Photography Tip – The Magic Hour in the Evenings.
Photography Tip – The Magic Hour in the Evenings.

Quality of light changes considerably with time in the evening hours, just before and after the sunset. Here is a series of photographs that demonstrate how change in light affects the quality of image. Click on the image below to see in full size.

August 2012 – Upcoming Events and Monthly Calendar
August 2012 – Upcoming Events and Monthly Calendar

August 2012 promises to be an exciting month for us at Darter Photography. We’ve zeroed in on an office space in HSR Layout, Bangalore. We are working on the formalities, and should be able to invite you over very soon.   We’ve been working…

Travel Photography – Landscapes that characterize a location
Travel Photography – Landscapes that characterize a location

This is second in the series of travel photography articles that we are publishing this week. See the earlier story on travel photography – understanding the scope. A few years ago, editor of a travel magazine asked me for an article and photographs on…

Travel Photography – Understanding the scope
Travel Photography – Understanding the scope

This week on this blog, we will be publishing a series of articles on understanding and learning the concepts of travel photography. We begin first with an attempt to understand what comprises travel photography. Travel photography is a much used word. The term is…

Weekend Photography Tip: Walk around your garden
Weekend Photography Tip: Walk around your garden

If you have a garden at home (even if it means a few potted plants), in your apartment complex or a park near your home, make a trip there with your camera. These places not only have beautiful flowers (which you could try photographing…

Photo of the Week – Theme: Open Spaces
Photo of the Week – Theme: Open Spaces

At a facebook group that connects participants of past Darter Photography events, we post images based on a theme every week. At the end of the week, the images that are most ‘liked’ for the theme will be crowned ‘photo of the week’. The…

Photo Essay: Karaga Festival in Bangalore
Photo Essay: Karaga Festival in Bangalore

As the winter makes way to warmer days, Bangalore prepares for its most popular festival in the old quarters of the town. Karaga is perhaps the most well-known traditional festival in Bangalore, celebrated with a large gathering around Dharmarayaswamy Temple in the center of…

Photo of the Week – Theme: Flowers
Photo of the Week – Theme: Flowers

Flowers are perhaps easy subjects to photograph – they are inherently beautiful and abundantly available. But with such subjects, it becomes all the more difficult to make your photograph stand out. In these week’s theme at facebook group Darter Photographers on flowers, we were…

Photos of the Week – Theme: Red
Photos of the Week – Theme: Red

At a facebook group that connects participants of past Darter Photography events, we post images based on a theme every week. At the end of the week, the images that are most ‘liked’ for the theme will be crowned ‘photo of the week’. This…

Photography from Lahaul & Spiti – The Heart of the Himalayas
Photography from Lahaul & Spiti – The Heart of the Himalayas

Lahaul & Spiti region, located deep in the Himalayas is perhaps as remote, as rugged and as beautiful that the Himalayas can get within the reach of motor roads. Despite seasonal road connectivity, the region has remained isolated from bus loads of tourists and…