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SAFFRON - SESHU'S DOCUMENTARY WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY & PORTRAITS BLOG
The WPPI Experience in Las Vegas |
I have some good news – couple of weeks back, Nikon USA (via their PR agency MWW) tapped me to go to WPPI, the world's best known and perhaps largest wedding and portrait photographer convention, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Now for some great news - Nikon has generously offered up some of their gear for me to check out and use and report back to you here. I am so honored!
In the LowePro Pro Runner 300 AW they gifted me, I carried the following lenses to test out: Nikon 24mm f/1.4 (my dream lens is here in my hands!), Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR II, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8. And of course, I asked for the Nikon D700 to go with it all.
While I don't get to keep all that Nikon camera gear (bummer, I know), Nikon snuck in a SanDisk 16gb Extreme PRO CF Card and a lightning fast SanDisk Extreme Firewire Card Reader that I can take back home. How cool is that!
You'll see a more fleshed out blog post providing you with mini reviews of everything I used in Las Vegas in the next day or so.
Now the bonus to all of this was of course randomly running into photographers who I am following on Twitter or who are following me.
Got questions about the Nikon gear I am testing out? Let me know in the comments and I will respond to them as soon as possible. Thank you!
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Using Photography To Explore And Experience The World |
My nearly four-year old son, Rohan, is quite intent on following me around with his own camera. When my brother-in-law gifted an older Kodak (I have no idea what model or how many megapixels and that kind of information hardly matters to me anyway), Rohan took to it like a fish does to water. He naturally liked the idea of the flash going off and he was soon exhausting the poor rechargeable batteries. Then when he had completely filled the 64mb (yeah, tiny) compact flash card, he came running to me to download it. I have gone through about three cycles with him and while he still walks around the house, points at the wall and shoots, in anticipation of that flash, I think he is starting to develop a knack for making some decent images.
As a parent, I absolutely want to encourage his creative spirit and I was so happy that he is into photography like I am. No telling how long this will last, but I am hoping to memorialize some of his images here. Nurturing a child's need for exploration is so paramount. As a young parent, I am still learning the ropes – what to yield to because it makes sense for the long term and what does not. I also think children have an incredible way of looking at their world. Sure they are shorter than adults, so right away their perspective is so different. But their sense of timing and composition is also something to marvel.
The camera Rohan is using has its limitations. No doubt about that. But a child has no such hangups. It's the very act of doing that brings him joy. I am just amazed that in some respect that's how I am when I am photographing a portrait or documenting a multicultural wedding. It's serious business and one must get THE shot, but without the freedom to play, experiment and flex those creative muscles like children do, you would rarely see an image that is unique to you or your event.
Enough chatter, let's move on to those images Rohan has been making. Your comments here will mean the world to him when he has the capacity to read, understand and appreciate what he had embarked on. So, step right up! |
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| Rohan's attempt at getting a closeup picture of his brother, Ketan. The latter doesn't look too thrilled does he? |
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