“An image is made”, said a wise man once. The wise man Pratap will show us the nuts and bolts of planning involved to “make an image” and share his immense knowledge and experience with us.
With the tools offered by the Internet today, one can actually scout a location and plan an image that one had visualized. He will walk us through various tools and how to plan an image with an actual case study.
Liquid Drop photography is a genre of high speed photography to create stunning and colorful images of water droplets in the formation of mushrooms, umbrellas and abstracts. During this slideshow and live demonstration, Ananth Kamat would be sharing his knowledge he acquired from his mentor Mr Deep Bhatia over the last few months.
Aviation photography in India primarily has two faces: the civil airlines spotting and military aviation photography. Civil airlines spotting is relatively widespread as the complications of clearance process is not much cumbersome whereas the military aviation photography has its own difficulties in getting the right channel for clearance. Military aviation photography has something to do with national security as the flying machines operate in classified airbases. Unless, the operators like IAF or IN or IA invites known contacts to photograph specific events, the opportunities are quite slim. However, through proper approach, one can obtain clearance for events like Air Force Day parades, Aero India or public displays by IAF’s aerobatic teams.
The scene outside India is much better, reasons being simpler policies of respective design houses. Thus, the international air shows like singapore, Dubai, RIAT etc., have been more attractive.
The aim of this presentation has the sole purpose of underlining the difficulties and various aspects of photographing military planes. It hovers around the strict clearance process one has to go through.
