Hi Folks,
It gives me immense pleasure to invite you all to join me on a photo-walk on 18th July 2009.

I will be hosting the worldwide photowalk at Indore (MP) India.
You can read more about it on the photowalk page at worldwidephotowalk.com/indore-mp-in/

This is a very casual meeting of photography lovers from Indore where we plan to take some photos, share them with each other (and around 10,000 other photographers around the world) and just have a good time on a Saturday evening.

In recent times, all the SLRs and many compact cameras give you the option to shoot in RAW format. RAW data is the actual data recorded by the sensor of the camera and and is usually 12 to 14bit in size as compared to 8bits of JPEG or JPG.
As a rule, RAW always contains more data (i.e. more information about colors, tones, exposure etc) as compared to a JPG.

Now that you have a choice, the question is, which format should you use for your photos?

When people ask me for help to buy a DSLR, the first thing that I do is ask them to do some research about lenses first, instead of doing research for (aka Google for) camera bodies.

Find out a good lens in your budget and then go for a DSLR with the remaining amount.

You see, a new DSLR body is released almost every year. So you will usually upgrade to new body every two or three years, but the lenses will work for the life time.

A serious lesson I learned recently is that you should always get a few photos printed from a professional lab from time to time.

The level of learning that you get just by looking at the prints will be of a totally different kind.

This might sound very stupid at the first glance, but as I learned recently, there is a world of difference between looking at your photos on your computer monitor and holding the print and sharing it with friends and family.

The things you learn are on multiple levels.

This is a part of a series called 101 tips to make you a better photographer.

Tip #7 of 101: Tips to take photos of newborn babies

Ever since I was blessed with a baby boy three months ago, baby photos have become an obsession.

Here are some photos of my beautiful son (who is now 3 months old) and lessons that I learned in the process of capturing them…

1. Shoot Low

Bend down and try to have the camera at the eye level of the baby. That way, you can see the baby from the level from which he sees the world