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Hi, I Am Rahul Shambhavi Sinha

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Since childhood, I have wished to do something creative but being born and brought up in a middle-class family had its limitation. But life changed when I shifted to Siliguri. 

My career started, with me becoming a teacher. Since I was unclear about ‘the creative thing’ I accepted everything that came in front of me. I discontinued many ideas because I believe leaving things on time is extremely important to improve the future. With teaching, I began doing Web development and Software development. But I was having second thoughts about this for myself as well as for my staff members considering the market demand. With all these confusing thoughts, somewhere Photography was breathing inside me, which started with my childhood when I had the opportunity to click photographs of my uncle’s wedding. It was a simple point-and-shoot film camera but I did my best and my uncle praised me a lot. He appreciated my knowledge of framing subjects and his words were etched in my memory forever.

 

While teaching, I heard about ‘DSLRs’ for the first time in my life. Having no idea of its operation, I wanted to learn it. Those were the days when a low-range DSLR cost approximately 1 Lakh and I couldn’t afford one. Considering my livelihood, I thought it is next to impossible for me to get a DSLR in this life. My savings from teaching and tuition allowed me to get a simple point-and-shoot camera of Sony. Even then, photography for me was very basic i.e., focus, point and shoot. I started uploading my photography works on social media which was itself in the beginning stage. People appreciated my work saying that I have a good eye for the subject, which gave me more confidence. While teaching at an MBA college, I got the opportunity to cover a wedding of my student which I believe was the start of my career in wedding photography. I bought my first DSRL camera in 2011 – a Canon 1100D, but even then, I had no idea of using it in manual settings. I kept on learning and I believe I am still learning because art is something which makes you learn new things throughout your life.

I feel the wedding photography genre includes all the aspects and other genres of the photography industry and one thing I have learnt is that, if you respect emotions, then your wedding photography skills are enhanced easily. This industry has allowed me to understand and feel emotions through the camera lens, we can see the laughter and even the teardrops.

It has been 10 years in this industry and I am upgrading my skills every day. When I look back, I barely recall any achievements. But now, when I see an INTERNATIONAL BRAND NIKON associated with Dreamlens and wants me to remain the Nikon Influencer, I feel I have done good things for this industry. As far as being a mentor is concerned, I want to give my knowledge, and my learnings to budding photographers and people associated with the wedding photography industry.