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Top 10 things to do at Maasai Mara – Bisakha Datta Photography
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2019
Maasai Mara, these two words are enough to evoke the senses and prepare a bucket of wishes and unfulfilled fantasies. The wildland of Maasai Mara is a magnificent, game-filled and a vast landscape that is popularized by fearless explorers, top-ranked celebrities, royal families, award-winning, and wildlife photographers. If you haven’t witnessed the wilderness of this land it’s time to do it now and here are 10 adventure activities to do in Maasai Mara.
Do not forget to collect your t-shirt before you leave for Maasai Mara!
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Hot air balloon ride-
the most incredible way to witness the beauty of this vast ecosystem is going for a hot air balloon safari over the beautiful land.
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Jungle safari-
This is the main event of your Masai Mara tour which will take you inside the wild jungles in search of the iconic animals.
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The Wildebeest migration-
This great event seems to be an annual event of Kenya where more than a million of wildebeest, gazelle, and zebra migrate to Masai Mara from Tanzania in a continuous mode amidst the rain and lush grass.
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Governors Private Camp luxury stay-
For a very comfortable and private visit to this place check for accommodation option at the Governors private Camp.
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Spend a day with the Masai people-
While on your trip, you can pay a visit to the Masai community and have a taste of their culture.
Know more about Maasai people
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A documentary on the Masai river-
Want to meet the world famous Nile crocodiles? You will find them in the Masai river. Take out your camera here and shoot a breathtaking documentary on the annual wildebeest passing.
Learn the art of documentary and landscape photography!
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On foot safaris-
enjoy an early morning on foot Masai Mara safari under the guidance of a trained guide.
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Bird watching-
The great land of Masai Mara is a paradise for bird watchers. Near about 470 birds resides here along with 46 birds of prey.
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Relax in Mfangano Island-
The best way to relax after the exciting safari at Masai Mara is by visiting the Mfangano Island on Lake Victoria.
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Explore the Loldia House-
Check-in for comfortable accommodation and witness the hippos grazing at the lawn. Begin your adventure to the savanna thereafter.
Cheetah – meet the timid hunters of Kenya
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2019
The fastest land animal in the world, the cheetah is a marvel of evolution.
These crafty killers usually wait in ambush for its meal.
Continue reading “Cheetah – meet the timid hunters of Kenya”
Kenya – a bird’s eye view
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From feeding the Giraffes to playing with adopted orphan elephants, from taking breathtaking hot-air balloon rides, to witnessing the cheetah hunt on the zebra, Kenya has a lot to offer.
The skyrocketing popularity of Kenya mostly depends on the population of the huge mammals. The list includes cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), Lion (Panthera leo), Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), rhinoceros, giraffe (Giraffa, zebra (Hippotigris), the African elephant (Loxodonta), wildebeest (Connochaetes), and the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer).
Language
Swahili is the local language, which is known as Maa.
Learn to speak Kiswahili
A few words go a long way in making things easier for you in a new country…so here goes!!!
Jambo – Hello
Habari! – How are you?
Mzuri Sana – I am fine, thank you!
Sisemi Kiswahili – I can’t speak Swahili
Hapana – No
Ndiyo – Yes
Asante sana – Thank you very much!
Kwaheri – Good bye!
Best time to go
From late June to October is the best time to visit Kenya.
Where to go
- Nairobi
- Masai Mara National Reserve
- Lake Nakuru National Park
- Lake Naivasa
- Amboseli National Park
- Bogoria Lake
- Ol Pejeta
- Aberdare National Park
- Tsavo National Park
- Samburu National Park
What to do
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Hot air balloon ride-
the most incredible way to witness the beauty of this vast ecosystem is going for a hot air balloon safari over the beautiful land.
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Governors Private Camp luxury stay-
For a very comfortable and private visit to this place check for accommodation option at the Governors private Camp.
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Spend a day with the Masai people-
While on your trip, you can pay a visit to the Masai community and have a taste of their culture.
Kenya Currency – Kenyan shilling
1 Kenyan shilling = 0.68 INR
1 Dollar = 100 Kenyan shilling (Approx)
Interested to visit Kenya? Win a FREE trip to Kenya
More about Kenya
- Special activities – Hot Air Balloon Safari
- Be the witness of great Migration of Kenya
- Nairobi city Tours
- Big 5 Safari
The population of birds is also huge and the list includes ostrich (Struthio camelus) and flamingo. The beauty of this magical land is not only confined to the jungles, parks, and reserves but also witnesses a rich culture and some fascinating landscapes. As a result, jungle safaris are the main attraction of Kenya mainly in and around the reserves.
