simple way for anyone with a relatively large photo archive to earn money with their hobby Few photo selling agencies are mentioned here Getty Images istock.com shutterstock.com depositphotos.com bigphotos.com There are more agencies that exist on Google, you can find it out later. These photo selling agencies use your photos to publish for a publishing house, railway stations, advertising boards, PR and other best place to show your unique photos.  Beginner photographer must go through the stock ...

Nowadays mobile photography becoming the easiest way to capture photos, anywhere, anytime etc. No photography courses are required, no basic knowledge required, No high-end expensive photography tools are required. But when the photograph is a concern with anyone then everyone wanna looks better, beautiful and sometimes meaningful etc in their images. Whenever you are capturing photographs your friend or family with your expensive mobile even then your little photography knowledge is required to capture better.  On the other hand, How to look better when someone is capturing you with the mobile, sometimes models, friends, family need to know that how to look better while mobile photography. This article is about those people who wanna look good in mobile photography. and looking for better tips and tricks etc. Please go through these tips and tricks, which mentioned below and must follow if you are seriously looking to look better in the images.  Important tips to follow ...

Whenever my friend, relatives, family etc always ask about how to take better photographs through mobile. They also mentioned that they are not going to BUY DSLRs camera to shoot because they are not going to be a serious photographer. they are only interested to capture photos for fun and wanna look good in the photos. No professional touch at all required or not looking forward to becoming a more mature photographer.  I respect all those people, who have a good phone and do not wanna be a photographer but wanna take good photos only for their fun and happiest moment. They may be right at their place up to a certain extent. Now I am going to mention a few simple tips and tricks which may help you to shoot better. let's follow a few important to shoot better.  Must check the background before the shoot, No other person, object, lights etc must not exist in the background. Always shoot with a clean background. No unwanted object spoil your background. Must check foreground also...

Retouching the photograph means photo editing and postprocessing. The term retouching refers to the physical improvement of the photographs, removes the flaws and any other error which may degrade the quality of the photographs, may leave a bad impression on the viewers. Retouching the photographs help to improve the appearance of the photograph. One must understand that you always need to retouch the photograph once the shoot is done, sometimes you correct photographs 10% and sometimes you correct the photographs 50%. No one should underestimate retouching feature or editing etc. It's the backbone of photography.  The purpose of retouching is to present your photographs in a very professional manner to your clients or any photography community etc. I must write here, Retouching or post-processing is equivalently important as pressing the shutter button to capture photographs. We must ignore those alibies who remarks like this real photograph is without editing or editing kills the...

Whenever a beginner photographer start photography as a hobby/career, the most important thing to do is buying expensive or inexpensive, useful or no use, which genre of photography? They were not having any idea which photography gears to be bought initially. The main challenge, we all must have faced at the beginning of the career that, to whom to ask about buying any photography gears and how someone knows about the gear's detailed information before buying anything related to photography.  Earlier there was a time when no Internet facilities were invented, No Google, No Bing was there to know your requirement and to serve your requirement. But now the time has changed. Now electronic media is well enough to share all the required information whatever you wanna know. Let's discuss how we can know our gears in a better way to use for better photography.  Let's discuss the few important things to know about the photography gears in advance Before buying any lens and camera...

  Natural light, quality light (Indoor & outdoor) is a hidden asset for all beginner to Pro level photographer. Understanding light shape, natural light's hidden assets are the main important keys to shoot portrait indoors or outside. I must write here that natural light delivers better results than artificial light. Once you started observing the natural light then there is a 100% possibilities of getter your desired lights. There are hundreds of ways of getting good natural inside your room, studio for your portrait shoot. Let's discuss how the photographer can achieve a good natural light for the photo-shoot. It is the photographer's duty to keep their photography eye open to observe the natural light to shoot the subject or find the light source inside the room or studio. Natural light plays an intense role in outdoor as well as indoor photography.  When we start photography as a career, we hardly notice the natural light but as long as you grow as a pro-level p...

Sometimes you don't even know or understand where you were gone wrong when you face paying the high repairing cost bill for your photography kit's damages. I am sure some of you must have faced these types of the situation while pursuing photography as a career. But we all learn from a silly mistake and if we keep on doing the same silly mistakes then no one can save us. Wiseman never repeats the same mistake as I have been taught about mistakes. Well, today this article about a few silly mistakes that we do knowingly or unknowingly in our profession. sometimes these silly mistakes habits already cultivated in us and then it has become so difficult to change those silly habits. It's a big project to change yourself. Seriously.  Let's discuss the important silly habits that can kill your photography kit, injurious to your pocket and you are highly charged for the damages.  Protect Memory card's slot - When we are back from the shoot and we need to copy the data from...

