Interview with:Jaffer Shadiq [jaffer]
PHOTOGRAPHY
 | Do you have an online gallery where one can view your photos? Yes, https://www.facebook.com/jash.photo |
| For how long have you done photography? How did you begin? I don't know when I purchased my first camera |
| What has been your education as a photographer? Actually I studied engineering, its completely opposite to photography. So I didn't studied anything professionally but learning everyday from different sources |
| Please list any exhibitions in which you have participated. My Ramadan Photography Project in Dubai (2011) |
| Please list any awards for your work. My photographs published in print magazine, brochure & greeting cards. |
| What is your favourite type of photography? Nature |
| What do you try to express through your photography? My view through my eyes.
My taste, My interest |
| How do you choose your subjects? I don't want to limit the subjects |
| What type of preparation do you do before undertaking the photo session? If battery is ready, then that is enough |
| Do you normally photograph with a purpose already in mind, or do you let yourself go with the flow? Depends on the situation. I doesn't have any plan for natural pictures, but always have some ideas for rest other things |
| Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Sigma, Olympus, Sony, Pentax...which do you place your bets on and why? Canon always |
| Describe your current equipment: cameras, lenses, computers, accessories... Cameras: Canon EOS 7D, Canon EOS 550D, Sony DSC-W360, Panasonic HSC, iPhone Camera
Lens:Canon 18-55mm, Canon 18-135mm, Sigma 70-300mm,Tamaron 55mm
Windows 7, Windows XP
Extra Batteries, Extra Memory Cards, Extra Chargers, 2 Tripods |
| What software and plug-ins do you use to retouch and manage your photos? Photoshop CS5 |
| What measures do you take to protect your work against Internet piracy? Watermark on the pictures |
| Are you a good salesperson of your work? In what should you improve? Nope , But needs to improve in everything |
| Which past masters of photography do you most admire? It depends on every picture |
| Are technology and digital retouching reducing the gap between professionals and amateurs? No |
| What is your team of habitual collaborators like? NO one |
| With which other photographers do you normally team up with or do sessions with? Every clicks which comes to my eyes |
| Do you consider yourself more technical or more artistic? both |
| What have you learned about the art of framing and composition? its makes uniqueness |
| How does one develop the instinct of knowing when to press the shutter release button? Only with experience & experiments |
| When should one use film, and when should one use digital? film is too much complicated & its difficult for experiments. So I totally skipped it |
| Does photography have the recognition that it should have in contemporary art museums? YES |
| Which websites for photographers do you frequently visit? NGC, instagram |
| Is there any particular technique that you could share? Keep experimenting every ideas |
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