Last month, I was contacted by SRM University students to take a lecture/workshop on Basics of Photography. If you know me, you may also know that i have helped in photography workshops for school kids for couple of years (2009 & 2010). So I was happy to take this up.

I said yes, but I wasn’t sure how to handle it. With school kids, I could just make an extempore talk as they lap up whatever I say and are happy as long as we let them handle cameras. But these were grown up kids with more knowledge and knew their basics, well almost.

My worries lead me to sitting long hours in Oxford Book store (Cha bar, thanks for the endless cups of tea) and read up almost every book available there.

I was still not sure whether to take up an entirely technical presentation or a laymen presentation. And suddenly I had a brainwave and I had a nice presentation in place.

The day dawned nice and bright. Only I was completely shaken and had no courage in me. Reached the location, only to find enthusiastic bunch of kids who wanted to learn and were very interactive.

The lecture turned into a workshop. I was initially alloted only 1/3rd of time I actually took up. But the participants were very energetic till the end and happy to participate in the practice sessions

All in all, a great lecture/workshop. I leave you with couple of pics. Forgive the quality. I might be the only photographer who takes a lecture on photography without a proper camera in hand

P.S: I had made a presentation of example photographs and made the lecture interactive with questions & answers.