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“The Amazing Tiny World Macro” Photography Workshop

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ShutterXpose Photography is completing it’s 5th year Anniversary with a vision to Inspire, Promote and Educate Photography. To commemorate the occasion, A Macro Photography workshop “The Amazing Tiny World “by Award winning Internationally acclaimed Photographer “Yuwaraj Gurjar” at the Crowne Plaza Banquet Hall on Friday 18th November 2016. The event is brought in association with Tamron Kuwait, one of the leading lens manufacturers for DSLR cameras.

Yuwaraj Gurjar is a Tamron (India) mentor with many International award, among the Highly Honored Winner Award by Windland Smith Rice International (2011). He is also a author of many books and publication on Macro Photography, recently he along with his team has developed an Android app on Butterfly “I Love Butterfly” which includes more than 128 species.

Macro Photography is quite intimidating aspect of photography, photographers spends hours working on the backyard capturing images of butterflies, flowers, insects, etc. These images looks appealing with lots of details in a 1:1 ratio. However the principle of Macro photography and use of Macro lens can be used in Product, Jewelry, Food and also in Nuptial Photo shoots.

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500px Redbull Global Photowalk 2016 concludes with lots of Excitment

ShutterXpose & Weekenders Photography club in association with 500px conducted the 4th Annual Photography walk in Salmiya, Kuwait. The Photowalk was well attended by over 60 plus photography enthusiastic from novice to professional with the intention to learn, share and inspire photography. A quick registration and general introduction to event followed by activities kept the participants on the move. The theme of this year 500px Photowalk was “Adventure and Action”, the organizers meticulously worked behind the scene and made sure the participants get to experience a first hand Live Sports events with lots of action, adventure and excitement.

The activities involved the walkathon runners at the forefront, followed by a friendly Basketball game to a Jet-skier zooming the Arabian sea as the photographers try to freeze and finally the icing of the event with Kuwait best BMX riders “The Spark family” mesmerizing both the photographers and audience to daredevil stunts. The organizers made sure each of the participants get to capture their best shots with sharing tips and tricks all along.

The event was well supported by Tamron as Event partners by providing T-shirts to all participants. Red Bull provided the much needed energy drink to keep us flying high with wings all through the event.

Our special thanks to Marina and Kuwait Scientific Centre for the support and the venue.

For images from the event, please click [Here]

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500px Global Photo Walk 2016, Salmiya-Kuwait

Join us for the banner_blogshutterxpose_500px-photowalk 4th Annual 500px Red Bull Photography Global Photo Walk 2016 Meet fellow photographers in your community who share your passion, share along tips & tricks,make new friends, and of course – capture some inspiring images. The theme of this year’s walk is “Action and Adventure.”

We have included actions to capture a basketball game,Jet-Ski roaring the Arabian sea, bicycle riders capturing our spirits, along with goodies from our event partners. No need to be a pro to attend! Grab whatever camera you have (DSLR, mobile phone, point-and-shoot) and join in the fun!

For Enquires contact +965 99584378

Tamron has always been our major support player and is our official Event partner during this event. Redbull Kuwait has been kind to relinquish our thirst and add energy to all participants during the photowalk. All participants would receive goodies on a first come first basis from our event partners and ShutterXpose.

This year’s hashtags to use #PhotoWalkThisWay #Shutterxposewalk #weekenderswalk

Venue: Salmiya (Marina Basketball court)
Date: 17th September, 2016
Photowalk: From Basketball court to Kuwait Scientific Centre
Time: 4:00pm – 6:30pm

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Photography 101 Workshop Season 3 concludes on a high note

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ShutterXpose concluded its season 3 of Digital Photography 101 workshop on a high note. The workshop was held at the recently upgraded MAS Boardroom at the IBIS Hotel with the state of art audio/video system on Friday 29th April 2016. The workshop was sponsored by Tamron Lens and Naser Mohamed Al-Sayer Communications Communication, the official dealer of Tamron, Canon, Steiner and Vanguard products in the State of Kuwait.

Mr. Salman Al-Basha, the Product Manager representing our sponsor introduced the participants about the company and Tamron lenses in particular. Tamron lenses have won many awards among the prestigious EISA awards. Tamron Kuwait offers 5 years International Warranty on all it’s lenses at a very competitive price. Tamron produces Di and Di II lens for both full frame and crop sensor camera bodies and are available for most of the popular camera mounts. Their most top selling 90mm macro f/2.8 Di VC USD; 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD; 70-200mm Di VC USD and 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD lenses were on display for the participants at the venue.

