'Nature photography by me’
‘My photo-blogs',
'Random Clicks’.....
In my opinion, these types of phrases are very much in the lime
light in recent times. 5-6 years back, there was not much interest for
photography among the youth. But now people are keeping it on the 1st position
on their passion/hobby list. It is getting enough attention in the CVs of
almost all the modern guys. I would love to admit the fact that at one point of
time I was also attracted by photography but later I realized that I don't
have the potential & I didn't dare to overestimate my abilities. Now, I
feel like suffering from delirium whenever I try to explore the reason of
these phrases. Finally I have some free time under my belt to put lights on those
reasons.
When I looked back, I found three factors. 'Evolution of digital
cameras', 'Inspiration from 3 Idiots' & of course the most prominent
factor is availability of different social networking sites. Now I can
hypothesize that, the passion for photography originates from 'Mr Farhan
Qureshi', inserted into social networks & functions by the sophisticated
DSLR cameras.
‘3 Idiots’ was one of those Hindi movies which have
taught us to follow our passion & I guess it is one of the rare movies in
which an actor wishes to be a photographer. It has shown us that, photographers
are not paid that badly & everything is possible if passion is consolidated
by sincerity & dedication. Had there been no '3 Idiots', the number of
people claiming to have passion for photography would have been less. I hope
most of them would admit this fact. In our society, almost all of us have been
under pressure to become either engineer or doctors. But this movie has
partially ignited the desire of few guys to mark photography at least as their hobby.
Another significant factor for the sky-rocketing popularity of
photography is evolution of sophisticated cameras. I am 500% sure that nobody
would have shown a little interest if there were no digital cameras. It doesn't
matter whether you are from the families of Mallyas/Ambanis or from a middle
class family; the truth is 'money matters'. Nobody would have spent money to
get snaps with those old generation cameras with rolled films. Who the hell
would have spent approximately Rs 6-8 (camera role+ development charge per
picture) for each photo?? But with the birth of digital cameras & smart
phones, photography is much more convenient now a days. Now we don't mind if
one of the captured images is blurred because we have the option to delete
& recapture. The only investment is the camera cost & the final result
is limitless pictures. Anybody who owns a costly DSLR camera gives the
impression that he/she is a passionate photographer because most of the time,
our attention is snatched by the quality of the camera, not by the quality of
the picture. But hats off to the real photographers as it requires a lot of innovations & photography always starts from own eye lens. The camera is just a mediator !!
I have a feeling that, we
do things in our life either to impress someone
or suppress someone/something. Please
remember that this rule is applicable only for psychologically stable people.
'REWARD' is a well established human instinct & as you know, social
networking sites are the biggest 'REWARD' factories available on the galaxy.
Nobody captures a picture just to save it in his/her hard drive. During 99% of
the time, when we get an extraordinary picture (after getting hundreds of bad
picture), we tend to upload it in Facebook/Indiblogger/Google plus with the
blink of an eye. Then we look for the shower of 'LIKE's & comments (Nice
click/Great snap/Kudos etc) on those pictures. How many of us would have loved
photography in the absence of this facebook mediated reward generation??? We
would have lost the motivation to have good snaps in the absence of social
networking sites (appreciations). If someone says that he/she has never strived
for appreciation & admiration, he/she is either the biggest liar or the biggest
hypocrite in the God’s creation. In that sense we should be grateful to these
sites as they give a nice momentum to our passion. It is hard to ignore the
contribution of social networks in resurrecting the confidence in photography.
