The challenge, the spontaneity, the joy of capturing that perfect moment when light, texture and all the elements coming together in that one frame.
Here is a story by Vineet Vohra from Last years Pushkar Festival for the Leica Blog
Held each at the time of the Kartik Purnima full moon, Pushkar Camel Fair is one of India’s most highly-rated travel experiences, a spectacle on an epic scale, attracting more than 11,000 camels, horses and cattle and visited by over 400,000 people over a period of around fourteen days.
For visitors it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the colour, spectacle and carnival of one of the last great traditional melas, which brings livestock, farmers, traders and villagers from all over Rajasthan.
APF is organising a 3 day intensive Photography Master Class which is tailor made to cater to needs of anyone who wishes to train their eyes to find order in chaos of Pushkar Mela.
WORKSHOP MENTORS
Vineet Vohra, APF Co-founder,Leica Brand Ambassador and Mentor
Rohit Vohra, APF Co-founder, Leica Brand Ambassador and Mentor
The Pushkar Master Class will be limited to an intimate class of max 8 passionate individuals who want to polish their skills and break out of their comfort zones. We’ll talk about street and travel photography. This workshop is designed to help improve your photography, enhance your style and find your vision by providing expert advice and knowledge specifically aimed at helping you achieve success in your work.
During this Intense shooting 3-day workshop, we will focus on the following topics:
Travel Photography and art of story telling
How to work towards a theme and focus on projects.
How to edit your images to enhance the final result.
Photography assignments to put theories to work while walking with the mentors in Pushkar.
The mentors will work with students both in critique sessions and in the field, sharing their working knowledge and techniques.
Each day will include shooting and theoretical session on all you need to know about Street and Travel photography, dos and don’ts, ways to overcome the fear of getting close, detailed look into various composition aspects and the common mistakes while composing, understanding layering in photography, Gestalt vision and its application in photography, developing ones own style, understanding peripheral vision, ways to see and treat light, video documentary of how their images are made as they shoot and how they fine tune their vision and more.
During the course of this workshop, the mentors will discuss technique, composition, vision and intent and how to use the camera and lens in a creative way. They will discuss careers, talk about how to get published and how to work on a story.
On the final day we make a presentation and have an in depth review session with the mentors and each participant presents their work.
The top essay also gets a chance to be featured in the Magazine.
Fee:
Workshop Charges : $500/ Rs 33,000 (Workshop only)
Charges are for workshop only, The participants are responsible for travel costs, visa, air tickets, train etc, accommodation and local transport. Staying in Pushkar is fairly reasonable and airbnb starts from under Rs 1000 ($20) a night. If you want any assistance regarding your stay, you can mail Mehar at contact@artphotofeature.com
There are no pre-requisites for attending this workshop. The workshop will be best suited for photographers who have some understanding of how to operate their camera, have had some experience in photography and want to take their skills to the next level. If you are unsure as to whether or not the workshop may be a good fit for, please contact us at contact@artphotofeature.com for a consultation.
You will need to bring the following to the workshop: A digital camera (DSLR, Leica, Micro 4/3rds, Point & Shoot, etc). You can use a film camera, but you must get your film processed overnight and scanned to present on the last day of the workshop. You should bring your laptop with editing software to edit images. Also, please bring a notebook to take down notes during the workshop. If you have any questions or inquiries, please email us at contact@artphotofeature.com and we will do whatever we can to help!
WORKSHOP TIMINGS
27th Oct 2017 : 12:00 pm – 7:30 pm
28th Oct 2017 : 7:00 am – 7:00 pm (lunch 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm)
29th Oct 2017 : 5:30 am – 2:30 pm (lunch 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm)
REGISTER NOW!
If you would like to register, send an email to contact@artphotofeature.com. After you register, we will send you an email regarding the deposit and payment options. To secure a spot in the workshop, you must send a deposit. Register soon, we anticipate spots will run out quickly for this workshop.
About the Mentors
Vineet Vohra
Born in Delhi/India, Vineet did masters in fine arts from the prestigious college of arts. He is a self-taught photographer and street photography is a passion that he follows like a discipline.
