YPS Hall Meet | Practical Interactive Session | Saturday, 28 Jun | 5:30 PM | State Youth Centre
NOTE: All Members can get their lenses, UV Filters, ND, Polarizer filters and one camera body along with a tripod.
At the program we will actually test your lens
Mentor: Raju A K
Testing a lens before field use is essential to verify optical performance and mechanical integrity. It helps detect issues like de-centering, focus shift, chromatic aberration, or inconsistent autofocus. Field conditions leave little room for troubleshooting, so pre-testing ensures the lens delivers expected sharpness, contrast, and focus reliability. This step also familiarizes the user with the lens’s behavior across apertures and focal lengths. This way you know the boundary of the lens behaviour within which you can play around.
About the Mentor:
Raju is heading an American Company, Endemic Greens pvt ltd as Director, Head of Operations, involved in research of Native Plants and Organic plantations to enrich the sanctity of soil and purity of rivers of the Western Ghats. He is also heading a project of creating a Biosphere in the Shola evergreen forest.
Prior to this, he was appointed as ‘The Chief Naturalist’ to create a Biodiversity Register, to establish and to promote Eco Tourism in Briar Tea Bungalows in Anamalai Tiger Reserve and in Little Earth Boutique Resorts in Nilgiris and Kurumgad islands of the Arabian sea.
Raju has had a good three decades as an advertising photographer and 43 years of serious wildlife photography with innumerable awards in national and international photo competitions. He has been a YPS member since 1980, winning awards of YPS from 1981 to 1989 continuously. He is also the premier award winner of the first YPS International competition. He is the second Indian to win a BBC award in 1992. He is a vivid traveler with stamping of over 16 countries and loves to experiment with lights, building his own lenses and gadgets. His latest craze is of photo-micrography with his latest toy … A Leica Microscope. He has pictures of close to 800 species of birds, 50 species of mammals and countless macro works.
His advertising cruise with cars, watches, Ariel, products, industries, interiors, Food, Jewellery and hospitality has left an array of happy and satisfied clients.
Website : http://www.rajuak.net/