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Isha Shah

Motion Picture Creator.

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Samarth Xpert

Dev

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Alan Mcfayden

Wildlife Photographer

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Annie Lebovitz

Ex Chief Photographer-Rolling Stones Magazine

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Chase Jarvis

Photographer and Film-maker

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Dayanita Singh

Indian Photographer

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Don Mccullin

Photo-Journalist

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Jeremy Cowart

Fashion Photographer

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Joe Mcnally

Photographer

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Peter Mckinnon

Famous Photographer and Youtuber

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Ronny Sen

Film director, writer and photographer

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Scott Kelby

Photographer and Author

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Simon Reay

Director of Photography - Discovery channel

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Through experiential learning we give aspiring Photographers like you an opportunity to leverage the best experience of the best to solve real-world challenges.

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What questions are bothering you?

What particular skill sets are required to be a Photographer?
What mistake you committed turned out to be a learning curve in your career?
What are the key points you keep in mind while taking a photograph?
Who is your idol in Photography and why?
Any advice you want to give to young student and professionals who aspire to be a successful Photographer?
How do you handle your lows and highs in Photography?
What made you choose Photography as a profession?
What are some of the perks of being a Photographer?
What should a young professional keep in mind while choosing Photography as the career?
What are the key components which makes a photograph outstanding?

What can you do on Xpert?

LEARN DIRECTLY FROM TOP Photographers

Learn about Photographers' early days, education and career choice, challenges, success, techniques, and opinions.

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If you're just getting into the game, you must stay abreast as to what key moves are being made by Photographers.

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Your dilemmas would be addressed by the Photographers, inducing you to make the right career decisions and moves.

Who are we?

Our Mission

Making Experts Accessible to All

Xpert - is a social learning app to help you learn from the best. We are not your regular online course, but rather an experience that is beyond regular classes, lectures & assignments. We have India's top experts across each profession share their experiences, opinions, techniques & advice accumulated over the lifetime of their careers.

What is Photography?

It is very difficult to define photography because it is extremely complex activity. The word photography is made up of two words that is 'photo' which means light and 'graphy' which means drawing. Therefore, photography can be defined as the art or process of capturing light from the camera made up of digital sensor or film, to produce an image. With the appropriate camera and lens, you can even capture light of different wavelengths which might or might not be visible to human eye, i.e. UV rays, infrared waves and radio waves.

Photography has different facets and types. It needs both technical aspects and creative outlook to create a master piece. There is no limit in defining a quality photograph because it is extremely subjective as it differs from one person to another. There are various subjects in the world which you can capture and there are different ways to create an image that makes the field of photography varied and dynamic. Some of these fields of photography are Portrait photography, Fashion Photography, Lifestyle photography, Photojournalism, Wildlife Photography and many more.

What are the qualities of a Photographer?

Photography as a profession requires a photographer to have certain sets of qualities which are essential to be a successful Photographer. To become a successful professional photographer, you need to be ambitious in nature as it is very competitive field, you need to push hard and keep going to reach at the top. Most important of all, you need to be creative and imaginative to be able to produce a quality image. Other important qualities include Hand-eye Coordination, Marketing skills, Interpersonal skills, Technical skills, Eye for details, and many more.:

Creative
Observant
Ambitious
Patient
Imaginative

Who are the top Photographers?

Photography is a profession which requires you to be ambitious, passionate, risk-taker, creative, imaginative, patient and flexible. Some of the top photographers who fulfilled these requirements and made an impact in the photography world are as follow - Steve McCurry (American Portrait photographer and photojournalist), Michael AW (Singaporean marine photographer), Guy Tal (Israelian wild landscapes phhotgrapher), Lee Jeffries (British spiritual Photographer), Karen Lunney (Australian contemporary photographer), Jimmy Nelson (English Portrait photographer), Rehahn (French Fine Art photographer), Jon Cornforth (Wildlife Photographer), Jess Findlay (Canadian nature photographer), Max Rive (Dutch landscape photographer), Manny Librodo, Dabboo Ratnani,(Indian fashion photographer) and so on.

Some of the upcoming promising Journalist consist of – Arjun Mark, Soumitra Datta, Rid Burman, Subi Samuel, Tarun Khiwal, Jatin Kampani, Avinash Gowariker, Upendra Upadhyay, Vikram Singh Bawa, Rohan Shrestha, Suresh Nataranjan, etc.

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One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.

-Annie Leibovitz, American portrait photographer
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In photography, you’ve got to be quick, quick, quick, quick. Like an animal and a prey.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson, French humanist photographer
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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

-Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian portrait photographer
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You can find pictures anywhere. It’s simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

-Elliott Erwitt, American documentary photographer

How can you start as a Photographer?

If you want to pursue your career in Photography, then first and foremost thing you should have is ambition and passion to create quality photograph and keep on capturing images until you produce a masterpiece. You should let out your creative side and cultivate it. If you want to pursue photography in a particular field then you need to analysis and know your audience to understand what they want to see and build your portfolio around it. Most essential thing to start your photography career is of course camera, therefore you need at least two camera, two high-quality lenses, two flashlights and Photoshop and Lightroom to edit your images.

What are the challenges of being a Photographer?

Though Photography as a career has many perks but it comes with its own challenges. Every field of photography has their own set of challenges. For example, in landscape photography some of the challenges are unpredictable weather, short window of time to capture image in perfect light, choosing perfect location of landscape, capture exact image as appear to eye. Recent but most prevalent challenge in front of photographers is to remain relevant as now a day all mobile phones have high quality cameras and commercial availability of high quality DSLR cameras has questioned the relevance of photographers.

How can you learn
Photography at Xpert?

At Xpert, you learn from the industry experts of Photography who are at the top of their profession. Here at Xpert, there is no bookish knowledge imparted on you but you learn from the life experiences, success stories, challenges, and failures of these experts which they came across during pursuit of their dreams. They share how they started in this profession, what mistake was their learning curve, which was their first successful photograph, what they did when their photography album failed, what keeps them motivated despite all the challenges, etc. At Xpert, we share their life journey and their opinions with the aspiring students and young professionals who want to pursue Photography as the profession. We help these professionals to learn straight from the industry geniuses and guide their career in right direction.

Isha Shah

Samarth Xpert

Alan Mcfayden

Annie Lebovitz

Chase Jarvis

Dayanita Singh

Don Mccullin

Jeremy Cowart

Joe Mcnally

Peter Mckinnon

Ronny Sen

Scott Kelby

Simon Reay

How is Xpert different?

Traditional Learning via Classes/Courses

Experiential Learning at Xpert

Learn Only From The Best

What questions are bothering you?

Making Experts Accessible to All

Who are the top Photographers?

How can you start as a Photographer?

What are the challenges of being a Photographer?

How can you learn Photography at Xpert?

Traditional Learning
via Classes/Courses

Experiential Learning
at Xpert

How can you learn
Photography at Xpert?