ShutterXpose has been conducting workshops from it’s inception in 2011, they are generally known for their high quality course contents and detailed explanations. The participants were dynamic personalities representing multiple nations working in different background yet with a common passion to pursue Photography as their hobby. The workshop also witnessed few students who wished to continue their hobby along with their professional career in the future. The workshop was targeted towards novice, beginners and amateur to provide them not only with basics but enough of knowledge to carry on to the intermediate level. (more…)

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Photo Session at Al Hamra Tower

GPH_6455 ShutterXpose Photography and Tamron Kuwait in collaboration conducted a Photography session at the Al Hamra Luxury Mall & Roof Top for Weekenders club members on 15th April, 2016. The event was well supported by Tamron and Naser Mohamed Al-Sayer. It was also a good chance for couple of members to try the new release Tamron SP 15-30MM F/2.8 Di VC USD, a full frame, fast f/2.8 aperture wide angle lens which offer image stabilization (Tamron’s Vibration Compensation “VC”)

ShutterXpose has been providing their members time and again opportunities to exhibit their passion, the group had the best of time capturing a bird eye view at one of the tallest building in Kuwait. The photo session was a memorable for all and a learning curve for some of the new members to capture aerial cityscape view.

We had the Tamron lens for a day and the following are our quick general review. (more…)

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AAB World organizes Photographer’s Bazaar

AAB World is the organizer and main sponsor of the first event of its kind in Kuwait Photographer’s Bazaar. An open day to buy and sell used gear and equipment.

This event will gather many photographers and videographers from all over Kuwait and give them the opportunity buy and sell used photo and video gear and equipment among themselves. It will also be a great chance to meet fellow photographers/videographers to socialize and chat with them and benefit from their experience and advice. In addition, you can also listen to their opinion in regards to buying and selling your equipment. All attendees will be provided with free coffee, refreshments, and sweets as well providing special discounts on many brand new products in our Symphony showroom. (more…)

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ShutterXpose Digital Photography 101 Workshop: An Inspirational Success

GPH_4856 ShutterXpose organised it’s Season 2 of Photography workshop for upcoming photographers titled ”Digital Photography 101”. The workshop was held at Avanti Palace, Salmiya on 10th April 2015.

Aimed at the Novice and Amateur group of photographers in Kuwait, the 5 hours long session covered various topics from the Basics of photography, Fundamental Pillars of Photography, Lenses and peep thru on Post Processing. Topics on Fundamental of Photography, Depth of Field were explained through with live demo and slides.

ShutterXpose Team leaders Dr. Yogee Tumkur, Dr. Vinod Kumar and Mr. Sanath Ramesh guided participants on various aspects/tools available in their cameras during the workshop.

ShutterXpose has been one of the pioneer photography groups in Kuwait with the aim and vision to nurture novice and amateur photographer to become Better Photographers. The group also conducts weekend photo-shoots exploring the scenic beauty of Kuwait.

The workshop was well attended and received good feedback. Keep checking for future workshop.

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Digital Photography 101 Workshop – Season II

ShutterXpose is yet again conducting their 2nd Season of Digital Photography 101 Workshop on Friday 10th April, 2015. Digital Photography 101 is a must workshop for Novice, Beginners and Amateurs photographers. This workshop shall help you to understand the basics of camera operation, related camera jargon’s in simple and easy to understand language, learn exposure and how to balance exposure setting for capturing amazing and stunning images. Photography is not about taking images, it’s all about creating and making good images.

This 4.5 hours course shall help you to be a confident photographer:

•Dealing with tricky lighting situations,
•Exposure bracketing and shooting in low light
•Creative shooting, capturing and freezing motion, and panning
•Composition beyond the rule of thirds
•Demystifying the histogram
•Introduction to On-Camera Flash
•Introduction to Post Processing

The content of the course is based on the features and knowledge required for Digital SLR (DSLR) cameras, it is not suitable for the digital ‘point & shoot’ cameras, however you are most welcome to attend if you are interested and are ready to invest in the future.

