Photography schools in India

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Photography schools in India Biography

Udaan aims to add wings to your dreams in photography, irrespective of your final destination with your camera. The one thing that binds students at Udaan is - passion for photography. Every student of Udaan, whatever his or her final aspiration, will be tutored by leading working professionals. The courses in Udaan have been designed to meet the needs of photography-enthusiasts at different levels of learning and expertise -- from those who are interested in shooting good family photographs or landscapes to cutting-edge, world-class professionals. As a first of its kind, Udaan allows students of its weekend-classes to customise and make their own courses, as per their needs. Udaan caters to both photojournalists and commercial photographers, with its knowledge-intensive specialisation courses, designed meticulously by masters in the field. The comprehensive courses at Udaan aim, not just to impart technical knowledge to students, but to encourage and cultivate individualistic thinking and a creative vision. And to create a benchmark in visual arts education, powered by the expertise of its experienced faculty. Udaan is uncompromisingly dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in knowledge-gathering and sharing. Udaan has an unmatched syllabus, covering areas in photography, that few dare to teach, if any at all. We are sure it would be an exciting journey of interactive education for both students and teachers.
Situated in the heart of Mumbai, Udaan is an independent school of photography.


THE UDAAN EDGE

Unmatchable Faculty: It is said they quality of an educational institute is determined by its teachers. The extensive faculty of award-winning photographers at Udaan, brings with it experience and diverse styles of photography and years of work experience in national and international arena.The faculty is fully dedicated to the school, and are not just "once-in-a-while" visiting teachers. Nor are they visual artists from other fields. The faculty of Udaan concentrates on pure photography. While the instructors at Udaan are leading professionals in the industry, having won top awards and accolades all over the world, they are available to the students all through the year. Its an unmatchable combination and great opportunity for the students at Udaan.

Unmatched course content: Udaan provides the most comprehensive and actual work oriented course content. The courses have been very meticulously and scientifically desgined by leading photogtraphy professionals. The extensive syllabus covers several subjects, that is not taught anywhere else. Udaan is able to offer such extensive content in its syllabus, and teach it with such expertise and authority, due to the immense global experience of its tutors.

Situated in the heart of Mumbai - hub to both fashion & glamour industry as well as journalism : Mumbai is the commercial and entertainment capital of India. Its the city of dreams. There is no other city in India, that better showcases the fashion and glamour industry, than Mumbai. The city of Bollywood, apart from the movie industry, has nurtured a huge number of successful fashion designers, models and commercial photographers and there is no better place than the Mumbai, to be part of this industry. And Udaan is based right in the heart of the city. But apart from the glitz and glamour, the tinsel town is also a hub of journalism, housing several of India's large newspapers and magazines. Learning photography in Mumbai gives students frequent opportunities to interact with leading professionals, be it in commercial photography or photojournalism. And the city opens diverse career opportunites.

Easily accessible : Udaan School of Photography is well connected to the rest of the city through an easily accessible network of railways, bus routes and taxis that are available 24 hours a day. The school is approximately 20 kms away from the city's airport, and less than 2 km from Mumbai Central railway station.The other three main railways hubs, Churchgate station, Chhatrapati Shivaji terminus (earlier known as Victora Terminus) and Dadar railway station are less than 6 kms from the school and 15-20 minutes drive away. To travel in local trains, Udaan lies between two suburban railway stations - a 5-10 minutes walk from Mahalaxmi railway station (for western line) and a 2-5 minutes walk from Byculla railway station (for central line), making it very convenient for anyone to reach the school from any corner of the city. There is no waterlogging around the school even during the worst monsoon and heaviest of showers, and remains accessible from different directions through the year.

Extensive access to computers, library and studio: Udaan provides students with access to its computers, library and the entire studio, five days a week. See
Students Resource Centre.

