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Meaningful Cells Nikon D700 230mm F/11 1/250 ISO200
Ethereal Landmark Nikon V11 10mm F/8 1/4 ISO100
Hopeful Sky Nikon D810 14mm F/8 1/125 ISO64
Modern Vietnam Nikon D700 110mm F/9 1/250 ISO110
Laughing Zebra Nikon D7000 300mm F/4 1/1600 ISO200
App of the Month SKRWT Category: Photography Rating: 4.2/5 Platform: iOS/ Android Cost: US$ 1.49 Of all the apps available on the App Store for image correction, SKRWT comes pretty high up on the list. The developers guarantee that this app is the link to high-end mobile photography. But we decided to check it ourselves. For only US$ 1.49, SKRWT is a pretty budget-friendly app for photographs clicked on the phone – especially since one does not carry a DSLR all the time. SKRWT Now let us come to the central application. Once you won the award for ‘best app of 2014’ on Google Play select an image, you can preview its properties before App Store and has been praised by many other offline importing. All these properties are inclusive of the and online critiques. camera it was shot on and the size, aperture, resolution and shutter speed settings during the shot. This is of Once we acquired the app from the Android App great importance if one has to try and replicate these Store, we realized that the SKRWT has three major settings for another photograph. distribution in functions. The primary one, which the developers call the SKRWT central app, and the other Once imported, you see a range of options on the bar two- MRRW and 4PNTS came along with its updates as under the image. The user interface is pretty simple to in-app extensions. These features, although great for all understand and after seeing a few of these features, kinds of people, are even more useful for architectural it becomes evident that SKRWT is a perfect app for photographers. After using it for a few days, we realized architectural photographers. You can enhance, skew, it’s a boon for those who have to show inanimate distort, correct distortion and crop in all senses and objects at their best. directions. It helps in visualizing the spaces and buildings better and to display them and present them in ways 4PNTS is a great function that allows you to skew that the human eye isn’t able to capture from the ground or stretch the image by holding it from any of its 4 view. corners. This is a great feature to put your image into perspective. It is very useful to stitch images together One of the unique features in the merge feature. It allows for a presentation, or to show any building from a view one to add layers on the image and then merge them that otherwise cannot be taken due to road widths with the original image. One can also stretch the image or building heights, or even in some cases, a lot of horizontally and vertically, mind you, without making the unwanted vehicles or noise from a certain desired image feel like it has been stretched. This is actually very angle. useful to show longer spans of a building, or display how long it is, without panorama. MRRW is a very simple feature to use. It is simply a mirroring option that mirrors the image from the center. All in all, it is a really good app and we recommend it Say we have a row of columns, but the image that one to all still object photographers, especially architectural; clicked fails to capture the majestic look. Simply use the because there are a lot of elements and dynamic noise MRRW attribute to mirror it upside down or left to right. that one cannot control in this type of photography; to This option also lets you align the edge of the image. use it and try for yourself. One can turn the image just like one would do a paper – hold it horizontally, rotate it, lay it flat, or use it as an oblique – all these orientations can be done on the MRRW extension.
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Ruchi Kapoor ruchi@chiiz.com Ruchi Kapoor is an enthusiast and an observer. She makes a note to write down about everything she finds interesting and funny. She practices as an Architect and believes that she can take best photographs of the built environment; which she calls ‘man made art’. She is a realist and dedicates her resources to doing instead of dreaming. This quality of hers is what makes her write about the realities of our world, instead of fiction, and this governs how she perceives others and how others perceive her.
Glim Canon 5D Mark III 35mm F/2.2 1/200 ISO125
Sissi Wang, the founder of JustKidi Photography Studio, is a multi-award winning baby photographer. Her studio is an internationally recognized studio and has been named one of the top ten newborn photography studios in Sydney in 2018 and 2019. Being a design-oriented photographer, Sissi likes utilizing home decor ornaments such as flower, baskets, fluffy blankets, etc to create vintage, romantic, and simple styles.
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Little Intellectual Canon 5D Mark III 50mm F/2.8 1/125 ISO100
Meet My Love Canon 5D Mark III 35mm F/1.8 1/200 ISO100
Twinkle Toes Canon 5D Mark III 105mm F/2.8 1/200 ISO100
Jama Masjid Honor view 20
Jawahar Circle iPhone 6
Manoj Gurjar is an 18-year-old visual storyteller based in Jaipur. He uses a phone to click most of his pictures and believes that it is always the photographer and his perspective that have the pictures speaking a story. He believes that a phone’s camera can do a lot if it is used correctly and with a unique vision. So it doesn’t matter if it’s a cheap phone or an extra expensive camera, your perspective and patience for the right moment to capture always pays off. Photography for Manoj is all about practicing. That’s how he garnered his interest in photography.
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Mumbai Central Honor 10
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Beautiful Hues Canon 200D 18mm F/4 1/125 ISO100
Sanjeet Tripathy Bhubaneswar, India
Mirror Image Canon 700D 10mm F/22 1/90 ISO400
Silence Broken Nikon D7000 27mm F/11 1/500 ISO400
Sumit Goel Jamnagar, India
Hamid Jamshidian Esfahan, Iran
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Pradeepta Das Bangalore, India
Amod Kumar Patna, India
Sony Rajput Bhopal, India
The Bean of Chicago Cano550D28mm F/13 30 ISO100
Gate Enigma Nikon D7200 22mm F/11 1/400 ISO1400
The Crown of Mosques Nikon D5300 18mm F/3.6 1/60 ISO125
Hossein Younesi Shahrud, Iran
From Carpet to the Throne Canon70D 18mm F/4 1/250 ISO100
Model of the Month
Priyanka Karunakaran
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Height: 5’7 ft Chest: 34in Waist: 25in Hips: 35in Priyanka Karunakaran is an acclaimed model from Mumbai. From a young age, she started training and performing as an Indian classical dancer on various platforms nationally and internationally. She further pursued her passion for the performing arts at the New York Film Academy. She was fortunate to be a part of the Indian theatre scene in a play directed by Lilette Dubey - ‘Where did I leave my purdah?’. She has modeled for some of the top brands and designers in India. She has appeared in various television commercials for brands like Jabong, Nykaa, Ford, Garnier, Bhima Jewellers to name a few. Also seen in a television commercial alongside Priyanka Chopra, her performances garnered her rave reviews from ad filmmakers and directors. She was on the cover of Maxim magazine as one of the top three dusky models of the country and has been a part of various fashion editorials for many reputed fashion magazines. She has been a part of a few web series and is looking forward to making her debut as an actress in the Indian film industry.