Kapil’s Korner

What happens when you use a camera to get a few friends together and offer them free booze and food?
(Image copyright is Craig Giffen) 
Craig Giffen just managed to do that and made himself the Human Calendar - the story of which he explains in detail here. It’s nice but I wish they could have [...]

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If memory serves me right it was Priya who started the whole idea of doing a photo drive of the Worli-Bandra sealink. Of course the long weekend was held responsible for her absence and ultimately the 6 twitter buddies (Aalaap, Anupam (bombayaddict), Preshit, Asfaq, Brajeshwar and me) braved the Sunday morning sun to accomplish the [...]

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There was nothing planned for the Sunday, so I decided to spend sometime doing a photo assignment I bookmarked long ago - The Patterned Water Drop Shots. Here is one of my favourite results …

You can check out the complete series of photos at my flickr photo set. I did it a little different [...]

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My friends told me I was crazy and somebody told me I was foolish. But nevertheless I woke up before sunrise and set out to photograph the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2008. So there I was, all set with my recently acquired Canon Rebel. Unfortunately I had to make do with the 18-55mm lens kit [...]

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If you are a budding/amateur photographer or even a pro, the digital Photography School’s Forum is a good site to bookmark. Discussions on equipments, photography techniques and some good critiques help you learn and master the art.
I particularly like the Digital Photography Assignments where one of the admin’s sets the topic and in the [...]

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I downloaded a nice template from Moo Two Designs by Gail P. And I used it as a frame to send out special photos to all my friends who came for the party. Here is a snap of me and Nitika. Seasons greetings to all of you.

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It’s here, actually it was here a week back. My new camera, the Canon Rebel XTi is here and although I haven’t been able to play a lot with it yet I seemed to have started enjoying the SLR experience.

I got my first photo-op at the X’mas eve party we hosted at home. It [...]

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What: Press Ad Photo Shoot Where: Mumbai Airport Highlight: Air India’s B777-200LR Equipment: Krishna’s Canon 350D
A truly marvelous experience to witness the new generation aircraft. Alas, we didn’t take flight and only got to see it in stationery [...]

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Last week I spent some time looking for a new camera to move on from my current Canon Powershot A510. Although I have been very happy with this one, I thought it was time to move on and get something more professional so that I could take a step forward in my learning curve.
DSLR seemed [...]

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