Photography schools in India

Photography schools in India

Photography schools in India

Photography schools in India

Photography schools in India

Photography schools in India

Photography schools in India

Photography schools in India

Photography schools in India

Photography schools in India

Photography schools in India

Photography institutes in India

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Photography institutes in India Biography


A picture is worth a thousand words! Artists want to express their feelings and emotions through their pictures, people love nature and want to capture its beauty. Photography is a medium of creative art and a photograph is a picture created with mechanical, chemical or electronic means.

Marriages may be decided in heaven, but they actually take place on the Earth and wedding photos are the most valuable possessions of people.

Parents love their children and their photos too. Schools and colleges want team photos. Corporate establishments always need photos for brochures, advertisements, catalogues, annual reports and press releases.

Newspapers and news magazines need news events covered with supporting photos. Stock agencies always want pictures; you may sell your work for calendars or greeting cards. There are many advertising agencies who want photos to create ads for their clients. The number of new magazines continues to grow. And all of them need photos.

Models want their portfolios done, companies want to promote their products and services, people want their family functions covered, and there is no end to the list.

1. National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad is a top rung government institute offering a one-year post graduate program in photography design. The program focuses on areas related to photo journalism and fashion, forensic and portrait photography. The certificate offered on completion of the course is a post graduate diploma from NID as well as a Masters of Fine Art offered by the University for Creative Arts, Farnham, UK.

2. Sir JJ School of Applied Arts, Mumbai offers a four year bachelors degree in Fine Arts from the Mumbai University. While the first year is the foundation year, the rest of the course focuses on Photography. Credited with providing the Indian Advertising Industry with most of its artistic talent, the institute is looking to getting an autonomy status soon.

3. College of Art, Delhi University – Established in 1942, the institute offers a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the University of Delhi. It also offers advanced training in the form of a Masters degree. The teachers usually consist of practicing professionals and visiting faculty from the industry.

4. Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai – A certificate course at this institute and helps the student understand the basics of photography both in terms of its technical and aesthetic values. Students can also study photography as a subject within the Journalism and Mass communication diploma course.

5. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad offers a part-time post graduate program in Photography and Visual Communication from the JNTU College of Fine Arts. Admissions are based on the performance of the student in the entrance examination which is organized by the University.

6. Shari Academy of Photography and Digital Imaging, Mumbai, the first academy in India to be certified as an authorized training center by Adobe, offers full as well as part time courses for professional photography. The visiting faculty includes many renowned Indian photographers.

Light & Life Academy was established in 2001 by one of India's leading photographers, Iqbal K Mohamed. His passionate desire to provide the right mix of training and inspiration that would ably guide a whole new generation of world-class photographers, was the basis of this pioneering venture in the world of Professional Photography education in India.

Everything about the Academy has been deliberately designed. The location, Nilgiris, is a classroom in itself, where the most important aspect of photography, light, can be studied just by observing the world around you. The nearly 35,000 sq ft. of custom designed facility takes maximum advantage of the spectacular terrain, blends with the environment and provides a gurukul like ambience, where the faculty and students work closely together in pursuit of learning the art of image making.

The Academy's flagship course is the Post Graduation Diploma course in Professional Photography, for anyone aspiring to make a career in Photography. The institute also conducts short duration workshops in various aspects of photography, primarily for the serious hobbyist.

Photography institutes in India

Photography institutes in India

Photography institutes in India

Photography institutes in India

Photography institutes in India

Photography institutes in India

Photography institutes in India

Photography institutes in India

Photography institutes in India

Photography institutes in India

Photography institutes in India

Wedding photography India

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Wedding photography India Biography

The history of wedding photography begins in the early 1840s. During this period, photography had very little commercial use, but the idea of creating memories of the wedding day was already born. Mainly because of equipment limitations, wedding photography remained studio photography for more then a century. In the 1800s there were no paper photographs, no multiple photographs, no albums. There was only a daguerreotype portrait on a tiny copper sheet. As the years passed, technology changed how photographs were produced and presented.

Before photographic paper, photographers used glass plates, tin sheets, and copper sheets. In the beginning of the 20th century, the production of color photographs became possible, but the process was too unreliable (until the 1950's) for professional photography. Colors shifted and faded after a short period of time, so photographers continued to work with black and white film. While technology led to the invention of new materials used for producing photography film and better chemistry to process it, wedding photography techniques remained the same until the end of WWII.

