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Photography Classes for September, 2010

Photography Classes for Adults
8 Sessions Course
@ Hotel Seven

Hi :)

I am Rachna, a photographer specializing in natural portraits and fine art images. To share my experience and knowledge I also teach photography to adults at Art House, Whitefield. 


I am starting a new batch for my "Photography - Level 1" course, the timings of which is especially targeted for working people. This will be an 8 session course, twice a week, with each session of about 2 hours. These classes will start in first week of September and will be held at Hotel Seven, Outer Ring Road. Here is a summary of the course,


This is an 8 session course designed to cover the technical as well as creative aspects of photography with an emphasis on hands on exercises, ongoing reviews and critiques of work done during the course to ensure better learning. Since it is spread over a duration of 8 sessions, participants get more time to practice and experiment.


Main topics:
*   Technical concepts of camera like aperture, speed, metering, lenses etc
*   Creative aspects like composition of visual elements, exposure, perspective, depth of field etc
*   Other aspects like basics of enhancement/finishing the photographs using software, presentation skills etc.


You can bring any camera. The 8 sessions will be spread over 4 weeks, each week there will be one session on Saturdays 2pm to 4pm and one on Sundays 10am to 12pm.


The batch size is restricted to max 8 persons for better one-on-one interaction. The cost for this course is Rs.4000/-


Here are the links to my website and blog where you can see some of my work


        *  www.studiokriti.com
        *  studiokriti.blogspot.com


Feel free to contact me for any other details, email rachna@studiokriti.com or phone 9663310941.

cheers,                                                          
Rachna.                              

N and S

here are some pictures of N and her mom S. of course, they are so beautiful, it doesnt take much to make beautiful pictures with them. N is seven months old at this time.

the following two pictures remind me of the iskon painting of krishna and yashoda.

Avi

avi's portraits.

old people

visited an exhibition by bangalore's top photo journalist K. Venkatesh, about old people in old homes. very hard hitting photographs. the old homes he has photographed are more like orphanages for old people, mostly coming from lower income stratas of the society, many of them just abandoned at the gate by their children. this would have been quite unthinkable in india a couple decades back, but now the numbers are rising, especially in cities.

i took this shot in "gorkhi mandir" in gwalior, winters 2006.

incidentally i am reading a book which covers various aspects of "humans" (the book is called "Human"), and recently was reading about how old people are valued in various societies across the world and factors based on which various societies assign status to a person. there is a clear correlation between how industrialized a society is and how much value it gives to its older people. the more industrialized a society the more marginalized its older people, especially by their own children and society in inter-personal context. the less industrial a society, or more agricultural, or tribal it is, the more value, status and respect its elder people get from their children, family and society, for their life experience and the wealth of knowledge. does it mean that being humans, as a society, we value someone only if we can get something in return? so in industrialized societies (long lasting)status comes from the wealth accumulated, and age and experience are not of much importance - as "years of experience" don't mean much in the fast pace of development. where as, in agricultural or tribal societies, where things tend to be the way they always were, experience and knowledge accumulated over years are useful for young people, so old people are "respected" for that. this is kind of a depressing thought.

as a society if we are incapable of sincerely caring for our own old, who in today's times have less and less to give anything in return(of course we conveniently forget what we have received in past), then can we really claim that the love and care we give to our next generation is truly selfless? is it really possible, for some one to selflessly love their children and not care about their parents? they are the two ends of the same relationship after all! i dont have a personal experience of this, so its hard for me to fathom, but it really leaves me guessing.

why is the love from parent to child stronger and lasting than love from child to parent?

i took this shot in hampi, next to "krishna temple", mid 2006

sold.

very encouraging weekend. sold a few pictures at the bazaar, and a very positive response overall. will display the pictures for sale at one of my friend's clinic very soon. this will be a permanent display - like a private gallery ;)

displaying pictures for sale

displaying some of my pictures for sale this  weekend along with the "Sustainables' Sale" at Art House. please come to  check it out and bring your friends too.