2. Forever try to capture a picture which itself tells a meaning story (for instance I took the photo (picture -2) of these schoolgirls during a heavy cloudburst when they were eagerly waiting for another friend of them to come!). Sometimes try to interact with the subject rather than being a mere voyeur, try to know the story behind and recompose, if possible. In picture -5, I captured a street orphan with a very painful face. Try to depict a particular mood of your subject. In picture -6, a Sadhu is glued in smoking.
3. Discover to compose the patterns. For “unaware or semi aware” type of pictures, I think the shot and composition has to be planned very quickly inner of the time. Train yourself (only way commotion this is taking increasingly photographs) to quickly measure the direction of the light, the unique interesting POV, shapes, the aperture and shutter speed. If there's enough light, I usually use Aperture priority mode, since it helps me to get the perfect DOF, but if I'm not sure or I don’t have decent time to set the settings I switch to Program mode (P).
4. For “fully aware” type of pictures, you get more time to set your camera and composition, even then don’t arrive just a posed lifeless photograph, get something meaningful out of it. For instance in picture -4 the female child is a cow trader’s girl, everyday she helps her father to chase the cows to the market with her little stick.
5. Look to a relevant or clear background. If the background is disturbing, use smaller aperture values. In picture -7, I was very lucky to have a clean background , however in picture -10, I found the background where a lady is drying her saree as a very interesting one, because it seemed to me as though the Sadhu was remembering about his past life , his family and believably his wife also, who knows!
6. If you need to accept a closer shot, approach your contents with confidence. Show your camera to them and invite permission (naturally with a smile please!). I've shot
pictures in India, Nepal and Europe; I've always found it much easier to shoot in India. Usually folk feel flattered when someone takes their pictures, so it's easier to get close-up portraits most of the time. Although sometimes you may need to answer some curious and weird questions. However in Europe, I've always found it difficult, since people are not so free when a stranger is asking their photograph. A zoom lens perchance useful for taking portraits if you're not so confident about inviting close portraits. But I don’t encourage this idea of using zoom Lena River* great deal as I believe, to take a good portraits, someone should get closer as far as possible. A fisheye perspective can be used also for capturing Wall Street scenes. don’t be upset if someone says “No”. Respect that and try someone else.
7. Avoid using flashes, they create unnecessary attentions. Use natural light. I would like to shoot during the magic hours when the sunlight is very soft. Otherwise usually I use “Cloudy” white balance to get warm snaps. Sometimes you may need to boost up your ISO at the cost of not using flash. Do that, if necessary (for instance: I took the shot (Picture-3) of the child beggar with a painted face inside a local train in Calcutta. There was very little available light and train was running and heavily shaking, hence I had to use very high ISO -1600).
8. While shooting publicly, try to wear casual clothes and carry minimal gears. It will help you to stay unnoticed. I usually carry a Tamron 18-270mm and a Canon 50mm 1.8 lens with a Canon 450D camera body and sometimes, a Fujifilm S8000fd P & S camera.
9. Although may not be essential for everyone, but for me , reading some Holy Scripture* on Photography , regularly viewing and “reading” good photos on flickr and other websites makes a lot difference .
10. Keep yourself safe. Don’t risk your life.
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