Yaadon ki Baraat by Josh Malihabadi یادوں کی بارات از جوش ملیح آبادی

An interesting account of nearly 800 pages of auto biography of Josh Malih Abadi. The best examples of urdu language and culture.

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The Seven Sins of Photography - 2. The Equipment Owner

These posts are intended for both young and seasoned Pakistani photographers, but others can also read. This is the first post of the series. No example photos will be included in these posts, however you can post in comments :)

2. The Equipment Owner

There is a standard set of accessories that arrive with a P&S. However, the choices of extra gadgets is never ending with SLRs. Once you have a single lens- reflex camera, you have a kit lens and you reach out to other photographers on various forums and see them using every sort of filters, behind the filters are lenses of every focal length and apertures, accompanied with battery grips, batteries, memory cards, flashes, cases, cleaners, triggers, remotes, sensors, GPS and tripods.

And you immediately start thinking about what to do with your money.

And if budget allows, you keep on piling your little bag with items mentioned above, usually in the order mentioned above. And perhaps a bigger bag in the end. The list  can be almost certainly found on the profile page. Recently, another trend in the field of collecting mania is software irrespective of the quality of software and the results it produce. E-Books is another item in list to brag about on your profile. Tutorials and help videos is yet another one (and this one is the main culprit of eating away your HDD along-with thousands of ordinary shots you neatly organize in different folders).

Its perfectly legal and normal to buy accessories, software or help material, but with passage of time, with sensing genuine requirement or a true recommendation from someone credible to expand your capabilities. But you purchase and lens or filter and don't uses it for a year, or don't utilize the potential and still keep on adding new gear.. You become an Equipment Owner, not a photographer!!

 

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1. The Crop

The seven sins of Photography - 1. The Crop

These posts are intended for both young and seasoned Pakistani photographers, but others can also read. This is the first post of the series. No example photos will be included in these posts, however you can post in comments :)

Bad, distasteful and poor cropping

How rare it is to see something in 2:3 or 3:4 (i am being kind with Pointers and Shooters, because i was once myself) from most newcomers or sometimes even "seasoned" photographers? With the explosion of cameras, camera-phones and even SLRs in hand of every other person, there are more  examples of average or bad photos than ever.

Cropping a photo after taking it can be helpful at the time of print. Or if you use a high end SLR with more effective pixels, you can sacrifice a bit of detail for composition.

Panoramas are just another way to commit this sin. Seriously, do you think to print it on The Great Wall of China? How can you effectively view a 1:10 on any screen or print in world? You can not.

But i think, square crop i.e. 1:1 is the exception, only for the fact it challenges your composition skills and results in slightly artistic images on film cameras.

If you camera doesnt have enough optical zoom, don't try to show off bigger moons and giant ants by cropping the non interesting parts.

Please respect the proportions!

The Islamabad Stock Exchange, Islamabad Pakistan, a photo by Engineer J on Flickr.

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A brand new building and architecture of Islamabad Stock Exchange.
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Kalash Girl, a photo by Engineer J on Flickr.

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This colorful shot was taken at Sarhad (now KPK) Tourism festival, 2010. A young kalash girls looks away from camera, smilingly in a brilliant colored tradition robe
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Sing me a song, Baloch Singers of Pakistan, a photo by Engineer J on Flickr.

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Attended a lok mela on Islamabad's 50 years. About province Cholistan, i heard some of most beautiful tones and seen some amazing handicraft.
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