  I hope, most of the photographer must be facing lots of distraction while choosing Photography as a career. Lots of better option must have given at that time as a better career option, lots of negatives option must have given us as an example for photography. I must tell you that distraction and focus are the two side of one single coin. It keeps following you throughout your life, Now it is your wish to choose, either choose focus or distraction. The word distraction always deviate you from your target, object, and sometimes your photography genres. Let's discuss these two words distraction and focus and which will help you more to grow more as a photographer.  Distraction Vs Focus  Most people always distract you to choose the photography genres as per your choice like you are looking forward to becoming a travel photographer and they always suggest you to choose wedding photography. Never allow other people to choose photography genres on your behalf.  Most peo...

  Maybe, This topic may disappoint a few immature wildlife photographers. The reason is simply disappointing. Immature photographers are now responsible for irritating wild animals, birds and other beautiful species. Being a photographer, No animal has given us permission, licence to disturb them in their life. We have no right to capture them if incase our appearance is creating havoc on them. I am strictly mentioning this if any immature, pro photographers are not aware of handling wildlife photography genre then they must quit the idea of shooting WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY.  Here I am mentioning a few important points which every photographer must follow by their heart and must follow as any religion rules.  Crowd - Mostly animal are scared of the crowd, Sometimes they react very badly and can harm any human in the crowd. Please never ever be in the crowd if you are taking wildlife photography very seriously.  Excuse NEST and DEN - Please never ever go close to any ne...

  Sometimes Bad weather makes better photographs. The speciality of bad weather, You do not have to wait for this weather. This can happen anywhere and without spacial prediction. One of the worst weather is FOG which exists in every winter season in every country. No more special plans to visit the foggy location at all.  Most of the photographer avoid shooting in Foggy weather because of its poor visibility, dewdrops also un-favour you to shoot. But better photographer always takes this challenge to shoot in any worst and the foggy weather condition.  Also, I would like to mention here that one must take all the precautionary steps to protect his photography kit because dewdrop can spoil your camera sensor if any drop enters into your camera and lens.  Let's discuss the few important safety steps to shoot better in foggy weather.  Be prepared along with safety feature like one must carry one torchlight, calculative equipment, one companion, the camera cover, h...

  Every photographer in this photography world has a different type of perspective to shoot. It does not matter about his photography knowledge, whether he/she is a beginner, advanced level photographer or who takes photograph from his mobile etc. We have to understand his different perspective in the photography and sometimes beginner photographer captured altogether different wow photograph or out of the box. Perspective may be different and which has no boundary, no rules, limitless, out of the box etc. There is no correct, perfect perspective of the photography, there is no correct perspective's definition ever described in the world of photography. We are free to develop our own perspective style and which communicate a better message to the viewers, the message which holds the viewers so long. No photograph has ever defined about its correct and perfect perspective.  But the most important thing is that never shoot whimsically, which is not even liked by the viewers and ...

I wish you all a very Happy New Year 2021 and wish all the happiness to you all. But follow all the precaution to be safe because COVID is still here. Stay in & Stay Safe! Today I am writing about manual focusing, I tell you that manual focusing focuses better than auto-focus in some areas. It's a good exercise for all the beginner photographer who never used manual focusing. Because the autofocus is quite easy to focus and less time-consuming. Long time back when there was no digital technology introduced or not in the practices that time, all the photographer (beginner to advance photographers) always shot only in the manual focus option because there was no way out to shoot. But time always changes and now we have the revolution in the camera technology. Autofocus is one of the great technology.  Manual focus still performs better and still renowned photographers prefer this manual focusing option to shoot and has convinced us with better results. It is not about to force yo...

Macro photography is one of the favourite subjects of the beginner because macro photography introduces the extreme close up shot of the insects, flowers and other smallest living or non-living things etc where the insect and other sizes look bigger than the actual size of the subject. But macro photography always requires  aesthetic as well as technical aspects. But I tell you if you find the interesting macro subject to shoot then nothing like this.  The important advantage of macro photography, you do not need expensive photography gears like other photography genres required. You can start to shoot with 35mm, 50mm lens along with the basic DSLRs. So you donot need to worry at all. There are a few important tips to follow to shoot better macro shots.  Let's discuss macro photography's tips to shoot better. Here I am not including composition techniques, aesthetics, framing, camera setting etc (already mentioned in the previous blogs) Must carry extra flash to shoot, be...

The one and only one thing is COMPOSITION TECHNIQUE always reshape your subject, always gives new energy to the common subject, always speak from a different angle in a new language. I hope you agree with this, you can not always hunt/create/explore for the different subject but your different composition technique will always create something new, energetic, creative shot. Photographers never ever try to capture those existing thing which is visible to all humans but He always captures which is visible to him only by creating strong composition techniques. All the existing things are common for all the people but strong compositing technique converts that common thing into spacial, stunning, wow photographs. It purely depends on the photographer's creative eye.  I hope, most of the creative people watches Hollywood films and most of the Hollywood filmmaker uses the same locations but every time they compose the shot in different composition, angle etc and the entire shot look ama...