The wild land Masai Mara brings out the wildlife photographer within you
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2019
The Masai Mara National Reserve, the most popular tourist destination of Kenya, is a land covered with dense forest, wild animals and huge trees.
This wildlife reserve lies mainly in the Great Rift Valley and is primarily open grassland. The western slope seems to be more concentrated on animals.
The wildland of Masai Mara is dominated by some of the exotic creatures on Earth. It is beautiful as well as dangerous at times.
The finest natural world destination of the world, Masai Mara, is a land to witness the Big Five. Animals like a lion, leopard, rhino, elephant, Cape buffalo, impalas, cheetah, and other wild animals dominate the wildland Masai Mara.
Masai Mara is the best place to see the presence of the food chain of different flora and fauna. In a food chain, the zebra is chased by the cheetah and gets killed. The animal is eaten by the cheetah and the vulture alike and at the end; the remains get mixed with the soil.
Capture the kill of the Cheetah and unleash you wildlife photography love.
Generally, this food chain exists between every living community, but the jungle of wildland Masai Mara gives you a chance to witness it and freeze the memory forever.
Macro Photography
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2019
Nature is not only about big species, animals but also it includes small objects, and nothing is more satisfying than to take a print of a macro animal or insect. However, it requires great photographic skills to reach near space of it, which is normally so small to a naked eye.
Here are some useful tricks before you begin.
What is Macro photography?
Macro photography is taking photographs of tiny species. To take a sharp image of a tiny species requires the lens to be placed much closer. Just think no special lenses or macro tube is required for macro photography.
Types of Macro Photography
According to shooting style, there are different types of macro photography.
- Floral Macros: Capturing macro shots of flowers. It can be 2:1 or 3:1, which means the image, will be 2 or 3 times greater than the actual size of the object.
- Object Macros: Taking shots of tiny object. It may or may not be a living being. Example: Water bubbles, tree leaves, Insects, etc.
- Human Macros: Different parts of a human being can also be taken in macro photography, like macro of eyes, lips, etc.
Equipment used in Macro Photography
Check out the list of accessories required for Macro Photography
Camera:Macro cameras are designed especially for macro photography. These cameras are able to capture tiny items at a size greater or equal to 1:1 ratio. The minimum requirement of the aperture is from F/3.3 to F/6.6. Normal focusing range is 60 cm. Mirrorless, Crop sensor camera will be preferred.
Grab some amazing camera essentials.
Lens: Make use of the following lenses to improve your Macro Photography.
- Macro lens: With the help of a macro lens you can focus around 12 inches or more. Manual focus is preferred as autofocus can’t focus much closer.
- Zoom lens: Zoom lens is always dependent on the focal length. It helps you to focus on the subject. Some zoom lens is also included with macro lens.
- Lensbaby Velvet 56: It is a special lens by Lensbaby, which has a small depth of field, which is ideal for macro photography.
- Extension tube: 12 mm, 22 mm and 36 mm usually these three ranges of extension tubes are used in Macro Photography, which will make your lens get closer to the subject.
- Close up filters: Many filters are available in lenses, which helps to get the subject more closely. One of them is a+5 from B+W.
- Mobile: Mobile can be useful equipment for macro photography as many companies are manufacturing smartphone with good macro lenses.
Settings:
Set your camera before shooting.
Aperture:
- To maximize the focus distance set the aperture to F/16 or smaller.
- To minimize the distance set the aperture to F/2.8, F/4.
- Always focus on the subjected part of the object to get a sharp image.
Shutter speed:
- With flash: You can set it to your fastest sync speed (minimum 1/250 sec) to block ambient light. It will not affect flash as flash speed will be less than 1/250 sec
- Without flash: 1/400 sec is recommended reducing a blurred image.
ISO:
- With flash: Set the flash around ¼ powersand keep the ISO range of 100 to 800. You will get the best output.
- Without flash: If you don’t have a flash then only ISO can brighten your image. Set ISO in autofocus to get the sharp image.
Lighting:
Flash is not much used at close-ups. The quality of light is important. Ensure bright sunlight or good flash head is available, Also, use diffusers e.g. umbrella with a tripod to diffuse direct sunlight as it helps to prevent reflection.
Ideas and Inspire:
Let’s take a look into the gallery of Bisakha Datta to see some stunning macro photography.
