Making Experts Accessible to All

Question 1

Who are we?

Our Mission

Making Experts Accessible to All

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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.

Question 2

What is Wildlife Photography?

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As the name itself is enough to tell what this kind of photography is it all about, but is it? Well broadly speaking, yes it is all about capturing the unseen habits of the animals in their natural habitat. Sometimes it can help discover about an unseen behaviour of the faunas in the jungle. These photographs or videos can further be used in research and studying animal behaviour by researchers. But the most unknown part of the wildlife photographers is that more than a wildlife photographer they like to call themselves as an environmentalist or as a conservationist.

Question 3

What are the qualities of a Wildlife Photographer?

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Such kind of professions firstly needs passion and the reason being, getting successful in it is very seldom. If you search there are thousands of wildlife photographers out there who are working hard to make their name but are there are very few who have made it at the peak and what bought them at the peak was their passion. Once you get into doing wildlife photography, it’s not that you spend few hours in jungle and get some amazing clicks. It takes weeks if not months for a professional to capture that one sight he was looking for. So being patient is very important.:

Question 4

Who are the top Wildlife Photographers?

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There are wildlife photographers that call themself photographers and then there are environmentalist that use wildlife photography as a tool. To name a few in India we have Rathika Ramasamy (Wildlife photographer at Rathika Ramasamy Photography), Jayanth Sharma (CEO and Co-Founder at Toehold) , Kalyan Varma (Director of Photography at Phototalkz), Sandesh Kadur (Creative director at Felis creation Pvt.Ltd), Shekar Dattatri (Wildlife and conservation film maker).

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"Photographers are history makers, Every picture is a moment which gone forever and can't re shoot.”

-Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer
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“Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you’ll find it there.”

-Robb Sagendorph, Wildlife Photographer
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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wildlife Photographers

Question 5

How can you start as a Wildlife Photographer?

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To begin with you need to have some expensive set of camera gear, a good location like a rainforest and there you go. Well that’s absolutely wrong. Not only a wildlife photographer but also for any kind of photographer the most important thing is the vison of capturing something, then may it be an expensive camera or a mobile phone camera. And the most important advice given on XPERT by most of wildlife photographers is that, the photography begins at your back yard, start practicing it from there, you will find many things and creatures, big or small, to capture and begin with your wildlife photography journey. So if you want to be one get on XPERT and start your journey.

Question 6

What are the challenges of being a Wildlife Photographer?

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Being a wildlife photographer, you have to spend weeks if not months in forest hiding in a small camouflaged tent and make it your home for the time you are there. And this itself says how challenging the life of a wildlife photographer can be. Apart from all this struggle, it’s not always possible for you to get the click you are looking for and in all this while most of the time you have to stay alone away from your family. Also there are very few photographers who have made it up to the peak and are earning well but is not always the case. Hence earning a good amount as a wildlife photographer is a real challenge.

Question 7

How can you learn
Wildlife Photography at Xpert?

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All the top wildlife photographers in India are on XPERT, and being a user you can anytime reach them, talk to them and solve all your queries that bother you. Not only this, but some noted photographers like, Kalyan Varma, Jayanth Sharma, etc. has mentioned about some very important topics and also shared their experiences on XPERT. They share how challenging their first step was, what was their first failure, what was the first year of joy like, the times when they felt like giving up, the hope that made never made them loose, etc. Being a user on XPERT will give you a great motivation and a best social learning experience to reach your goal. We intend to equip you with all the right information directly from geniuses to help you in your journey.