Pro Profile: Anthropological Photography

"My focus is on what I like to call the 'human experience,' I guess you could call it Anthropological Photography. I like to catch diverse people in their natural environment, simply doing what they do. Even my landscape shots are usually tied back to some element of the human experience or hold greater insight into current events. Teaching is like a main course and photography as a desert for me", says Colin Boyd Shafer, a teacher by profession and an enthusiastic photographer.

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Pro Profile: F1 Photography

Richard Tan, a service engineer by profession and an enthusiastic photographer becomes an expert for Formula One photography and shares with us how he got into the business and what are the key points that you have to keep in mind while you shoot such fast moving objects. Richard picked up photography in 1998 when he bought a second hand film SLR from his friend. He started learning from his friends, as they went around shooting almost anything, from sunsets to landscapes, night scenes etc. Later, he lost his camera and could not continue his hobby for some time but then picked it up again in 2002 when he bought his first digital compact (FujiFilm S602Z). From then onwards, he became an enthusiast photographer. His interest in photography went into the next level after he took over his first digital SLR (Nikon D70) in 2004. Currently he's using Nikon D300.

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Camera review: Fujifilm S200 EXR

Fujifilm has won several awards for its EXR technology and the newly launched FinePix S200 EXR is also offered as a bundle of this breakthrough technology with a mix of diverse features to make it a perfect camera for those who want to enjoy the functionality of a DSLR, to some extent, without carrying the load of the entire DSLR system. Although, it is not too compact but one can have 12MP CCD EXR sensor along with high quality 14.3x zoom lens (F2.8 Wide – F5.3 Telephoto) and other diverse features in one piece

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Lens Review: Tamron SP AF 60mm F/2 Dill Macro 1:1

We test a real macro photography lens which has one of the fastest and maximum aperture that a macro lenses have ever produced i.e. Tamron SP AF 60mm F/2 dill macro 1:1. Earlier, we would think of having F/2.8, but now you can move in even closer to your subjects with F/2 aperture and have a mix of dramatically sharp and blurry effects on the images. Not just this, you can also have a telephoto range of 60mm which is equivalent to 93mm when converted to the 35mm format camera. This lens inherits the quality of Tamron's world-renowned 90mm F2.8 macro. This lens is the world's first 1:1 macro APS-C size lens featuring F2

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Tips & Techs: Photographing Landscapes

Photography is a creative endeavour and should not be learnt in a hurry. There is no point in rushing or chasing to click a photograph during the golden hour. Arrive early at the location, well before the golden hours start. You cannot randomly click and expect the photographs to be flawless. Mental preparation and slow peaceful approach is any day better than rushing your shot with chaos and time constraint. Landscape photography should be creative and not mechanical. If you make an effort to arrive early, set up your equipment, and take a few moments to collect your thoughts and visualize; you are much more likely to get impressive and high quality images.

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