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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 mode. A few snapshots of the experience clicked by Krishna. Me staring at the huge aircraft [...]

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 [...]