The idea of capturing the event itself was born during the "wedding boom" after the Second World War. This surge created profitable opportunities for shooting weddings without a contract or "on speculation". Using their new portable roll film based cameras and compact flashbulb lighting, photographers would show up, shoot a wedding and then try to sell the photos to the bride and groom. Some of them were military trained photographers, but most were amateurs who took advantage of the portability of small, newly designed cameras.

Despite low quality results, these photographers created competition and forced the studio photographers to start working on location. Trying to imitate the studio settings, photographers would have to bring heavy photography equipment and bulky lighting to wedding locations. While it was almost impossible to document a full wedding using limited amount of expensive film, even candid shots were posed after the ceremony.

The traditional wedding photography style of beautiful poses created in a studio or on location using studio quality lighting has been practiced for more then a hundred years: until the early 1970s it was practically the only style of wedding photography. A dynamic change in the photo industry evolved changing the traditional wedding photography style into a new style called wedding photojournalism or documentary style: in other words, the style which captures the wedding as it unfolds. While requiring serious skills, talent, and experience this style was misinterpreted as a series of snapshots which any 35mm camera equipped amateur could take. This opened a gate for weekend shooters who could get away with a series of candid shots and sell it under the guise of wedding photojournalism. While both styles have advantages and drawbacks, neither of them is the primary style for most professional photographers today. Driven by the glamorous look of classic photos which still have their places on the covers of wedding magazines as well as technological advantages that allow modern photographers to document a wedding with less effort, clients began requiring a mixed or blended style of wedding photography. With the invention of digital photography, new creative opportunities emerged. Digital cameras allow deeper coverage of the event with a virtually unlimited amount of photographs taken, and great design opportunities. While traditional film photography is still widely used, it is obvious that the future belongs to digital photography.

Wedding photography India

Wedding photography India

Wedding photography India

Wedding photography India

Wedding photography India

Wedding photography India

Wedding photography India

Wedding photography India

Wedding photography India

Wedding photography India

Wedding photography India

Photography contest India

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Photography contest India Biography

A picture from India has been chosen from more than 350,000 to win in what the Guinness World Records says is the world's largest online photo contest.

A picture of Safdarjang's Tomb in Delhi by Pranav Singh won the Wikimedia Loves Monuments 2012 competition.

Another Indian, Narender Kumar, won sixth place in the contest with his photograph of the Taj Mahal.

More than 15,000 people from 33 countries sent in their photographs of listed monuments.

Unfortunately Mr Singh did not "leave his contact details behind and will, therefore, not win a prize", the contest website said.
"The strong light contrast between the lighted tomb and the darkness of the room emphasises the monument, and gives it a dramatic component," said the jury about Mr Singh's photograph of Safdarjang's Tomb.

"All in all, a nicely framed and executed picture that seems to speak of the significance of this tomb."
The iconic Taj Mahal was one of the most photographed images sent to the contest, but Mr Kumar's entry "seems to wake up out of the mist" which the jurors thought made it stand out from the others.

Mr Kumar told The Hindu newspaper that most photos of the Taj are "touristy" but for him "luckily there was foggy weather".

The Wiki Loves Monuments contest beat its own record from last year to become the world's largest photo contest this time round.

This is the third time the photography contest has been held and the first time that Indians have participated.
Glass-clad monstrous concrete buildings topped by grotesque cell towers have come to symbolise human-centric urban development leaving very little space for equally important other forms of life.

Nature lovers who take a holistic view of conservation often lament that too much emphasis laid on ‘glamour species’ of the wildlife like the big cats has resulted in the neglect of the common species. An offshoot of this lopsided conservation policy is the rapid disappearance of the once-common house sparrows from cities, “the best bio-indicators of urban life and environment” as Mohammed Dilawar, one of the Time Heroes of Environment 2008, keeps saying.