Best Photographers in Macro Photography
- Bill Chu: Specialist in macro shots of butterflies. He enjoyed taking shots of them so much, that he planted a butterfly garden in his home. Website link: http://www.instagram.com/imjustabill
- Gerald Donovan: He is popular for watch photography. He had a deep interest in watch and photography both from childhood but now he combined both of them together. Website link: http://www.instagram.com/watchdxb
Making Money with Macro Photography
Stock photography
- Shutterstock
Shutterstock is a leading photographic trading market place over than 15 years, a very popular online site to buy photos. They have a collection of 200 million images, videos, and music tracks with royalty-free purchasing that makes a huge number of customers.
- Adobe Stock
Adobe Stock (formerly Fotolia) is a market place to stock photos by most popular photo editing software companies like lightroom and Photoshop. It is considered to be the very first site to sell photographs online. The share of royalty is also higher than any other online store.
- Dreamstime
Dreamstime offers reliable and genuine HQ digital photos with affordable price. It’s a royalty-free stock photography site from 2000. It is one of the best photography leaders in the world.
- Creative Market
Creative Market is a handcrafted digital market place to sell simple and accessible designs for everyone. They offer photos, graphics, themes, 3d models, fonts, add on, website themes, templates.
- BigStockPhoto
BigStockPhoto is an international royalty free micro stock photographic website. It is the most reliable seller of online photo market. They typically sell images via a credit-based system. They have a vast collection of photos, vectors, and illustrations.
Make money through Facebook
- Create a discussion group
Make a photographic group or page on Facebook and carry on discussing your preferred genre of photography. Keep uploading your best images. Create an engaged community base.
- Create competition
Create a photography competition and gather more followers. Sell photographs to enthusiast buyers.
Make money through Instagram/Pinterest
- Grow your followers
Making money in Instagram/Pinterest through photography is based on the growth of engaged followers. Make a proper profile and set a good image that looks professional. Use a simple effective logo. Put on a catchy description. Stick to a particular genre of photography that makes an identity of you. Post most stunning and relish pictures consistently, don’t overdo posting that may annoy your followers. Use hashtag and geo tags.
- Sell Pictures
There are many renowned market places and hosting sites that offer photographers to gain good money through licensing and making a partnership with big brands.
- Offer limited-time free services to grow your follower
- Offer premium services
- Quiz
- Interaction with followers
Teach Photography
Teaching photography is a great thing to make money. You can have basic digital online classes via your website. Make a detailed video course and charge a better amount to buyers. Conduct with your followers via social media and also you can have an affiliate marketing plan for your students. Privet lessons are also good. Bisakha Datta is indeed a good teacher to help you solve all your photography queries.
Sell Art Photography
The initial stage is to get hold of a reliable printing source and gradually create an offline marketplace platform or create an online blog of your own. Display your art prints, set the price, promote your initiative and start earning gradually. Get some unique ideas here.
Affiliate marketing
In Instagram or any other marketplace, influencer photographers are more focused on making sales. Adding a tracked link in your bio section on Instagram or in the caption of each post can make an affiliate marketing strategy.
Create your own stock website
Creating a stock photography site is a golden opportunity for photographers with a new way to make money online. It is very useful for marketers, entrepreneurs, designers, etc. Stumbling with the procedure of making a stock website? Visit an expert at https://bisakhadatta.com/ to get authentic advice.
Create your own gallery to showcase
- Flickr.com
Flickr.com is an online free photo hosting and sharing site that offers you to make unlimited sharing of your photos and exploring other images without paying a single coin. It has a very active and engaged community. The website offers your a gallery to showcase with rich and advanced features.
- 500-px.com
500 p-x is a Toronto; Canada based photo hosting and sharing service site. It is owned by China. It’s an international online platform for photographers to get global exposures. It also offers to gain money via licensing and brand partnerships.
Sell T-Shirt with your unique photography
Selling T-Shirts with unique photography is a pretty cool idea of money-making. Selling a designed T-Shirt online is a big gateway into the larger e-commerce market or in the world of fashion.
Grab the tee designed only for you!
Write a book and sell
Write a book on photography and sell it. If anyone gets difficulties related with publishing they can self publish a book in e-book format that also yields money. Get a mentor and coach in here.
Create a blog to share your photography experience
- How to create your blog? – Probably blogging is the best part of digital marketing. To make money with photography one must write blogs in their sites.
- How to create a site using WordPress? – Creating a site requires knowledge of web development and designing using WordPress. There is a better way to visit an expert at https://bisakhadatta.com/. She will provide a great deal in creating your website as per your request.
Create YouTube channel
For creating an effective YouTube channel that will gain vast popularity in the least time concerning photography and designs, contact the website of Bisakha Datta at https://bisakhadatta.com/.
