Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Hobbies & Interests : Photography


Photography is a passion in itself. Considered to be one of the most expensive hobbies, it gives the photographer enough tools and space for creativity. With the varous types of cameras invloved, the several types of lenses tailored for a particular need, photographers coming from several backgrounds, each having his/her own taste, etc - photography in itself is a vast field covering several domains from fashion-documentary-fine art-street-nature-vernacular-night-panoramic-photojournalism etc.

for starters this wiki is a good place to have your interface with this vast, interesting and creative field. With the great boom of digital camera technology, cameras and photography in general has expanded its user base by leaps and bounds. To know more about how your digital cameras this is a good link. For the little advanced users and semi-pros, a DSLR camera is the best tool. this would help all you DSLR fans

I guess most of you host your snaps online at places like Flickr, Webshots , Photo.net etc. I found this interesting blog that has a good set of photos uploaded by their users. My favourite ones are this, this and this

Macro photography is a large field in itself. Here is a good starting point to know the intricacies about Macro Lenses. This wiki is also informative.

I upload some of my snaps at these links

Enjoy !

PS: photo Courtesy of Miwaza Jemimah

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

quite expensive and time consuming too :)

It's worth buying some space and putting it in your own webspace..never know..mite become one of hottest website some day :)

Anonymous said...

pics in flickr are best viewed..good resolution...u got awesome pics..do put more; will give link to my frnds :)

Hamza Hydri said...

sure dude ... I shall move them to my space some day ... but making one own website is too much work at the moment for a lazybone like me!