FOCUS

10 BEST PHOTOSFROM AROUNDTHE WORLD

STEVEMcCURRY- untold

CAPTURING THE ELEGANCEOF DANCE

EDITINGSOFTWARES

5 BESTCAMERASWITHINYOURBUDGET

the photography magazine WINTER 2015

CONTENTS6. Editor’s Letter

10. Elegance ofDance- dance is the way oflife. there is dance everywhere. here, webring you the mostperfectly shot imagesof various kind ofdances from around the world.

21. Cameras withinyour Budget- cameras which don’tcost you much on your pocket

14. Steve mcCurryuntold- the legendary pho-tographer steve on aroll. his famous works, experts from his blog and much more unknown facts of this legend.

24. Around The World- presenting to you some of the best pho-tographs from around the world

28. Editing softwares

4 FOCUS www.focus.com

note from the editorBy the time you read this letter, the world would have been shaken upthe influx of new photo euipment that they will see and handle at Focus 2015. Camera buffs will enter the seventh heaven and drool at the various mouth-watering new cameras, lenses and other photo equipment that they will be able to see and handle.

For anyone who has been interested in wedding photography, you would definitely appreciate the contents inside. The society has changed. Now eberything is being photographed and people want it to capture at its raw beauty. And a lot of people have dared to take it as a profession. Dance is a form of art and so is Photography, what would it be like if both the amazing amazing arts blend together. yes, there is an exclusive range of pictures capturing the elegance of dance.

While we hope this will serve as a valuable guide, the most important thing to remember is to live in the moment and really play out yourpassion. Because only you know the cadence of your dream.

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note from the editor

Elegance of Dance“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world.” — Mata Hari

Dance is the most loved form of art around the world. however sad a per-son will be, but once you see somebody dance or start dancing,

you automatically for-get everything else and come into that mood. So presenting to you, the most brilliant can-did shots of various forms of dance from arounnd the world. sit back and enjoy.

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STEVE McCURRY-The UntoldOver the course of his 30-year

career, Steve McCurry has traveled to a laundry list of places, creating some truly iconic images along the way. His most famous photo, “The Afghan Girl,” is one of the most recognizable photographs on the planet. Now, he has a new book (Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs) looking back across his career. He was also recently named as a member of SanDisk’s Extreme Team Legends. Despite his busy travel schedule, Mr. Mc-Curry took some time to talk to us about how photography -- and the world around us -- has changed over the years.

You have been putting out books for years. Has the process of pro-ducing a book changed much since you started?

I don’t think it has. The selection pro-cess is a bit different. We used to print the pictures and select from those. Now, a lot of the selection process can be done on a computer screen. Apart from that, it’s very much the same.

When talking about change, many photographers allude to the fact that we’re all inundated with im-ages now thanks to Instagram and the web in general. Have you seen a change in the way we interact with photos because of that?

People are taking many more photos now, but we have always been inundat-ed with pictures.

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40 or 50 years ago we would have magazines and newspapers, but now there’s Instagram, the Internet and all of that. It’s an evolution.

There was a time when a few people would venture out into their neighbor-hood and photograph their town, village, city, or state. Travel was more difficult and sometimes impossible 50 years ago. People weren’t going to these foreign countries for photography. Now, you can pick a place like Kenya or Brazil or New Zealand and it’s relatively afford-able to go there.

How has that spe-cifically affected the kind of docu-mentary photogra-phy that you do?

People are going to virtually every cor-ner of the world. The world is changing rapidly. Take India for example. People have pretty much seen everything and now you need to dig a bit deeper and do something a little bit more in depth. Everyone has seen the Taj Mahal. What else can be said about one of the most

beautiful pieces of architecture in the world? What other comment can be made? How else can it be described? That’s the challenge.

How do you choose the places you go to photograph?I go to places that I’m curious about. I like to go to places I have been before so I can examine them further. I’d like to go to Iran. I think that would be very inter-esting. The decision to a place is based on my curiosity.

the famous ‘afghan girl’ photo

one of his portraits from india

People have always been a cen-tral aspect of your photography. As photography has become more prevalent around the world, has that changed the way you’re able to interact with your subjects?

I think people are a lot more suspicious. There’s this whole business of model releases. I’ve never cared about model releases. I don’t think I’ve ever asked someone for one for my personal work. I can’t imagine asking someone to sign a model release. It’s different if it’s an advertising or corporate assignment. But, now people want to know what the photos are for -- where they’re going to appear.

If I’m going to photograph children playing in a park, you’re more reluctant to do that now than 20 or 30 years ago. People want to know why you’re pho-tographing these children. But, I don’t think there’s that much difference for me. I think people are more familiar with cameras, but I don’t see much difference at all.