In an attempt to shift focus and raise awareness of the rich flora and fauna found in “our backyards,” Nature Forever Society (NFS) and The Hindu have teamed up to conduct an all-India photo contest. It is a participatory approach to conservation where the citizens would not merely shoot pictures but explore and appreciate better the rich biodiversity around them.

Like conservation policy, nature photography too has wrongly come to be associated with a few wildlife species, expensive cameras and travelling to exotic locations. This has resulted in disproportionate availability of high quality images of threatened species and not many when it comes to common species.

The NFS- The Hindu BiodiverCity Photo Contest aims at encouraging common people to involve themselves in this pan-India mission of photo documenting the flora and fauna around them with whatever camera they have, including the mobile one.

The initiative is spearheaded by Mr. Dilawar, a conservationist with the NFS. Photographs can be of plants, insects, reptiles, birds, natural landscapes around human habitations. Those taken inside national parks and protected areas as well as those of domesticated and caged animals and pets are not allowed.

Photography contest India 

Photography contest India 

Photography contest India 

Photography contest India 

Photography contest India 

Photography contest India 

Photography contest India 

Photography contest India 

Photography contest India 

Photography contest India 

Photography contest India 

Wedding photography in India

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Wedding photography in India Biography

Wedding photography has been around since photography began. A wedding is a special event that everybody involved would want to immortalize in images, so it is quite natural that photography is always involved when there is a wedding. Here is a brief history of wedding photography that takes a look at how it began and how it has developed throughout the decades.

Before Photography
The practice of taking photos of newlyweds and their families existed way before the development of cameras. Newly wed couples and their family members posed for long periods of time as artists painted them for posterity. Capturing this special moment and special day became more efficient for artists and more comfortable for the newlyweds and their family members.

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The Early Years
As photography was introduced in the 1800s, it was almost immediately used in capturing images of newlyweds and their family members. However, even as the format of this image capture has changed from paintings to photographs, the process of posing for wedding photos has almost stayed the same. People still needed to hold a pose for a time, although it was shorter when a painting was being done, since the technology of photography was still bulky and cumbersome. A lot of set up was needed and the process was required to be done in studios since all the equipment was there. It took several more years before the technology of photography was improved with the help of paper, glass plates and color. Wedding photography was still largely done in studios since the equipment was still bulky.
After the War
After the World War, soldiers started to return to their loved ones, hence an influx in marriages. The trend continued up to the 1950's when things started to really pick up when the new social revolution began. Wedding photography started to move out from the studios into the wedding event locations themselves, and from this, a more informal style of taking wedding photos emerged. Suddenly, long-time professional wedding photographers were not the only ones taking wedding photos. Beginner photographers who did not have a lot of experience in studios found themselves taking wedding photos that were less formal than the traditional wedding photos.

The Evolution of Technology
As cameras became smaller and the process of taking photographs became easier thanks to the advancement in film and processing technologies, wedding photography turned from being a studio-only task into a full-blown industry. The lighting in photography studios that were needed to take clear and beautiful portraits of couples and their family members became easier to emulate in the field. The uncomfortable poses that needed to be held for long periods of time was shortened, giving the photographers more time to take more photos. The events happening during the wedding itself became a part of the wedding documentation, thanks to smaller and faster cameras. The rise of photojournalism also contributed to the documentation of weddings in a less formal way. Influenced by the photojournalism style of press photographers who took less formal photos of celebrities and politicians, wedding photographers went on a similar route as they started to take candid moments during wedding events.

Going Digital
This brief history of wedding photography culminates with the advent of digital photography. With more sophisticated equipment that is smaller, faster and more affordable than ever before, wedding photographers can now take more photos and distribute them more efficiently. Even those who are not professional wedding photographers can find it easy to get into the industry with the right equipment and the right sense of style and technique.

Wedding photography in India

Wedding photography in India

Wedding photography in India

Wedding photography in India

Wedding photography in India

Wedding photography in India

Wedding photography in India

Wedding photography in India

Wedding photography in India

Wedding photography in India

Wedding photography in India