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NON MINEES OF POY, WPOY • BP POCKET GUIDE: SECRETS OF SHOOTING ABSTRACTS June 2013 Learn 100-Pagethe basics of colours Pocket and Guidestyling (Total 222 pages + 8 pg supplement before you start a portraitFREE shoot + 2 Pocket Guides of 100 pg each) BETTER PHOTOGRAPHY www.betterphotography.in 16th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL • SPECIAL LEARN16th ANNIVERSARY FROM Better technique. Better Insight. Better Pictures SPECIAL MAGAZINE INSIDE thE PROS: 40 HOW TO MAKE GREAT PICTURES WITH YOUR CELLPHONE t IPS ON POR IPS EXCLUSIVE tEStS Fujifilm X100S t RAI Nikon COOLPIX A t Olympus VG-190 URE • EXCLUSIVE GREAt MAStERS Dario Mitidieri on his t ES t iconic imagery on : FUJIFILM X100S Mumbai's streets MARKEt SENSE All you need to know about publishing your own eBook ASHOK SALIAN RAFIQUE SAYED 1 • JUNE 2013 17 • NO. VOL. AMIT ASHAR (with 40 Simple tips) VIKRAM BAWA SHANTANU SHEOREY Give a Practical Guide on how they Make a Great Portrait VISUAL MUSINGS ON ASSIGNMENT PHOTOFEATURE PROFILE Jörg Colberg ponders over the Portraying a home through Exploring fantasy & dreams Saibal Das on bridging the gap importance given to the project the wall scribbles of a child of industrial workers in Dhaka between two parallel worlds VOLUME 17 ISSUE 1 JUNE 2013 Founder & Editor, Network18 Group CEO, Network18 GET PUBLISHED IN BETTER PHOTOGRAPHY Raghav Bahl B Sai Kumar Share your best images, tips and techniques President & Editorial Director, TV18 CEO-Network18 Publishing with us and get your work noticed. Follow these Senthil Chengalvarayan Sandeep Khosla simple guidelines: Editor-in-chief, Web & Publishing, Network18 EVP-Human Reasources For PhotoCritique and Your Pictures: R. 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Senior Sales Support Executive Tel: 022 3003 4515 Fax: 022 3003 4499 *Ownership of this magazine stands transferred from Infomedia18 Ltd (Infomedia18) to Network18 Media & Investments Ltd (Network18) Umesh Desai in pursuance of the scheme of arrangement between Network18 and Infomedia18 and their respective shareholders and creditors, as approved by the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi and the necessary approval of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is being obtained. JUNE 2013 BETTER PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORIAL Eternally Sixteen “Sell your We bring in this sixteenth anniversary special issue with so many skill, not your mixed feelings. Joy for turning sixteen, pride for being the best photography magazine in India, and sorrow for the passing of yet convictions. another legendary photographer, Jagdish Mali, who was very dear Make your to BP and to me personally. There is some solace in knowing that money but live Jagdish lived a life full of passion and zeal. Those who knew him for the art.” will remember him as being wonderfully friendly, approachable, open minded, ever giving and forever young at heart. When we had contacted him some time ago, for being a judge for POY 2012, and for being a part of this issue, he had politely declined, citing commitments beyond his control. At the moment, I cannot help feeling a twinge of selfish regret that I had not interacted with Jagdish more. I keep thinking of a piece of advice that he had given me a long time ago, which I took to heart. “Never lose yourself to being a commercial photographer,” he had said. “Sell your skill, not your convictions. Make your money but live for the art. Otherwise, it will suck up your soul and leave you empty. There is no existence worse than being a hollowed out photographer with nothing inside.” Somehow, despite his passing, I also cannot help but think his quintessential youth sprung from his being a photographer, a characteristic that all photographers seem to share. In that sense, I have never met an old photographer. I am writing this editorial from the Rift Valley in Kenya, where the BP team, along with the category winners of POY 2012, are in the middle of a superb, adventurous face-off, travelling to Africa’s deepest 12 gorge and to a pristine lake island little known to tourists. The contestants come from all backgrounds and ages, and from all over India. And yet, they are all wonderfully young in spirit and at heart. The common thread that binds them is photography. Photography is beautiful because it always keeps you learning and yearning to see something new, makes you fall in love over and over… keeps you eternally sixteen. K Madhavan Pillai [email protected] Untitled, from the series Circus Girl by Saibal Das What does it take to make an exultant photo project? Why should we walk that extra mile? Why must we keep looking through the viewfinder? And why should we continue making magic? Saibal believes, “Making a project is not a hit-and- run thing. You learn to work as a photographer, a creator, a visionary, all at the same time.” To read more about Saibal Das’ fascinating images from the circus — Turn to page 110 BETTER PHOTOGRAPHY JUNE 2013 June 2013 84 104 SnapShots GearGuide CellphonePhotography Book Review TEST TEST 30 ‘Te Tirthanche Maher’ by 48 Fujifilm X100S 70 Sony Xperia Z Shirish Shete Perfecting the X factor Is speed everything? Look Who’s Shooting Nokia Lumia 620 44 Helena Schätzle 72 Impressive camera in a compact, sturdy body Visual Musings Photoshop Touch Nikon COOLPIX A 45 By Jörg Colberg 73 Layer-based editing, Great concept on paper, 54 now in a cellphone Tribute but in reality... eh? 46 Remembering Jagdish CELLPHONE TECHNIQUE Nikon COOLPIX S6500 On the Road Again Will WiFi save the 74 60 Shoot while on the move, ON THE COVER