Overcoming your Fears

Hi friends, I’m back. Not with some tips regarding a type of photography like moon, landscape or birds, but with rather a very basic thing required for photography which courage to go out in the world and capture your clicks while thousands of eyes are starring at you as if you have an alien gadget(like Omnitricks) around your neck.

                We have to admit that in a country like India, we got to collect a lot of courage to go out and shoot. I am an engineering student living in hostel. Engineers are considered to be progressive thinkers, but still when I go out in the college campus to capture some amazing natural things we got here, I get or rather used to get stares of many seniors as well as juniors. I don’t know why would I get those. After thinking a lot on this I got the reason, people here are not acquainted with photographers. So one of the best ways to overcome it is that make them acquainted with them. How? By going out more often with your camera around your neck. Once they recognize you as a regular thing, your stare rate would reduce definitely.

       Again to further reduce it post your photos in your college group on Facebook or Google+ or whatever social network you have on the campus. Now some one may ask that is that really helpful? My answer, trust me dude it would definitely help. From my experience people start recognizing you as a distinguished person and not only the attitude of the people will change, but they would also start you giving suggestions while you are shooting. Now that’s what I call as transformation. Deep down we have a resistance of doing new things, once that’s gone, an entirely new world awaits before you. One other remedy can be that start blogging about your photographs on either wordpress or blogger, so that you get a aim to set for you.
    Remember no one hates anyone here, but the resistance to change is the only factor that can keep you behind. As I am a novice and still a student i do not know about street photography, where level of awkwardness is much more, very much, but i guess the same principle i stated above should apply. So take take out your lens and see the world differently through your lens...:)
Like all my other post here are some snaps of my college that i got while getting the stares..( ;)..!! ) 

P.S: Keep posting..!!!
Happy Shooting