week 4 - photographer Manish

I fell in love with this photo while looking for image for my portrait painting sometimes last year. That is how I get to know photographer Manish in Instagram. Manish photographs enrich me with finest imagery of India landscape and heritage sites.

* Manish started taking images to document his travel and adventures and with time fast by he already full time into it without knowing when.

*  Manish love for mountains make him take adventure trekking to the highland of Himalayan.

* Many of his photos has been published in National Geographic and other publication.

* Manish also offer guided trip and expeditions to highland. For more details please visit below mention websites.

* www.withmanish.com
*manish@withmanish.com in flickr
*plus.google.com

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week 3  - photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto

*      Hiroshi born in Tokyo, Japan and moved to New York in 1974 after graduated from Art Center  
College of Design, LA.

*     Hiroshi start taking photograph in his high school as a project work photographing film footage of Audrey Hepburn as it played in a movie theatre. He start working as a dealer of  Japanese antiquities after graduate. He is also an accomplished architect and show interest in  20th century buildings.

*     Hiroshi began his work with Dioramas in 1976, a series in which his photographs displays in natural history museum. The technic he used in this series make the fake objects so real. Details of his works can be found on his website as mention below.

*    Hiroshi began working on Theatres series in 1978 and followed by Seascapes in 1980 which is working on series of photographs of the sea and its horizon.

*   Hiroshi started  architecture series in 1995.

*    Hiroshi writes his own history of the world and has said "photography functions as a fossilization of time"

*    Beside winning many awards and showcase his works in many exhibitions, Hiroshi also publish books of his works.

*    Hiroshi Sugimoto is represented by
      -Fraenkel Gallery
      -Gallery Koyangi
      - Pace

*   More details of Hiroshi at www.sugimotohiroshi.com

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week 2 - photographer Sanjitpaal Singh

*  Sanjit has been in photography for over 14 years and won various awards. Sanjit has pretty much done with all kinds of style be it photo journalism, product shoots, camera reviews, commercial photography and at one point anything goes to pay the bills of photoghaper.

*  Sanjit is established Malaysia nature and wildlife photographer. He love for nature and wildlife photography derived and instilled by his wife who is a Conservation Biologist.

*  Sanjit is founder of fullcirclepix.com which supply photography services in events and creative assignments for senses of Malaysia magazine. Also supply services for corporate and social events.

*  Sanjit love of photography has gained him sponsorship from Olympus Malaysia and supporting photograhic product (Datacolour Spider) and Gitzo tripod.

*Sanjit also conducts numerous workshops, exhibitions  and seminars locally and overseas. He has judged photo competitions in Malaysia and Singapore. Exhibition stories from the Malaysia Rainforest in Paris something must take note.

* Sanjit also contributes to DSLR and a columnist for Aperture magazine.

*  More about Sanjitpaal Singh at www.jitspics.com

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Few of Sanjit photos from different fieldwork.

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outdoor shot in bright sunny day which give nice shadow. Using AWB setting in camera for actual lighting effect.

 

 

studio lighting using tungsten light and cloud setting (may be). Position the light source somewhere to the side rather than straight on.

 

 

 

studio lighting using tungsten light where placing the light straight to get shadow on the front of the object. Camera setting on tungsten.

outdoor shot where the source of light from the side of the subject with camera setting on AWB.

 

studio shot on portrait using fluorescent light on the back of subject. Camera setting on fluorescent. shot straight to the light source gave the black background and reflect the light from the camera len.

 

Outdoor shot with natural light under the shade with AWB setting in camera.

 

Outdoor portrait shot in the evening which has warm colour in tone. Using flash  light on the side of subject create shadow and camera setting on fluorescent. Like this image as it has  three dimension effect. 

Indoor studio portrait shot. Light source was place further from subject for relatively brighter background. Camera setting on AWB.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

week 1 - photograper Tan Ngiap Heng

natural and artificial studio lighting.

lighting review blog - week 1

photographer - Tan Ngiap Heng

love for dance and perfroming arts that started his journey into photography.

started his photography as a full time job in 1999.

well known as a portrait photographer

won many international awards

founder of photovoiceSG - non profit organization that runs participatory photography workshop for fringe communities in Singapore.

more about Ngiap Heng at - www.thepond.com.sg

here are few shots and review on his using natural and artificial light.