Venue: Avanti Palace Restaurant, Party Hall (Hamad Al Mubarak St, Al Fayez Complex, Salmiya)

Cost of the Workshop: KD 15 (Inclusive of tasty cuisine of Indian Buffet)

Time: 11:00 – 16:30 Payment: At the venue, On the day of the event (Registration starts from 10:00am)

On-line Registration: http://goo.gl/forms/bHmLHh65VB

E-mail: admin@shutterxpose.com

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World’s Top 10 Most Expensive Camera Lenses

Photography as a hobby is fun, exciting, sporting and adventurous, however it can get pretty expensive and difficult to sustain with your dream for expensive and best glasses. It’s this one factor which most newcomers without analyzing their primary needs and not knowing what to buy, die out on their passion rather too quick. Before you browse further and jump to conclusions, please remember lenses or for that matter additional camera gears are important and awesome update to your photography journey, but it’s a still a small part of the equation in taking good picture – ultimately its you as a photographer’s skill which adds to the most important factor. Don’t let the lust for expensive gears (the list are exhaustive both from native and third party manufacturers) get the best of you, unless you are ready to sell your organ or blow your fortune.

Try to become one of the best photographer and work in one of those company who would pay you huge salary as well as lent out those expensive gears on field.

Below are the Top 10 World’s most expensive lenses –

1. Leica 1600mm f/5.6 Telephoto Lens

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It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that the world’s priciest lens is a Leica with their impressive red dot logo on it. Leica made this APO-Telyt-R 1600mm/f 5.6 custom lens for Sheikh Saud Bin Mohammed Al-Thani of Qatar at a price just topping US $2 million. This lens has never been sent out for review, nor has any picture published taken this lens. With a weight of 60 kg (132 pounds), it’s no wonder the owner also bought a custom Mercedes for lugging it around. (more…)

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Nikon D810 Announced

Nikon-D810 Nikon has officially unveiled its latest Digital Camera “Nikon D810”. Nikon earlier shocked the DSLR world when it released the D800 and D800E both a 36 Megapixel Full-frame camera two years back. The latest D810 is an improved update over the earlier 800-series model.

In a first for a D-SLR, the D810’s ultra-wide native ISO range starts at ISO 64 for cleaner, better-defined images when shooting in bright light, and you can shoot at up to ISO 12800, or extend the range from 32 to 51200 ISO equivalent. Equipped with the same EXPEED 4 image processing engine as used in the flagship D4S, the D810’s overall performance gets a significant boost: image rendering and ISO capability is vastly improved in both stills and video, with sophisticated new algorithms enabling remarkable clarity and enhanced gradation with a tangible sense of depth across the entire sensitivity range.

Augmenting the D810’s spectacular imaging potential is the full power of Nikon’s total imaging system. The highest calibre optics are vital for such a high-megapixel camera and Nikon’s wide range of NIKKOR lenses will draw out the full potential of the D810’s 36.3-megapixel sensor with ease. With their exceptionally high resolving power, NIKKOR lenses meet the demands of photographers in every field. Also fully compatible with Nikon’s industry-leading Creative Lighting System, the D810 works with a range of versatile Nikon Speedlights for creative flash photography on- or off-camera.

Nikon D810: Key Specifications

36.3MP Full-frame CMOS sensor (no AA filter)
ISO 64-12,800 (expands to ISO 32-51,200)
Electronic first-curtain shutter and redesigned mirror mechanism
New ‘RAW Size S’ 9MP Raw mode
Expeed 4 engine
Max 5fps shooting in FX mode, 7fps in DX (with battery grip + EN-EL18 / AA batteries)
3.2in 1,229k-dot RGBW LCD screen with customizable color
OLED viewfinder information display
Improved Scene Recognition System allows face detection in OVF mode
‘Split screen zoom’ display in live view allows horizons/lines to be leveled precisely
51-point AF system with new ‘Group Area AF’ mode (inherited from D4S)
New ‘flat’ Picture Control mode (intended to appeal to videographers)
Auto ISO available in manual exposure mode
Zebra strips for focus checking in video mode
Uncompressed HDMI output with simultaneous recording to memory card
Built-in stereo microphone

Price and Release Date

If you are excited about the new Nikon D810, it is available on pre-order via Amazon, B&H Photo Video and Adorama., priced at $3296.5 for body only, with a release date set for 17 July 2014.

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