NJB'S PHOTOGRAPHY

D ear friends I am extremely happy to welcome you all on my new website . I hope you all find it interesting & easy to surf through the images displayed. I was busy from almost month & half for putting it to work.  Though the interface provided by Zenfolio is easy & I don't have to go through any coding but I was having zero knowledge about getting a custom domain & a website. I was mostly busy in customizing, understanding the tools provided & most important selecting, sorting, metadata editing, re-touching (for a few) & uploading images. M any of you might have a question in your mind "Why I needed a website now?" I can understand that because I asked that question to myself many times before. As most of you know I share my images on Flickr / Facebook & 500px . Unfortunately I have gone through image library data corruption 3-4 months back. More on that may be in different blog. That accident gifted me some sleepless nig...

Dear friends just received mail from the worldphoto.org that my image " The Rush" was being shortlisted in top 50 photographs in Travel category in 2013 Sony World Photography Awards . This image has been commended (top 50) in the Travel Category.  The commended gallery will go live on the website by 11pm GMT on 5th February.  worldphoto.org mention s to me " Being a commended photographer is an outstanding achievement with over 54,851 images entered from 170 countries and your image stood out to the judges.  As a commended photographer, your image will be shown digitally at Somerset House at the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition from 26th April - 12th May, 2013."   EXIF Data: 1.3 sec , f16, ISO 100, 17mm This image was captured in my Betterphotography Magazines face off contest for better photographer of the year 2012. It was taken on D adar railway station of Mumbai in morning before office hours elaborating the rush & h...

Dear friends my article on creating abstracts using paper has been published in the UK based magazine of photography " Digital SLR Photography ". It's nice to see their interest in my paper abstract work & imitative for publishing the tips & techniques about this work in the magazine along with my other images in the new year issue of Jan 2013. I am really privileged for this providing this platform to me to the Jordan Butters (Features Writer) &  Caroline Wilkinson ( Features Editor) of this magazine. I will like to thank you all for you kind support & appreciating my images on Flickr , Facebook & e lsewhere.

I am happy to share with you all that my photograph taken at the sunset point of Pachmarhi was published in the National Geographic Traveler India launching magazine in July 2012 issue. This photograph was taken at the sunset point of Rajendra Giri in 2009. The people in the image are sunset viewers. Photograph is taken with two  split gradual density ND filters (One Tobacco & other neutral). The lens flare is adding to the concept & gives a divine feel to the image. Exif Data Camera Canon EOS 400D Digital Exposure 0.067 sec (1/15) Aperture f/8.0 Focal Length 20 mm ISO Speed 100 Exposure Bias +1/3 EV My Sincere thanks to all of my friends appreciating my work & keep inspiring & motivating me.

     D ear friends finally I am able to take some time for sharing the behind the scene secrets on paper abstract work with you all. I hope you will enjoy it & ignore the delayed publication of this article. How it all started ?      I love to shoot all subjects which attracts me irrespective of what it is ! I have not yet restricted myself to any specific genre in the photography. I am not a professional photographer & can only utilize my weekends/holidays time for the hobby. Considering my small kid "Manas" which is now around 15 months old I had to restrict my freedom for shooting outdoor on weekends. This focused my attention to family portraits, still life & abstracts. Image 1 : Motion : This shot was taken to convey the feel of motion using still life. During taking this shot f or getting the movements of paper I allowed to move the end of papers with the help of ceiling fan. The the...

I am so overwhelmed the way my work on paper abstract work is getting appreciation from all around. Honestly I didn't expected such a success for this work. As an artist I am really loving it & which artist didn't wish appreciation for his work? I really enjoyed every bit of working while shooting these beautiful subject. I am more happy to share with you all the publications listed below were initiated by the publishers. Digital SLR Photography_June 2012 The image "Paper Waveform" was been published in the magazine under Reader Showcase in "Digital SLR Photography" June 2012. This is one of the leading photography Magazine in UK. Published in Composition magazine I am again excited to share with you all that my image "Golden Arc" was published in the Composition magazine. As per the note of their editor to me before publication "Composition magazine is a web based magazine (PDF format) based in Israel. In every issue ...

I am really excited to share with you all that I was selected as category winner for Still Life: The obvious Things in the annual photo contest conducted by India's leading photography Magazine "Better photography". My attached image Paper Swan was selected as winner in the still life. In the category "Joy of color" another image "Rainbow Twirl" was nominated in final 6 whereas "Paper Waveform was shortlisted in top 20 images. It was overwhelming to see my work on paper abstract being appreciated so highly especially considering around 70,000 entries from all over India. The eight category winners were invited to Mumbai & were offered the challenge to photo shoot in Mumbai on the theme of "Spirit of Mumbai". I was supposed to shoot for 4 days & submit 10 individual images & 8-12 images in series for photo essay. Though I didn't able to turn that for grabbing overall winner award among 8 I was hap...