Workshop on photography
Photography workshop is a place where anyone who has a keen willingness to learn photography can gather much knowledge and experience in a few hours. In a workshop, arranged by many famous photographers, you get something which is priceless. For making career photography one must go through some photography workshops. There are many workshops available in the market.
One can visit Bisakha Datta’s website at https://bisakhadatta.com/ and participate in the workshops for beginner and aspiring photographers conducted at regular intervals.
Overall, we can say Macro photography is an excellent profession to continue. We can find the subjects easily and also the conditions are flexible. So, give a try, maybe this is the thing you need to start your photographic journey.
Mobile Photography
May
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2019
Photography is a great passion and in present time it’s a trend to frame everything which is special, like Christmas evening to Happy New Year celebration, your love one’s birthday to taking a selfie with an old friend everything everyone wants to frame. But every single moment carrying a camera and its setup is not possible. Why not utilize your smartphone feature?
We are here to help you by providing some easy but useful mobile photography tips to take splendid mobile photography.
What is Mobile Photography?
Mobile photography is an art of taking photographs using smartphones.
From the time people incline towards more social media image sharing, the camera becomes the key selling point of smartphones. Companies are manufacturing mobiles with triple camera, Bokeh mode, AI selfie mode, Telephoto lenses, etc.
Types of Mobile photography: There are lots of photography type that can be captured by mobile. Some of them are
- Adventure photography or outdoor photography
- Black and white photography
- Candid photography
- City scape photography
- Commercial photography
- Event photography and many more
CAMERA SETTINGS:
Any mobile’s camera from 2017 is good enough to capture. But what makes the difference? Someone is getting amazing photographs when another one just can’t.
Well, it depends on two basic things, Framing and post-processing.
Framing
Framing is necessary for any photo, it is the way you want people to see your photo but it is very distinctive and it takes a lot of time to understand framing and improve. Here are some tricks to follow to make images better.
- Symmetry: Symmetry brings more beauty. To find symmetry just turn on the gridlines on your camera. Follow the rule of thirds, Place the subject on one of the intersections between horizontal and vertical lines to attract the eye.
- Taking shots from a different angle: Taking the same photograph from a different angle makes every image unique from others.
- Background and Foreground: Most of the camera phone has the feature of blurring the background and focusing on the foreground. It makes the object placed in the foreground more beautiful.
Always shoot in HDR mode: HDR mode (High dynamic range) captures three shots one under exposed and one normal and another overexposed and combine them together to form the best photo.
Now coming to the second part, post-processing.
Post-processing
Some people think it’s manipulating or cheating but it’s not like that, as most of the time, cameras are not able to take the exact image of what we see. Hence post-processing is important in mobile photography.
There are a ton of apps available. One of the best is Goggle’s snap seed as it is simple to use but loaded with powerful features. Let’s take a look at how it helps.
- Brightness: Adjusting brightness can make the image more bright or dark when it is under or overexposed.
- Contrast: Increasing the contrast increase the separation between bright and dark parts.
- Saturation: Increasing the saturation increase the parting between colours.
- Highlights: Highlights brightened the specific part of the picture.
- Warmth: It generally controls the temperature of the image.
Lighting
No matter which mobile camera you are using lighting is the most crucial part of mobile photography. Ensure natural lights are coming during photography, be it any lamp, window or direct sunlight.
Ideas and Inspire
To have some ideas about mobile photography, just follow the gallery of Bisakha Datta.
Best photographers in this field:
- Linda Stokes: Uses Samsung Galaxy III for most of the shots. She takes waterscapes, sunrise, and sunset, flowers Website link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/listokes. Articles: Floating Hibiscus flower, The last lotus.
- Francois-Rene Hamelin: Uses HTC Desire HD to take shots. “I always try to have pictures that tell stories or at least that give a feeling,” Hamelin says. Website link: https://www.instagram.com/frankhamelin/
- Katie Cowden: Uses T-Mobile my Touch Slide1to capture her shots. Website link: https://www.modelmayhem.com/636551
Making Money with Mobile Photography
Stock photography
- Shutterstock
Shutterstock is a leading photographic trading market place over than 15 years, a very popular online site to buy photos. They have a collection of 200 million images, videos, and music tracks with royalty-free purchasing that makes a huge number of customers.
- Adobe Stock
Adobe Stock (formerly Fotolia) is a market place to stock photos by most popular photo editing software companies like lightroom and Photoshop. It is considered to be the very first site to sell photographs online. The share of royalty is also higher than any other online store.
- Dreamstime
Dreamstime offers reliable and genuine HQ digital photos with affordable price. It’s a royalty-free stock photography site from 2000. It is one of the best photography leaders in the world.