Vineet started shooting as a wild life photographer for two years and then switched on to street in 2001, it instantly became his passion.Vineet considers street photography a journey that he travels everyday. He believes in learning and unlearning and thrives to improve with each shot. Life in general which is so unexpected, he tries to be as honest through his lens as he can. His main focus is on how to make ordinary moments look extraordinary.
Currently Vineet presents workshops globally and has judged MSPF ( Miami street photography festival ), currently judging San Fransisco street photography festival and conducting a seminar and a workshop in SF. His works and stories have been published on various prestigious magazines all over the world including National Geographic. He is part of the famous collective www.streetcollective.com which comprises of only 8 members from the world and a part of APF collective which has 20 members.
In 2015 he was placed 5th in the top 20 most influential street photographers.
http://www.streethunters.net/blog/2015/04/08/20-most-influential-street-photographers-2015/
In 2016 has is placed 3rd in the top most influential street photographers.
http://www.streethunters.net/blog/2016/05/27/the-20-most-influential-street-photographers-for-2016/
His portfolio : http://www.vineettvohra.com/
He is a Leica Brand Ambassador and Mentor
Other publishes :
Leica Blog : http://blog.leica-camera.com/2016/05/13/otherwise-quaint-town/
http://121clicks.com/tutorials/getting-layers-right-street-photography-vineet-vohra
http://www.thestreetcollective.com/vineet-vohra
http://m.yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/240352/#/photos/
http://121clicks.com/photo-stories/terminal-street-photography-essay-by-vineet-vohra
Rohit Vohra
Rohit Vohra is a street/ travel photographer, educator and Co-founder/ Editor in Chief of APF Magazine. In a search for methods to read the city, his photographs are often about contact with humans and basic living elements. He received his BFA from College of Arts, Delhi in the year 1997 and has been photographing for over 15 years.
He is one of Asia’s most prominent street photographers. His works have appeared in numerous Newspapers/ Magazines all over the world.
Among other commercial work, which includes product and fashion, he personally likes street photography because of the uncertainty, the challenge, the joy of capturing that perfect moment, perfect in terms of light, texture, and elements all perfectly in place.
For him street photography is one of the purest forms of photography. He says, “It is also one of the most difficult forms of photography. It’s difficult because we usually don’t have much control over the environment, well at least as much as we might like.”
He is a Leica Brand Ambassador and Mentor.
Follow him
https://www.instagram.com/rohit_apf/
He was placed No. 1 in the top 20 most influential street photographers in 2017.
http://www.streethunters.net/blog/2017/02/11/the-20-most-influential-street-photographers-for-2017/
Some of his interviews
http://121clicks.com/showcases/rohit-vohra-a-passionate-street-photographer-from-delhi-india
An Interview with Eric Kim
http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2013/11/20/reading-the-visual-layers-of-new-delhi-rohit-vohra/
Some Articles (2016-2017) for Huffington post
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/rohit-vohra/stolen-serenity-in-varanasi-photos/
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/rohit-vohra/a-window-into-hong-kong_b_9667366.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/rohit-vohra/grandiose-of-calcutta_b_9475426.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/rohit-vohra/lathmaar-holi-behind-the-_b_9529950.html
At Bored Panda
http://www.boredpanda.com/120-hours-in-hong-kong-photographer-comes-back-with-this/
He is on the judging panel of some of the top Photography awards in the world. Including IPA, PX3, SIPA, MIFA, Tokyo International Foto awards, Photogravphy Grant etc.
http://www.photoawards.com/rohit-vohra/
https://sipacontest.com/contest/jury/more.php?id=39
http://grant.photogrvphy.com/page/jury
http://www.urban.dotart.it/jury.html
http://www.moscowfotoawards.com/jury.html
To find out more about APF workshops , you can visit
http://www.artphotofeature.com/apf-magazine-street-photography-workshop-bangkok-6th-8th-june-2014/
Hi , I am snehal patel I am Street & Travel photographer I am interested ur Pushkar Photography Masterclass, 27th -29th Oct 2017 .