{"id":1140,"date":"2023-02-20T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shruti.karandikar.org\/?page_id=1140"},"modified":"2023-02-24T03:26:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T03:26:56","slug":"inter-house-debate-completion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shruti.karandikar.org\/?page_id=1140","title":{"rendered":"Inter-House Debate Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our school organized an inter-house debate competition for different grades. I am not a debater but thanks to my interest in photography, I am an observer of nature, people, buildings, and in general everything around me. I try to capture the unusual things I see and portray a story through them. I was asked to photograph this event by the organizers. This was a significant challenge as during a debate, the action is in speech, which can be difficult to capture in a visual image.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The competition was held in two different locations. The first location was the auditorium with artificial lighting and the other was in the open with natural lighting. I chose to photograph outside because of the lighting and the setting- it was on the bleachers and surrounded by nature. During the event, I realized that I would have to adjust camera settings very quickly as I moved around the speakers. I did not have the time to think and make a choice of settings while framing each composition else the \u201cdecisive moment\u201d would be lost. I was also distracted by the amazing orators, I was tempted to keep the camera aside and listen to the conversation. This is something a photographer is NOT supposed to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My key takeaway from this experience is that I still need to work on how to capture and convey debate through a picture. I normally try to tell a story through my photographs. This allows for a lot of creativity in my usual activities of picturing nature or portrait photography. However, in this case, The story is already unfolding. My challenge is to capture it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still have to work on the technical aspects of photography. Camera settings have to become second nature, I am still very far from this. Finally, I have to focus on photography and be a neutral bystander rather than getting involved in the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our school organized an inter-house debate competition for different grades. I am not a debater but thanks to my interest in photography, I am an observer of nature, people, buildings, and in general everything around me. I try to capture the unusual things I see and portray a story through them. I was asked to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":856,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shruti.karandikar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shruti.karandikar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shruti.karandikar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shruti.karandikar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shruti.karandikar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shruti.karandikar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/shruti.karandikar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140\/revisions\/1174"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shruti.karandikar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shruti.karandikar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}