- Creative Market
Creative Market is a handcrafted digital market place to sell simple and accessible designs for everyone. They offer photos, graphics, themes, 3d models, fonts, add on, website themes, templates.
- BigStockPhoto
BigStockPhoto is an international royalty free micro stock photographic website. It is the most reliable seller of online photo market. They typically sell images via a credit-based system. They have a vast collection of photos, vectors, and illustrations.
Make money through Facebook
- Create a discussion group
Make a photographic group or page on Facebook and carry on discussing your preferred genre of photography. Keep uploading your best images. Create an engaged community base.
- Create competition
Create a photography competition and gather more followers. Sell photographs to enthusiast buyers.
Make money through Instagram/Pinterest
- Grow your followers
Making money in Instagram/Pinterest through photography is based on the growth of engaged followers. Make a proper profile and set a good image that looks professional. Use a simple effective logo. Put on a catchy description. Stick to a particular genre of photography that makes an identity of you. Post most stunning and relish pictures consistently, don’t overdo posting that may annoy your followers. Use hashtag and geotags.
- Sell Pictures
There are many renowned market places and hosting sites that offer photographers to gain good money through licensing and making a partnership with big brands.
- Offer limited-time free services to grow your follower
- Offer premium services
- Quiz
- Interaction with followers
Teach Photography
Teaching photography is a great thing to make money. You can have basic digital online classes via your website. Make a detailed video course and charge a better amount to buyers. Conduct with your followers via social media and also you can have an affiliate marketing plan for your students. Privet lessons are also good. Bisakha Datta is indeed a good teacher to help you solve all your photography queries.
Sell Art Photography
The initial stage is to get hold of a reliable printing source and gradually create an offline marketplace platform or create an online blog of your own. Display your art prints, set the price, promote your initiative and start earning gradually. Get some unique ideas here.
Affiliate marketing
In Instagram or any other marketplace, influencer photographers are more focused on making sales. Adding a tracked link in your bio section on Instagram or in the caption of each post can make an affiliate marketing strategy.
Create your own stock website
Creating a stock photography site is a golden opportunity for photographers with a new way to make money online. It is very useful for marketers, entrepreneurs, designers, etc. Stumbling with the procedure of making a stock website? Visit an expert at https://bisakhadatta.com/ to get authentic advice.
Create your own gallery to showcase
- Flickr.com
Flickr.com is an online free photo hosting and sharing site that offers you to make unlimited sharing of your photos and exploring other images without paying a single coin. It has a very active and engaged community. The website offers your a gallery to showcase with rich and advanced features.
- 500-px.com
500 p-x is a Toronto; Canada based photo hosting and sharing service site. It is owned by China. It’s an international online platform for photographers to get global exposures. It also offers to gain money via licensing and brand partnerships.
Sell T-Shirt with your unique photography
Selling T-Shirts with unique photography is a pretty cool idea of money-making. Selling a designed T-Shirt online is a big gateway into the larger e-commerce market or in the world of fashion.
Grab the tee designed only for you!
Write a book and sell
Write a book on photography and sell it. If anyone gets difficulties related with publishing they can self publish a book in e-book format that also yields money. Get a mentor and coach in here.
Create a blog to share your photography experience
- How to create your blog? – Probably blogging is the best part of digital marketing. To make money with photography one must write blogs in their sites.
- How to create a site using WordPress? – Creating a site requires knowledge of web development and designing using WordPress. There is a better way to visit an expert at https://bisakhadatta.com/. She will provide a great deal in creating your website as per your request.
Create YouTube channel
For creating an effective YouTube channel that will gain vast popularity in the least time concerning photography and designs, contact the website of Bisakha Datta at https://bisakhadatta.com/.
Workshop on photography
Photography workshop is a place where anyone who has a keen willingness to learn photography can gather much knowledge and experience in a few hours. In a workshop, arranged by many famous photographers, you get something which is priceless. For making career photography one must go through some photography workshops. There are many workshops available in the market.
One can visit Bisakha Datta’s website at https://bisakhadatta.com/ and participate in the workshops for beginner and aspiring photographers conducted at regular intervals.
If you are a beginner follow these tricks and improve your mobile photography. Last but not least, best comes down from hard work and efforts.
Landscape Photography
May
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2019
Landscape Photography: Take Your Photography to a New Level
Landscape is everything, you see in your surroundings. The hilly mountains, green lands, blue oceans, stormy sea, frigid forest, each and everything are the beautiful parts of nature. Taking shots of these natural beauties are really a fascinating profession.
