VUE ISSUE - TWO

PAKISTAN FIRST DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE

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FEATURE ARTICLE

FEATURED ARTIST

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO BUY A DRONE

RIZWAN-RIZI HANDS ON REVIEW

COVER SHOOT GHALIB HASNAIN

WE PUSH THE

BOUNDARIES PROUD PARTNERS

talk with

ANAM S ASHRAF

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Babar Swaleheen ART DIRECTOR Faisal Ahmed

EDITOR’S NOTES

MARKETING MANAGER Ali Adeel

STRAIGHT TO THE POINT

WRITER CONTRIBUTORS Abdel Rahman El Hijazi, Waheed Nasir, Abigail Scribe Azeem Shah, Sidra K. Khan, Zohaib Hanif

It’s always better to learn from mistakes and improve ourselves in every aspect of life. Same applies to VUE. From our inaugural edition of Pakistan’s First Photography Magazine, we noted down the feedback from you our valued readers and went to the board and plan out more content for the second edition.

In this second edition of VUEGRAPHY, we have included some interesting stuff which readers probably never came across before in any photography related magazine and that is dronography. We are covering in-depth section about drone like what is a drone and how to choose the right one etc. Also, this time we have included brandnew sections just for models covering the rising stars who are ready to unleash their talent into the world of modeling. The Art section is announced by Waheed Nasir, he is Pakistan’s top digital artist. Food section with spicy traditional recipes, and at last but not least we have included more interesting stuff from our Cover Page Artist Ghalib Hasnain unseen work for you guys.

Welcome to the second edition of VUEgraphy. We are very excited to introduce this second edition of VUEgraphy to the world. Please do share your feedback at “info@vuegraphy.com” which will help us in improving this platform further. Enjoy the magazine

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IN HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHY Azeem Shah VIDEOGRAPHY Noor Alam COVER IMAGE Ghalib Hasnain PHOTOGRAPHER CONTRIBUTORS Ghalib Hasnain, Rizwan - Rizi Julia, Aman M Qureshi, Shakir Manzoor, Athif Ali Khan, Syed Ghazanfar Ali Shah, Amir Shuja, Daniyal Bakhtiar, Arsalan Zafar, Rohail Javed, Fariis Shaikh, Nabeel Iqbal, Saad Nadeem SPECIAL THANKS Canon Pakistan Nikon Pakistan Campix, Sunday Walkers ADVERTISING Media Pack will be available on request. marketing@vuegraphy.com All contents © 2018 Vuegraphy.

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COVER ARTIST

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AMAN QURESHI

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WAHEED NASIR

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JULIIA

IN DEPTH TUTORIAL

16 CROP SENSOR VS FULL FRAME

WHICH ONE IS BETTER?

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FEATURE ARTICLE

10 THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO

14 HOW TO ACHIEVE FLAWLESS MAKEUP LOOK?

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SHOUT-OUT

PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP WITH JUSTIN MOTT

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TIPS

TRICKS

SEE PAGE # 58

A VISUAL VOYAGE WITH NIKON ELIA LOCARDI AWARAGARD KE DIARY - SUNDAY WALKERS ORGANIZED AN EXHIBITION

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42 COLOR THEORY FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

SANAM ASHRAF KHAN

ARTICLES

BUY A DRONE

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COVER ARTIST

GHALIB HASNAIN I'm Ghalib, a forward thinking, highly motivated designer & photographer from Karachi, Pakistan. Mainly I have done a Masters in Marketing & Communication, I shoot and make my living from event planning & photography for the people.

Nikon 1st Prize Winner in Photo Category in Nikon Photo & Film Festival 2015 Gold Medalist from Photography Art Society of Pakistan Multiple Awards Winner Photographer NIKON INSTRUCTOR Storyteller,Weddings, Landscapes Image Re-toucher

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FEATURE ARTICLE

by ABDEL RAHMAN EL HIJAZI

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO BUYING A DRONE WANT TO RIDE THE HYPE?GET A BIT OF INFO FIRST!

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still remember when I got my first cell phone with a camera on it, I was blown away with all the possibilities! (A camera in your pocket!). I remember how it felt when the quality started getting better and better, which made it the convenient accessory to depend on most of the daily photos and videos, and now you have cameras on drones that you can remote control to anywhere you want – the possibilities are endless!

Then action cameras such as GoPro became a mainstream, attached to places that went beyond the mind, and made the content developers able to get extreme shots without risking heavy expensive equipment, and from there, a revolution in the action photography and videography started. Put a camera on everything, put a camera on a boat, car bumper, bicycle, a dog, and Remotely controlled aircraft!

Remote control pilots started attaching action cameras on their planes and helicopters to get aerials shots of their flights, in addition, they attached video transmitters to these cameras to be able to get video feed on the ground to get the best composition. Meanwhile, a new type of aircraft started to appear, which is a modified version of the helicopter called a Multi-rotor.

