Featured Photographer of Week: Amber Sharma founder of Mowgli Productions
WallMag: Introduce yourself
I am Amber Sharma Producer Director and Photographer. Founder of Mowgli Productions. I have done 3 American Movie 17 Documentaries Series Serial and Advertisement. I have started at very early age around 21.
WallMag: Tell us where it all began. How did you become a photographer?
Since childhood I was creative and used to make cartoon sketches and this creative side of me lead me to become filmmaker and photographer. I remember the 1st camera I got in year 1985 which was point and shoot camera and camera was famous in market because it was having radio facility in camera. I used to click photographers from that camera and by 1994 i was clicking some nature shot. My professional side of photography and film-making began in year 2003 when I went to Kanha National Park to start my career in wildlife conservation and from there I started clicking wildlife and nature photographs.
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WallMag: How did you discover your style of photography? How would you describe your style?
I discover my style of photography when I started working in Kanha National Park for Wildlife Conservation and from there I understood that for future generation their should be some photographs of nature and wild animal and birds which will help them to understand about the mother nature and to preserve them. I year 2008 I discovered my other creative side in photography that is fashion and fine art. Coming Wildlife from wildlife is was not easy to click fashion and fine art but I was perfect to about natural light and I developed my style clicking in natural light for fashion and fine art.
WallMag: Who and/or what influences your work and why?
I like every one work as every photographs has something unique in it. I love to see work famous and newbie photographers. I can not name just few photographers who influences me with their work. I think my main inference is Mother Nature. Mother Nature always given me chance to click best pictures in best way.
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WallMag: Is there a photographer or artist who you admire or think they are killing right now?
New generation photographers of digital era clicking good pictures and even from mobile camera. New creativity is coming out with the help of digital technology.
WallMag: Tell us through your photography process. How do you complete your work from start to finish?
In starting around 2003 I use to click pictures on Manual Camera, which uses Negative film roll or Transparency (slide) roll. On that roll photographer can click 36 pictures. After Clicking pictures I used to collect 10 Roll and send it to Pune or sometime to London to develop at processing lab. Processing Transparency roll or negative film roll was manual process and it needed professionals to do it. The process take place in dark room and I use to send list with every photograph number on Negative Film roll or Transparency Roll, that what color , saturation, brightness and contrast I need in each photograph. I was very time consuming process as after licking picture I need to wait at-least for 2 month to see how photographs are looking. Now a days since everything become digital its easier to click and process. Digital Camera gives you chance to see picture just after you click it and you need some post processing software to process it. Now no need to send roll to labs for processing but now in digital era photograph processing through photography software. These days I am using digital camera I click pictures on it and process it on Digital Photo Professional a post processing software by Canon. Before clicking any picture weather its nature wildlife fashion or fine art, I decide themes and with lighting conditions I am going to face during the shoot. I prefer shooting in Golden Hours when I am shooting outdoor. as Golden Light gives me mysterious look in photographs I click.
WallMag: What you do when you are not photographing?
When I am not photographing I work on my film making projects like Movies, Documentaries, Ads and when I get time give workshop and lectures on Photography and Film-making.