What is landscape photography?
Definition of landscape photography is actually different for different perception. Sometimes landscape photography is taking photographs of huge unending nature and other times microscopic species.
Types of landscape photography
The scenery is the most important part of landscapes. Generally, people or city sky or animals photographs don’t fall under landscapes. Here are the three major types of landscapes.
- Representational landscapes: The most natural style of landscape photography is representational. It’s all about what you see is what you get in your mind. No artificial constituents are added. Special attention is given in lighting, framing, and composition of photographs.
- Abstract landscapes: In abstract landscape importance is given to the graphics design than a realistic representation of the observation. The photographer may use some lighting techniques to highlight a particular area within the landscape itself.
- Impressionistic landscapes: It is totally based on the impression of the viewer rather than the realistic view.
Essential accessories for landscape photography
Pack your field bag with this essential equipment before going on the field.
Camera: Camera for landscapes requires the following settings. Single shot drive mode, an aperture priority shooting mode with aperture of F/11 to F/16, ISO setting of 100 to200 and focal length of 25mm to 34 mm settings are the minimum requirement. Settings are almost same for a different type of shootings.
Lens: A good wide angle lens with an aperture of F/8 to F/10 will be suggested but real success comes by using good telephoto lenses as it helps to isolate the subjected portion of the scene.
- Prime Lens- Used for Maximum Aperture & Quality. Example – 20mm, 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, 105mm, 135mm, 200mm, 300mm, 400mm, 600mm,800mm.
- Kit Lens- Used for Landscape, Portrait, Wildlife, and Birding Photography. Example – 18-400mm, 18-300mm, 28-300mm (FX).
- Zoom Lens- Used for Wildlife, Birding Photography. Example – 70-200mm, 150-600mm, 200-500mm etc.
Solid Tripod: If you want to take tack-sharp landscapes then use a solid tripod to prevent the noise and vibration and increase stability.
Filters: Essential filters to be carried are,
- Graduated neutral density filters: Though it’s a generation of HDR still GND filters are famous for its less complexity and also, it allows more options in post-processing.
- Variable neutral density filters: These filters are great for motion pictures.
- Circular polarized filters: The largest diameter polarized filters are great for landscape photography.
Some Quick ideas to make your landscape photography more vibrant
- Create depth: Try to create a sense of depth by focusing on different part of the photograph. Take a small aperture to enter less light inside the lens.
- Capture movement: When you are capturing any movement, like the flow of water you can create a stunning white effect by using shutter priority mode.
- Use water as a mirror: Water can be the best thing to create a reflection in images. The best time to use water as a mirror is during sunrise and sunset .Try to utilize these two times.
- Rule of thirds: According to rule of thirds splitting the image into two lines vertically and two lines in horizontally and place the subject in the centre of one of the intersecting points and after composition in this way the image will be a wander to the eye.
Printed stunning images waiting for you!
Lighting
Lighting plays a vital role in landscape photography. There are various types of light which may make your landscape more beautiful. Let’s know about some of them.
- Reflected light: When light falls directly on the surface, creates reflection.
- Overcast light: On foggy days the light is soft and cool.
- Backlight: Sun is utilized here as a sunny spot in the photograph.
Ideas and Inspire
Take a look into the gallery of Bisakha Datta and get some unique ideas.
Photographers in this field
Ted Gore: Gore gained worldwide respect for his California landscapes. Follow him at http://www.tedgorecreative.com/. One fascinating book by this photographer is A Story and Thoughts on Safety in the wilderness.
Daniel Kordan: Russia’s Kordan has a deep fascination of travel landscapes which motivates people to travel. Meet him at http://danielkordan.com/. One must-read book by this jewel is Landscape photography in depth.
The Causeway Coast, Landscape photographer of the year, Dronescapes: The new aerial photography these are some other books that can help you out to learn about landscape photography.
Post-processing landscape tips
- To get a stunning landscape, post- processing is important.
- Let’s check out the list of post-processing tips
- Use dehaze filter to reduce the haze of pictures
- To improve the colours in landscapes try to navigate to the Hue section and HSL tab. These are most beneficial for sunset and sunrise photography.
- Add glowing effect for shiny objects like glares on the rocks, shiny cloud, etc. Go to the image>Adjustments>Brightness and contrast then increase the brightness by around 20% and contrast by around 60-80%.
- Try to use the quick selection tool to merge shots in anew shiny HDR image.