I WAS BLOWN AWAY WITH ALL THE POSSIBILITIES Abdel Rahman El Hijazi

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Drone Consultant & Specialist

Multi-rotors are vertical take off aircrafts that have more than two rotors which enable them to handle heavy payloads, and take off and land vertically to eliminate the need of a runway. This platform was perfect to handle a camera and to fly all directions, and have the ability to hover on one place to get still videos!

BUT WHY IS IT STILL CALLED MULTI-ROTORS AND NOT A DRONE YET?

Let us first define the word drone: Did you watch the heavy falcon lunch done by SpaceX to send a Tesla rooster to the space? What was the name
of the ship in mid sea? It was called a drone ship ! So a drone is a vehicle (submarine, ship, car, aircraft ) that can operate autonomously. As a result, when the Multi-rotor got the ability to operate autonomously by adding all the needed equipment from GPS, Altimeter, obstacle Avoidance Sensors, Landing Sensors and many other sensors, the Multi-rotor became a drone. And currently, the word drone is associated with Multi-rotors only.

YOU WANT TO BUY A DRONE?

A camera in the sky, the same as the camera on a mobile, it opened many opportunities and many dimensions, literally a new dimension, the sky.

Currently, there are multiple drones companies 
that produce consumer grade, commercial grade and industrial grade drones, but as bitcoin in the cryptocurrency world, DJI is the big name in the Drones world. So now, you want to buy a drone, the question is: Which is the best drone?

IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU NEED Before you buy a drone, break down your needs into the following: There are two main categories for the drones, consumer and commercial. The consumer drone is a drone that is sold at toys store, photography store and hobby stores, like the point&shoot and crop sensor DSLR cameras. The commercial drones are the drones that are professional, expensive, and most of them have heavy-duty gimbals (battery powered camera stabilizer) and DSLRs.

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WHAT DO YOU NEED? Having a deeper look at the consumer grade drones, your need defines what you should own. If you care about high-quality pictures (4K, Raw capabilities, higher resolution camera) and you don’t mind the size of the drone, Then own the latest version of the DJI Phantom-currently it is the phantom 4 pro-, it is big, so the transportation of it is not optimum, and traveling with it is a bit hard, but the final product you can get is top notch. It has its own camera with 20 MP and 25 minutes of flying time.

If you require a drone that can carry easily, but you need good quality camera, then you will find the DJI Mavic Pro or Mavic Air. Both have folded arms, and when folded, they are the same size as a DSLR kit!

Equipped with 15 MP camera, and 3 axes gimbal for stabilization, both are the best solution for mobility and traveling with them. The Mavic Pro can fly for 23 minutes and the Mavic Air for 18 minutes. If you are not fussed about quality or flight time, you only want a drone to take selfies and very basic clips, then you want the drone that has the same size of an iphone, which is the DJI Spark, to be honest, it is a phone in the sky, used for quick captures at low profile, looks like a toy and can be considered a toy.

COMMERCIAL DRONES To talk about commercial drones, first we need to define the term “Commercial Drones”. Commercial Drones are the drones that are able to adapt to multiple conditions. The way of adaptation will be analyzed in future articles.

As the consumer grade drones, the commercial grade drones are dominated by the Chinese company DJI who provide two main products in this segment which is the Inspire line and the Metric line.

Knowing what they have and the trend they create will make us understand the market, and the following is a comparison table of the most popular drones DJI made:

The commercial grade drones are also dominated by the Chinese company DJI SPARK

MAVIC AIR

PHANTOM 4 PRO

INSPIRE 2 **

SIZE

Small

Small

Medium

Big

PORTABILITY

Unfordable

Foldable

Not portable

Not portable

FLIGHT DURATION

16 min

25 min

30 min

27 min

VIDEO RESOLUTION

1080p

4K

4K

4K-6K

PIC RESOLUTION

12 MP

12 MP

1 inch 20 MP

20 to 24 MP

MAX FPS

30

120

120

60 to 120

DISTANCE

500 M

2 KM

3.5 KM

3.5 KM

WEIGHT

300g

430g

1368g

3440g

GIMBAL

2 axes

3 axes

3 axes

3 axes

OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE SENSORS

Front

Front & Back

All sides

Front & Up

Above are the some details about the most popular DJI drones, noting that DJI Inspire 2 doesn’t have a built in camera, but it has the facility to change cameras. This gives the advantage to the drone to be able to use many types of lenses and types of cameras according to the needs of the 12 | JANUARY 2018 | VUE

user. There are multiple camera’s that are available, and DJI always releases new camera’s to attach to the inspire 2 drone to be used in the film industry and commercial. Future articles will talk in-depth about commercial drones, and technical terms and specifications. Fly safe and fly legally.

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