By Raj Singh, 1714469111
It has been a pleasure finding this community 8 years ago today.
I’d always been into photography since my first Saturday job as a teenager.. joined a department store and they looked me & down, decided very easily that I was a nerd, so stuck me on the camera & computer department.
I had to learn all about SLRs very quickly if I was going to competently sell them as so my journey into photography began.
In wanting to join here I roped in the help of a few friendly friends & exes willing to ‘model’ for me without really any experience whatsoever of ‘model’ photography, but I knew it was a path I wanted to pursue having come from a professional world of reconstructive & cosmetic surgeries. So understanding aesthetic form & structure was in my bones so to speak & adapting that into trying to make a still image hold an observers gaze for more than second my new challenge.
I left my journey within my PP portfolio with my albums in the chronological order so anyone can see my development over the last 8 years.
I hope I’m maintaining a trajectory of improvement.
I’m essentially self taught, but about four years ago I guess I decided to seek out some professional training & sought out the mentorship of beauty portrait photographer Tamara Williams (see albums ‘Seezan B’ & ‘Pauline Schmitz’ shot on her weekend course)
And then last year I discovered ex in house Playboy photographer Jarmo Pohjaniemi whilst searching reviews of ultra-wide angle lenses and absolutely adored his work.
And via random googling to find more of his stuff discovered he ran workshops in exotic locations, incredibly expensive ones mind you, but decided to hang the expense, it was a direction I wanted to pursue and learn, so signed up for it.
He’s an interesting chap who seems to see some potential in me after that week we spent mucking about and he follows my development & rings me about once a month to tell me the latest pictures I’ve posted are crap 😂😂
and keeps pushing me to pursue excellence.. some days he makes me want to chuck all my gear in the bin and give it all up.. but then every now and again he likes one.. but it’s like getting blood out of a stone.
Anyhoo.. he’s my biggest critic that seems to revel in crushing my soul every few weeks, so though I’ve dreaded & feared doing a PR here (it’s definitely better than an actual PR in the medical world) I feel I’m ready to take it up the arse from you lot too..
Do your worst 😂😂
