Winners of the 3rd Annual International Drone Photography Contest AnnouncedDronestagr.am holds the annual International Drone Photography Contest, an annual extravaganza which celebrates drone photography and photographers around the world. Sponsored by the likes of National Geographic, 3D Robotics and Go Pro, it accepts entries under several categories. The categories for this year were Travel, Adventure Sports and Nature – Wildlife. Read more...
The Top 7 Compact Cameras for Travelers Under $2000When it comes to travel photography you need not only to make great images, which is kind of given for a good travel camera, but you also need it to comply with a bunch of other requirements. The camera must comply with the baggage limitations, it must be road-worthy and weather proof. This is because invariably there will be situations when you will be caught up outdoors in bad weather. So, without further ado here is the list of the top 7 compact cameras for travelers under $2000. Read more...
Shooting Portraits of Strangers in an Unknown LandShooting portraits of strangers in an unknown land is probably one of the most difficult of challenges that a photographer can face. Notwithstanding the inherent challenges of having to work in an alien environment, one also has to tackle the problem of shooting absolute strangers and making good photos in the process. Read more...
Great Images Come From Great Underlying StoriesI am a photographer who loves making photos of people and places. So every now and then I pack my bag, pick up my camera and head for some destination that I have never been to. My objective is to explore, to interact and to make photos. I am sure there are many among you who are just like me. Read more...
11 Tips on How to Make Your Travel Photos Go From Average to Wow!Having spent thousands of dollars on a dream vacation at some pristine holiday destination we come home thinking that the images we took would remain a constant source of reminder of that wonderful time spent together. That’s until we download the images on to the computer. A shocker awaits us. A number of under-exposed images, that mostly have our faces barely recognizable, welcome us. This to be only bettered by over-exposed photos where everything seems to be coated with a blinding flash light further depresses us. Not to mention the half-hearted compositions, that have everything going for them but for the background, cluttered, boring and plain shocking at times. Really our travel photos can be so depressing at times that the whole mood of coming back from a great vacation can be lost in just a few minutes. Most people would be inclined to think that it is their camera that should be blamed. “Boy, I wish I had a better camera!” Well, dear friend, that’s an excuse and nothing more. Your camera is only as good as you are with it. If you know how to shoot great pictures you would do a much better job with a simple 5 megapixel phone camera than someone who wields a 5D Mark III and knows nothing about how to use it. Read more...
Essentials of Good Street Photography

Street photography has been defined by different photographers in their own distinct ways, often reflecting their unique viewpoints and somewhat revealing the inspiration behind their work. Instead of going into that list of definitions we shall be delving into the world of street photography itself. In the process we shall strive to become better at capturing stunning images from the streets.

It is a bizarre and a serene world coexisting at the same time. Streets I mean. Somehow, on one hand, street photography manages to capture that seemingly endless flow of humanity, capturing its pulse and the progress of humanity over decades and documenting it for future generations. On the other hand it also captures the emotions that revolves around us, the upheavals, the destructions, the grief and the momentous joy that punctuates our lives. Look at street photographs from different decades of the past century and you would immediately be transported back into time, experiencing what people of that particular time in history had experienced, sharing their emotions. Street photography is a very powerful genre of photography. In some form street photography is an offshoot of journalistic photography. It records the actual, un-fabricated truth and leaves the part of judgment to the viewer. Read more...