EXTRA EYES

For your wedding day!

Weddings are the most endearing event in the lives of each and every person. Most of us have spent many hours musing on the required preparations leading up to the day, the festivity of the day itself and the excitement of stepping forth into a new journey with your partner. In India especially, lots go into planning the wedding. It is considered one of the biggest and the most auspicious event in one’s life. We in India leave no stone unturned to make it as dreamy and magical as we envision it to be. It is often seen that for all the craziness surrounding the wedding and its planning, the only respite presents itself in the form of the wedding photo album that you receive a couple of weeks later.

The album with its collection of photographs helps you actually revisit those beautiful moments; this time sans the tension, nervousness and anxiety. You can lay back and simply smile, laugh or perhaps even cry over those pleasantly emotional, nerve-racking yet fun times. And mind you this time, the experience of celebrating your beautiful day with your loved one next to you at each point in time and at each little place within your venue really makes for an enjoyable adventure. With the wedding rituals and festivities on way, you really cannot afford to have your eyes on all things happening and you will appreciate the extra eyes you hire to capture all those moments and give them to you through a photo-journey that is spectacular.

Well another thing is that you may have your parents, siblings or relatives pick those extra eyes to help photograph the event but just for a moment ask yourself if you just want photographs of different people wishing you or if what you want is an array of candid photographs that reflect the essence of the day, your family, the guests, the venue, the mood, the revelry and more. Is it about just clicking photographs as a record or is it about sharing the fete with your dear ones for generations to come. Candid wedding photography is considered by most an art. It requires skill and understanding of components beyond mere technical specifications. There is a level of storytelling and artistic visualization involved in the photography style used for candid wedding photography.

So if you have caught yourself dreaming about the perfect shot and hoping to document your wedding in its truest magnificent self then you need to garb the reins of your wedding and pick your own trusted candid wedding photographer. I have often found myself asking my partner, who will capture our wedding and with my trusted wedding photographer at the altar with me, I always find myself gasping for an apt answer. But then again that is something you don’t have to worry about because Fotoxication can help be those ‘EXTRA EYES’  for you at your wedding justifying the pureness of the moment with the impeccable photo-journalistic approach. Creativity and candidness resonating itself with each click so wait no more, if your wedding is being planned than book Fotoxication to be your extra eyes today!

Author: Sheena Benedicta

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I’M A LEFTY, WHERE’S MY CAMERA???

Did you know that most cameras come designed typically for right handed people?

Well it is no secret that most cameras have their shutter release button on the right itself. Most if not all cameras are designed to meet comfort levels of right-handed individuals. And hence these cameras have even the other function and control buttons on the right along with the shutter release button itself.  But have you ever wondered how left handed photographers would use one with ease and comfort; enough to create a memorable photograph?

Even popular brands such as Canon and Nikon do not have any left handed cameras in their range. In fact my research on this found me only 2 camera brands Exakta camera and some Konica F series to be amongst the few or maybe only shutter release-on-left cameras. Also these are said to be only point and shoot cameras, so really I found absolutely no DSLR to have been launched for left hand photographers with a left hand control panel yet. 

And despite this limitation, the world has seen some pretty amazing works of photographic art from left hand photographers; both amateur and professional. Most left handed individuals say that using the camera with right-hand controls becomes as simple as any tasks that they do otherwise using their left. While there are those wondering when a left hand control camera will see the light of day, still others feel that this too fits into their category of ‘getting used to using all things right handed’.

If you are a left hand photographer or an ambidextrous you can try flipping the camera; if it still feels awkward, just keep at it and eventually you will get used to it or perhaps a remote shutter release held in your left hand can also help. Some left hand photographers swear by the tripod too. Though for most of our lefty buddies this may or may not be a struggle while photographing but as a fellow photographer I cannot undermine it because I tried using my left and boy was it not easy!

Author: Sheena Benedicta

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Imagining a life without Photos!

I’d often wonder to myself what would this world be without the introduction of photography? I mean seriously let’s for a brief second deduce that there is no such thing as photos; whoa... what would that be like? You know what challenges my thinking is how this world would turn out to be. With no photos we’d find our only solace in hand art which would remain the sole method to documenting how our historical leaders, inventors or even our grandparents looked. You know experts say that sans photos in our lives we would have a hard time remembering the past, understanding with clarity our history or learning of our heritage.

You will agree with me that it is in seeing, knowing and studying these facts through visuals that make us who we are. Our belief systems, our thinking style, our patriotism, our character and our personality are largely a product of visual-comprehension.  Famous photographs such as those of Abraham Lincoln famous portrait tell us about his character, till date lots are said and documented in books about the caring look in his eyes and his noble stature. With photographs it’s like we know the subject and it becomes not alien to us. A sense of familiarity is built psychologically with photographs. It is said every photo tells a story and rightly so because photographs help us never forget who we are and where we come from. 

 This Photograph called ‘last photograph of Lincoln from life’ was shot by Alexander Gardner at the Gardner’s gallery in Washington, D.C. on a Sunday dating 5^th February 1865.

 Photo-preservation endorses our thoughts, feelings and helps us relive important moments that shaped our life, influencing our present and our future; be it photographs of historical importance, our brave leaders, even family photographs, photos of you growing up or important occasions like weddings, birth and festivals. Well if photos didn’t exist we’d still use illustrations as our means of preserving the past. But do remember the biggest difference between illustrations and photographs is that in an illustration there is a large amount of interpretation by the artist who creates it. Photographs are truly what can capture the exact emotional representation at a specific moment in time. Think of famous portraits taken like the one in Times Square of the sailor kissing the nurse in elation on hearing of Japan’s surrender and ending of World War 2.

This photograph was shot by photo-journalist Alfred Eisenstaedt amidst all the chaos in Times Square on 14^th August 1945

So really a world without photography would have most certainly been incomplete. You wouldn’t be who you are and neither would I. Maybe we’d known a life very different from this one and one that is clouded by personal interpretation of our history, our heritage, our past and with that sketchy knowledge our present and future too would be affected. I am glad that isn’t the case though, today we surround ourselves in all kinds of recording devices. Photographs help us keep in touch with the past, ensure important moments are being preserved for future generations and in more ways than one make us who we are. So with pride and sheer happiness I am grateful to the recorded year 1827 when it was said that Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took the world’s first photograph and set the photographic trend that has revolutionized the way the world looks at its past and its present.

This photograph was shot by the French inventor and pioneer in the field of Photography Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in the year 1827.

Author: Sheena Benedicta

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