You have always been a proponent of getting to know a new place by simply walking around with your camera. Is that still the best way to experience a location?

That seems to be the most natural and obvious way to work. You arrive some-where and you say to yourself,

“Let me experience this place.” I think the best way to work is simply wander-ing and observing with your camera. If you’re in Paris or a village in Burma, it’s literally just being curious and finding what you can respond to. What is it that fascinates you?

one from his srilanka travel

In this genre of street photography you’re present in the moment. That’s kind of a cliche perhaps, but your mind is occupied by the here and now. The sounds, the smells -- you can really look and see things for what they are. When was the last time you went out for a walk for its own sake without an agenda? Even when you have the camera, the first thing you need to do is be in a particular frame of mind. It’s not that you have to go out and photograph something.

It has to be a natural process, a curios-ity to appreciate the world we live in. As time goes on, we start seeing things dif-ferently.The tradition of people like Henri Cart-ier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, or Walker Evans for that mat-ter was about observation and curiosity about the world we live in. It was about wanting to document and report a face that has an incredible story on it. That to me is such a wonderful way to spend your time. Take your camera and walk out the door without an agenda. It’s a free flow.

Has the advancement of camera technology changed the way you work?At one time I worked in a dark room, developing myself and printing my own pictures. That’s pretty much over. We can shoot in extremely low light now, which was never possible with film. We could shoot in low light with a tripod or using lights, but we couldn’t really freeze action. Now, we can shoot at 10,000 ISO. That’s a huge advantage.In the old days, you had Tri-X and you’d push it to 1600 and you thought, “Wow, that’s amazing,” but it’s routine now. You can shoot in much lower light than that. It’s a huge difference.

In the old days, when we printed our own pictures, we’d burn and dodge and make all these cut outs and put them on a piece of wire. You’d spend hours trying to make one print. There’s no more spending three days in the dark room. Today, on the computer, it’s much different. We don’t have to breathe all those chemi-cals.

Has gear choice become more of an issue?

I don’t want to get too techni-cal. I hate all of that. But, I think digital is a step forward. In the end it just depends on what your picture looks like. You print it

out and put it on the table and that’s proof right there. Everything else goes away. If we’re talking about digital pho-tography 10 or 12 years ago, it would certainly be a different conversation. Today, I don’t think there’s any question. Having said all that, whatever one wants to do to achieve what they want to do with photography -- whether it’s pin-hole or a Leica or an 8x10 view camera or whatever. It’s your work. It’s like a poem. You put the poem on the table and you read it and no one is going to ask you if you typed it or wrote it out long hand. No one cares how long it took or how many re-drafts you did. How many pictures did you shoot? It doesn’t matter. The proof is the final print.

source : internet

source : internet

CAMERAS WITHIN YOUR BUDGET!!“Bringing to you some of the best DSLR Cameras which don’t cost you much on your pocket ”

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Canon EOS 1200D 18MP Digital SLR Camera (Black) with 18-55mm and 55-250mm IS II Lens,8GB card and Carry Bag

rs. 23,745

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Canon EOS 600D 18MP Digital SLR Camera (Black) with EF-S 18-55 IS Kit Lens, SD Card and Camera Bag

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Nikon D3200 24.2MP Digi-tal SLR Camera (Black) with AF-S 18-55mm VR Kit Lens, 4GB Card, Camera Bag

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Nikon D5100 16.2MP Digi-tal SLR Camera Body Only (Black) with 4GB Card, Cam-era Bag

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AROUND THE WORLD- BRINGING YOU THE SOME OF BEST PHOTOS FROM AROUND THE WORLD!!

THE FIRE FIGHTER - SETH HAROLD

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BRING ME TO LIFE - IVAN PENA

IT’S AUTUMN - DEBORAH WAGNE

fairyland - willy yohanes

waterfall at sunset- var gumundssun

following the sun - irina oreshina

icy bleachers - rich walter

EDITING SOFTWARES!!!- suggesting you with a few good editing softwares that will help you with your photographyassignments

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New!PAINTSHOP PRO X7 UltimateImagine your best photo everProfessional-quality photo editingNEW Make it vanish with Magic FillPerfectly Clear smart photo correction technologyFaceFilter3 photo retouching and beautifying toolkit

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6 for Photographers: A professional image editor’s guide to the cre-ative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC

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DxO OPTICS PRO 8$170 for Standard edition; $300 for Elite editionCompatible with: Windows XP (SP3) and later for 32-bit support; Windows Vista and later for 32- and 64-bit support; Mac OS X 10.6 and later

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PAINT.NET is a free Windows-only program that’s often men-tioned alongside GIMP but avid users give it an edge in terms of learning curve; if you know your way around Microsoft Paint, you should get the hang of Paint.net pretty quickly.

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