Making money with landscape photography
Stock photography
- Shutterstock
Shutterstock is a leading photographic trading market place over than 15 years, a very popular online site to buy photos. They have a collection of 200 million images, videos, and music tracks with royalty-free purchasing that makes a huge number of customers.
- Adobe Stock
Adobe Stock (formerly Fotolia) is a market place to stock photos by most popular photo editing software companies like lightroom and Photoshop. It is considered to be the very first site to sell photographs online. The share of royalty is also higher than any other online store.
- Dreamstime
Dreamstime offers reliable and genuine HQ digital photos with affordable price. It’s a royalty-free stock photography site from 2000. It is one of the best photography leaders in the world.
- Creative Market
Creative Market is a handcrafted digital market place to sell simple and accessible designs for everyone. They offer photos, graphics, themes, 3d models, fonts, add on, website themes, templates.
- BigStockPhoto
BigStockPhoto is an international royalty free micro stock photographic website. It is the most reliable seller of online photo market. They typically sell images via a credit-based system. You can get a vast collection of photos, vectors, and illustrations.
Make money through Facebook
- Create a discussion group
Make a photographic group or page on Facebook and carry on discussing your preferred genre of photography. Keep uploading your best images. Create an engaged community base.
- Create competition
Create a photography competition and gather more followers. Sell photographs to enthusiast buyers.
Make money through Instagram/Pinterest
- Grow your followers
Making money in Instagram/Pinterest through photography is based on the growth of engaged followers. Make a proper profile and set a good image that looks professional. Use a simple effective logo. Put on a catchy description. Stick to a particular genre of photography that makes an identity of you. Post most stunning and relish pictures consistently, don’t overdo posting that may annoy your followers. Use hashtag and geotags.
- Sell Pictures
There are many renowned market places and hosting sites that offer photographers to gain good money through licensing and making a partnership with big brands.
- Offer limited-time free services to grow your follower
- Offer premium services
- Quiz
- Interaction with followers
Teach Photography
Teaching photography is a great thing to make money. You can have basic digital online classes via your website. Make a detailed video course and charge a better amount to buyers. Conduct with your followers via social media and also you can have an affiliate marketing plan for your students. Privet lessons are also good. Bisakha Datta is indeed a good teacher to help you solve all your photography queries.
Sell Art Photography
The initial stage is to get hold of a reliable printing source and gradually create an offline marketplace platform or create an online blog of your own. Display your art prints, set the price, promote your initiative and start earning gradually. Get some unique ideas here.
Affiliate marketing
In Instagram or any other marketplace, influencer photographers are more focused on making sales. Adding a tracked link in your bio section on Instagram or in the caption of each post can make an affiliate marketing strategy.
Create your own stock website
Creating a stock photography site is a golden opportunity for photographers with a new way to make money online. It is very useful for marketers, entrepreneurs, designers, etc. Stumbling with the procedure of making a stock website? Visit an expert at https://bisakhadatta.com/ to get authentic advice.
Create your own gallery to showcase
- Flickr.com
Flickr.com is an online free photo hosting and sharing site that offers you to make unlimited sharing of your photos and exploring other images without paying a single coin. It has a very active and engaged community. The website offers your a gallery to showcase with rich and advanced features.
- 500-px.com
500 p-x is a Toronto; Canada based photo hosting and sharing service site. It is owned by China. It’s an international online platform for photographers to get global exposures. It also offers to gain money via licensing and brand partnerships.
Sell T-Shirt with your unique photography
Selling T-Shirts with unique photography is a pretty cool idea of money-making. Selling a designed T-Shirt online is a big gateway into the larger e-commerce market or in the world of fashion.
Grab the tee designed only for you!
Write a book and sell
Write a book on photography and sell it. If anyone gets difficulties related with publishing they can self publish a book in e-book format that also yields money. Get a mentor and coach in here.
Create a blog to share your photography experience
- How to create your blog? – Probably blogging is the best part of digital marketing. To make money with photography one must write blogs in their sites.
- How to create a site using WordPress? – Creating a site requires knowledge of web development and designing using WordPress. There is a better way to visit an expert at https://bisakhadatta.com/. She will provide a great deal in creating your website as per your request.
Create YouTube channel
For creating an effective YouTube channel that will gain vast popularity in the least time concerning photography and designs, contact the website of Bisakha Datta at https://bisakhadatta.com/.
Workshop on photography
Photography workshop is a place where anyone who has a keen willingness to learn photography can gather much knowledge and experience in a few hours. In a workshop, arranged by many famous photographers, you get something which is priceless. For making career photography one must go through some photography workshops. There are many workshops available in the market.
