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@Ramya
Ramya V
@RamyaΒ Β·Β 2:11

Have your photography questions answered by ace photographer Johnson Peter

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So this post is for all the photography enthusiasts on Swell Johnson Peter is a photography teacher and the founder of Creative Nomad Design Company. He worked as a project manager for TCS before he quit his job to explore photography full time. He started off with wildlife photography and is currently exploring other schools of photography like Travel, street and Portraits. He also conducts workshops in Bangalore for both students and adults. Some of his wildlife photography have been featured in the National Geographic blog and on various newspaper publications

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@Adhi.V
Adhikshita
@Adhi.VΒ Β·Β 0:11
As a beginner when we want to take photography and start learning which mode is the best like there's Life, there's Auto, there's Scan and all those which one should be starting
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@priyalkedia024
Priyal Kedia
@priyalkedia024Β Β·Β 0:18
Hello, sir. It's great having conversation with you on Spell. So my question is that from what do you get the inspiration of being a photographer? And second, that, out of all your Photos film, which one is your favorite and why? Thank you. Bye
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@Devii_official
Chandrika Devi ;)
@Devii_officialΒ Β·Β 0:47
And I would really want to appreciate this opportunity to ask the question because I just begin to start taking pictures. R1 thing which really confuses me is the composition. So because of the lighting, all things story we're trying to capture in a picture, the composition varies from every picture to picture in every mode to mode. This is kind of a hard game for me
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@yeswithyashi
yashasvi Gupta
@yeswithyashiΒ Β·Β 0:37
Hello. So my question to you is photography isn't a mainstream career. So in India where career is, you know, chosen by its mainstream or not, like it's in mainstream or not. So what do you give advice to the young generations out there and parents so that they give their children that leverage, they can choose the photography as a career. And I have learned that you are a wildlife photographer. So you're dealing with animals
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@Moubani_225
Moubani Mukherjee
@Moubani_225Β Β·Β 0:49
Hello good morning girls. Because I have outcome that how can I sell my photograph in online because I can find and I get a lot of ways to sell the photo which we have sleep are selling online to earn money. So what are the various ways how it should be easier for us to sell our photos and online so that it can be even for promotion also that would be easier because in Internet we find we're which does not work sometimes. So I also work for work
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@gauriAgarwal27
Gauri Agarwal
@gauriAgarwal27Β Β·Β 0:47
Thank you so much, ma'am, for giving us this opportunity to ask questions to sir. So I am a newbie, and I have just started clicking pictures of things that I really like or the things that are, like, really attractive. That seems attractive to me. I want to know that as a newbie, where should we start a journey from the beginning, like the props and the lighting and the settings, et cetera?
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@Blessed_vibes
Hello So I've always had a hard time capturing moments during night or when it's dark. So can you give me some tips to enhance the quality of photos? Click during night or in the dark
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@pradeepmalar
Pradeep Malarvannan
@pradeepmalarΒ Β·Β 2:08
Hello, Mr. Johnson, I really wanted to ask this to a photography expert and yes, here you are. And here's my question. I have been advised by a few people who just do casual photography using the DSLR. They said there are a lot of apps in Play Store which actually simulates the controls of a DSLR camera. You try that first and then go for a DSLR camera. That's an easy way to learn and that's the money invested in the right way
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@johnsonpeter
Johnson Peter
@johnsonpeterΒ Β·Β 0:17

@Ramya

Hi Ramya. Thank you so much for this introduction and also for the opportunity to interact with people who want to know more about photography. I'm really excited to answer these questions and I'm looking can forward to answering them. Thank you. Bye
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@johnsonpeter
Johnson Peter
@johnsonpeterΒ Β·Β 0:54

@Adhi.V

Hi. Yes, the auto setting is the best place to start. If you are an absolute beginner, you don't really have to worry about any of the camera settings. The program in your camera will take care of all the settings. You just just have to point at your subject and shoot. But these settings are not ideal for all situations. You might over time, if you want to create beautiful images, something unique, you might have to learn
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@johnsonpeter
Johnson Peter
@johnsonpeterΒ Β·Β 1:35

