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First photography workshop in Utah

Ratish Naroor — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:33:32 +0000

I am really glad today. I did my first photography workshop this weekend and I will call it as great success. Even though there was a good turn around when I published that I am planning for my workshop, four friends decided to keep their Sunday for the workshop. All the rest of the interested people have asked for another day this year, but I guess I won’t be doing another one in 2011.
The workshop started with discussing the basics of photography, the top required skills for photography, equipment etc. I selected a few of my best shots in various category (portrait, landscape, wildlife , lighting etc). Then we started taking a few pictures in the apartment gardens. They followed my words and decided to shoot only in Manual mode, making an end to the use of auto mode. We also drove to Red butte gardens and the sugar house park , the rest of the day taking tons of pictures. Here are some of the pictures that my STUDENTS (sigh ) shot that day. Check out how well they shot the pictures with a few hours of training. Great work guys.

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Utah july 4th firework pictures 2011

Ratish Naroor — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:18:33 +0000

I love watching fireworks and shooting them is even fun. You can get some great pictures/images of the sky with fireworks. I was eagerly waiting for July 4th in 2011, so that I can try photographing fireworks. Every year Sandy city in Utah have a marvelous celebration for the independence day and I decided not to miss this opportunity. My wonderful wife Shiniga gave me the best support by lifting my heavy tripod and we headed towards the back side of sandy civic center to get a wider area in the shot. My friends Anoop and Keerthana also joined to watch the fireworks.

The fireworks started at 10 pm and lasted for 30 mins and gave me enough time to experiment with various settings. I tried to get as many shots I can in this limited time slot and I can say the first attempt was pretty much successful. Most of my shots were 10 seconds each. I am planning to write a in-detail blog post on the details on camera settings when photographing fireworks. Enjoy the pictures now and watch out for the tutorial on ‘How to photograph fireworks’.

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Sakshi Newspaper stealing images copyright infringement

Ratish Naroor — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:34:54 +0000

There are lots of media companies who think that they can do a search in Google Images and use any of the images from the results for their business or commercial purposes.
The Hyderabad based news agency ‘Sakshi ‘owned by Jagati Publications Pvt. Ltd is one among them. They have blatantly copied one of my images from my blog and used in their news papers (both paper edition and internet edition). The images in my blog have clear copyright symbol to my name and have more details at my copyright .

The copied image can be viewed at Sakshi Epaper copy. The original pictures were posted at kids photo blog post .
I have already communicated to their email address about this copyright imfringement and waiting for a reply from them.

My Hyderabad friends: If you know anybody who works at this non-professional news agency, please let me know. Their contact details are:
Jagati Publications Pvt. Ltd.
8-2-696, Carmel Point, Rd.No. 12,
Banjara Hills, Hyderabad-500 034.
Ph:040-2330 3829/49, Fax:040-2330 5113
email : epaperinfo@sakshi.com

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Red butte gardens flower pictures

Ratish Naroor — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:45:30 +0000

I always wanted to take pictures of flowers but there was always a misconception that you need a good macro lens to capture vibrant shots.It’s not that I don’t want to own a macro lens , but never thought of trying out capturing macro shots with my existing collection of lens.I decided to take my wife to the red butte gardens in salt lake city and try my luck in flower photography.I used mt canon 70-200mm f2.8 lens hooked to the tripod. Set the camera in macro mode (I don’t know why I never tried this mode before). To my surprise the new canon 60D comes with more settings when you set the camera in macro mode. I will be writing another blog post on ‘ How to shoot macro pictures in canon 60D’ soon and you can try experimenting with your camera.

So here are some of the pictures I shot with Canon 60D and the canon 70-200mm telephoto lens . Please add your valuable comments for the pictures posted here.

A little bit about the red butte gardens
“Red Butte Garden, a part of the University of Utah, is a non-profit organization located in Salt Lake City, Utah. With over 100 acres including display and natural gardens, walking paths and natural areas with hiking trails, Red Butte Garden is the largest botanical garden in the Intermountain West that tests, displays, and interprets regional horticulture.”

Get more information on Utah red butte gardens wiki page .

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Work published in a book

Ratish Naroor — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:39:57 +0000

I’ve got an exciting news today for my readers. I am really happy to inform that one my work has been published in a book for the first time. A publishing company was looking for pictures of antelope island birds and they found my blog post which featured a few birds shot at the Antelope Island , Utah.
They liked the pictures and was interested in buying the picture for adding in their publication. I am reposting the shot I published in 2009.

