masterclass by steve mccurry

yes, it is the same steve mccurry who shot the afghan girl - a photo that would became one of the most iconic covers of national geographic. there was a masterclass organised by the folks at epson at the asian civilisations museum. the class consisted of a talk by mccurry - or more like a show-and-tell, wherein he went through some of his works, and talked about the photos and their composition. there was very little 'technical' stuff covered, and i was quite surprised to find out that he rarely changes settings on his camera - just uses the 'p' mode and sticks to the 'auto' setting for much of his work.

the second part of the qorkshop consisted of going out and taking photographs. the idea was to capture the play of light in any way we could in the photos. we were to come back and show one or two photos to mccurry for his comments. (the photos i shot are shown below.)

the shooting part went ok, but the debrief was a bit of a fiasco. unlike my expectation, our photos were not shown on a projector screen - people queued up and showed mccurry their photos in their cameras itself. and this turned out to be a long session, as people started to get mccurry to autograph his book and take photos together to show off later. well, anyways, atleast i got to the man who shot the afghan girl, and a free printer as well :)