@priyalkedia024

To answer to your second question, if you ask me, I don't have one favorite photo of mine. This one photo which I've shared here is one of my first sighting of leopard in the wild. So it's special because I had waited a long time to see a leopard in a while. So this moment, I can really remember everything that happened before and after I saw this leopard and shot this photo. Yeah. So thank you for your question
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@johnsonpeter
Johnson Peter
@johnsonpeterΒ Β·Β 3:55

@Devii_official

You can use light, you can use colors, you can use patterns, you can use shape to create a relation between the subjects in your photography. Say there is a man and a dog in the same photos. You have to create a relationship. What is the relationship between the man and a dog in the perspective that you're talking about?
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@johnsonpeter
Johnson Peter
@johnsonpeterΒ Β·Β 2:12

@yeswithyashi

But mostly photography is something which you do it on your own, where you build your own portfolio and you try to get your own clients and you do your own projects. So if you look at it, there is a risk factor involved because there is no guarantee that you will get a fixed number of clients. It completely depends on how good you are, how well you market yourself, how many customers you can get in a month, and so on
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@Adityakr
ADDY ..
@AdityakrΒ Β·Β 0:36
Hi sir. This is a very great inspiration that you follow your dream and you completed your dream. And we all students are so inspired by you and thinking to also pursue our dream team. And I'm also kind of a photographer because I like to capture sunset pictures. But sometimes I think, how other big photography and other professional photographers click that picture and it's, it seems like it's totally perfect. So how can I also capture that perfect moment
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@johnsonpeter
Johnson Peter
@johnsonpeterΒ Β·Β 2:35

@Moubani_225

So selling photography, it's completely dependent on you how you look at your photos. The stock photos are mostly reusable, so you'll get paid a very small amount because you can sell them to multiple buyers, but mostly in fine art photography, it is a limited number of photos that will be sold, sometimes less than ten, but you can charge at a premium price because these photos are exclusive
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@johnsonpeter
Johnson Peter
@johnsonpeterΒ Β·Β 2:44

@gauriAgarwal27

Sometimes you might have bright light which might make your photo look whitewashed or you might be in a low light situation. So if you understand your device better the controls and settings you will be able to take better photography at different conditions. The other thing is your subject. You can have a niche. When I say niche, you can stick onto one school of photography like wildlife photography or portrait photography or fashion photography or any of that sort. Or you can just explore different kinds
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@johnsonpeter
Johnson Peter
@johnsonpeterΒ Β·Β 2:27

@Blessed_vibes

Hi, that's a good question. So shooting in lowlight has been a challenge for photography from time immemorial because light is the most important aspect of photography and if there is very low light and your camera is not able to capture the light which is available, then you can't really shoot. But then there are some cameras available today which performs really well under low light
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@johnsonpeter
Johnson Peter
@johnsonpeterΒ Β·Β 3:13

@pradeepmalar

So there are many places, at least here in Bangalore, there are many places where they rent out DSLR cameras for a day or so. I used to rent out cameras and lenses, try to explore it and I shortlisted my first camera by renting out a few of them. And then I decided to buy. So you can do that as an option
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@johnsonpeter
Johnson Peter
@johnsonpeterΒ Β·Β 1:58

@Adityakr

Maybe if you stay somewhere close to a beach or a mountain, you include your surroundings in the photo, the perspective from where you're looking at the sunset. It's called the point of view shot. So show them from the photography from where you're shooting a particular photo. You can shoot silhouettes of people or things, or you can also take photography of people who are enjoying sunset to imply how beautiful the sunset was. So there is no real fixed way
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@priyalkedia024
Priyal Kedia
@priyalkedia024Β Β·Β 0:06

@johnsonpeter

Hi. So this shot is one of the best shots I've ever seen. So thank you so much for sharing
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