Photography

If you are a beginner, you may wonder why photography is so important. The answer is, time changes things and our fickle minds forget how things were yesterday. The only way we can record what time has forgotten is to take a picture and look back to see how things were.

To give a child a camera is to open a world of perspective, expression and quiet communication. Endowed with a well-equipped, exclusive Photo Studio, the AVS Photographic Society offers its programme at two levels; Lower School Students (grades 5-8) on Tuesdays and Upper School (grades 9-12) on Mondays. We focus on the following aspects: –

• How to use camera: Shutter speed creatively, reducing camera shake with hand-held photos and digital exposure techniques.
• Subjects: Photography in fog, mist or haze, introduction to macro photography and Introduction & common obstacles in night photography.
• Photo Lighting: Making the most of natural light in photography, portrait lighting, studio portrait lighting styles.
• Composition: The rule of thirds, using diagonals of dynamic photos and negative space

Finally, all school events are recorded in the form of photographic reportage. Pictures are published in State/National dailies/magazines, school publications like School newsletter ‘AVE’, annual publication ‘Yearbook’ and our own annual publication ‘Coffee Table Book’ during every Founders’ in which we include best photographs taken by our photographers during the year. AVS Photographic Society also exhibits its photographs once in every Semester and during Founders’ Day celebrations in the Annual Photographic Exhibition. Many students of the AVS Photographic Society have opted for photography as a career and they have been doing very well in their profession.