I decided to sell the picture for a price and requested them a copy when they launch the book. And they kept their promise and sent me a copy of the book . The name of the book is Planete vivante and currently they launched in french. They will launch the english version soon Here are some of the pictures of the book which features my work . Hope you remember this shot added in my blog last year.

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Shreya cute gujarati family kid pictures

Ratish Naroor — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:54:44 +0000

I hope you all remember my old post featuring Shreya – the cute little baby , daughter of my colleague Namrata and my friend Jithesh.

That was when Shreya was 3 weeks old and now she is turning one this month. Namrata’s mom was here and wanted some family pictures through my lens. We decided to capture some Shreya moments at the wheelers farm and was a pleasant evening.
Shreya didn’t bother much before the camera and I was lucky to capture some pictures of this little Gujarati princess .

Do add your comments .

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utah temple square christmas lights

Ratish Naroor — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:41:02 +0000

Christmas lights at the temple square , Salt lake city Utah is always amazing. Every year The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints celebrates Christmas by decorating temple square with an amazing lighted display. The lights are first lit the Friday following Thanksgiving and Christmas on temple square begins. I missed taking pictures last year as I was in India for my engagement and this time I made my mind that will visit the temple square with my wife to show her the marvelous Christmas lights.This is the Christmas card I designed for my friends and family using one of the pictures I took at the temple square.

If you have never seen the lights at the temple Square in Utah , here are some of the pictures taken this 2010 Christmas.Please click on the image to view the wallpaper version of the picture.
Enjoy the photos and I hope you had a great Christmas and all set for a new year 2011.

If you are interested in buying any of the pictures showcased here , Please buy it from my print store Temple Square Print Store

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Riya Naroor Cute little niece pictures

Ratish Naroor — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:34:02 +0000

This is me holding my cute little niece Riya Naroor. I visited my brother’s family in AZ when she was 28 days old. In Kerala tradition (the state where I am from in India ), we celebrate the 28th day after a baby is born. I was fortunate enough that they were in AZ. The trip didn’t fetch me great pictures, as the lighting was not that great and I didn’t want to bother the baby with the flash.After that day I was waiting for my second chance to photograph my niece and publish her pictures in my blog. So here I am, after 8 months, presenting pictures of cute Riya Naroor. I took these pictures in my apartment when they were here recently for a week’s stay in Utah .Enjoy the pictures and do add your comments .

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Rajeev Archana muppala Utah Indian family pictures

Ratish Naroor — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:02:34 +0000

I know its been sometime I updated my blog with new pictures and I apologize for that.It got pretty busy last month and got engaged with my brother’s family visit to Utah . Then came some small travelling with my wife for vacation . Now I am back to add more pictures to this blog .Also I have tons of pictures to update . Here I go :

This post was suppose to be added long time back as I did this photoshoot last year . The models are my good friends Rajeev Mupalla and Archana. I still remember Archana calling me to plan for a photoshoot and showing her interest in my photography. And I would say it was my best photoshoot last year for the following reasons :

1.) I got two wonderful friends after the shoot and their energy to pose made me more happy.
2.) The climate was the best to shoot pictures that day.
3.) I made them happy .

Here are some of the pictures I shot at the Wheelers farm in Utah . It was a loverly evening . Archana was looking beautiful in the green indian designer saree and Rajeev was looking as professional as he is.I have more pictures to update in future post of this couple with their wonderful family members who were in Utah visiting them.

These pictures were taken the same day I took pictures of Soumya Muppala at the wheelers farm.

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bharatanatyam dancer parvati mudras pictures

Ratish Naroor — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:08:52 +0000

I am glad that I am able to find Kerala art forms being performed in the United States. My wife insisted that we should visit the Hare Krishna temple (in Spanish Fork Utah) to participate in Janmastami celebrations and watch the dance performance by Divya Narayanan and her students . The dance group performed Bharatnatyam. A little bit about the dance form Bharata Natyam -
Bharata Natyam is one of the oldest dance forms of India. It was nurtured in the temples and courts of southern India since ancient times. Later it was codified and documented as a performing art in the 19th century by four brothers known as the Tanjore Quartet whose musical compositions for dance form the bulk of the Bharata Natyam repertoire even today. The art was handed down as a living tradition from generation to generation under the Devadasi system under which women were dedicated to temples to serve the deity as dancers and musicians forming part of the elaborate rituals. These highly talented artists and the male gurus (nattuvanars) were the sole repository of the art until the early 20th century when a renewal of interest in India’s cultural heritage prompted the educated elite to discover its beauty.

Here are some of the pictures I took of the dancer Parvati Radhakrishnan who did a great performance that night .

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