Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

Saleha, a Muslim wall painting artist based in Toronto reached out to me to do portfolio session. I was super excited about the work she does when she talked to me through the phone. She was very energetic all throughout the shooting session. We shot photos for an hour.

We shot some b-roll video clip for another hour. We planned the shoot at golden hour which have helped us to get some lighting conditions. All the shots were taken using only natural light.

The one thing I loved about her work was her attention to details. She has spent months on crafting her single artwork. She makes only piece of artwork which makes it more valuable.

The equipment used for this shoot was Sony a7iii with combination of Tamaron 28-75 2.8 lens. And I used a Zhiyun Weebil-S for doing the video shots.

Working with her for two hours was super easy and a new experience for me as visual artist. She talked about her passion towards this particular art with me for some time. She also talked about the business aspects of artworks. How they are sold and shipped to various parts of the world. The one thing what she told me strikes me was she may not see her artwork she worked for months in her entire life once after she ships it. That one thing made me little nervous about the shoot and on the other hand it motivated me to deliver the best photos and videos to her as possible as I can.

Auditya Venkatesh commonly known as ‘Audi photography ‘is an Indian photographer who inspires me a lot with his strong compositions and the way he plays with the light. Most of his picture are quick pictures from his smartphone and sometimes we can’t even believe that picture were taken in a phone, which make the point, it’s not always about the gear you have , it’s about how you use the gear you already have to its most potential . He uses his Instagram to engage with his audience mostly. The always tries to incorporate little details of how he took the picture in his post which makes him more popular among the aspiring photographers. He is an Ambassador to Google pixel, Sony Cameras and he have worked with some of the biggest channels and public figures in the world. He doesn’t mind sharing his personal life in his social media platform which makes him more connected to his audience.

Link to Audi’s Blog

https://www.auditya.com/blog

Link to Audi’s Instagram account

https://www.instagram.com/audiphotography/

Link to Audi’s Facebook account

https://www.facebook.com/AudiPhotography/

Link to Audi’s Twitter account

https://twitter.com/AudiPhotography

GREENLAX COMMERCIAL

We have shot and edited a video with intention of going viral as part of our assignment for Social media. As a team, Kevin , Zack and Myself worked together to brainstorm the ideas and we came up with this idea of a funny commercial. We had lot of fun writing the dialogues and while shooting inside the studio. We were trying use humour to market the product which considered as a taboo in the society. Hope you all will enjoy the video.

I have captured a couple of photos themed on my favourite colour Blue. I have given more stress on sky. Because , Thats where we see the blue colour than anywhere else. I have shot these pictures using Canon Rebel T5 with lens 18-55. These pictures are post processed using Lightroom and snapseed.

I have done a 15 post experiment on instagram as part of our Social media class in college. It consists of

• Three different photos of a person with a single dominate colour theme
• Three unique photos with a high level of texture (any subject)
• Three photos with a composition displaying a high amount of negative space
• Three photos with low saturation
• Three short videos.

This experiment was done to see how well the instagram algorithm act to various types of post, hashtags and location tags.

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You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

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• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
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The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

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• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
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