One can visit Bisakha Datta’s website at https://bisakhadatta.com/ and participate in the workshops for beginner and aspiring photographers conducted at regular intervals.
Compositions of Photography
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01 – Rule of Third
This is one of the most talked-about compositional techniques. All you need to do is to divide your frame vertically into three equal parts and horizontally into three equal parts. By placing your subject on one of the four points where these dividing lines meet, you will encourage the viewer away from the center of the frame. This forces them to look around the image and makes your composition more interesting.
02- Patterns and Textures
Human beings are naturally attracted to patterns. They are visually attractive and suggest harmony. Patterns can be manmade like a series of arches or natural like the petals on a flower. Incorporating patterns into your photographs is always a good way to create a pleasing composition. Less regular textures can also be very pleasing on the eye.
03 – Foreground Interest
04 – Leading Lines
05 – Rule of Odds
05 – Rule of Odds
The rule of odds states that images are more visually appealing when there is an odd number of subjects. For example, if you are going to place more than one person in a photograph, don’t use
two, use 3 or 5 or 7, etc.
06 – Fill the Frame
07 – Use of Negative Space
Leaving a lot of empty or ‘negative’ space around your subject can be very attractive. It creates a sense of simplicity and minimalism. Like filling the frame, it helps the viewer focus on the main subject without distractions.
08 – Minimalism
Minimalism is the composition which expresses ‘less is more’. Simplicity is the main key to this composition.
09 – Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition is the composition which presents two or more elements in a scene that can either contrast or the opposite with each other or complement each other. These photographs approach to tell a story.
For example:
1. A fat person next to a skinny person
2. The tall person next to a short person
3. Dark colors next to light colors
4. Circles next to rectangles
5. Old people next to young people
10 – Golden Ratio
Fibonacci Series
0, 1, 1,2,3,5,8,13,21…….n
The golden ratio is an invisible leading line which follows to maintain the composition which nature itself follows.
It is believed that the golden spiral method of composition has been in existence for over 2,400 years having been devised in Ancient Greece.
It is widely used in many types of art as well as architecture as a way of creating aesthetically pleasing compositions. It was particularly well employed in Renaissance art.
The Golden Ratio, also sometimes called the Fibonacci Spiral.
The value of the golden ratio is 1.61803398875
a/b = (a+b)/a = 1.61803398875
We do not need to memorize this, we need to just understand it.
Golden Spiral
Example of some photographs of Golden Ratio
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Photography Basics
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What is Photography?
To learn photography first we need to know what is photography. Photography is an art of freezing moments of something captured by the camera by our imagination, composition, and light.
The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.
Photography is
1. Communication of ideas
2. Creative art
Photography, is a powerful medium of expression and communication, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation, and execution.
So, how photographs create?
Basically, in DSLR there are two parts.
- Camera Body
- Lens
In any lens, there is a hole through which light travels into the camera body. This is called aperture
A digital sensor in the camera body that opens and closes to expose the picture is called shutter
When we press the shutter button, the camera capture the photo.
The photo may be captured as we see as it is, it may be artistic like the light & shadow. Some examples are following
It depends on our concept and imagination. So basically in photography, we are playing with light.
Technically, we can control the light by
- Aperture
- Shutter Speed
- ISO
This is known as the exposure triangle.
Exposure Triangle is the key tools to create a photograph.
Aperture
Aperture is an important part of the Exposure Triangle.
In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture and focal length of an optical system determine the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane.
In the lens, there is a little tiny hole. You can increase and decrease the hole.
The small number means a big hole and a big number means a small hole. The aperture is known as F stops
What is the meaning of F
Focal
Factual
Fractional
The stops are
f/1.4, f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, f/16, f/22
√2 = 1.414
(√2)2 = 2
(√2)3 = 2.8
(√2)4 = 4
(√2)5 = 5.6
Increase one-stop double the light
Decrease the stop half the light
We can see this aperture number on the lens. F/1.8 starts to value and end value
Also, this number defines the exposure and depth of field of the captured image
What is Depth of Field?
How much focus area in the image has. Two types of Depth of Fields are there
- Deep DOF
- Shallow DOF
Before press the shutter button, first we need to think how much Depth of Field we want for the captured image.
For Portrait – Mostly use F/1.8, F/2.8
For Landscape – Mostly use F/11, F/16 or F/22
Shutter Speed
In photography, shutter speed or exposure time is the length of time when the film or digital sensor inside the camera is exposed to light, also when a camera’s shutter is open when taking a photograph.
ISO
In the digital segment of photography, ISO measures the sensitivity of the camera sensor to light. Higher ISO used in a darker situation.