<p>Her eyes quietly scan everything around her and within seconds, she mentally captures a picture. When the frame is set and the composition perfect, she takes out her camera, which never leaves her side, and a definitive click is heard. Her body eases up, waiting for the next story.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“When I look at something, a thought comes to my head — that this could make a great picture. Then I make a frame around it. If I get the feeling that it will make an amazing picture, I go for it,” says Meghna Menon, an upcoming photographer in the City. She compares photography to a narration, a form of storytelling, “It is like expressing parts of yourself through pictures.”<br /><br />And this makes her confident when she says that not everyone can be a good photographer, even if they carry around a DSLR. “These days, it’s so easy to buy a DSLR and learn photography. And platforms like Instagram and Facebook make it even easier. But like any other art form, photography needs inherent talent. You can teach a person to use a camera but good photography is an art. Not everyone can see something special in even the most ordinary of objects and turn it into a good picture. There is some amount of the artist in the art,” she says.<br /><br />What started out as a hobby nearly 10 years back has now grown into a passion for Meghna. She doesn’t see herself doing anything else. “I tried other hobbies but nothing stuck. Growing up, I’d carry a camera with me everywhere and shoot anything. After Pre-University, I wasn’t interested in anything else so I joined a visual media course in St Joseph’s College.” <br /><br />In her final year of college, she explains that photography is something she can relate to. It is also something that keeps her mind running. “I have this theory — photography is the closest thing to a time machine. Pictures are the only way we can go back to a certain time period because those moments and experiences are frozen in time.” Meghna calls a camera “the best invention so far”, adding, “It is as close to magic as we can ever get.”<br /><br />Light plays a huge role when she’s composing a picture. Fascinated by different kinds of lights, she mentions that a single source of light can give so much character to a photograph. “That itself is a huge incentive to take photographs.” <br /><br /><br /></p>
<p>Her eyes quietly scan everything around her and within seconds, she mentally captures a picture. When the frame is set and the composition perfect, she takes out her camera, which never leaves her side, and a definitive click is heard. Her body eases up, waiting for the next story.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“When I look at something, a thought comes to my head — that this could make a great picture. Then I make a frame around it. If I get the feeling that it will make an amazing picture, I go for it,” says Meghna Menon, an upcoming photographer in the City. She compares photography to a narration, a form of storytelling, “It is like expressing parts of yourself through pictures.”<br /><br />And this makes her confident when she says that not everyone can be a good photographer, even if they carry around a DSLR. “These days, it’s so easy to buy a DSLR and learn photography. And platforms like Instagram and Facebook make it even easier. But like any other art form, photography needs inherent talent. You can teach a person to use a camera but good photography is an art. Not everyone can see something special in even the most ordinary of objects and turn it into a good picture. There is some amount of the artist in the art,” she says.<br /><br />What started out as a hobby nearly 10 years back has now grown into a passion for Meghna. She doesn’t see herself doing anything else. “I tried other hobbies but nothing stuck. Growing up, I’d carry a camera with me everywhere and shoot anything. After Pre-University, I wasn’t interested in anything else so I joined a visual media course in St Joseph’s College.” <br /><br />In her final year of college, she explains that photography is something she can relate to. It is also something that keeps her mind running. “I have this theory — photography is the closest thing to a time machine. Pictures are the only way we can go back to a certain time period because those moments and experiences are frozen in time.” Meghna calls a camera “the best invention so far”, adding, “It is as close to magic as we can ever get.”<br /><br />Light plays a huge role when she’s composing a picture. Fascinated by different kinds of lights, she mentions that a single source of light can give so much character to a photograph. “That itself is a huge incentive to take photographs.” <br /><br /><br /></p>
